Chicagoland’s Rhoni Reuter case

They were football royalty in Deerfield Illinois Sean, the much adored Chicago Bear, anyone associated with his team is a local hero and Ronny Ryder, the stunning brunette making her way in the fashion field, how do you describe the people to Ronnie? Ronnie lit up a room when she walked in. People instantly liked her. Retired detective George Valenko says the two met at a Bears training camp near Ronnie's hometown in Wisconsin. I think she and Shaun started talking there and now it was the beginning of their almost two-decade relationship. Ronnie and Shaun are happily inseparable traveling the world then news surprises the couple last 41 Ronnie discovers she is pregnant was Ronnie excited to have this baby yes she was very excited the older mother takes all the safety precautions she even wears a bracelet Pearl MedicAlert that way if something happens to her her doctors will know how to save baby Skyler, she was worried the whole time, she never took him away initially, the football star doesn't seem all that excited about becoming a father, but over time, State's Attorney Re Fitz says Shaun tells his friends that he's gotten used to the idea that there were books that were actually found in his house about being a father, fatherhood and that sort of thing on the morning of the 4th.

October, just over a month after giving birth to her miracle baby, Ronnie heads to work but when she opens her front door there is a nightmare to greet her with a loaded gun. I heard a woman scream and then a pop pop and they have been totally silent. I called my other upstairs neighbor and she is pregnant and not answering. Ronnie's neighbor tells the dispatcher that she heard seven or eight gunshots followed by a loud thud, she described hearing a pop pop and told detectives that the gunshots sounded strangely muffled. She had recently seen a movie in which there was a gun that was fired with a silencer and she said that's what it sounded like.

When the police arrive, they find the expectant mother dead on the kitchen floor with an ultrasound hanging over her head in the refrigerator, the doors partially open, they walk in, the first thing they see is Ronnie lying on the kitchen floor, It was pretty clear that something behind happened. The police and paramedics responded immediately, but it was very obvious that there was nothing they could do for Ronnie or her son. Did this appear to be a random act or was it a targeted hit? No, this is a goal. We in no way suspected that this was.

Random Deerfield police assumed Ronny was the target until they got a closer look. The first shot seemed to be aimed directly at his stomach. Police say that during Ronnie's last breath she cradled her unborn baby trying to protect Skylar from the hail of bullets, but she couldn't. He didn't save the baby and the final bullet would ensure that Ronny wouldn't survive either. The final woman was a kind of coup de gras, very cold-blooded, it was an ax to the back of the head, almost like a type of murder. a final landing, so with the shooting of the baby that led you to believe that this could have been the reason she was pregnant.

We didn't know what the reason was. Cops say there was no forced entry into her apartment and no fingerprints, just some unspent ones. 9 millimeter bullet casings scattered randomly around Ronnie's body, usually in a

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like that guns jam for some reason, then someone, the killer's gun, jammed mm-hmm and that was the reason why the casing was not spent and it was a Syrian problem that the police tracked down. a neighbor reporting seeing a dark-skinned man fleeing the scene, witnesses seemed to suggest it was a black person leaving Ronnie's house, who killed her. One of the witnesses indicated that the person they saw walking away was a short man.

Slim person of African American appearance with dark curly hair. Another witness tells police they remember a black car speeding away, so that's what they had to follow. That was the information from the witnesses. Yes, news of a possible killer in the loose rocks of the city. of Deerfield, nothing bad ever happens in Deerfield, so news of the shooting spread quickly through town. Shaun receives a call from a local reporter telling him that a pregnant woman has just been shot in Ronnie's neighborhood. The media, this is Shaun Gayle, was it Ronnie's writers? Annoyed on the phone, he could barely understand what he was saying as many rushed to console the grieving field.

The big Deerfield police couldn't believe his tears. Shaun was considered a person of interest initially. Shaun was considered a person of interest almost immediately. Shaun tells the police. He had nothing to do with Ronnie's murder, did he have an alibi? She had. He was getting a haircut on the north side of Chicago. Was there a possibility that she could have committed the crime and then returned to the barbershop in that time period? Theoretically it was possible, so he wasn't ruled out because of that alibi, not because of the albino, but what about the witnesses' description of the thin African-American man seen fleeing the scene?

