Jurors convict suburban Chicago computer specialist in deaths of wife, 3 kids on road trip

[rachel1]

JOLIET, Ill. — Jurors deliberated for less than an hour on Thursday before convicting a suburban Chicago man of fatally shooting his wife and three children during what he told them was a road trip to a water park.

Christopher Vaughn shot his family, including one of his daughters as she clutched a stuffed animal, because he saw them as obstacles to his dream of starting a new, isolated life in the Canadian wilderness, prosecutors told jurors before they withdrew to deliberate.

Vaughn hunched forward as jurors re-entered the Joliet courtroom, but the 37-year-old displayed no visible emotion as their verdict was read. Sitting nearby, his wife’s sister smiled and cried quietly, and later in a courtroom hall, family members wept as they fell into each other’s arms.

“This case is not just a murder, it’s an atrocity,” Will County States Attorney James Glasgow said outside the courthouse. “To annihilate your family, I can’t think of a more unspeakable crime.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jurors-convict-suburban-chicago-computer-specialist-in-deaths-of-wife-3-kids-on-road-trip/2012/09/20/b7c04562-0380-11e2-9132-f2750cd65f97_story.html

May he burn in hell for eternity after he spends the reminder of his life in prison.

Sick freak.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Did you read the last two lines of the piece? *shudders*