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mom_from_STL on Fri May 29, 2009 10:07 pm
Warrants: Coleman told girlfriend they'd marry next year; he had alibi for murders
By Nicholas J.C. Pistor
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
05/29/2009
Christopher Coleman told his girlfriend in Florida that he would marry her in 2010, and that he had an alibi for the murders of his slain family, according to search warrants obtained by the Post-Dispatch.
The girlfriend, Tara Lintz, was interviewed by police in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the days following the murders of Sheri Coleman and her two young sons on May 5. Lintz admitted to investigators that she had sexually explicit communications with Chris Coleman via her cell phone, email, and social networking accounts. She said their sexual relationship began in November 2008.
Tara Lintz was a high school friend of Sheri Coleman. She told police she had talked to Chris Coleman the evening of May 4, just hours before the murders.
The Post-Dispatch first disclosed the affair a week after the murders, but the newly released search warrants provide a deeper look at the relationship.
"In the emails, Christopher talks about his extramarital relationship with Lintz," according to an affidavit filed by a detective. "He also sent emails to Lintz about plans to marry her in January, 2010, and their upcoming trip this summer."
The documents say Christopher Coleman admitted to police that he was having a sexual relationship with Lintz. Earlier this week, search warrants disclosed that police had confiscated travel documents from Colemans home.
Chris Coleman, 32, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and held in jail in Waterloo without bail.
The criminal charges are based in part, sources said, on physical evidence that suggests the family was dead before the time Coleman said he left home that day. The three were strangled in separate bedrooms, and writing was found spray-painted in red on several walls.
The documents further say that Coleman created a new email account after the murders, and used it to send the girlfriend a message.
"He discussed the interview he had with the investigators concerning the death of his family. He told her, he did not commit the murders and had an alibi," an affidavit states.
Lintz contacted authorities after getting the email, the documents state.
The documents also state Sheri Coleman closed her Facebook account because there "were unauthorized changes to her Facebook account without her knowledge."
Sheri Coleman told friends she was getting threats on her Facebook account, possibly related to the death threats in the mailbox at her house.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/B1F6BDD14E1D573F862575C5005BFE6B?OpenDocument
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/complaintforsearchwarrant.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/chriscolemansearch.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/colemanhousesearch.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/colemanhousesearch2.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/colemanstrawbails.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/colemanvehicle.pdf
By Nicholas J.C. Pistor
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
05/29/2009
Christopher Coleman told his girlfriend in Florida that he would marry her in 2010, and that he had an alibi for the murders of his slain family, according to search warrants obtained by the Post-Dispatch.
The girlfriend, Tara Lintz, was interviewed by police in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the days following the murders of Sheri Coleman and her two young sons on May 5. Lintz admitted to investigators that she had sexually explicit communications with Chris Coleman via her cell phone, email, and social networking accounts. She said their sexual relationship began in November 2008.
Tara Lintz was a high school friend of Sheri Coleman. She told police she had talked to Chris Coleman the evening of May 4, just hours before the murders.
The Post-Dispatch first disclosed the affair a week after the murders, but the newly released search warrants provide a deeper look at the relationship.
"In the emails, Christopher talks about his extramarital relationship with Lintz," according to an affidavit filed by a detective. "He also sent emails to Lintz about plans to marry her in January, 2010, and their upcoming trip this summer."
The documents say Christopher Coleman admitted to police that he was having a sexual relationship with Lintz. Earlier this week, search warrants disclosed that police had confiscated travel documents from Colemans home.
Chris Coleman, 32, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and held in jail in Waterloo without bail.
The criminal charges are based in part, sources said, on physical evidence that suggests the family was dead before the time Coleman said he left home that day. The three were strangled in separate bedrooms, and writing was found spray-painted in red on several walls.
The documents further say that Coleman created a new email account after the murders, and used it to send the girlfriend a message.
"He discussed the interview he had with the investigators concerning the death of his family. He told her, he did not commit the murders and had an alibi," an affidavit states.
Lintz contacted authorities after getting the email, the documents state.
The documents also state Sheri Coleman closed her Facebook account because there "were unauthorized changes to her Facebook account without her knowledge."
Sheri Coleman told friends she was getting threats on her Facebook account, possibly related to the death threats in the mailbox at her house.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/B1F6BDD14E1D573F862575C5005BFE6B?OpenDocument
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/complaintforsearchwarrant.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/chriscolemansearch.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/colemanhousesearch.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/colemanhousesearch2.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/colemanstrawbails.pdf
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/colemanvehicle.pdf
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
TomTerrific0420 on Sat May 30, 2009 1:34 am
Investigators: Triple-murder suspect admits affair
By JIM SUHR
Associated Press Writer
WATERLOO, Ill. --
A man charged in the strangling deaths of his wife and their two sons
was having an affair with a Florida woman and planned to get a divorce
so he could marry her next year, according to court documents released
Friday.Christopher
Coleman's alleged girlfriend, Tara Lintz of St. Petersburg, Fla., told
investigators that Coleman assured her by e-mail after the May 5
slayings that he was not the killer and had an alibi, according to a
newly released affidavit.Investigators have not publicly offered
a possible motive in the killings of Sheri Coleman, 31, and her two
sons, 11-year-old Garett and 9-year-old Gavin. Their bodies were found
in their Columbia home and Coleman, a 32-year-old former Marine, has
pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in their
deaths.
He remains jailed without bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 10.Lintz,
identified in court papers as a "good friend" of Sheri Coleman,
admitted having a sexual relationship with Christopher Coleman since
last November and said he planned to be divorced by June 14, about five
weeks after the killings, according to the affidavit. Coleman also
admitted the relationship to investigators, the documents say.Lintz also allegedly told investigators she spoke with Christopher Coleman the night of May 4, just hours before the killings.A message left by The Associated Press Friday with Coleman's attorney, William Margulis, was not immediately returned.A
woman who answered the telephone Friday at a St. Petersburg, Fla.-area
phone listing for a Tara Lintz told the AP it was the wrong number.Coleman
told police his wife and children were asleep when he left the house on
May 5 to work out at a Missouri gym about five miles away, but that he
grew concerned when he could not reach them by telephone, Columbia
police Detective Karla Heine has said in an affidavit. The bodies were
later found by police after Coleman asked them to check on his family's
welfare, Heine said.In other search warrants released earlier
this week, investigators said orange twine fashioned into a noose found
near a Mississippi River bridge resembled cord tied around straw bales
behind the Coleman home.Investigators have said the victims were
strangled with a ligature, perhaps a cord. The bridge where the noose
was found alongside Interstate 255 was on the route Coleman would have
taken to the gym the morning of the slayings, investigators said.Coleman
has said that he received anonymous threatening notes in January and
again last month involving his work as a bodyguard with Joyce Meyer
Ministries, a Missouri-based evangelical group, according to the court
documents. The last allegedly warned, "THIS IS MY LAST WARNING! YOUR
WORST NIGHTMARE IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN!"Investigators have suggested
Coleman sent the notes to himself and spray-painted vulgar slogans on
some of the home's walls. One of those graffiti messages, according to
an attorney for Sheri Coleman's family, read, "I saw you leave.
(Expletive) you. I am always watching."The graffiti echoed wording in an April 27 letter.Sheri
Coleman's mother and brother are sued Christopher Coleman, accusing him
of negligently causing the deaths of his wife and children. That legal
action prevents Christopher Coleman from immediately selling the home
or its contents.Sheri Coleman's name was taken off the deed last
year, but her family questions whether she knew about it or was coerced
into signing off on it.
By JIM SUHR
Associated Press Writer
WATERLOO, Ill. --
A man charged in the strangling deaths of his wife and their two sons
was having an affair with a Florida woman and planned to get a divorce
so he could marry her next year, according to court documents released
Friday.Christopher
Coleman's alleged girlfriend, Tara Lintz of St. Petersburg, Fla., told
investigators that Coleman assured her by e-mail after the May 5
slayings that he was not the killer and had an alibi, according to a
newly released affidavit.Investigators have not publicly offered
a possible motive in the killings of Sheri Coleman, 31, and her two
sons, 11-year-old Garett and 9-year-old Gavin. Their bodies were found
in their Columbia home and Coleman, a 32-year-old former Marine, has
pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in their
deaths.
He remains jailed without bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 10.Lintz,
identified in court papers as a "good friend" of Sheri Coleman,
admitted having a sexual relationship with Christopher Coleman since
last November and said he planned to be divorced by June 14, about five
weeks after the killings, according to the affidavit. Coleman also
admitted the relationship to investigators, the documents say.Lintz also allegedly told investigators she spoke with Christopher Coleman the night of May 4, just hours before the killings.A message left by The Associated Press Friday with Coleman's attorney, William Margulis, was not immediately returned.A
woman who answered the telephone Friday at a St. Petersburg, Fla.-area
phone listing for a Tara Lintz told the AP it was the wrong number.Coleman
told police his wife and children were asleep when he left the house on
May 5 to work out at a Missouri gym about five miles away, but that he
grew concerned when he could not reach them by telephone, Columbia
police Detective Karla Heine has said in an affidavit. The bodies were
later found by police after Coleman asked them to check on his family's
welfare, Heine said.In other search warrants released earlier
this week, investigators said orange twine fashioned into a noose found
near a Mississippi River bridge resembled cord tied around straw bales
behind the Coleman home.Investigators have said the victims were
strangled with a ligature, perhaps a cord. The bridge where the noose
was found alongside Interstate 255 was on the route Coleman would have
taken to the gym the morning of the slayings, investigators said.Coleman
has said that he received anonymous threatening notes in January and
again last month involving his work as a bodyguard with Joyce Meyer
Ministries, a Missouri-based evangelical group, according to the court
documents. The last allegedly warned, "THIS IS MY LAST WARNING! YOUR
WORST NIGHTMARE IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN!"Investigators have suggested
Coleman sent the notes to himself and spray-painted vulgar slogans on
some of the home's walls. One of those graffiti messages, according to
an attorney for Sheri Coleman's family, read, "I saw you leave.