Shaun's physical build matched that of the suspect he was fleeing, as if he were a former professional football player. So he was a bigger guy and the physical bill didn't match at all, but the cops couldn't rule out the possibility that Shaun had an accomplice or hired a hitman. Unfortunately, suspect number one will be the other half of the big question that the cops couldn't. Answer why Shawn would want to kill Ronnie and his unborn baby. We didn't know the whole story yet, so we're still trying to piece things together, but Shaun was still a person of primary interest, so investigators stumble upon a strange letter inside Ronnie's house. bag written in broken English what about this letter that was found in Ronnie's bag?

It was the letter written for several women. I think there may have been 15 16 17 women and this letter, including Ronnie, the cops soon discover the women he just had. something in common everyone slept with Shaun Gayle knew he was a player players a good word you have something we have something big yes police officers in Deerfield Illinois are looking at a possible motive for the murder of Ronnie Ryder 17 of them, in fact, all of them here in a strange letter found near Ronnie's bullet-riddled body, pregnant, Ronnie had this in her purse, she had it in her purse, right, the letter written in broken English lists the names of 17 women and their phone numbers, all They're girlfriends or lovers of Ronnie's Baby's father, former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle, he was basically very direct, he's having relationships with all these women, he's out there playing all of you, so he pulled it off, he had several girlfriends, you did well.

Ronnie and Shawna seemed like the perfect couple. Complete detective. George Fallon quickly learned that his private life was complicated and extremely busy. He describes Shaun in Ronnie's relationship. I think the best way to describe it was openness on Shawn's part when the cops asked Shaun about the letter. He says Ronnie knew he was seeing other women, but. The detectives were hearing a very different story from the tips we received from Summer Ronnie's friends. She wasn't exactly 100% convinced that he was still keeping in touch with these women. Yes, they were all in progress, so eyes went to Shaun. as a person of interest from the beginning, the cops wonder if Ronnie confronted Shaun about the other women and he complained if one of the 17 players on Shawn's sex team didn't want the baby to take the football score off the game in the one everyone was working on.

Bits of this trying to come up with all sorts of theories while the cops zeroed in on Shawn as their main suspect. Something unexpected happens. Shawn turned over his own number one suspect to the Deerfield police. How did Shawn think he could have had anything to do with it? With this, one of the first people who mentioned the police as a possible suspect was Mónica Carrasco. Mónica Carrasco, a beautiful fitness model and personal trainer who happened to be the first name on the list. Shawn had been dating the Polish bombshell for a few years. but their relationship had recently ended badly very badly apparently Monica thought the relationship was monogamous unexpectedly appears at Shawn's house one night she looks out the window and sees Shawn with another woman shawn says Monica became violent she broke through a window in his home and then started leaving threatening phone messages, he even suspected that Monica had somehow hacked into his email account, it finally got to the point where he felt like she was harassing him.

The tough football player was so terrified that just days before Ronnie was murdered, he had filed a restraining order. vs. Monica Shawn was afraid of Monica and Shawn thought that Monica could have done this correctly. Shawn tells the police that he also believes that Monica, a Polish immigrant, is the one who wrote the letters. There was broken English in the way the letters were written and Monica was from Poland. and she spoke in broken English, but Monica denies sending the letters and tells the police that she was with a client at the exact moment Ronnie and her unborn baby were shot to death.

She couldn't have done it. She couldn't have done it, so the investigation continued. Everything continued. Go back to Shaun Gayle wisely, so you served a search warrant on Shawn's house absolutely three weeks after Ronnie's killer cops confiscated Shawn's computer and found something that set off warning bells. Shawn had a cyberstalker, someone had hidden his hard drive and had been controlling his computer remotely tracks the former football greats' every move and they've been doing it for almost two years emails names addresses do you know personal information like that so he can access everything the cops say it certainly wasn't Monica, so who we were certainly got frustrated and you had to find who killed her, you know these are difficult

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s, but you don't give up, the detectives go back to that lineup of the 17 women and then a retired police officer betrays one of them. said if anyone has done this it's Marni yang it turns out that Marni yang is number 15 on that list in Ronnie's bag two things led her to attract attention insects one by one the police in Deerfield Illinois have been checking off the 70 names on that strange letter found at murder scene near Ronnie Ryder's bullet with a body then detectives hit on number 15 is Marni yang Marni yang was one of several women who slept with Ronnie's lifelong love, Shaun Gayle , a Chicago football hero and the father of her unborn baby, wasn't exclusive to Ronnie, no, him.

