Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This is the case we followed when it broke, it has finally gone to
trial.
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A family member testifying at the murder trial of Jacqueline Williams
says the 31-year-old Schaumburg, Ill., woman called family members to
boast she had just given birth, hours after Debra Evans was killed and
Evans' unborn son was cut from her womb.
Williams and two men are accused of killing Evans and two of her
children in 1995 because Williams wanted Evans' unborn child.
Prosecutors contend Williams pretended for months to be pregnant to hide
the scheme to kill Evans and steal Evans' unborn child.
They allege Williams, unable to become pregnant, planned the attack
because she desperately wanted a light-skinned baby for boyfriend, with
whom she could not conceive. Williams and Caffey are black. Evans was
white, but the baby's father, Lavern Ward, is black.
Caffey and Ward also face murder charges. They will be tried separately.
Williams's sister Tina Martin was one of two prosecution witnesses to
testify Thursday that Williams had lied about being pregnant.
Martin testified that Williams, a mother of three, told her in April
1995 that she was pregnant but kept changing the due date from August to
October and then November.
Finally, on Nov. 17., Martin received a call from Williams saying she
had just had her baby.
Evans was found dead in her Addison, Ill., apartment early that
morning. She had been shot in the head and a had large incision in
abdomen.
Evans' 10-year-old daughter, Samantha, was stabbed seven times in
the neck. Seven-year-old Joshua was taken from the apartment by the
attackers and stabbed to death hours later, authorities allege, because
he talked about the crime and identified the attackers to another
person.
In opening statements Wednesday, defense lawyers blamed the
killings on Ward and Caffey.
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Kathy E
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isn't looking too good for you either"
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