Obsessive fling hacked NFL star’s emails, made homemade silencer and took pregnancy bracelet as trophy, court records show
Alderman Chris Taliaferro and Chicago citizen Dwayne Truss appear on “FOX & Friends” to talk about the community’s outcry over the attendance of over 600 people at a demonstration against a new migrant shelter that will replace youth programmes.
The Chicago woman who was found guilty in 2007 of killing a pregnant rival in a cruel manner claims that fresh evidence has surfaced, proving her innocence and proving that the crime was perpetrated by someone else.
After Chicago Bears player Shaun Gayle’s fiancée Rhoni Reuter, Gayle, and Reuter’s unborn child were murdered and killed in a Deerfield, Illinois, apartment, Marni Yang, now 56, became embroiled in a romantic triangle with Gayle.
After a protracted investigation turned up tangible evidence and a taped confession, Yang was taken into custody by the police more than a year after the crime.
For killing Rhoni Reuter and Reuter’s unborn child, Marni Yang received two life sentences. Yang’s attorney claims that fresh evidence establishes Yang’s innocence and suggests that someone else is the real killer.(Department of Corrections in Illinois)
On Monday, Yang and her legal representative, Jed Stone, contended in court that fresh information suggests an alternative suspect. After barely three hours of deliberation, a jury in 2011 found Yang guilty of two charges of first-degree murder, according to FOX 32 Chicago.
“She started screaming, and I just let her have it.”
— Marni Yang, in a wiretapped statement
Although Yang has been fighting the conviction for years, she was incarcerated in part due to an admission she made that was considered damaging.
I did, in fact, wear a hoodie. Please note that I was wearing gloves and had applied dark makeup. She told a friend who was wearing a wiretap, “I pulled out the gun when she opened the door.” “And when she saw it, she started screaming, and I just let her have it.”
In this undated family portrait, Rhoni Reuter is the expectant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle. Following a vicious home invasion shooting in 2011, Marni Yang, a different woman associated with Gayle, was found guilty of killing Reuter and Reuter’s unborn child.
Yang said the confession was fake in an interview with ABC 7 Chicago from a jailhouse last year. She gave a fake confession even though she claimed to know her companion was wearing a wire in it.
“I believed once the case got into the hands of the legal system it would be clear I did not commit this crime,” she stated.
Her defence claimed in a previous appeal that the recorded admissions had been admitted into evidence in error. But Yang made multiple mistakes. Prosecutors said she established a code word that she would share with a companion once the murder had been completed: “Do you want to go to dinner?”
Yang’s companion heard the phrase an hour or so after the murder when she picked up her work phone, which was recorded per corporate protocol.
Oct. 14, 2018, at Wembley Stadium in London, during an NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Oakland Raiders. Photo by Shaun Gayle of Sky Sports.
Gayle played defensive back for the Bears for a long period and was a member of the Mike Ditka-led squad that won the 1986 Super Bowl. According to court filings, he first met Yang at a Chicago Bears convention in 2005. Their initial business relationship swiftly developed into a sexual one.
Messages asking for comments were not immediately answered by him.
In their testimonies, Yang’s acquaintances expressed their belief that she was in a “unhealthy” relationship with Gayle, who had been dating Reuter for seventeen years at the time of her death.
According to court documents, Yang complained frequently to coworkers about messages he received from other women and disclosed to them that she had access to the former NFL player’s email account.
Yang once spotted an email receipt for a trip that Gayle and Reuter had taken to Europe. She called off the booking.
Recalling that other woman’s accent, she pretended to be that person after finding emails from that other love interest and “sent e-mails to threaten or deter other women involved with Gayle.”
March 4, 2009, saw the escort of Marni Kay Yang, right, from the Deerfield Police Department to the Lake County Courthouse.
In 2007, once Yang found out that Gayle would soon become a father, another friend said that Yang had discussed killing him. However, as lifelong friend Christi Paschen testified, the narrative quickly turned towards Reuter. Yang acknowledged heading to Reuter’s flat building before changing his mind, she told the court.
Yang stayed the night before the killings, asking Paschen to read tarot cards “to determine whether she would be successful in killing Reuter.”
Despite Paschen’s advice to “let it alone,” she proceeded with the reading, tossing a card that “indicated achievement of a goal.” But the friend didn’t consider the incident serious enough to report it to the police.
