How is Meyers implicated in the murder of the family of her chief security officer--an employee that was
fired just a short time before the news of the murders. Surprizingly, in the few hours which proceeded the strangling
of Coleman's family, Joyce Meyers is reported to have payed to Chris Coleman a sum totaling $10,000. Lawyers
John O'Gara and Jim Stern, recently added to the Coleman defense team, are investigating these claims.
In an effort to gather every piece of evidence which might lead police to the uncovered story involving
the Coleman family, investigators, also, disclosed information surrounding several threat notes that were found
in the home of Sheri and Chris Coleman. The notes informed "...you think you're protecting her..."
Police assumed the note's message refered to Coleman's 31 year old wife, Sheri. Recieved prior to the death
of Sheri Coleman, the message sent a rather ambiguous portend of danger to Coleman that was apparently ignored.
Your worst nightmare is about to happen!”
In the second note, the message was much more direct and threatening. Someone wanted Chris Coleman
to end his job as a security guard and wanted Coleman's wife to put an end to her work as a missionary. Without
much time passing between the time the notes were written and the day police locating the body's of Sheri, Gavin and Garrett
Coleman, the writer carried out thier threat.
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Police recieved a phone call from Coleman after he payed a visit to a near-by gymnasium. Coleman
informed police that he had found his wife and two sons dead in thier Columbia,Ill. home.
Police arrived at the home on Tuesday, May 5 to find Coleman only arriving at the middle income, two-story home
some later. Police proceeded with an investigaion that uncovered enough evidence to lead to Chris Coleman
as thier prime suspect. In thier disclosure, police reported that Sheri and sons Gavin and Garrett had been strangled.
A thin cord was found in the family's garage. Also, in support of thier suspician was the evidence
of rigormortus that was apparent in all three Coleman family members at the time the police investigation was conducted. Considering
the state of the bodies and the time of the 911 call, police concluded that it had been several hours preceeding
the 911 cal and the arrest of Chris Coleman that the three Coleman family members had struggled to survive.
" ...$10,000 in cash had been given to Coleman on May 6, 2009, the day following
the murders,..."
Wife Sheri, a missiionary, was warned to stop as the note suggested her work as a traveling
minister was an illusion and that Sheri, who had previously returned from a trip abroad, was putting on a sharade
and accused her of pretending for the sake of funneling money to support the lavish lifestyle for which she and
husband, Chris', had developed an abberation. Chris and wife had a fetish for luxury and desired financial freedom. Coleman's
family lifestyle presented a challenge for his $100,000 annual salary as external interests continued to reflect
his inability to keep pace with well established contemporaries.
Despite questions involving a series of activities that may shoot holes in the state's case, Christopher Coleman
will stand trial in Illinois for the alleged strangling murder of his wife, Sheri, and thier two children, Garett and
Gavin Coleman.
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