WEBVTT - 4. Devastation 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:05.880 Murder in Illinois is a production of iHeartRadio. Fourteen years later, 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.440 it's still difficult to imagine oneself on either side of 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.360 this tragic coin. Whether you lost your loved ones to murder, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.080 or you also believed your loved one had been wrongfully 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:22.280 convicted of those murders, there would be pain, anger, and bitterness. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.400 As reporter Erica Worst aptly put it, no. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.920 One's gonna get what they want, which is their loved 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:31.440 one's beast. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:38.520 Here's Gale Vaughan. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.920 I got a phone call about noon, a personal phone 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.479 call from a lady from the Sun Times, I believe, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.320 and she was interviewing me on how Kim intermingled with 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.920 the family. And it was like, well, where did this 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.400 call comes from? And she says, oh, didn't you hear 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:02.480 they were killed? And it was like turned on the news, 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.280 so yeah. I told her I couldn't talk any longer, 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.440 and I went to the TV and I called my husband. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.679 I was just I was going to sixty directions, but 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.480 I wasn't going anywhere. It was just I didn't know 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.960 how to react. I just sat on the floor for 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.520 a few minutes and just and so my sister came 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.720 up from downstairs where she's been staying, and she says, 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.399 what are you doing sting on the phone. I says, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:31.959 my fail has been killed. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.680 Jale called me after the reporter called her. She told 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.640 me that there was one survivor. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:41.920 She didn't know who it was. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.640 So I tried calling Chris a couple times on his phone, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.400 tried calling Kim on her phone, leave once, and I 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.560 tracked down his office number and talked to them. Finally 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.200 I had somebody tell me, no, he did not. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:01:59.480 Show for work that day. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.760 As far as they know, he had took taken a 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:03.640 vacation day. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.400 Pierre immediately began to feel a mixture of fear and panic. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.080 I thought somebody had to do this to them. I 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:18.040 didn't believe it was within the family, and I was 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.640 very angry, and my mind was racing about one hundred 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.760 miles a minute because I was at work. I just 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.480 kept calling back and forth, and I finally called gailback 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.600 and said, I cannot get a hold of it. Well, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.520 she called me back not too long after that, and 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.720 evidently missus Phillips had called her and asked her if 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.440 she's seen the news, and missus Phillips told her that 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.800 it was Chris and Kim's truck, and Kimberly was in 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.880 the front seat and the children in the back, and 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:54.600 they believed them all to be he dead. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:03:00.400 I'm Lauren Brt Pacheco and this is murdering Allinois. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:12.560 Hey, no face food you baby faced the king? Bye 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.080 all be f. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:20.440 You came to. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.080 Distrushed for had been she. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.240 A brock came. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:40.480 Bye? You did jack you. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.720 The Vaughn family had loaded into their suv and left 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.520 their oswe Go home before four forty five am. At 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.560 approximately five point fifteen am, a passing motorists would stop 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.080 to render assistance to Christopher Vaughan, who was found limping 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.960 along the frontage road of Interstate fifty five. He'd been 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.240 shot twice. Ten minutes later, our first responders would find 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.320 the rest of his family inside their suv. Like Vaughn, 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.800 each of the three children had been shot twice. The 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.800 body of their mother, Kimberly Vaughan, was slumped in the 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.880 passenger seat, a single gunshot wound under her chin and 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.640 a nine millimeter Torus handgun at her feet. Almost immediately, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.080 the scene of the murders would be broadcast as breaking 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:39.480 and heartbreaking news. Gail's sister Rose vividly remembers that fateful morning. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.920 Yep, because we have a large property. I at the 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.960 time had commercial greenhouses on her property. I was working 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.120 outside and I just came out of the barn and 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:55.000 my brother called me and told me. I came in 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:56.760 the house, and of course. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:57.560 It was all over TV. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.240 Their bodies were found in the family vehicle parked near 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.320 I fifty five, on a narrow path near a cell 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:04.960 phone tower. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.680 His thirty four year old wife, Kimberley, along with their 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.479 twelve year old daughter Abigail, eleven year old daughter Cassandra, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.200 and eight year old son Blake, were found dead in 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.200 their suv that was parked on a frontage road just 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.560 west of Interstate fifty five in Shanahan. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.799 Did you jump to any conclusions or did you assume 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.800 that it must have been a robbery? What were your 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:26.719 initial thoughts? 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:31.840 Do you remember if I wouldn't have seen their car 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.320 on TV, I wouldn't have expected it to be true. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:41.400 It was crazy. I had no idea. I literally had 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.640 no idea, because of. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.400 Course with the TV, they don't tell you anything, and 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.599 if they do, you can't always believe anything they say. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:51.919 So I was just waiting to. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.960 Talk to my sister again, which we kept in contact 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.640 to see exactly what the next step was, what we 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:00.280 need to to do. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.839 I spoke to both of Chris's brothers, and nearly fifteen 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.599 years later, they both still remember the exact moment they 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.840 heard the details of the news. Here's Adam Bond. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.480 At the time, I was based in Junction City, Kansas, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.800 working for a small biotech company. I got a call 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.440 on my cell phone from my parents' number. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.040 They called in and let. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.920 Me know that there had been an accident and that 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:30.760 they didn't have all the details yet. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:31.960 I I. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:38.680 Want to say that the initial story was that an 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:43.880 unknown shooter had attacked them while they were pulled over 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.120 on the side of the road or something, and it 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.240 just all kind of spiraled from there, and I was 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:55.320 able to quickly find some pictures online that were just disturbing. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.280 The one that most vividly burned its image into my 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:07.359 memory was an aerial shot from I assume a helicopter 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.680 that was actually from an angle such that you could 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.400 see Kimberly's form lying over in. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:16.040 The front seat. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.400 Eric saw similar photos, and like his brother, Adam, was 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.080 in utter disbelief over the images. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.559 My dad called and told me to turn on the news, 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.560 so I pulled it up on my computer. It was 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:37.680 aerial helicopter footage of a wooded area with Chris and 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:43.640 Kim's maroon Ford expedition. Headlines were already flying at that 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.600 point in time, when it had just happened hours prior 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.760 to that. I was really confused. I really kind of 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.800 disbelief that something like that what was happening, or it 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.440 had happened. It definitely set me back on my rear. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.320 I sat there and watched the footage and tried getting 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.560 a hold of my mom. Once the picture started popping 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.160 up on the news and everything, and my parents were 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.160 able to figure out where Chris was at, they got 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.960 in the truck and got up there to take care 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:17.320 of him. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.720 Pierre picks it up from here. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.320 We tried getting a hold of the state police and 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.800 everything like that, which we're totally uncooperative. Finally, after after 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.559 all afternoon to pacing back and forth, I decided let's go, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:37.319 we'll go physically finding. So we spent the next five 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:41.680 and a half six hours driving up there and finally 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.719 tracking down a little state police station there. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.680 Here's Gale's take after many calls to the police made 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:54.480 by myself and my husband, we received no answers. Discontinued 0:08:54.559 --> 0:09:00.760 throughout the morning and afternoon. June fourteenth, thirty pm, my 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.559 husband and I decided to go to the State Police 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.720 District five headquarters in Joliet. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.320 Gaiale and Pierre made that long drive with only one 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.040 goal in mind to find to their son. Other than 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.120 the location of the police station where Chris was being questioned, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.079 they still had no real information. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.160 Ten thirty at night, we arrived at the State Police 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.240 headquarters asking to see Chris. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.400 They had no idea to the extent to which he 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.880 was hurt or what kind of state. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:32.079 He was in. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.200 And we went in and we told him the situation 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.040 and they said, sure, have a seat, and we sat 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.719 there for a couple of hours, and then we never 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:46.240 put in a room and it was recorded, and they 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.599 went through questions and everything, and each time, you know, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.959 we keep asking how is Chris, Where is Chris, And 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:56.360 they said, well, he's here, but he's unavailable right now. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:09:59.800 That was our first indication. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.040 Gale and Pierre still hadn't spoken to their son or 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:08.839 been given any official information about what had occurred. For 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.319 Kimberly's family, things have been quite a bit different, and 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.400 a lawyer, David Bush, was already speaking on behalf of 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:17.040 the Phillips. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.439 I think he was just a family friend. I'm not 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.680 sure how it came to be, but anyway, he seemed 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.640 to handle all the interviews throughout and he spoke for 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.720 the Phillips, and he is where I got the information 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:34.760 that the police had got into the Phillips home within 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.439 two hours of this incident, that eight o'clock in the morning, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:45.599 eight thirty, and that grief counselor was on site. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.839 To reiterate. The Phillips were informed within hours of the 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.760 tragedy by officers with the grief counselor in tel The 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.959 Vonds found out through the press. Looking back, this seems 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.120 to set the tone for how the public and law 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.800 enforcement would view the crime from the beginning, foreshadowing the 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.520 way they would both deal with Christopher's versus Kimberly's family. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.679 We were told that Chris was not a suspect and 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.320 was helping the police try to make sense of what happened. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.280 They did not want to disturb him at this time. 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:25.920 We would have to wait, and so they waited at 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.040 the station, hoping for any information they could get about 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.839 their son. Finally, an officer was willing to speak to them. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.760 First of all, they didn't even want to let us in. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.480 Then when we told them who we were, then a 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.719 couple police officers came out and talked to us a 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.480 little bit and they said, well, you can't see right now, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.160 we're questioning him in this and the other thing. And 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.880 we asked him if he's been hurt, and he says, yes, 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.280 he was shot also, and he was staying a hospital 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.560 and treated, but he didn't have life threatening wounds. They 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.760 made us wait in the waiting room for a while, 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.640 and then then they come back out and they said, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.319 can we talk to you, And they took us in 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.600 a closed room and talked to us and started asking 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:10.680 us all sorts of questions. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.719 And I said, is he'd be in charge? Is to 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:13.400 be in charge? 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.800 And they said no, we's not being charge. And I said, well, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.920 then we need to take him home. And then they said, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.679 well no, he waved his right to an attorney, so 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.560 we got to finish question him. But at the time 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.079 he waved his right to an attorney, they had told 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:30.720 him the rest of his family it was dead. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.360 We were then greeted by some plain clothes officers and 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:41.320 ushered into our room. Richard Mullen began asking us questions, 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.719 not really answering any of our questions. The interview with 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.839 us ended and our Chris was still not available. We 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.440 were assured by Agent Mullen that Christopher knew we were 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.120 there and our cell phone number would be given to him. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.000 Christopher would give us a call when he was finished 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.160 answering questions because he would need a ride home. Again, 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.720 we were told Chris was free to go at any time. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:07.960 He was not a suspect. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.679 So this is what Pierre and Gale were left with. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.880 They now knew Chris had gunshot wounds and that he'd 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.280 waived his right to an attorney, and they believed, at 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.160 least at the time, he'd seemingly not been made aware 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.079 of the fate of his wife and children. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.360 All we were doing is pressing them to see and 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.959 talk to Chris. And we said, okay, well we'll just 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.400 sit in the waiting room. The name midnight or so. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:36.920 Then. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.160 Look, you can't sit here and wait, so we don't 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.079 know how long it's going to be. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.360 We left the police station at one ten in the morning, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.400 so look for a hotel. After asking the police where 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.040 a hotel could be found, because we weren't familiar with 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.960 this area, no call came from Christopher. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.520 By the morning, they'd still not heard anything from Christopher 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:12.640 or the police. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:19.680 Friday, June fifteenth, we checked out the hotel, We went 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.400 through a fast food restaurant. We went back to the 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:28.160 state police headquarters in Juliette. We were told Chris had 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:32.000 asked to leave about two am. The police had called 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:37.160 Chris a cab. The police said they had no idea 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.560 where he had gone. We drove back to Chris and 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.720 Kim's house in Oswego, Illinois. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.400 Gall and Pierre thought that Chris's first instinct might have 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.280 been to try to return home, so that's where they headed. 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.840 A media circus was already building. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.240 There were many many reporters and news trucks were in 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.360 the cul de sac in front of Chris and Kim's house. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.520 We parked in a driveway to the right of Chris's house, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.760 pere ring the doorbell knock, peered inside. The house was dark. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.080 No one was home at Chris's. 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:14.120 Where met by reporters there and you know, they, you know, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.280 wanted to know the reporters wanted to know. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.200 Right out the bat why. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.160 Chris killed his family. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:28.360 That was their first question, you know, and and where 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.000 is he at? I don't know where he's at. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:31.560 Your reporters, do your. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.200 Job, find out where he's at, and maybe you can 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:33.640 tell us. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:35.560 And I got in the car and left. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.400 At this point, Gallumpierre still had no word from Chris 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.280 or the police. They desperately wanted to locate their son, 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.520 and on top of it all, they were still processing 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.960 the fact that their daughter in law and grandchildren were dead. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.800 There was grief and frustration and confusion all at once. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:01.960 It it was really surreal. I couldn't believe this had happened. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.160 I hadn't really talked to anybody to get the details 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:12.040 on what had happened. How did this happen, Why did 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.440 this happen? Who did this? I mean, these thoughts were 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.760 going through our minds and we were trying to think 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:25.480 of what happened. And it didn't really sink in that 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:32.520 they were gone yet. But now we did talk to 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.080 the police and they said, yes, we are interviewing Chris. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:39.400 So that answered the question of before we're dead and 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:45.480 one was alive. So we wanted to be with Chris. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.800 We wanted to get to Chris as soon as we could, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.080 and for some reason, the police we're not helping. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:51.320 Us do this. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.360 That reason would soon become clear, but the Vaughans were 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.680 simply left to search for their son. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.120 We didn't know what in the condition he was in. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.280 He did sustain two gun wounds, we didn't know where. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.040 We knew he wasn't dead, and he was walking around, 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.959 so it couldn't have been life threatening. But the imagination 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:19.240 is a terrible thing when you are near a traumatic incident. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.400 So Pierre and I drove away from the media circus 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.000 from Chris's house and pulled into the clubhouse parking area 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.920 in the front by the pool. We again called the 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.080 state police to see if they could trace the cab 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.280 that they had called for Chris, and to find out 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.640 where they had dropped Chris at. The police called back 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.960 Chris had been dropped up at the Fairfield Inn, just 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:44.959 off Route thirty back in Joliet. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:47.199 We were now in. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.800 Northwego, so we drove to the Fairfield Inn and there 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:51.680 was no Christopher. 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.840 But yeah, I remember, he's in an open hospital gown 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:03.399 with a pair of underwear on and hospital booties and 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:09.040 he's you knows Riss's bandage, his legs bandaged, and you 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.640 know they hadn't changed the bandage since the hospital treatedy 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:14.760 and that nine. 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:15.440 In the morning. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.560 They'd later find out that shortly after telling the bonds 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.120 to leave, the police put Chris Vaughn in a cab 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:28.560 alone without a phone, at one forty a m. He 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.760 wasn't told his parents had actually been at the station, 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.840 and they knew that you were in town. They knew 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.719 that you had begged to see him. They you had 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.959 given them your cell phone, and they just put him 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:43.679 out on the street. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:46.720 They called him a cab and. 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.080 I guess he had his wallet or a credit card 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:56.080 with you or whatever, but yeah, they put they get 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:01.440 he got a cab and they told the cab driver 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.440 take him to a hotel, and he went through three 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:09.119 or four hotels before you know, because he come walking 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.600 in in the hospital gown and with the bloody leg 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.840 and they're not going to exactly take you in. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.200 You'll recall that police claimed Chris was dropped at a 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.920 Fairfield end, but Gail and Pierre found him at a 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:21.640 motel eight. 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.640 We asked Chris why he had been in the Motel eight. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.040 When the cab dropped him at the Fairfield. His reply 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.520 was that Hotel eight was the only one out of 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.040 three that would let him have a room, seeing the 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.400 way he was dressed. So this meant that the tab 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.840 dropped him off the Fairfield and he walked in and 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.960 they turned him away. He walked into the next one 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.920 they turned him away, and the Motel eight was the 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.120 only one that allowed him to get a room. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.800 He told the guy he paid him double them to 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.520 stay in the room, so he went in there and crash. 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.720 Gall and Pierre were finally able to locate their son 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:05.600 at the motel. 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.760 We hugged him. He appeared to be in a state 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.520 of shock. His skin was cold and clammy. There there 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.520 was very little color in his face. His eyes were 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:20.360 blazed and dark. It was like his pupils were dilated. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:27.639 They his eyes just weren't. I mean, he was wearing 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:33.920 two hospital gowns, underwear, and hospital booties when we found him. 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.760 The gauze from his leg wound was loose and bloody. 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.560 We went back into the hotel room the Motel eight 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:48.919 and I left Pierre with Christopher and I immediately went 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.840 to the store to buy his clothes, shoes, and bandages. 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:59.640 Pierre sat there. They sat in the dark. Chris said 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.159 he didn't on any lights all. I mean, he just 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.280 he was hiding. He didn't know what to do. His 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:16.000 world had collapsed. So Pierre sat with Chris. He hugged Chris. 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:21.200 They really did not speak at this point. Ollie did well. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:26.520 Pierre did was just shold him. Pierre did not push 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.680 for answers at this time because Chris was in a daze, 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:32.960 quite a bit. 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:39.439 Of shock, you know, to see your your son living 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:45.040 and bloody bandages and at the time he had long hair, 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:50.399 and it was it was just fuddled. It was all 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.639 over the place, and he was he was ghost white, pale, 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:59.560 and dark circles around his eyes, and he just yeah, 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:00.840 it was a bad scene. 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:05.920 Pierre sat with his son, watching him try to process 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.639 what had happened, while also dealing with his own emotions 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:11.560 as a father and grandfather. 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.000 And I stayed there and talked with him, and in 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:18.640 he just one word answers. 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:24.840 Then he finally he asked me. He says, he says, 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:27.400 they told me my Kim and the kids are dead 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:31.680 and they're gone. And I says yeah, And I says 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.400 that's what they told us too. And he says, he all, 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.920 it's a long time. He says, well, he says, everything's gone. 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:43.119 Then he'sas, I have no reason to continue, no reason 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:44.200 to have a house job. 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:45.800 You know, my family's gone. 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:46.520 I have nothing. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.840 So at that moment, he was, he was at rock bottom. 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.920 As we've stated in previous episodes, Chris had a parent 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:59.520 gaps in his memory in regard to the sequence of events, 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:05.320 which fostered almost immediate suspicion among the investigators. His parents 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.480 attributed his demeanor to the stress and shock of what 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:12.720 he'd just experienced. Gail and Pierre shifted their focus to 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:15.800 taking care of their son. As support of parents. 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:19.920 Tierre talked to Chris about his physical wounds and just 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:24.920 mostly sat in silence, just being there with him. I 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:29.200 returned with clothes, flip flops, and moon clean cleaners and bandages, 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:33.760 and we washed Chris up, helped him put on his clothes. 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:36.640 We assisted him in changing his bandages on his left 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:43.200 wrist and left thigh. We left Motel eight and went 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:46.080 back to Target to fill up prescription for antibiotics. He 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:51.600 had received a script from the emergency room. When the 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:55.720 prescription was filled, we left. We found a restaurant starving 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.520 breakfast as well as lunch. We ordered, but not much 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:05.000 was he eaten. We checked into a Holiday Express Saturday 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:09.800 and watched TV together, not really seeing what was on 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:10.320 the screen. 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:16.280 You will find multiple incidences of Chrispond's allegedly self inflicted 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:20.080 bullet wounds to his left wrist and leg, described as 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:23.480 superficial injuries. His parents disagree. 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.600 His wrist was probably the least one because we thought 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:32.040 possibly the bullet had ricocheted off of the bend of 0:24:32.200 --> 0:24:35.040 his watch that he had, so it just kind of 0:24:35.119 --> 0:24:39.320 skittered down his skin. Yeah, it didn't go through his wrist, No, 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:44.040 it went perpendicular to his wrist and his bone stuff 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:47.080 like that, and made a nice gash in there. 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:49.080 Now, his wound to his leg. 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:50.200 That was a different matter. 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:53.280 That's different matter, because that was a true and true wound. 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:59.240