Christopher Vaughn is to be sentenced today for killing his wife and their three children in the family's SUV as they drove to a downstate waterpark.
The sentencing of Vaughn, 37, comes two months after jurors convicted him of murdering his 34-year-old wife Kimberly and their children — 12-year-old Abigayle, 11-year-old Cassandra and 8-year-old Blake.
Photos: Vaughn family murders
Kimberly Ellen Vaughn, 34, with husband Christopher Vaughn and their three children Cassandra Ellen Vaughn, 11, lower left, Blake Philip Vaughn, 8, lower center and Abigayle Elizabeth Vaughn, 12, on Kimberly's graduation day from from Phoenix University in 2007.
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Oswego, IL, USA
There's little suspense about a sentence heading into the hearing in Will County Court in Joliet. Vaughn faces a mandatory life term for the quadruple-murders.
But the hearing gives relatives a chance to confront the Oswego man and tell the court about the victims.
Prosecutors say the computer specialist planned the murders in advance. They say he saw his family as obstacles to his dream of starting a life subsisting in Canada's wilderness.
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