(Expletive) you. I am always watching."The graffiti echoed wording in an April 27 letter.Sheri
Coleman's mother and brother are sued Christopher Coleman, accusing him
of negligently causing the deaths of his wife and children. That legal
action prevents Christopher Coleman from immediately selling the home
or its contents.Sheri Coleman's name was taken off the deed last
year, but her family questions whether she knew about it or was coerced
into signing off on it.
TomTerrific0420- Supreme Commander of the Universe With Cape AND Tights AND Fancy Headgear
Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
TomTerrific0420 on Sat May 30, 2009 11:54 am
WATERLOO Christopher Coleman was planning a new life with his
girlfriend in the months leading up to the strangling deaths of his
wife, Sheri, and two young sons, according to search warrants made
public on Friday.
Coleman's
father noted to police after the deaths that Sheri Coleman had a "good
friend" in Florida. The friend, the court documents reveal, turned out
to be Chris Coleman's lover named Tara Lintz.
Police descended on St. Petersburg, Fla. There, they met with Lintz,
who described her six-month sexual relationship with the man now
accused of strangling his family.
Lintz cooperated with authorities, telling police that Chris Coleman
was planning to divorce his wife next month. He also promised a trip
with Lintz this summer, the documents state, and sent her e-mails about
plans for their marriage in January.
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The affair began in November 2008, according to the documents,
around the same time Sheri Coleman's family members say her name was
mysteriously removed from their house title.
Coleman and Lintz had trysts in Hawaii and Arizona, while Coleman was
working as head of security for Joyce Meyer Ministries, sources said.
Joyce Meyer held a conference in the Tampa area in November 2008, around the time when Lintz said the affair began.
The Post-Dispatch disclosed the affair with Lintz a week after the
murders, but court documents provided new details about the
relationship that became a major part of the murder investigation.
Lintz told police she talked with Chris Coleman the evening of May 4.
The bodies were found the next morning. After the murders, she said,
Coleman created a new e-mail address and sent her a message saying he
was innocent and "had an alibi." Lintz turned the e-mail over to
police.
Chris Coleman, 32, told police he left for a gym about 5:45 a.m.; he
called police before 7 a.m. asking them to check on his family, whom he
could not reach by phone.
When police questioned him later, he admitted to the affair, a detective wrote.
Police also served search warrants on e-mail accounts and social
networking sites, which revealed Chris Coleman's messages about the
affair and other "explicit communication."
Coleman, the son of a Chester, Ill., pastor, is charged with three
counts of first-degree murder. He maintains his innocence and claims he
may have been targeted by someone with a grudge against televangelist
Joyce Meyer. Coleman had previously contacted Columbia police about
threatening letters related to the Meyer ministry that he said were
being delivered to his mailbox .
Coleman resigned from his job after the killings; the Meyer organization cited an unspecified violation of a morals clause.
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Tara Lintz had known Sheri Coleman since their days at Largo High
School in Largo, Fla. Lintz graduated a year after Coleman, in 1996.
She worked on the school newspaper and was a member of the Key Club. A
former teacher recalled Lintz as intelligent, popular and pretty "a
pleasure to have in class." He also said that she struck him as
"straight-laced" and "prim and proper."
In an ad in the back of the high school yearbook, Lintz's parents and
brother wrote, "How lucky we've been! Being able to watch you grow in
every way. From a happy healthy baby to a beautiful young woman who
knows what she wants. That is what makes you as special as you are. "
But not everyone may have been a fan. In the copy of the 1996 yearbook
in the Largo library's local history room, one of Lintz's photos has
been vandalized with a scrawl of ink. Librarians said they could not
recall anyone asking to see the yearbook recently and do not track who
looks at it.
Lintz married Peter J. Belcastro in August 2001.
By the fall of 2004, their relationship was ending; they filed for
divorce. By mutual agreement, Lintz, who was earning $77.76 a week plus
tips as a cocktail waitress at a dog track, got the 1997 Cadillac STS
and their 1985 Yamaha V-Max motorcycle. She also got the leather and
purple couch and other furniture totaling $6,000, plus $10,000 in
jewelry and a $4,000 collection of rhinoceros-themed items. Lintz also
took on $11,200 in debt.
Belcastro, who was a machine operator at a wheel shop, got a 1997 Chevy
Tahoe, $1,000 worth of martial arts swords and more than $29,000 in
debt, plus the car payments.
Lintz reclaimed her maiden name in the divorce, which was granted Dec. 7, 2004.
About a year and a half after filing for divorce, Belcastro and "Tara
Belcastro" bought a condo north of downtown St. Petersburg, property
records show.
No one answered the door of the two-story, tan stucco and aluminum-clad
condo when a reporter stopped by several times in mid-May. The blinds
were closed tight, but Lintz appears to live there, judging by the mail
and the rhino-themed address number plate on the door.
Belcastro didn't return requests for comment.
Lintz has not responded to a reporter's e-mails or multiple messages
left for her with friends, family, neighbors, her ex-husband and her
employer.
girlfriend in the months leading up to the strangling deaths of his
wife, Sheri, and two young sons, according to search warrants made
public on Friday.
Coleman's
father noted to police after the deaths that Sheri Coleman had a "good
friend" in Florida. The friend, the court documents reveal, turned out
to be Chris Coleman's lover named Tara Lintz.
Police descended on St. Petersburg, Fla. There, they met with Lintz,
who described her six-month sexual relationship with the man now
accused of strangling his family.
Lintz cooperated with authorities, telling police that Chris Coleman
was planning to divorce his wife next month. He also promised a trip
with Lintz this summer, the documents state, and sent her e-mails about
plans for their marriage in January.
yld_mgr.place_ad_here("inlineframe1");
The affair began in November 2008, according to the documents,
around the same time Sheri Coleman's family members say her name was
mysteriously removed from their house title.
Coleman and Lintz had trysts in Hawaii and Arizona, while Coleman was
working as head of security for Joyce Meyer Ministries, sources said.
Joyce Meyer held a conference in the Tampa area in November 2008, around the time when Lintz said the affair began.
The Post-Dispatch disclosed the affair with Lintz a week after the
murders, but court documents provided new details about the
relationship that became a major part of the murder investigation.
Lintz told police she talked with Chris Coleman the evening of May 4.
The bodies were found the next morning. After the murders, she said,
Coleman created a new e-mail address and sent her a message saying he
was innocent and "had an alibi." Lintz turned the e-mail over to
police.
Chris Coleman, 32, told police he left for a gym about 5:45 a.m.; he
called police before 7 a.m. asking them to check on his family, whom he
could not reach by phone.
When police questioned him later, he admitted to the affair, a detective wrote.
Police also served search warrants on e-mail accounts and social
networking sites, which revealed Chris Coleman's messages about the
affair and other "explicit communication."
Coleman, the son of a Chester, Ill., pastor, is charged with three
counts of first-degree murder. He maintains his innocence and claims he
may have been targeted by someone with a grudge against televangelist
Joyce Meyer. Coleman had previously contacted Columbia police about
threatening letters related to the Meyer ministry that he said were
being delivered to his mailbox .
Coleman resigned from his job after the killings; the Meyer organization cited an unspecified violation of a morals clause.
YEARBOOK AD
Tara Lintz had known Sheri Coleman since their days at Largo High
School in Largo, Fla. Lintz graduated a year after Coleman, in 1996.
She worked on the school newspaper and was a member of the Key Club. A
former teacher recalled Lintz as intelligent, popular and pretty "a
pleasure to have in class." He also said that she struck him as
"straight-laced" and "prim and proper."
In an ad in the back of the high school yearbook, Lintz's parents and
brother wrote, "How lucky we've been! Being able to watch you grow in
every way. From a happy healthy baby to a beautiful young woman who
knows what she wants. That is what makes you as special as you are. "
But not everyone may have been a fan. In the copy of the 1996 yearbook
in the Largo library's local history room, one of Lintz's photos has
been vandalized with a scrawl of ink. Librarians said they could not
recall anyone asking to see the yearbook recently and do not track who
looks at it.
Lintz married Peter J. Belcastro in August 2001.
By the fall of 2004, their relationship was ending; they filed for
divorce. By mutual agreement, Lintz, who was earning $77.76 a week plus
tips as a cocktail waitress at a dog track, got the 1997 Cadillac STS
and their 1985 Yamaha V-Max motorcycle. She also got the leather and
purple couch and other furniture totaling $6,000, plus $10,000 in
jewelry and a $4,000 collection of rhinoceros-themed items. Lintz also
took on $11,200 in debt.
