Killer Left Profane Post on Kelli O'Laughlin's Facebook Page, Cop Testifies

Caption: John Wilson Jr., 41, the man accused of stabbing 14-year-old Kelli O’Laughlin of Indian Head Park to death in October 2011.

The day after Kelli O’Laughlin, 14, was found dead in her home on Oct. 27, 2011, her friends posted messages of memorium to her Facebook page.

Officer Patrick Fullo, a member of the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force, testified Thursday in trial of the 41-year-old Chicago man accused of killing the teen, John Wilson Jr.

Fullo described for the jury in the Bridgeview courtroom how a friend of the Indian Head Park girl had let the officer use his password to access O’Laughlin’s Facebook page.

It was the friend who directed Fullo’s attention to a post in response to another boy who had expressed his shock and disbelief that his friend Kelli was never coming back:

“This is unbelievable. I can’t believe you’re gone. You’re such a nice person … RIP Kelly.”

Following that was a post believed to have been left by the girl’s killer on her Facebook page:

“Next time the b----- will do as she’s told.”

Fullo then described for jurors how he had gone to the LaGrange Police Department on Nov. 2, 2011, after learning that Wilson had been arrested. He was there when Wilson removed his clothing and was placed in hospital scrubs and had his shoes confiscated, and for Wilson’s police booking photos.

He also was in the room when Wilson was placed in a police lineup of four other men of similar physical stature, selecting the number two position. All five men -- including Wilson -- were given white T-shirts to wear.

The line-up participants were place in a seated position, with blankets covering their legs and shoes, because Wilson was still wearing hospital scrubs.

After midnight, on Nov. 3, Wilson asked to make a phone call in the police processing room at the LaGrange Police Department. After the first call, Wilson hung up immediately, Fullo said.

The second phone call, Wilson allegedly asked the person on the other end to take care of his mother finishing the conversation with, “Come get my Cricket phone because it has everywhere I’ve been.”

Wilson’s Cricket mobile phone had been taken as evidence when he was arrested.

Wilson’s attorney, John Paul Carroll, asked Fullo if his client had blood or injuries on his body when he was naked in the processing room.

Wilson did not.

Joseph Raschke, an FBI special agent specializing in cellular analysis and investigations tracking cell phones, delivered a PowerPoint presentation to jurors explaining how cellular towers are divided into a sectors, which are pointed in various directions indicating the vicinity where cellular calls were placed.

Starting around 6 a.m. Oct. 27, 2011, analysis from the Cricket cellular towers -- the brand of Wilson’s phone -- showed the phone traveling from his South Side address into downtown Chicago and progressing to the west suburbs, where phone activity placed him in Lyons around 9 a.m., Raschke testified.

Around 3:22 p.m., a call placed near the O’Laughlins’ home in the 6300 block of Keokuk bounced off a tower a few blocks away from their Indian Head Park home.

Other cellular activity from the Cricket phone the day of the crime bounced off towers from the 7-Eleven, where Wilson had bumped into a police officer and called a taxi to take him to Midway el stop. Later that evening, cellular activity showed the phone moving southward, ending near Wilson’s home on the city’s South Side.

At the request of law enforcement, Sprint did location restoration -- pinging Kelli O’Laughlin’s Spring phone, which placed it in the vicinity of the Wilson’s Cricket phone -- several times over the course of the next few days.

“Are you telling this jury that these two phones were together,” Caroll asked the FBI special agent on cross examination.

“I can’t say the phones were together,” Raschke said. “[Billing] records who the phones were together at multiple times, but tower analysis shows they were in the same vicinity.”

Other testimony from Thursday included Stephen Cina, the Cook County Medical Examiner, who showed autopsy photos of the 14-year-old.

Using a 12-inch ruler the approximate length of the kitchen knife said to be used to stab Kelli O’Laughlin, Carroll held the ruler to his own neck, back and chest, ABC-7 reported.

Carroll repeatedly asked Cina if it was possible for someone to stab themselves. Cina responded that while it was possible, the cause of Kelli’s death was not suicide.

Before court was adjourned, Carroll protested that Officer Patrick Fullo’s statement about overhearing Wilson’s phone call when he asked the person to come get his phone was phrased as if it were a confession.

Carroll and co-counsel, Michelle Gonzalez, maintain that their client was arrested and charged because he was a black man in a predominantly white neighborhood, and that police didn’t bother to look at other possible suspects.

The prosecution is expected to formally rest its case on Friday. Carroll indicated that he would be calling defense witnesses.

The case could go to the jury on Friday.