Vetting the picture of the Vaughn family taken by the Sun-Times for a real estate feature story one month before the deaths of Kimberly Vaughn and her three children is crushing. All striped shirts and vests.
- At the center, the two of them, seated in matching high-backed kitchen chairs with hands on their own lap.
- His right hand balled up in a loose fist, left hand sporting the wedding ring, the symbol. he seems slightly amused, slight upturn in mouth corners, perfect beard.
- She’s tilted slightly, with very combed hair, straight and red and pretty. Red lipstick is bright and fresh from mirror as the photographer setup his camera. Striped collared shirt under v-neck black sweater, though it’s bright and Spring outside
- They are separated by nearly the width of their eldest daughter, who knows everything. She grips the tips of their chairs, mightily. She looks just like her mother– same hair, same length, different bangs. Frilly blue shirt with protection vest left open
- On the left, the son, at the right hand of the mother, naturally self-conscious to be photographed for the paper. Too-long striped shirt covers hands
- The smile daughter, next to daddy, comes closest to the teeth-showing smile of her mother. Again the slight mouth upturn, she seems a cross between the parents
He is charged with killing them.