Christopher Vaughn Case Analysis | Dissociative Amnesia or Malingering? 

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Those poor babies had to have been terrified. :(

Ah yes the "I don't want to go to prison amnesia" cousin to "I don't want to get grounded amnesia" 😂 Great breakdown once again!

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Three innocent children pay with their lives. Why? What are such murderers thinking?

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I agree with most of the analysis, but don't see the desire for money and living off the grid as mutually exclusive. The former can help you do the latter very well.

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I agree with your theory, it makes a lot of sense. It’s infuriating and disheartening to see how a family man who is supposed to protect his family, betrayed them the worst possible way. Very callous and selfish, in my opinion. Thank you for the informative review Dr. Grande.❤️

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PLEASE ADD AN UPDATE NOW RHAT HE SAYS HE REMEMBERS EVERYTHING. Admitted he never had amnesia. His own words. Episode 9 of murder in Illinois on apple pod

This case walks such a fine line... If I was on that jury I would not have been able to convict... There were a couple to many reasonable doubts...

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I had dissociative amnesia after a climbing accident. My memory before and after the accident is fairly good. Its just the fall itself and the subsequent pain my mind blocked. My feeling is this guy is lying. He just got sick of having a family.

He probably had Soap Opera amnesia. I’m glad the shelving unit made it back home safely. 🌵

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Why would she send an email to her husband telling him of her personality change and anxiety?? He could have sent it to himself to provide evidence of her instability!!

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Would a prison cell be considered "off the grid"?

This was a really interesting case, I'm going to have to watch it a couple of times to wrap my head around it.

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He could certainly spend a million and a half in the wilderness. You buy some land with the cabin and a lake. Maybe you build a cabin. Maybe you buy a small plane so you could go in and out of the wilderness at will. I could think of more but I feel like I have made my point.

The near groin wound is the main thing that makes me wonder. It's very inline with what an angry wife could do. As to him not dying, the fact is that the average person way over estimates the lethality of hand guns, so it'd be real easy for her to think he was surely going to die after being shot twice and quickly moved to finish the children and herself. Statistically, most people shot survive, and it's almost a sure thing if the wound didn't kill you instantly.

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I wonder if he had a different story/plan and the driver who spotted him threw him off because he wasn’t expecting anyone to see him yet. What speaks to me the most is that he acts like his wife and kids don’t even exist now while he’s in prison.

Can you disciss Dissociative Fugue and how it might explain people disappearing without a trace? I see a lot of videos of people who didappear with no advance notice and no one has any idea what happened.

I will never understand why family annihilators get married in the first place.

Dr Grande, are you familiar with the murder of Ann Maguire? A British teacher who was a stabbed to death in the middle of one her classes by then 15 year old student William Cornick. Your thoughts and analysis on this case would be interesting.

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I would think it would be dang difficult to come to the realization of the fact that the mother of his children had just shot and killed in cold blood.. and he certainly would have some of his own problems, living with someone who was so labile that she’d even be able to think such things … tragic all the way around

I would guess that, when he first tried to shoot her, she managed to get the gun and shoot him first, but only superficially because she had not experience, but then he got the gun back and killed her and then killed the children as well. I think this would explain a lot of the contradictory evidence.

I have “amnesia” from my car wreck so I can totally understand it happening in a major traumatic event. However I had a concussion and was seriously injured and almost died so it makes sense my memory of the wreck and the next few days of what happened I only have maybe 2 or 3 minutes worth of remembering. Though I was talking to my (ex) husband and my family in the hospital, the doctors and nurses, I wasn’t just knocked out for days I was awake. It’s such a weird feeling not knowing what all happened. I remember driving into the intersection and then I remember being in the life flight helicopter for a split second and then I remember it being the day after Halloween which would have been three days after the wreck. The brain is a crazy thing. I was very lucky I didn’t die from some moron running a red light. But in this guys case I just don’t see it happening like he said since he changed his story around and the stuff with the dancers …. Idk it’s not looking good for him.

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Oh my gosh...Christopher Vaughn. This incident happened very close to where I lived. It was pretty shocking. I had heard that in the interrogation room they brought in a picture of his family. He immediately crumpled it up and threw it into the corner. Also one of his daughters was an avid reader. They found a Harry Potter book on her lap. They think the 2 girls were asleep when they died but the little boy who was the last to be shot was awakened. He had put his hands up as a defensive move:((

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He sounds like a cold psychotic/narcissist, didn't care about his family at all, planned it out. Pretty shirt yes 👚. Thanks Dr G😊💟💟

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I wonder Doctor, after seeing so many familial killings, do you think we're seeing an advent of more of these types of crimes? Totally understand if you don't comment back! Hope you and the family are well! 🌵 ps. Your statement of, I don't want to go to prison amnesia was golden! 😂

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I was riding my bicycle to school in 4th grade and my front wheel came off and I took a header. I don't remember the morning at all. It was like all of a sudden I was riding my bicycle and I didn't know how I got there. My friend Misty was next to me and I asked her if I had rode to her house to pick her up to ride to school like usual. She said I had and that I had just had an accident but to this day I don't remember waking up or having breakfast or anything. But that was bad head trauma not just a traumatic scary event. And no one was killed.

The evidence isn't particularly compelling but I can't say I mind him being locked away after gaining insight into his character. He did not have any feelings for his family.

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Two things about the wife's mental health and the drugs found in her system: first, if she was experiencing panic disorder, this could have been due to some intuitive sense of not being safe with her husband. That doesn't mean he killed her, because there were certainly other things he did wrong that she may have known or sensed, but her disorder by itself certainly does not make it more likely she committed the crime, either, and her panic could have been exacerbated by feeling unsafe with him. Second, the medications in her system: never underestimate the fact that major corporate interests are aligned against recognizing that some widely-prescribed drugs are very dangerous to a tiny group of people. So, there were interests involved in suppressing that possibility. That would make it harder for the defense to get a qualified expert to testify for their side. This is a tough case. Apparently, a lot of people who analyzed his entire statement to police agree it would be hard to fake believing his family was alive without slipping, and hard to fake interest in seeing the video of what happened. But that doesn't point to guilt or innocence, necessarily. It just means he really did have a traumatic memory lapse, making it impossible to assist in his defense.

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