Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is the case we followed when it broke, it has finally gone to trial. ------------------------------------------------------------------ A family member testifying at the murder trial of Jacqueline Williams says the 31-year-old Schaumburg, Ill., woman called family members to boast she had just given birth, hours after Debra Evans was killed and Evans' unborn son was cut from her womb. Williams and two men are accused of killing Evans and two of her children in 1995 because Williams wanted Evans' unborn child. Prosecutors contend Williams pretended for months to be pregnant to hide the scheme to kill Evans and steal Evans' unborn child. They allege Williams, unable to become pregnant, planned the attack because she desperately wanted a light-skinned baby for boyfriend, with whom she could not conceive. Williams and Caffey are black. Evans was white, but the baby's father, Lavern Ward, is black. Caffey and Ward also face murder charges. They will be tried separately. Williams's sister Tina Martin was one of two prosecution witnesses to testify Thursday that Williams had lied about being pregnant. Martin testified that Williams, a mother of three, told her in April 1995 that she was pregnant but kept changing the due date from August to October and then November. Finally, on Nov. 17., Martin received a call from Williams saying she had just had her baby. Evans was found dead in her Addison, Ill., apartment early that morning. She had been shot in the head and a had large incision in abdomen. Evans' 10-year-old daughter, Samantha, was stabbed seven times in the neck. Seven-year-old Joshua was taken from the apartment by the attackers and stabbed to death hours later, authorities allege, because he talked about the crime and identified the attackers to another person. In opening statements Wednesday, defense lawyers blamed the killings on Ward and Caffey. -- Kathy E "I can only please one person a day, today is NOT your day, and tomorrow isn't looking too good for you either" http://members.delphi.com/kathylaw/ Law & Issues Mailing List http://pw1.netcom.com/~kathye/rodeo.html - Cowboy Histories http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2990/law.htm Crime photo's Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues