STATEMENT OF FACTS - University of Illinois Springfield

p.m. on Friday. This was consistent with the statement of Senior. (Vol. LVIX, R.
1688-92; Vol. 1875-76)
Jeanette knew Karyn was interested in a modeling career but did not know
that Karyn was thinking about moving out of town. (Vol. LVIX, R. 1707) A month
prior to Karyn’s murder, Jeanette and Karyn had an argument about putting
Kolten in preschool three days a week but they apologized to each other later the
same day. (Vol. LVIX, R. 1707-12; Vol. LX, R. 1887)
Brian Maxey dated Karyn Slover after meeting her at the Decatur Health
Club. They lived together for three months prior to breaking up. (Vol. LVIII, R.
1324-28) During this time, Maxey saw Karyn was upset and in tears every time
she came home from picking Kolten up from the Slovers’. (Vol. LVIII, R. 1329)
Defense Evidence
Charles Dunlap interviewed Brian Maxey on September 29, 1996. Maxey
did not make any comment to Dunlap concerning any problems that Karyn Slover
was having with her mother-in-law. (Vol. LXXI, R. 73-74)
Ed Culp was a Detective with the Macon County Sheriff’s Office. (Vol. LXX,
R. 162-63) On October 2, 1996, Culp spoke with Brian Maxey who did not say
anything about Karyn Slover having complaints about Jeannette Slover. (Vol.
LXX, R. 165)
Autopsy – October 1, 1996
State’s Case-in-Chief
Doctor John Murphy, a pathologist since 1971, performed the autopsy on
Karyn Slover on September 30 and October 1, 1996. (Vol. LV, R. 675-81) Dr.
Murphy identified a total of seven gunshot wounds to the head as the cause of
death – six of them on the left side of the head and one to the back of the head.
All of the gunshots were ante mortem and from inches away. (Vol. LV, R. 688-93;
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