I thought other women did, I think he was among 17 or 18 other women, but Shaun wasn't Marni Yang's only lover. A Chicago police officer who had sessions with Marni Yang told detectives they should pay close attention to her as they investigated Ronnie's life. murder he had been in a relationship with her and had broken it off it didn't go well Marni threatened him threatened his family the officer says she even tried to blackmail him when he threatened to break up with her he was worried enough to be close enough to retirement like to file their papers to move their whole family out of town and out of sight, they actually moved, they moved out of state, yeah the cops were intrigued, now they want to know everything they can about Marni yang, who is Marni yang, she was. lets loose a little wild especially for her age two things led to her attention yang insect a mother of three dabbled in real estate had a side job as a fitness model and a secret reputation as a sexually predatory man eater yes i have seen this kind of behavior before, usually as a stripper or something, my husband was shopping in Milan, the bouncer was Marni Ang's photographer and friend, so how did she and Sean meet?

She cheated on him and it was someone who worked at home and was free of real estate. Basically you had player meeting player here, not a good match, well if you like sex Flynn says that Yang was bragging about her relationship with Sean, but he says that Marni was obsessed with dating cops and that He often appeared at the station to study how they did it. Crimes investigated. She has received lessons from another Chicago police officer on how to fire a gun and how to cover up a crime. She had been studying how to get her way, basically with her sexual partner.

Before the TV show, each air looks for clues. Deerfield. The detectives head to Marni Yang's condo. The man dives headfirst into her trash. This is very, very fundamental police work, it's like dumpster diving, once someone, by law, pushes her trash out into the public, it's an open, open game, they would drive there,They would empty their trash. the cans in a van drive away, they bring them to the police department and they go through their trash and in the trash they find what they think is a treasure trove of evidence. As luck would have it, they recovered some receipts that were extremely interesting.

The first receipt is. to a very specific online bookstore we tracked down the order and it was for a book on how to build silencers, so she buys a book on how to make a silencer and a silencer was used, yes, in the murder, that's right, so there was another receipt from a local Home Depot and that receipt actually listed the items. We looked through the books, the items and most of the homemade silencers fit the items on the Home Depot receipt. We verified that it was she who was making a purchase through a video. Also, we saw her buying a bucket and quick-drying cement the detectives drag Marni Yang in for questioning Marni claims the book was a gag gift for a cop she was dating, but how would she explain buying all the materials needed to build a silencer?

She always had an answer, what about that bucket and bag of concrete that she saw buying here on a store surveillance camera you thought she was crazy yes we thought there was something nearby just by clicking here is the problem yang too has an alibi where did Marni say she was at the time of In the murder, Hope said her car broke down and she needed help. She said the battery was dead, so she called a friend of hers who was a Cook County sheriff. The court officer who was constantly there to help her, Yang claims that without a car she was stuck at home at the exact moment she Ronny was murdered.

