Eric Hanson Trial Begins For Undercover

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'We were the ones who told him,' said Karen Tom, a Wheaton woman who visits Hanson weekly to minister to the 33-year-old man she considers a son. 'I took his hand as my husband read the Bible and told him he lost the appeal. Public Health Journalism Programs. He looked very sober. There was a tear in his eye. He did say he was preparing himself for that.'

Hanson is the second-youngest of 16 men on Illinois' death row at Pontiac Correctional Center. A DuPage County jury convicted him in 2008 during a high-profile trial in Circuit Judge Robert Anderson's courtroom. Umat Past Papers Free. All death sentences are appealed directly to the state high court. Hanson argued the jury convicted him with circumstantial evidence during a trial riddled with reversible legal errors. His attorney cited nine issues, such as testimony from Hanson's older sister about an incriminating conversation she said she had with the slain sister weeks before the murders.

29, 2005, police discovered the bludgeoned bodies of Katherine 'Kate' Hanson-Tsao, 31, along with her husband, Jimmy Tsao, 34, in their home in the White Eagle subdivision in Aurora. Terrance Hanson, 57, and his wife, Mary, 55, also were found slain there. The elder couple were shot in their bed in their Naperville home, on Rock Spring Court, where Eric lived, then taken to Kate's house five miles away. The defendant's other sibling, Jennifer Williams, who lived out of state, identified him as a suspect within an hour of the grisly discovery. She said Hanson threatened to kill their sister, Kate, six weeks earlier if she told their dad Eric stole more than $80,000 from the parents in a credit card scheme. Prosecutors lacked a confession, both murder weapons and, despite two crime scenes with four bodies, a single hair, fiber, fingerprint or shoe print or DNA placing Hanson at either location.