Belcastro, who was a machine operator at a wheel shop, got a 1997 Chevy
Tahoe, $1,000 worth of martial arts swords and more than $29,000 in
debt, plus the car payments.
Lintz reclaimed her maiden name in the divorce, which was granted Dec. 7, 2004.
About a year and a half after filing for divorce, Belcastro and "Tara
Belcastro" bought a condo north of downtown St. Petersburg, property
records show.
No one answered the door of the two-story, tan stucco and aluminum-clad
condo when a reporter stopped by several times in mid-May. The blinds
were closed tight, but Lintz appears to live there, judging by the mail
and the rhino-themed address number plate on the door.
Belcastro didn't return requests for comment.
Lintz has not responded to a reporter's e-mails or multiple messages
left for her with friends, family, neighbors, her ex-husband and her
employer.
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
mom_from_STL on Sat May 30, 2009 3:12 pm
http://thedirty.com/2009/01/05/would_you3f_-213/comment-page-1/#comment-1160099
Apparently someone else doesn't like this Tara....posted a pic of her and some not so nice comments from people about her.
Apparently someone else doesn't like this Tara....posted a pic of her and some not so nice comments from people about her.
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
TomTerrific0420 on Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:40 pm
COLUMBIA -- In the hours before
Christopher Coleman's wife and two sons were found strangled in their
Columbia home, Coleman talked long distance to a girlfriend in Florida
he planned to marry, according to search warrant records filed Friday.Coleman
planned to divorce his wife by June 14 and marry his wife's "good
friend" Tara Lintz, 31, of St. Petersburg, Fla., next year, according
to the records that became available after legal action filed by the
Belleville News-Democrat in Monroe County Circuit Court.Coleman
has been charged with first-degree murder in the May 5 ligature
strangulations of his wife, Sheri Coleman, 31, and their sons Garett,
11, and Gavin, 9. The 32-year-old former head of security for the Joyce
Meyer Ministries is being held in Monroe County Jail without bond.
The records reveal the following: During
an interview with homicide investigators from the St. Petersburg Police
Department, Lintz admitted having a sexual relationship with
Christopher Coleman, 32, since November. Lintz said Coleman planned to
divorce Sheri Coleman by June 14. The relationship started several
weeks after Sheri Coleman signed off the family's deed to their
$230,000 home at 2854 Robert Drive in Columbia on Oct. 6. Lintz told police Coleman told her that he did not commit the homicides and that he had an alibi. Coleman
told investigators from the Major Case Squad that he denied committing
the homicides but admitted having a sexual relationship with Lintz. The
last login date of Sheri Coleman's MySpace account was May 4 -- the day
before her body was found. The time of the login was not known. Lintz
was listed as a friend on Sheri Coleman's MySpace account. Sheri
Coleman's friends told police that she recently closed her Facebook
account because she received threats possibly related to death threats
she had received at her residence."Sheri also reported to
friends that there were unauthorized changes to her Facebook account
without her knowledge," the records stated. Lintz
told Florida officers that Christopher Coleman was receiving death
threats and that he had e-mailed Lintz pictures of the threatening
letter to her Gmail account. Lintz
admitted having "explicit communication" with Christopher Coleman by
using her Blackberry, which can transport instant images, and her
Facebook account. Christopher Coleman's father, the Rev. Ronald Coleman, told an investigator that Lintz was a "good friend" of Sheri Coleman. When
investigators first contacted Lintz, she was already aware of the
homicides, which were widely publicized. She told police she had spoken
to Christopher Coleman the evening of May 4.Search warrant
records were also released Wednesday. Those records showed that
detectives found an orange piece of twine with a noose tied on one end
near the Jefferson Barracks Bridge that resembled twine used to tie
four bales of straw found behind the Colemans' home.Those
warrants also showed that Sheri Coleman was found naked and face down
in bed. Rigor mortis, which stiffens a corpse and usually occurs after
two or three hours, had set in, the records showed.He also
described messages spray-painted in red paint across the walls. Laced
with obscenities, they appear to have been directed at Sheri Coleman
and include "punished" in the downstairs dining room, "whore paid" or
"u have paid" in an upstairs room and "I saw you leave, (expletive)
you, I am always watching" in the kitchen.Coleman told Columbia
police that he had gone to a gym to workout, leaving the house about
5:45 a.m. Before 7 a.m., he called the Columbia police to report that
he could not reach his family and ask that they check in on them.Christopher
Coleman resigned from his security job after consultation with a Joyce
Meyer Ministries official concerning an alleged violation of the
religious group's "moral policy."Mike Cole, an employee of Joyce
Meyer Ministries, in April "provided a list of names as well as photos
of people that have threatened Coleman and other Joyce Meyer Ministries
employees and who Coleman stated he believed could be responsible for
the threats" the Coleman family had received.Maj. Jeff Connor of
the Granite City Police Department, commander of the Major Case Squad
assigned to the Coleman family homicides, said Friday he would not
comment on evidence.
Christopher Coleman's wife and two sons were found strangled in their
Columbia home, Coleman talked long distance to a girlfriend in Florida
he planned to marry, according to search warrant records filed Friday.Coleman
planned to divorce his wife by June 14 and marry his wife's "good
friend" Tara Lintz, 31, of St. Petersburg, Fla., next year, according
to the records that became available after legal action filed by the
Belleville News-Democrat in Monroe County Circuit Court.Coleman
has been charged with first-degree murder in the May 5 ligature
strangulations of his wife, Sheri Coleman, 31, and their sons Garett,
11, and Gavin, 9. The 32-year-old former head of security for the Joyce
Meyer Ministries is being held in Monroe County Jail without bond.
The records reveal the following: During
an interview with homicide investigators from the St. Petersburg Police
Department, Lintz admitted having a sexual relationship with
Christopher Coleman, 32, since November. Lintz said Coleman planned to
divorce Sheri Coleman by June 14. The relationship started several
weeks after Sheri Coleman signed off the family's deed to their
$230,000 home at 2854 Robert Drive in Columbia on Oct. 6. Lintz told police Coleman told her that he did not commit the homicides and that he had an alibi. Coleman
told investigators from the Major Case Squad that he denied committing
the homicides but admitted having a sexual relationship with Lintz. The
last login date of Sheri Coleman's MySpace account was May 4 -- the day
before her body was found. The time of the login was not known. Lintz
was listed as a friend on Sheri Coleman's MySpace account. Sheri
Coleman's friends told police that she recently closed her Facebook
account because she received threats possibly related to death threats
she had received at her residence."Sheri also reported to
friends that there were unauthorized changes to her Facebook account
without her knowledge," the records stated. Lintz
told Florida officers that Christopher Coleman was receiving death
threats and that he had e-mailed Lintz pictures of the threatening
letter to her Gmail account. Lintz
admitted having "explicit communication" with Christopher Coleman by
using her Blackberry, which can transport instant images, and her
Facebook account. Christopher Coleman's father, the Rev. Ronald Coleman, told an investigator that Lintz was a "good friend" of Sheri Coleman. When
investigators first contacted Lintz, she was already aware of the
homicides, which were widely publicized. She told police she had spoken
to Christopher Coleman the evening of May 4.Search warrant
records were also released Wednesday. Those records showed that
detectives found an orange piece of twine with a noose tied on one end
near the Jefferson Barracks Bridge that resembled twine used to tie
four bales of straw found behind the Colemans' home.Those
warrants also showed that Sheri Coleman was found naked and face down
in bed. Rigor mortis, which stiffens a corpse and usually occurs after
two or three hours, had set in, the records showed.He also
described messages spray-painted in red paint across the walls. Laced
with obscenities, they appear to have been directed at Sheri Coleman
and include "punished" in the downstairs dining room, "whore paid" or
"u have paid" in an upstairs room and "I saw you leave, (expletive)
you, I am always watching" in the kitchen.Coleman told Columbia
police that he had gone to a gym to workout, leaving the house about
5:45 a.m. Before 7 a.m., he called the Columbia police to report that
he could not reach his family and ask that they check in on them.Christopher
Coleman resigned from his security job after consultation with a Joyce
Meyer Ministries official concerning an alleged violation of the
religious group's "moral policy."Mike Cole, an employee of Joyce
Meyer Ministries, in April "provided a list of names as well as photos
of people that have threatened Coleman and other Joyce Meyer Ministries
employees and who Coleman stated he believed could be responsible for
the threats" the Coleman family had received.Maj. Jeff Connor of
the Granite City Police Department, commander of the Major Case Squad
assigned to the Coleman family homicides, said Friday he would not
comment on evidence.
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
TomTerrific0420 on Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:01 am
There will be no inquest in the strangling deaths of Sheri Coleman and her two young boys.
Monroe County Coroner Julie Gummersheimer said an independent
pathologist performed the autopsies, therefore an inquest isn't
necessary.
Illinois statutes don't require an inquest, but leave the option open for coroners.
Sheri Coleman and her two sons, Garett and Gavin, were found murdered
in their Columbia home on May 5. Chris Coleman, the husband and father,
is charged with three counts of first degree murder for their deaths.
In Illinois, an inquest is commonly held to determine the cause of any
violent or mysterious death. Inquests are open to the public and
testimony is presented before a coroner's jury. They are not binding in
a criminal court, but often release specific details about a person's
death.
