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Apr 26, 2018 · Prosecutors allege Chris Coleman killed his family because he feared he would lose his job as televangelist Joyce Meyer's bodyguard if he got a divorce. But then they played pre-taped testimony from Meyer.
May 6, 2011 · A jury has convicted a former Marine of three counts of first-degree murder in the strangulation deaths two years ago of his wife and their two sons.
Jul 17, 2009 · Chris Coleman is charged with three counts of first degree murder in the deaths. Authorities have said that all three victims were strangled with some type of wire, rope or cord.
- CBS News
- Questioning Chris Coleman
- The Other Woman
- Motive For Murder?
- A Gut-Wrenching Case
The small town of Columbia, Ill., was reeling with the sudden loss of Sheri, Garett and Gavin Coleman. "This touched an entire community... The neighbors were shocked," reporter Nick Pistor explained. "They saw the young boys playing touch football with their father on the front lawn. These were little boys that they knew." Close friends like Kathy...
Every day, friends and neighbors are reminded of the beautiful lives that were stolen from them. "The memorial -- in their subdivision is awesome. There's a bench and there's trees," Meegan Turnbeaugh explained. "...the community of Columbia Lakes got together and created that. ...So they wanted to do something positive. And they created a nice mem...
"This crime was about greed, sex, selfishness, and narcissism. Chris Coleman decided he wanted a new life, and his family was in the way," Prosecutor Ed Parkinson told Maureen Maher. "He was obviously a monster who carried out a very sadistic plan." By the time Chris Coleman went on trial in April 2011, prosecutor Ed Parkinson and his team had spen...
Chris Coleman had a prominent local defense team at his side when he went on trial for his life. But John O'Gara and Bill Margulis had to admit they faced an uphill battle. "The evidence was, although, all circumstantial, it was very overwhelming," said Margulis. And at trial, one of the most critical pieces of evidence would be time of death. The ...
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- Sara Ely Hulse,Clare Friedland
After being released on parole from the 1981 murder of a five-year-old girl, 27-year-old Timothy Buss murdered another child, Christopher Meyer, 9, who was riding his bike home from a boat ramp at a community park on August 7, 1995.
May 6, 2011 · Jurors deliberated 15 hours over two days before finding Coleman, 34, guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Sheri Coleman, 31, and their two sons, ages 9 and 11.
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Nov 26, 2020 · Chris Coleman (born March 20, 1977) is a former US military, bodyguard and former security chief for telepreacher Joyce Meyer, arrested and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of his wife Sheri and their children Garett and Gavin, [1 ] committed at the family's home in Columbia, Illinois, on May 5, 2009 ...