We, the Comrades of Unit 1012 will
remember Kelli O’Laughlin on April 2 and October 27 every
year. She will be one of The
82 murdered children of Unit 1012, where we will not forget her. Unit 1012
encourage everybody to donate and show support Kelli Joy O’Laughlin Memorial Fund.
The killer will be behind bars for a
long time, if he ever asks for parole, we will ensure he will stay behind bars.
Nevertheless, we will think of how Kelli live and not how she died.
Ex-convict
sentenced to 160 YEARS for stabbing teen to death during random home invasion
and then taunting her mother with disturbing text messages
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John Wilson Jr, 41, was convicted in September of
murdering Kelli O'Laughlin, 14, on October 27, 2011
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Kelli's mother discovered her daughter lying face down in
a pool of blood in the kitchen
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Brenda O'Laughlin later received a series of texts from
Kelli's stolen phone, one of which read: 'She wanted to tell you something
before I killed her'
·
Wilson pretended to be asleep during
his sentencing and taunted Kelli's mother after she spoke
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A man
convicted of stabbing to death a suburban Chicago high school freshman during a
2011 burglary of her home was sentenced Friday to 160 years in prison.
Career
criminal John Wilson Jr, 41, learned his fate today after a hearing during
which the mother of 14-year-old Kelli O'Laughlin testified.
Prosecutors
contended the teenager was killed in her Indian Head Park home when she
interrupted Wilson ransacking the residence.
Brenda
O'Laughlin testified she wished she'd been the one who walked into the house
that day ‘to see that evil killer.’
'I cannot
even begin to imagine or endure her last moments of life with that evil man,'
the mother said in court. 'Kelli was a true innocent victim. What physical
threat could she have been?'
After
stabbing the girl, Wilson sent the mother taunting texts from the girl's
cellphone.
When
questioned by the judge, Wilson said he didn't know why he was in court and
‘the voices in me told me not to talk to you.’
During the
sentencing, Judge John Hynes called the girl's murder 'a crime that shocked the
conscience of the community.'
The
prosecution argued that Wilson, a 38-year-old parolee with a lengthy criminal
history, used a landscaping rock wrapped in a red knit cap to smash a window
and break into the O'Laughlin's $500,000 house.
They claim
Kelli surprised Wilson in the family room during the break-in when she got home
from school about 3.40pm on October 27, 2011.
Wilson
grabbed an eight inch carving knife from a butcher's block and stabbed Kelli in
the neck, back and chest. One of the wounds pierced her aorta.
He then dragged
her lifeless body from the family room into the kitchen, before ransacking the
home.
Wilson fled
with a bowl of coins, an iPod Touch and Kelli's phone. Prosecutors said he
caught a cab home and used the coins to pay for the fare.
When Brenda
O'Laughlin came home from work at around 5.30pm that day, she discovered her
daughter in the kitchen lying face down in a pool of blood.
Kelli died
in a hospital that night, but at about 11.30am the next day Brenda started
receiving disturbing text messages from her daughter's stolen smart phone.
One of the
texts read: 'She wanted to tell you something before I killed her.'
Wilson was arrested on November 2. DNA evidence recovered from the knit cap matched Wilson's, and three witnesses also identified him from a police line-up.
In court
Friday, Wilson sat stone-faced and even pretended to be asleep during the
hearing, except to taunt the victim's mother after she delivered her impact
statement, ABC 7 Chicago reported.
'We was in
a relationship, Bren. What happened? Are you serious?' he said with a grin.
Speaking to
the media outside the courtroom, John O'Laughlin said he was glad the case was
over.
'One
hundred sixty years doesn't seem like long enough, but it's the maximum,' said
the grieving father.
Kelli's
mother told reporters that she was satisfied with the overall outcome of the
trial
'Justice
will never be done because Kelli’s never coming home,' Brenda O’Laughlin said.
'But, as far as the sentencing, I am very pleased with it because he will never
be out on the streets again to harm another child.'
The family
are now planning to focus their attention on Kelli's charitable foundation.
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