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
mom_from_STL on Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:51 pm
Judge extends order protecting Sheri Coleman's assets
By Nicholas J.C. Pistor
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/04/2009
An attorney representing the family of Sheri Coleman said a judge granted a motion today extending a court order protecting her assets.
We are working with Mr. Coleman's attorney to get some sort of agreed order, said Jack Carey, a Belleville lawyer.
The family won a temporary order last week allowing them access to Sheri Coleman's former home in Columbia. They also sued Chris Coleman in civil court, accusing him of being responsible for the deaths of Sheri Coleman and her two sons, Garett and Gavin.
In November, Sheri Coleman's name was removed from the deed for the home, leaving Christopher Coleman as sole owner, according to Monroe County records. It has aroused suspicion among her relatives.
Carey is also seeking a large list of documents from Chris Coleman's former employer, televangelist Joyce Meyer. Those documents include information on life insurance policies, travel records, and other information.
Chris Coleman resigned the job shortly after the murders and after the Post-Dispatch disclosed that he was having an affair with a Florida woman. Joyce Meyer Ministries said he resigned for an unspecified morals violation.
The ministries said it is working on providing the requested information.
Chris Coleman is charged with three counts of first degree murder. A preliminary hearing, which could reveal a portion of the prosecution's case, is scheduled for next week.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/DABE650267542738862575CB0063ABB9?OpenDocument#tp_newCommentAnchor
By Nicholas J.C. Pistor
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/04/2009
An attorney representing the family of Sheri Coleman said a judge granted a motion today extending a court order protecting her assets.
We are working with Mr. Coleman's attorney to get some sort of agreed order, said Jack Carey, a Belleville lawyer.
The family won a temporary order last week allowing them access to Sheri Coleman's former home in Columbia. They also sued Chris Coleman in civil court, accusing him of being responsible for the deaths of Sheri Coleman and her two sons, Garett and Gavin.
In November, Sheri Coleman's name was removed from the deed for the home, leaving Christopher Coleman as sole owner, according to Monroe County records. It has aroused suspicion among her relatives.
Carey is also seeking a large list of documents from Chris Coleman's former employer, televangelist Joyce Meyer. Those documents include information on life insurance policies, travel records, and other information.
Chris Coleman resigned the job shortly after the murders and after the Post-Dispatch disclosed that he was having an affair with a Florida woman. Joyce Meyer Ministries said he resigned for an unspecified morals violation.
The ministries said it is working on providing the requested information.
Chris Coleman is charged with three counts of first degree murder. A preliminary hearing, which could reveal a portion of the prosecution's case, is scheduled for next week.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/DABE650267542738862575CB0063ABB9?OpenDocument#tp_newCommentAnchor
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No coroner's inquest in Columbia triple murders; Coleman remains in jail
Susmihara on Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:37 am
http://www.bnd.com/372/story/794373.html
BY GEORGE PAWLACZYK AND BETH HUNDSDORFER - News-Democrat
"COLUMBIA -- The final word as to cause of death in the triple murder of Sheri Coleman and her two sons will come after several weeks when toxicological reports are returned.
But because autopsies were conducted on the three victims, investigators know the victims were murdered by ligature strangulation May 5.
Coleman's husband and the boys' father, 32-year-old Christopher Coleman, is in the Monroe County Jail charged with three counts of first degree murder.
....."
BY GEORGE PAWLACZYK AND BETH HUNDSDORFER - News-Democrat
"COLUMBIA -- The final word as to cause of death in the triple murder of Sheri Coleman and her two sons will come after several weeks when toxicological reports are returned.
But because autopsies were conducted on the three victims, investigators know the victims were murdered by ligature strangulation May 5.
Coleman's husband and the boys' father, 32-year-old Christopher Coleman, is in the Monroe County Jail charged with three counts of first degree murder.
....."
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
TomTerrific0420 on Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:05 pm
BELLEVILLE -- A judge extended a court
order Thursday protecting the assets of murder victim Sheri Coleman,
which consist primarily of the Columbia home where she and her two sons
were found strangled, allowing time for attorneys to work out a final
settlement.The main asset listed so far, according to courts
documents, is the home at 2854 Robert Drive, where Coleman, 31, and her
sons Gavin, 9 and Garett, 11, were found strangled May 5. Their father
and Sheri's Coleman's husband, Christopher Coleman, 32, has been
charged with three counts of first-degree murder in their deaths.St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael O'Malley reset a hearing in the matter from today to June 15.
"The temporary restraining order has been extended by court order.
We're hoping that in the interim period of time, we can agree on a
permanent injunction," said Belleville attorney Jack Carey, who
represents the family of Sheri Coleman in a civil lawsuit filed late
last month seeking to protect the assets.St.
Louis attorney William Margulis, who represents Christopher Coleman in
the criminal case and the lawsuit, said the extension will allow time,
"to see if we can work out some sort of agreement on a permanent
injunction. We're not there yet."Carey said he expects to
receive information through the discovery process that could point to
further assets, such as bank accounts or other property. The complaint
states that this information could come from Christopher Coleman's
former employer, Joyce Meyer Ministries in St. Louis, where he worked
as a supervisor of security. Meyer and Christopher Coleman's
father, the Rev. Ronald Coleman of Chester, who heads Grace Church
Ministries in that community, were named as "respondents in discovery."
The lawsuit names only one defendant, Christopher Coleman. Carey said he recently heard from Joyce Meyer Ministries that the televangelist's organization "will fully comply.""He assured me that Joyce Meyer Ministries will cooperate fully," Carey said.Ronald Coleman could not be reached.Christopher
Coleman faces a preliminary hearing Wednesday, during which much of the
evidence against him could be laid out in open court. According to
information from search warrants made public through legal intervention
by the News-Democrat, Coleman is linked to the crime through a noose
made from orange, hay-baling twine similar to twine found at the home
that had been used to hold straw. The noose was found by members of the
Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis during a search along Interstate
255.The search warrant information also showed that Christopher
Coleman was involved in an extramarital affair with Tara Lintz, of St.
Petersburg, Fla., who was described as a good friend of Sheri Coleman
and the Coleman family. The affair began in November, the search
warrants stated.The documents also stated that on May 4,
Christopher Coleman spoke long distance with Lintz several hours before
the bodies of his family were found. An autopsy has determined that all
three victims died from ligature strangulation.
order Thursday protecting the assets of murder victim Sheri Coleman,
which consist primarily of the Columbia home where she and her two sons
were found strangled, allowing time for attorneys to work out a final
settlement.The main asset listed so far, according to courts
documents, is the home at 2854 Robert Drive, where Coleman, 31, and her
sons Gavin, 9 and Garett, 11, were found strangled May 5. Their father
and Sheri's Coleman's husband, Christopher Coleman, 32, has been
charged with three counts of first-degree murder in their deaths.St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael O'Malley reset a hearing in the matter from today to June 15.
"The temporary restraining order has been extended by court order.
We're hoping that in the interim period of time, we can agree on a
permanent injunction," said Belleville attorney Jack Carey, who
represents the family of Sheri Coleman in a civil lawsuit filed late
last month seeking to protect the assets.St.
Louis attorney William Margulis, who represents Christopher Coleman in
the criminal case and the lawsuit, said the extension will allow time,
"to see if we can work out some sort of agreement on a permanent
injunction. We're not there yet."Carey said he expects to
receive information through the discovery process that could point to
further assets, such as bank accounts or other property. The complaint
states that this information could come from Christopher Coleman's
former employer, Joyce Meyer Ministries in St. Louis, where he worked
as a supervisor of security. Meyer and Christopher Coleman's
father, the Rev. Ronald Coleman of Chester, who heads Grace Church
Ministries in that community, were named as "respondents in discovery."
The lawsuit names only one defendant, Christopher Coleman. Carey said he recently heard from Joyce Meyer Ministries that the televangelist's organization "will fully comply.""He assured me that Joyce Meyer Ministries will cooperate fully," Carey said.Ronald Coleman could not be reached.Christopher
Coleman faces a preliminary hearing Wednesday, during which much of the
evidence against him could be laid out in open court. According to
information from search warrants made public through legal intervention
by the News-Democrat, Coleman is linked to the crime through a noose
made from orange, hay-baling twine similar to twine found at the home
that had been used to hold straw. The noose was found by members of the
Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis during a search along Interstate
255.The search warrant information also showed that Christopher
Coleman was involved in an extramarital affair with Tara Lintz, of St.
Petersburg, Fla., who was described as a good friend of Sheri Coleman
and the Coleman family. The affair began in November, the search
warrants stated.The documents also stated that on May 4,
Christopher Coleman spoke long distance with Lintz several hours before
the bodies of his family were found. An autopsy has determined that all
three victims died from ligature strangulation.
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
TomTerrific0420 on Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:06 pm
WATERLOO, Ill. (AP) Many residents of this largely rural yet fast-growing St. Louis suburb have made up their minds about a former Marine accused of strangling his wife and their two boys in their beds less than a month ago.
"Murderer!" some jeered as Christopher Coleman arrived shackled and sullen in a sheriff's car for his recent arraignment at the Monroe County courthouse. Most of the couple of dozen people gathered outside applauded police for arresting him as the car disappeared into the sally port.
