Harris Murder Trial

A key witness testified Tuesday in the murder trial of Christopher Harris, and if the jury believes Ronald Frakes, the defense faces tough odds. Frakes, who has lived in the tiny town of Beason for nearly a quarter century, was up late the night the Gee family died. He works the third shift at a […]

Less than 12 hours after Raymond “Rick” Gee, his wife Ruth and three of their children were beaten to death with a tire iron, Christopher Harris answered a booty call from a girlfriend, spending more than three hours with her while the Gees lay dead and undiscovered in their blood-soaked Beason home. Under questioning by […]

Christopher Harris wasn’t much good at covering his tracks. But he was a cool customer, according to Robert Michael Jennings, a retired special agent with Illinois State Police who interrogated Harris on Sept. 30, 2009, nine days after Raymond “Rick” Gee, his wife Ruth and three of their children were found beaten to death with […]

Amid lurid tales of sexual escapades and stomach-wrenching photographs of battered bodies, the prosecution dropped two potential bombshells Thursday in the murder trial of Christopher Harris. Perhaps the most important one came late in the day when Natalie Klien, who had engaged in threesomes with Raymond “Rick” Gee and his wife Ruth, testified that she […]

The first sign of trouble came after school, when Seaton Landstrom, now 14, rode to the Gee home to show his new bicycle to Dillen Constant and his half-brother Austin Gee. There was blood on the porch and door of the Gee home that afternoon on Sept. 21, 2009 in the tiny town of Beason […]

A prospective juror in the murder trial of Christopher Harris dropped a miniature bombshell this afternoon. Asked by the presiding judge whether she had heard any thing about the case, the woman said that she had. When and where, asked Circuit Court Judge Scott Drazewski. Just now, the woman replied, from a news broadcast on […]