Steve Schmadeke

As his family lay shot dead in their Ford Expedition, one daughter clutching a stuffed animal and a Harry Potter novel, Christopher Vaughn was at a hospital complaining about investigators...

As his family lay shot dead in their Ford Expedition, one daughter clutching a stuffed animal and a Harry Potter novel, Christopher Vaughn was at a hospital complaining about investigators...

It's been more than five years since the early summer morning when Christopher Vaughn flagged down a passing motorist on a dusty frontage road near Channahon, sparking one of the...

It's been more than five years since the early summer morning when Christopher Vaughn flagged down a passing motorist on a dusty frontage road near Channahon, sparking one of the...

After a judge barred his testimony in Drew Peterson's murder trial because of errors by prosecutors, a friend of Peterson's missing fourth wife, Stacy, stepped out, frustrated and emotional, into...

As jurors furiously took notes, a state-hired pathologist explained Thursday why he believed the bathtub drowning of Drew Peterson's third wife was a homicide. Dr. Larry Blum said Kathleen Savio's...

The judge in Drew Peterson's murder trial halted the proceedings Tuesday after a prosecutor asked a forbidden question amid testimony about an alleged knife-point incident involving Peterson and his estranged...