That reaction still upsets seven-term Sheriff Daniel Kelley. But he's convinced Coleman, whose alleged crimes were splashed across the national news, can get a fair trial in a county that hasn't had a murder since 2003.
"We're not a lynching community," said Kelley, 61, who's been sheriff since 1982. "The average person is willing to see what the courts produce and are not jumping to conclusions, wishing evil on this person.
"After Coleman's May 20 arraignment on three counts of first-degree murder, his attorney, William Margulis, said he'd likely push to have the trial moved to another county. He refused to comment further, but it's not difficult to guess why he might try.
The spotlight on the killings has been intense and virtually unavoidable around St. Louis and its Illinois suburbs since the bodies of 31-year-old Sheri Coleman and her two sons, ages 11 and 9, were found May 5 in their Columbia home, about 10 miles from here.
Investigators believe Coleman carefully planned the slayings, sending threatening notes to himself in the months beforehand, then spray-painting vulgar messages on the home's walls as the stalker-killer's supposed calling card.
Coleman acted alone, they allege, strangling his family with a ligature, perhaps a cord, then claiming they were killed by someone else during the hour or so he claimed he was working out at a gym in nearby Missouri. Police found the bodies after Coleman called them to check the family's well-being after he could not reach them by phone.
Investigators also found a noose fashioned out of orange twine resembling cord tied around straw bales behind the family's home near a Mississippi River bridge along what would have been Coleman's route to the gym, according to court documents.
Police have not offered a motive for the slayings. Search warrant documents released last Friday, however, allege that Christopher Coleman was having a sexual relationship since last November with a Florida woman who was a close friend of his wife, and that he planned to get a divorce by June 14 so he could marry his lover next year.
The woman allegedly told investigators that Coleman assured her by e-mail after the May 5 slayings that he was not the killer and had an alibi, according to court documents.
Waterloo resident Brenda Rey said the steady dribble of details about "a very sad" and "horrendous" case hasn't worked in Coleman's favor around this town of about 9,000, which the city's Web site says is "known for its friendly demeanor and its historic German ancestry.
""It sure seems like he is guilty," the 50-year-old said at her embroidery and garment-printing business. "They keep finding new evidence that sure makes him not look so good.
"Even so, she believes she could decide the case impartially if asked to serve on a jury, saying the courthouse jeerers shouldn't reflect on all the county's 30,000 residents.
"It's not like we're just a bunch of hicks," Rey said. "I think there's enough intelligent people that would wait and see all the evidence and make their decision from there.
"Sheriff Kelley thinks likewise, offering as proof the last murder trial here, when jurors in August 2005 acquitted James Wiley in the shooting death of his pregnant wife, whose body was found in a creek bed in a Waterloo park two years earlier.
Monroe County State's Attorney Kris Reitz, who also is prosecuting Coleman, had argued that Wiley killed 21-year-old Twila Wiley in a jealous rage after discovering she had an affair. But the defense said the woman was depressed and shot herself in the head.
Reitz didn't comment then, and he's not publicly discussing the Coleman case, including whether he'll pursue the death penalty.
Kelley believes the publicity around the case will wane well before any trial. But for now, resident Ruth Grimm says, the killings have been the talk of the town, and many locals already have made up their minds.
"It normally doesn't happen in this area, so we're all kind of shocked by it," said Grimm, 45, who works at J&J Septic Tank and Sewer Cleaning. When it comes to Coleman, "I kind of said all along he was the one who was involved in it."
"Murderer!" some jeered as Christopher Coleman arrived shackled and sullen in a sheriff's car for his recent arraignment at the Monroe County courthouse. Most of the couple of dozen people gathered outside applauded police for arresting him as the car disappeared into the sally port.
That reaction still upsets seven-term Sheriff Daniel Kelley. But he's convinced Coleman, whose alleged crimes were splashed across the national news, can get a fair trial in a county that hasn't had a murder since 2003.
"We're not a lynching community," said Kelley, 61, who's been sheriff since 1982. "The average person is willing to see what the courts produce and are not jumping to conclusions, wishing evil on this person.
"After Coleman's May 20 arraignment on three counts of first-degree murder, his attorney, William Margulis, said he'd likely push to have the trial moved to another county. He refused to comment further, but it's not difficult to guess why he might try.
The spotlight on the killings has been intense and virtually unavoidable around St. Louis and its Illinois suburbs since the bodies of 31-year-old Sheri Coleman and her two sons, ages 11 and 9, were found May 5 in their Columbia home, about 10 miles from here.
Investigators believe Coleman carefully planned the slayings, sending threatening notes to himself in the months beforehand, then spray-painting vulgar messages on the home's walls as the stalker-killer's supposed calling card.
Coleman acted alone, they allege, strangling his family with a ligature, perhaps a cord, then claiming they were killed by someone else during the hour or so he claimed he was working out at a gym in nearby Missouri. Police found the bodies after Coleman called them to check the family's well-being after he could not reach them by phone.
Investigators also found a noose fashioned out of orange twine resembling cord tied around straw bales behind the family's home near a Mississippi River bridge along what would have been Coleman's route to the gym, according to court documents.
Police have not offered a motive for the slayings. Search warrant documents released last Friday, however, allege that Christopher Coleman was having a sexual relationship since last November with a Florida woman who was a close friend of his wife, and that he planned to get a divorce by June 14 so he could marry his lover next year.
The woman allegedly told investigators that Coleman assured her by e-mail after the May 5 slayings that he was not the killer and had an alibi, according to court documents.
Waterloo resident Brenda Rey said the steady dribble of details about "a very sad" and "horrendous" case hasn't worked in Coleman's favor around this town of about 9,000, which the city's Web site says is "known for its friendly demeanor and its historic German ancestry.
""It sure seems like he is guilty," the 50-year-old said at her embroidery and garment-printing business. "They keep finding new evidence that sure makes him not look so good.
"Even so, she believes she could decide the case impartially if asked to serve on a jury, saying the courthouse jeerers shouldn't reflect on all the county's 30,000 residents.
"It's not like we're just a bunch of hicks," Rey said. "I think there's enough intelligent people that would wait and see all the evidence and make their decision from there.
"Sheriff Kelley thinks likewise, offering as proof the last murder trial here, when jurors in August 2005 acquitted James Wiley in the shooting death of his pregnant wife, whose body was found in a creek bed in a Waterloo park two years earlier.
Monroe County State's Attorney Kris Reitz, who also is prosecuting Coleman, had argued that Wiley killed 21-year-old Twila Wiley in a jealous rage after discovering she had an affair. But the defense said the woman was depressed and shot herself in the head.
Reitz didn't comment then, and he's not publicly discussing the Coleman case, including whether he'll pursue the death penalty.
Kelley believes the publicity around the case will wane well before any trial. But for now, resident Ruth Grimm says, the killings have been the talk of the town, and many locals already have made up their minds.
"It normally doesn't happen in this area, so we're all kind of shocked by it," said Grimm, 45, who works at J&J Septic Tank and Sewer Cleaning. When it comes to Coleman, "I kind of said all along he was the one who was involved in it."
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
TomTerrific0420 on Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:37 pm
WATERLOO, IL (AP) - A southwestern Illinois man accused of strangling
his wife and two sons is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary
hearing. Wednesday's hearing is for 32-year-old Christopher Coleman of
Columbia. He's charged with first-degree murder in the May 5 deaths of
31-year-old Sheri Coleman and the couple's children, 11-year-old Garett
and 9-year-old Gavin.
Investigators contend Coleman carefully planned the killings. He's
accused of sending threatening notes to himself in the months
beforehand, then spray-painting vulgar messages on the home's walls as
the stalker-killer's supposed calling card.
Coleman claims someone else killed his family while he was working out at a gym.
Police haven't discussed a motive for the killings.
his wife and two sons is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary
hearing. Wednesday's hearing is for 32-year-old Christopher Coleman of
Columbia. He's charged with first-degree murder in the May 5 deaths of
31-year-old Sheri Coleman and the couple's children, 11-year-old Garett
and 9-year-old Gavin.
Investigators contend Coleman carefully planned the killings. He's
accused of sending threatening notes to himself in the months
beforehand, then spray-painting vulgar messages on the home's walls as
the stalker-killer's supposed calling card.
Coleman claims someone else killed his family while he was working out at a gym.
Police haven't discussed a motive for the killings.
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
TomTerrific0420 on Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:23 pm
WATERLOO, Ill. A judge says a
southwestern Illinois man should stand trial in the deaths of his wife
and two sons, who were found strangled in their home.
At a hearing Wednesday, Judge Dennis Doyle found sufficient evidence for
the case against 32-year-old Christopher Coleman to proceed to trial.
The Columbia man is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of
31-year-old Sheri Coleman and the couple's children, 11-year-old Garett
and 9-year-old Gavin.Columbia Police Chief Joseph Edwards testified
that investigators traced an e-mail threatening the family to Coleman's
laptop. That was among several bits of evidence the chief outlined. He
was the only person to testify at the hearing.
Coleman claims someone else killed his family while he was working out at a gym.
He's scheduled to be in court again Aug. 26.
southwestern Illinois man should stand trial in the deaths of his wife
and two sons, who were found strangled in their home.
At a hearing Wednesday, Judge Dennis Doyle found sufficient evidence for
the case against 32-year-old Christopher Coleman to proceed to trial.
