Indian Head Park teen’s killer dies in prison. Grieving mom: ‘Appeals have ended and so have you.’
John O'Laughlin, left, and his wife, Brenda O'Laughlin, speak to the media on Sept. 15, 2014, at the Cook County Courthouse in Bridgeview after guilty verdicts were delivered against the man accused of killing their daughter, Kelli O'Laughlin.during a botched burglary more than a decade ago has died in prison. Now, the victim’s mother says her daughter can finally “rest in peace.”
Kelli O’Laughlin, 14, was stabbed to death in October 2011 when she walked in on John Wilson Jr. burglarizing her family’s home in suburban Chicago. The cellphone — which investigators tracked for a GPS signal — was one of several ways authorities linked Wilson to the crime.Comments under the mother’s Facebook message ranged from remembrances for Kelli O’Laughlin to prayers for the family to gratitude that the teen’s killer is gone.
John Wilson Jr., then 38, of Chicago, was convicted in the stabbing death of a 14-year-old Kelli O'Laughlin in suburban Indian Head Park.
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