Steve Schmadeke

Closing arguments in the Christopher Vaughn quadruple-murder trial are expected to happen one week from today, attorneys said in court this morning. Vaughn's defense attorney George Lenard said he expects...

Closing arguments in the Christopher Vaughn murder trial are expected next week, jurors learned Thursday as his defense team called Vaughn's sister-in-law to testify about a panic attack Vaughn's wife...

Prosecutors in the Christopher Vaughn case called their last witness this morning and rested their case and the defense called its first witness after more than three weeks of testimony....

Christopher Vaughn's own blood, dripping inside his Oswego family's SUV, proves that he fatally shot his wife and three children, a blood-spatter expert hired by the state told jurors Tuesday....

Prosecutors in the Christopher Vaughn quadruple murder trial rested their case Wednesday after calling some 80 witnesses over four weeks, including forensic experts, family of the victims and two strippers...

Christopher Vaughn's own blood, dripping inside his Oswego family's SUV, proves that he fatally shot his wife and three children, a blood-spatter expert hired by the state told jurors Tuesday....

They arrived in Joliet bursting with bravado and bluster, promising an acquittal for the ages. Five weeks later, Drew Peterson's Chicago-based defense team left town, thoroughly defeated, somewhat fractured and...

With a grand jury deadline looming to charge Drew Peterson with the murder of this third wife, Will County prosecutors in 2009 met in a seventh-floor conference room at their...