The Columbia man is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of
31-year-old Sheri Coleman and the couple's children, 11-year-old Garett
and 9-year-old Gavin.Columbia Police Chief Joseph Edwards testified
that investigators traced an e-mail threatening the family to Coleman's
laptop. That was among several bits of evidence the chief outlined. He
was the only person to testify at the hearing.
Coleman claims someone else killed his family while he was working out at a gym.
He's scheduled to be in court again Aug. 26.
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Pathologist reports Christopher Coleman's family died hours before he left for the gym
mom_in_il on Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:38 pm
Pathologist reports Christopher Coleman's family died hours before he left for the gym
Wednesday, Jun. 10, 2009
BY BETH HUNDSDORFER - News-Democrat
WATERLOO -- On the night before his family was strangled, Chris Coleman told his Florida girlfriend that his wife would receive divorce papers the next day, according to testimony Wednesday morning in Monroe County Court.
And renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden put the time of death for murder victims Sheri Coleman and her sons Gavin, 9, and Garett, 11, at between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. -- well before the time her husband Chris Coleman said he left for a gym workout.
Images from a surveillance camera mounted right across the street from the Coleman home at the house of Columbia Police Detective Justin Barlow, one of the investigators on the triple murder, showed Coleman leaving at 5:43 a.m. on May 5.
"The expert said that it was not possible for them to be alive at 5:45 a.m.," said Columbia Police Chief Joe Edwards, the only witness to testify at Coleman's preliminary hearing on Wednesday morning.
Coleman, 32, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the ligature strangulations of his wife and sons. Coleman remains in the Monroe County Jail without bail.
Chris Coleman told police in a lengthy interview following the murders that he and his wife had a good marriage, but encountered marital problems in 2008 and received marriage counseling, Edwards testified.
Chris Coleman later admitted to police that he was engaged in an affair with one of his wife's friends, identified in court documents as Tara Lintz of St. Petersburg, Fla. Lintz and Coleman had at least one credit card in both their names that was used to pay for airfare for Lintz to accompany him on trips for Joyce Meyer Ministries.
Lintz and Coleman exchanged conversations about "body parts" that" his wife would not be very happy about," Coleman told police during the interview. The couple began a relationship on Nov. 5, 2008 and planned to be married in January 2010.
Lintz was looking for work and a home to share with Chris Coleman in the St. Louis area, Edwards testified.
The couple was also planning to take a cruise together in August.
Edwards also testified that the first alleged threat to the Coleman family reported by Chris Coleman came on Nov. 14 to his work e-mail at Joyce Meyer Ministries, where he worked as a security supervisor.
Detectives later discovered the e-mail was created on Coleman's Meyer Ministries-issued laptop and sent through the laptop's air card.
Other type-written, hand-delivered threats directed at the Coleman family were delivered to their mailbox at their home on Robert Drive in Columbia on Jan 2 and April 27 with the message, "Your worst nightmare is about to happen."
Evidence gathered by the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis included routine documents written by Chris Coleman that had the same misspelling of the word "opportunity" that was noted in an anonymous threatening letter left in the Coleman family's mailbox.
During a phone conversation the night before the murders, Lintz told police that Coleman told her that his wife would receive divorce papers the next day -- the day that the bodies of her and the boys were found.
Edwards testified Joyce Meyer Ministries did not employ people who get divorced, but Meyer spokesman Robie Walker had earlier told reporters that policy wasn't in place.
Lintz also told police that she and Chris Coleman exchanged sexual graphic videos and messages, Edwards said.
On May 5, Barlow, who lived across the street from Coleman, received a call from Chris Coleman on his cell phone, asking him to check on his family because he couldn't reach them, Edwards said.
Barlow called for an additional officer, Jason Donjon, then got dressed and walked across the street, Edwards said. They discovered the open basement window and crawled through.
They found threatening messages spray painted in the house in red paint.
Barlow discovered Garett first, Edwards said. His bed had red spray paint on it. Donjon discovered Sheri. Edwards said the sheet that covered Gavin was spray painted with an obscenity.
Emergency medical personnel were called to the scene and Chris Coleman was loaded into the ambulance with the chaplain for the Columbia police.
The chaplain reported seeing an abrasion on Chris Coleman's forearm and asked how it happened, but Edwards said he told the chaplain he didn't know. He later told his father, Ronald Coleman, minister of Grace Church Ministries in Chester, that he got the injury punching a gurney after learning of his family's deaths.
The chaplain left when Chris Coleman's relatives and co-workers began to arrive, Edwards said.
Police also noted the video surveillance cameras inside the Coleman's home were operational, but Edwards said the digital video recorder used to save the images was missing. Police discovered a "face plate" to a Digital Video Recorder in the west bound lane of Interstate 255 near the base of the Jefferson Barracks Bridge -- the same route Chris Coleman would have taken to get to the south St. Louis County gym the morning of the murders.
After hearing the evidence, Monroe County Circuit Judge Dennis Doyle found there was probable cause for Chris Coleman to stand trial.
Father and son team William Margulis and Art Margulis, Coleman's attorneys, entered a not guilty plea on Chris Coleman's behalf and waived the reading of the charge.
William Margulis asked the trial be delayed to allow he and his father pursued certification through the Illinois Capital Litigation Bar. That certification would allow them to continue to represent Coleman, if State's Attorney Kris Reitz decides to pursue the death penalty. Reitz has 120 days to declare whether he will seek capital punishment if Coleman is convicted.
Doyle ordered Coleman to stand trial and set the next hearing in the case for Aug. 26.
Ronald and Connie Coleman, Chris Coleman's parents, attended the hearing, but didn't talk to reporters.
Mario Weiss, Sheri's brother and Garett and Gavin's uncle, attended the hearing, along with Sheri's godfather Joe Miglio, hearing the details of their deaths.
"It was extremely emotional. I felt a thousand different emotions," Weiss said after the hearing. "I didn't want to disrespect the judge by vomiting in court."
http://www.bnd.com/homepage/story/802518.html
Wednesday, Jun. 10, 2009
BY BETH HUNDSDORFER - News-Democrat
WATERLOO -- On the night before his family was strangled, Chris Coleman told his Florida girlfriend that his wife would receive divorce papers the next day, according to testimony Wednesday morning in Monroe County Court.
And renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden put the time of death for murder victims Sheri Coleman and her sons Gavin, 9, and Garett, 11, at between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. -- well before the time her husband Chris Coleman said he left for a gym workout.
Images from a surveillance camera mounted right across the street from the Coleman home at the house of Columbia Police Detective Justin Barlow, one of the investigators on the triple murder, showed Coleman leaving at 5:43 a.m. on May 5.
"The expert said that it was not possible for them to be alive at 5:45 a.m.," said Columbia Police Chief Joe Edwards, the only witness to testify at Coleman's preliminary hearing on Wednesday morning.
Coleman, 32, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the ligature strangulations of his wife and sons. Coleman remains in the Monroe County Jail without bail.
Chris Coleman told police in a lengthy interview following the murders that he and his wife had a good marriage, but encountered marital problems in 2008 and received marriage counseling, Edwards testified.
Chris Coleman later admitted to police that he was engaged in an affair with one of his wife's friends, identified in court documents as Tara Lintz of St. Petersburg, Fla. Lintz and Coleman had at least one credit card in both their names that was used to pay for airfare for Lintz to accompany him on trips for Joyce Meyer Ministries.
Lintz and Coleman exchanged conversations about "body parts" that" his wife would not be very happy about," Coleman told police during the interview. The couple began a relationship on Nov. 5, 2008 and planned to be married in January 2010.
Lintz was looking for work and a home to share with Chris Coleman in the St. Louis area, Edwards testified.
The couple was also planning to take a cruise together in August.
Edwards also testified that the first alleged threat to the Coleman family reported by Chris Coleman came on Nov. 14 to his work e-mail at Joyce Meyer Ministries, where he worked as a security supervisor.
Detectives later discovered the e-mail was created on Coleman's Meyer Ministries-issued laptop and sent through the laptop's air card.
Other type-written, hand-delivered threats directed at the Coleman family were delivered to their mailbox at their home on Robert Drive in Columbia on Jan 2 and April 27 with the message, "Your worst nightmare is about to happen."
Evidence gathered by the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis included routine documents written by Chris Coleman that had the same misspelling of the word "opportunity" that was noted in an anonymous threatening letter left in the Coleman family's mailbox.
During a phone conversation the night before the murders, Lintz told police that Coleman told her that his wife would receive divorce papers the next day -- the day that the bodies of her and the boys were found.
Edwards testified Joyce Meyer Ministries did not employ people who get divorced, but Meyer spokesman Robie Walker had earlier told reporters that policy wasn't in place.
Lintz also told police that she and Chris Coleman exchanged sexual graphic videos and messages, Edwards said.
On May 5, Barlow, who lived across the street from Coleman, received a call from Chris Coleman on his cell phone, asking him to check on his family because he couldn't reach them, Edwards said.
Barlow called for an additional officer, Jason Donjon, then got dressed and walked across the street, Edwards said. They discovered the open basement window and crawled through.
They found threatening messages spray painted in the house in red paint.
Barlow discovered Garett first, Edwards said. His bed had red spray paint on it. Donjon discovered Sheri. Edwards said the sheet that covered Gavin was spray painted with an obscenity.
