Mother of three convicted of killing ex-Chicago Bears player's pregnant girlfriend pushes for new trial.
Marni Yang’s children reveal early memories with their mother
Reuter, 42, was seven months pregnant when she was found dead on the kitchen floor of her apartment in Deerfield, Illinois. There were no signs of robbery or forced entry at the crime scene. Authorities said she had been shot multiple times at point-blank range with a 9mm handgun, with two shots fired directly at her abdomen. To investigators, it suggested that the shooter was aiming not just at Reuter, but also at the unborn child.
The Lake County State’s Attorney's Office filed a motion to dismiss Yang’s petition, describing it as a"skillfully, lawyerly rebranding of the facts and the overwhelming evidence against Marni." Rhoni Reuter's brother and sister-in-law, Thad and Anna Reuter, are seen here in this previous "20/20" interview.
On the morning of the murder, Gayle told police he slept in, worked out with a trainer and then got a haircut mid-morning at a barber about 10 minutes away from Reuter's apartment. Gayle said one night Kurowska came to his apartment complex and began ringing his neighbors’ buzzers. He found her outside of his apartment with a bloody hand, and later discovered one of his windows had been broken. Gayle eventually obtained a protective order against her.
Police cleared Kurowska as a suspect, and eventually cleared Gayle as well. Soon, they began focusing on another woman Gayle had been casually seeing: Marni Yang.Marni Yang is seen here at Christmastime in this family photo.Yang, a divorced mother of three who worked multiple jobs, including as a real estate agent, said she met Gayle at a Bears convention where she was working security. She said the two started seeing each other after he reached out to her about investing in real estate.
"There is absolutely no way that I would even have had access to anything like that," she told"20/20." Yang denies she had sent the letters and claims instead that she was one of the women who received such a letter. During the conversation, Yang told Paschen, who was secretly working with investigators and wearing a recording device, that she had put on an elaborate disguise and shot Reuter. That disguise, prosecutors say, seemed to match witnesses’ description of the suspect on the day of the murder.
During her trial, prosecutors pointed to a surveillance video from a gas station in Reuter’s neighborhood that showed a car driving near the scene around the time of the murder, which they said matched the description of the one Yang had rented that same week. Her defense team also claims that ballistics evidence proves the person who shot Reuter was much taller than Yang, who is only 5 feet tall.
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