Speaker 1: Hey Murder and Illinois listeners, It's Lauren Bright Pacheco. Murder
Speaker 1: in Illinois was released three years ago and it remains
Speaker 1: my most polarizing investigation. Christopher Vaughan was sentenced in twenty
Speaker 1: twelve to four consecutive life sentences for the twenty oh
Speaker 1: seven shooting deaths of his wife and three children. While
Speaker 1: I interviewed Vaughn extensively for the podcast, he has never
Speaker 1: shared what happened the day he lost his entire family
Speaker 1: in his own voice until now. Chris recently sat down
Speaker 1: with Jason Flomm for an episode of the podcast Wrongful Conviction.
Speaker 2: After I parked the drug, I asked her, you know,
Speaker 2: is she still feeling bad? If she needed a few minutes,
Speaker 2: And she really just didn't say much of anything, so
Speaker 2: I opted to give her a few minutes. I went
Speaker 2: ahead and jumped out. Kids were asleep in the back,
Speaker 2: and I went around and just did miscellaneous things, checked
Speaker 2: the luggage rack, looked at the tires, and that's when
Speaker 2: I heard a horrendous racket. And I was heading for
Speaker 2: my door to get in and find out what was
Speaker 2: going on. And I pulled the door open and I
Speaker 2: was looking looking at Kim holding the gun, and she
Speaker 2: looked at me and she said, you won't take my
Speaker 2: kids away from me, she says, She says, you killed them,
Speaker 2: and then she starts firing a gun at me. And
Speaker 2: I was tumbling backward and trying to come forward and
Speaker 2: not making much progress doing anything, and that's when she
Speaker 2: if she turned the gun on herself.
Speaker 1: To hear the rest of that exclusive interview, head over
Speaker 1: to Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flamm Episode four hundred and seventy,
Speaker 1: and look for more updates on Christopher Vaughn here very
Speaker 1: soon