Emergency medical personnel were called to the scene and Chris Coleman was loaded into the ambulance with the chaplain for the Columbia police.
The chaplain reported seeing an abrasion on Chris Coleman's forearm and asked how it happened, but Edwards said he told the chaplain he didn't know. He later told his father, Ronald Coleman, minister of Grace Church Ministries in Chester, that he got the injury punching a gurney after learning of his family's deaths.
The chaplain left when Chris Coleman's relatives and co-workers began to arrive, Edwards said.
Police also noted the video surveillance cameras inside the Coleman's home were operational, but Edwards said the digital video recorder used to save the images was missing. Police discovered a "face plate" to a Digital Video Recorder in the west bound lane of Interstate 255 near the base of the Jefferson Barracks Bridge -- the same route Chris Coleman would have taken to get to the south St. Louis County gym the morning of the murders.
After hearing the evidence, Monroe County Circuit Judge Dennis Doyle found there was probable cause for Chris Coleman to stand trial.
Father and son team William Margulis and Art Margulis, Coleman's attorneys, entered a not guilty plea on Chris Coleman's behalf and waived the reading of the charge.
William Margulis asked the trial be delayed to allow he and his father pursued certification through the Illinois Capital Litigation Bar. That certification would allow them to continue to represent Coleman, if State's Attorney Kris Reitz decides to pursue the death penalty. Reitz has 120 days to declare whether he will seek capital punishment if Coleman is convicted.
Doyle ordered Coleman to stand trial and set the next hearing in the case for Aug. 26.
Ronald and Connie Coleman, Chris Coleman's parents, attended the hearing, but didn't talk to reporters.
Mario Weiss, Sheri's brother and Garett and Gavin's uncle, attended the hearing, along with Sheri's godfather Joe Miglio, hearing the details of their deaths.
"It was extremely emotional. I felt a thousand different emotions," Weiss said after the hearing. "I didn't want to disrespect the judge by vomiting in court."
http://www.bnd.com/homepage/story/802518.html
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Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
mom_from_STL on Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:00 am
Chris Coleman hearing details
During today's preliminary hearing in the Chris Coleman murder case, I took handwritten notes, which I'm going to transcribe now. I wasn't allowed to take in my laptop, so my notes are pretty rough, with many missing words, but I was able to take down all of the key points. Everything you see in [brackets] -- I observed. Everything you see in "quotes" was said under oath by Columbia, IL Police Chief Joe Edwards. Edwards started by saying he did not plan to testify. Sgt Justin Barlow was scheduled to testify until he faced a family emergency an hour before the hearing.
[Front two rows: Coleman's family and friends. I counted 15 total. Many who are members of Ron Coleman's 'Grace Church' in Chester, IL). Dad was usually smiling, even laughing. Friends and church members also smiled and laughed frequently before the hearing. On the left side sat Sheri Coleman's family, who were all very somber and silent.]
[The Monroe County courthouse has no metal detectors. Deputies wanded everyone who entered. At least 4 deputies surrounded the courtroom.]
[Chris Coleman walked in, shackled at the hands and feet. He did not look at his family. A deputy uncuffs his hands and his lawyers give him a pen. I could see Chris Coleman taking notes during the entire hearing.]
[Chief Joe Edwards now answers questions of the Monroe County S.A. The following is just about everything Edwards said.]
"Chris Coleman contacted Columbia, IL P.D. on 11-14-08 about a threat he received at work. He told police he traveled and wanted an extra patrol at his home." (It's unclear whether Coleman contacted P.D. Headquarters or Sgt Barlow who is a neighbor of his.)
"Coleman reported a second threat 1-2-09 - said he found the threat in his mailbox - no envelope."
"On 4-27-09 - another contact - again in the mailbox. It was a typed threat that mentioned 'family,' his position with the ministry and used the words 'worst nightmare.' Chris Coleman was head of security for Joyce Meyer Ministries. Coleman also mentioned to police that his wife received a threat prior to the 1-2-09 threat but did not report it. The word 'opportunity' is misspelled in each threat. Sheri Coleman pointed out the misspelling in the first threat that came in November. Cybercrimes investigated and reviewed Coleman's computers, documents and e-mail. Cybercrimes found Coleman misspells 'opportunity' the same way every time."
[The S.A. asks about the origins of the first threat]
"Cybercrimes tracked the original e-mail to [Coleman's] laptop computer from Joyce Meyer. His computer created it. Investigators also tracked it to his wireless air card. It was the same air card used to create the e-mail."
"5-5-09 Coleman called Sgt Justin Barlow on his cell phone at 6:50 a.m. Sgt Barlow lives katy corner from the Colemans. Barlow had been investigating the threats against Coleman. They had direct contact in the case and Barlow worked with Illinois State Police to set up video cameras around the neighborhood. One was placed at Barlow's residence. The video didn't show anyone else near the Coleman house around the time of the murders."
"Sgt Barlow was asleep when he received the call from Coleman. He woke up and contacted Columbia, IL Police. He met with an officer who went around back and found an open window - the screen leaning against the back of the house. They called on radio for back up. Looking in the window, they saw no one inside, no broken glass or footprints. They climbed through and announced their presence. Barlow noticed he was leaving wet footprints and grass clippings. The officers immediately saw red spray paint messages on the wall in the kitchen. Police took photos of the spray painted messages on the walls and compared them to multiple handwriting samples of Chris Coleman. An Illinois State Police handwriting expert determined Chris Coleman probably wrote the messages on the walls."
"Detectives inside the home heard the garage door open. Another officer arrived and stopped Coleman from coming into the home. Another Officer came inside and they worked their way up to the second story. --more spray paint - obscene. At the top of the steps Sgt Barlow could see Garret in bed.]
[Edward hesitates here. It's hard to tell if he was emotional or whether he was gathering his thoughts.]
"Garret's lips were blue - skin gray - ligature markings around his neck - his body was cold. The officer believed he was dead for quite some time. The officer also noted spray paint on the bed.
"Another Sgt. checked the bathroom and saw Sheri in the next room. He called out. She was face down. He checked for a pulse. He turned her over and said her entire body was locked, rigid and discolored. Her blood had settled to the front of her body. She was dead for quite some time."
"Another officer saw Gavin - face purple - skin yellow - spray paint on the sheets on top of the bed. The officer also saw evidence on Gavin - so he didn't touch him. He noticed ligature marks."
"Chris Coleman didn't come in the house or ask to come in the house. Police called for EMS. They put Coleman in the ambulance. A chaplain noticed an abrasion on Coleman's right forearm. He asked him how he got it. Coleman said he didn't know. He began punching the gurney. Later Coleman's dad saw the abrasion and asked Chris about it. Chris told his dad it was from punching the gurney. The mark was on his arm previously."
"Chris said his wife was alive and sleeping next to him when he left at 5:45 a.m. on 5-5-09. Surveillance from Sgt Barlow's home shows he left at 5:43 a.m. Coleman did call his home after he left."
"Coleman said he and Sheri had a good marriage with no problems. He said they sought counseling in 2008 and it helped."
[The S.A. asks about the affair]
"Coleman originally said he talked to a friend of Sheri's in Florida. He said they talked about body parts, but nothing else. He said Sheri would not be happy."
"The affair began November, 2008. The girlfriend gave an anniversary date of November 5th -- which is prior to the first e-mail threat. They planned to marry January 2010. Coleman and the girlfriend were looking for homes and a job for the girlfriend in St. Louis. They planned a cruise in August. The girlfriend reported Coleman saying he planned to divorce Sheri May 5th. Officers found no evidence that was real Joyce Meyer does not employ people who get a divorce."
[Ron Coleman and his wife looked at each other at this point, smiling and shaking their heads in such away that they thought this was ridiculous.]
"Coleman traveled with Joyce Meyer and would meet his girlfriend. They talked on the phone, sent each other videos and sexually graphic messages in which they exposed themselves. The girlfriend bought Chris Coleman a cell phone so Chris could talk freely without Joyce Meyer or Sheri Coleman finding out. They also took out a credit card in both of their names."
"Police asked Chris Coleman about the open window. Coleman said he checked every one that night. Police found all of them unlocked the morning they discovered the bodies. Only the front and back doors were locked. Coleman installs surveillance cameras as a side business. He installed some inside his home. Sgt Barlow worked with him. The week before the murders, Coleman told Barlow he was waiting for a power source to activate the cameras. Sgt Barlow offered to give ISP a call to help get a power source. Coleman turned him down. The cameras were operational and functional."
"Police conducted a lengthy interview with Coleman. The asked 'What can we do to find the killer?' Coleman responded, 'I don't know. I guess you can look at my videos.' Police checked and found the video recorder (DVR) gone. They're all twist lock connections. The DVR was missing. They found the faceplate for the DVR near the JB Bridge in the West bound lanes - same make and model. They found invoices for the DVR and it's a company where Coleman bought everything. The Friday before the murders, Coleman showed his surveillance equipment - it's all in his basement - to a neighbor. It was all there at the time."
"Police got a video from Gold's gym. He does go in after 6 a.m. Coleman enters the restroom and you don't see anymore."
"Autopsy. Ligature strangulation. They obtained an expert witness who found they all died before 5 a.m. -- likely between 11 p.m. the night before they were discovered, and 3 a.m. that morning. It's not possible they were alive when Coleman left at 5:43 a.m."
[End of testimony]
[After a recess, Chris Coleman approached the stand and gave one word answers to the judge. The judge asked him if he understood he could get the death penalty and whether he was sure he would waive his right to a speedy trial. Coleman said "Yes" he understood.
http://www.fox2now.com/ktvi-coleman-hearing-061009,0,1994556.story
During today's preliminary hearing in the Chris Coleman murder case, I took handwritten notes, which I'm going to transcribe now. I wasn't allowed to take in my laptop, so my notes are pretty rough, with many missing words, but I was able to take down all of the key points. Everything you see in [brackets] -- I observed. Everything you see in "quotes" was said under oath by Columbia, IL Police Chief Joe Edwards. Edwards started by saying he did not plan to testify. Sgt Justin Barlow was scheduled to testify until he faced a family emergency an hour before the hearing.
[Front two rows: Coleman's family and friends. I counted 15 total. Many who are members of Ron Coleman's 'Grace Church' in Chester, IL). Dad was usually smiling, even laughing. Friends and church members also smiled and laughed frequently before the hearing. On the left side sat Sheri Coleman's family, who were all very somber and silent.]
[The Monroe County courthouse has no metal detectors. Deputies wanded everyone who entered. At least 4 deputies surrounded the courtroom.]
[Chris Coleman walked in, shackled at the hands and feet. He did not look at his family. A deputy uncuffs his hands and his lawyers give him a pen. I could see Chris Coleman taking notes during the entire hearing.]
[Chief Joe Edwards now answers questions of the Monroe County S.A. The following is just about everything Edwards said.]
"Chris Coleman contacted Columbia, IL P.D. on 11-14-08 about a threat he received at work. He told police he traveled and wanted an extra patrol at his home." (It's unclear whether Coleman contacted P.D. Headquarters or Sgt Barlow who is a neighbor of his.)
"Coleman reported a second threat 1-2-09 - said he found the threat in his mailbox - no envelope."
"On 4-27-09 - another contact - again in the mailbox. It was a typed threat that mentioned 'family,' his position with the ministry and used the words 'worst nightmare.' Chris Coleman was head of security for Joyce Meyer Ministries. Coleman also mentioned to police that his wife received a threat prior to the 1-2-09 threat but did not report it. The word 'opportunity' is misspelled in each threat. Sheri Coleman pointed out the misspelling in the first threat that came in November. Cybercrimes investigated and reviewed Coleman's computers, documents and e-mail. Cybercrimes found Coleman misspells 'opportunity' the same way every time."
[The S.A. asks about the origins of the first threat]
"Cybercrimes tracked the original e-mail to [Coleman's] laptop computer from Joyce Meyer. His computer created it. Investigators also tracked it to his wireless air card. It was the same air card used to create the e-mail."
"5-5-09 Coleman called Sgt Justin Barlow on his cell phone at 6:50 a.m. Sgt Barlow lives katy corner from the Colemans. Barlow had been investigating the threats against Coleman. They had direct contact in the case and Barlow worked with Illinois State Police to set up video cameras around the neighborhood. One was placed at Barlow's residence. The video didn't show anyone else near the Coleman house around the time of the murders."
"Sgt Barlow was asleep when he received the call from Coleman. He woke up and contacted Columbia, IL Police. He met with an officer who went around back and found an open window - the screen leaning against the back of the house. They called on radio for back up. Looking in the window, they saw no one inside, no broken glass or footprints. They climbed through and announced their presence. Barlow noticed he was leaving wet footprints and grass clippings. The officers immediately saw red spray paint messages on the wall in the kitchen. Police took photos of the spray painted messages on the walls and compared them to multiple handwriting samples of Chris Coleman. An Illinois State Police handwriting expert determined Chris Coleman probably wrote the messages on the walls."
"Detectives inside the home heard the garage door open. Another officer arrived and stopped Coleman from coming into the home. Another Officer came inside and they worked their way up to the second story. --more spray paint - obscene. At the top of the steps Sgt Barlow could see Garret in bed.]
[Edward hesitates here. It's hard to tell if he was emotional or whether he was gathering his thoughts.]
"Garret's lips were blue - skin gray - ligature markings around his neck - his body was cold. The officer believed he was dead for quite some time. The officer also noted spray paint on the bed.
"Another Sgt. checked the bathroom and saw Sheri in the next room. He called out. She was face down. He checked for a pulse. He turned her over and said her entire body was locked, rigid and discolored. Her blood had settled to the front of her body. She was dead for quite some time."
"Another officer saw Gavin - face purple - skin yellow - spray paint on the sheets on top of the bed. The officer also saw evidence on Gavin - so he didn't touch him. He noticed ligature marks."
"Chris Coleman didn't come in the house or ask to come in the house. Police called for EMS. They put Coleman in the ambulance. A chaplain noticed an abrasion on Coleman's right forearm. He asked him how he got it. Coleman said he didn't know. He began punching the gurney. Later Coleman's dad saw the abrasion and asked Chris about it. Chris told his dad it was from punching the gurney. The mark was on his arm previously."
"Chris said his wife was alive and sleeping next to him when he left at 5:45 a.m. on 5-5-09. Surveillance from Sgt Barlow's home shows he left at 5:43 a.m. Coleman did call his home after he left."
"Coleman said he and Sheri had a good marriage with no problems. He said they sought counseling in 2008 and it helped."
[The S.A. asks about the affair]
"Coleman originally said he talked to a friend of Sheri's in Florida. He said they talked about body parts, but nothing else. He said Sheri would not be happy."
"The affair began November, 2008. The girlfriend gave an anniversary date of November 5th -- which is prior to the first e-mail threat. They planned to marry January 2010. Coleman and the girlfriend were looking for homes and a job for the girlfriend in St. Louis. They planned a cruise in August. The girlfriend reported Coleman saying he planned to divorce Sheri May 5th. Officers found no evidence that was real Joyce Meyer does not employ people who get a divorce."
[Ron Coleman and his wife looked at each other at this point, smiling and shaking their heads in such away that they thought this was ridiculous.]
"Coleman traveled with Joyce Meyer and would meet his girlfriend. They talked on the phone, sent each other videos and sexually graphic messages in which they exposed themselves. The girlfriend bought Chris Coleman a cell phone so Chris could talk freely without Joyce Meyer or Sheri Coleman finding out. They also took out a credit card in both of their names."
"Police asked Chris Coleman about the open window. Coleman said he checked every one that night. Police found all of them unlocked the morning they discovered the bodies. Only the front and back doors were locked. Coleman installs surveillance cameras as a side business. He installed some inside his home. Sgt Barlow worked with him. The week before the murders, Coleman told Barlow he was waiting for a power source to activate the cameras. Sgt Barlow offered to give ISP a call to help get a power source. Coleman turned him down. The cameras were operational and functional."
"Police conducted a lengthy interview with Coleman. The asked 'What can we do to find the killer?' Coleman responded, 'I don't know. I guess you can look at my videos.' Police checked and found the video recorder (DVR) gone. They're all twist lock connections. The DVR was missing. They found the faceplate for the DVR near the JB Bridge in the West bound lanes - same make and model. They found invoices for the DVR and it's a company where Coleman bought everything. The Friday before the murders, Coleman showed his surveillance equipment - it's all in his basement - to a neighbor. It was all there at the time."
"Police got a video from Gold's gym. He does go in after 6 a.m. Coleman enters the restroom and you don't see anymore."
"Autopsy. Ligature strangulation. They obtained an expert witness who found they all died before 5 a.m. -- likely between 11 p.m. the night before they were discovered, and 3 a.m. that morning. It's not possible they were alive when Coleman left at 5:43 a.m."
[End of testimony]
[After a recess, Chris Coleman approached the stand and gave one word answers to the judge. The judge asked him if he understood he could get the death penalty and whether he was sure he would waive his right to a speedy trial. Coleman said "Yes" he understood.
http://www.fox2now.com/ktvi-coleman-hearing-061009,0,1994556.story
mom_from_STL- Supreme Commander of the Universe With Cape AND Tights AND Fancy Headgear
Re: ^COLEMAN FAMILY - Mom and 2 boys - Columbia IL
mom_from_STL on Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:36 am
COLUMBIA, IL (KTVI-FOX2now.com) - Two Columbia, Illinois boys are honored for helping to raise money for the Coleman family. Cardinal skipper Tony La Russa sent them autographed jerseys from Albert Pujols and Yadi Molina.
Jeff and Robbie Respaz raised more than $5400. They collected the money a few weeks ago by selling lemonade and taking part in a yard sale. Both boys said they just wanted to do something good for the Coleman family.
But they're also honored to receive the gift from the Cardinal organization. The money will be presented to the family to spend as they choose.
http://www.fox2now.com/ktvi-coleman-funraisers-honored-061009,0,1199291.story
Jeff and Robbie Respaz raised more than $5400. They collected the money a few weeks ago by selling lemonade and taking part in a yard sale. Both boys said they just wanted to do something good for the Coleman family.
But they're also honored to receive the gift from the Cardinal organization. The money will be presented to the family to spend as they choose.
http://www.fox2now.com/ktvi-coleman-funraisers-honored-061009,0,1199291.story
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