Another hurdle for you is to correct another alibi, but before Yang leaves, she overcomes this and tells the detectives that she believes someone may really be stalking her. At this point the Deerfield police are officially stumped, everyone had an alibi and didn't know who it was, so yeah that added the mystery of who committed this heinous crime that no one knew about and almost completely disappeared from the headlines as a case unsolved and then as a possible escape, the police locate surveillance images of a dark-colored car leaving the scene of the murder. You know that the murderer used a dark vehicle, a black vehicle, right, that black Volkswagen takes the police to a company car rental told me they almost fell out of their chair when the rental history showed up in the field Illinois police believe the person behind the wheel of that black Volkswagen discharged a 9-millimeter semi-automatic Beretta at Ronnie Ryder, killing Ronnie and the Chicago Bear, the great Shaun Wales, the unborn baby Skyler, I mean, you have a double homicide here, there is nothing worse than this, the car caught on the surveillance cameras does not match Shaun's vehicle or any of all 17 current or former lovers of the football player, but a detective working the case has a hunch. sat down, opened a beer and started putting relational names into this database, then checked to see if any of them had rented a car recently, struck gold, told me he almost fell off his chair when the rental history came up and saw that she and Marnie rented a vehicle ding-ding-ding-ding-ding all the bells, whistles, lights go out a local rental company confirms that Marni yang rented a black Volkswagen the day before Ronnie was shot to death, it was just like the one here in the surveillance footage captured leaving the murder scene and the rental agent remembers that Yang was very selective about the car she wanted, the first vehicle she got was a very descriptive vehicle and had a blue color really wild, brought it back and said I want a dark colored vehicle that is very plain looking because bright blue would be too visible to you and it's not the best getaway car but here's the strange part if the car company rental says they didn't deliver the car to Yang's house. address the address she used was Kristie passions Andrews who is Kristie passions Christi Paschen was Marni Yang's best friend, adding to police suspicions the mileage when Yang returned the rental car.

What was significant about the mileage, there were 40 miles on the vehicle Marni had rented and returned when police measured the distance from the car rental place to Kristie Passions' house and then from Kristie Passions' house to the house. from victim Ronnie Ryder's Deerfield and then back to Kristie Passions' house and back to the car rental company. exactly 40 miles, then detectives discover that Yang had a twisted obsession with Shaun Gayle. She was the one who had been cyberstalking the football champion for two years. How did Marnie get access to Shawn's email account? Our theory is that while she was at Shawn's house, she ghosted or copied the computer's hard drive and the night before Ronnie and her unborn baby were killed, Yang and Gayle had a wild night of sex.

Was she in love with Sean? I don't know if she was in love with Sean or not, she certainly seemed like she was obsessed with him. Yang was so obsessed. Detectives claim she paid for detailed background checks on the other women in Sean's life. What did she discover? Emails, names, addresses. You already know. Personal information like that to have access to everything. she tracked down a woman's home address that woman Ronny Ryder it doesn't take a seasoned detective to figure out this just doesn't add up you just had to prove it more Brooke now the cops have some tough questions for the woman who seems to have a response to yang a mother of three says she wanted to make sure shawn wasn't dating anyone.

Additionally, one of Yang's police boyfriends tipped her off that she is a gun enthusiast. Yang admits that she had a nine-millimeter Beretta, the same caliber that was used to kill Ronnie and her unborn baby, but Yang tells the police that he had recently been robbed from his condo. What about that black rental car that she rented and had given to her best friend Christi Paschen? Simple Yang tells the police. Passion didn't have a credit card and was just helping out. but Christi Paschen doesn't seem very grateful in this secretly recorded phone call with Marni Yang. They look at me and left.

So why was a rental car delivered to her address and that was seen at the crime scene? The cops find out who Christi Paschen is. a telemarketer and they tap her phone line now their ears are burning I don't remember where the hell money was wait what are you talking about when the night Oh, before that stupid murder, what will you relax? Maury Yang is trying to calm her down. best friend Christi Paschen, but the police called Christi and she's scared, I guess I'm going crazy. I'm getting out of waiting since the police first contacted Christie to find out what she knows about Ronnie Ryder's murder, now they want me to do it.

Come to the station I want to say too much as it is I have to go I don't think this is a good idea The cops suspect Yang of being behind the murder of Ronnie Ryder and her unborn baby The reason he wanted the lifelong love of Ronnie, former soccer player great Shaun Gayle to herself now yang is trying to coach Christy to stick to the game plan it's like she was trying to assure Christi Paschen that she had done a good job you have nothing to worry about I have all ends covered There is no way for these bumbling idiots to find out what really happened after the detectives questioned Kristi.

She calls again this time, she's the calmer one, but they're like telling Yang that she thinks she actually got the cops off her back, but now Kristi has a secret. She told the inside story to investigators. How did you get Kristi to snap? I think even Kristi began to understand that she was going to be a great witness or possibly an accomplice to the conspiracy. So what did Christie confess to him? Christie said what Marni had been talking about. After getting rid of Ronnie for quite some time, he told the police that he had tried to talk Marni out of it and Marni told him that if he committed the murder she would call Christie at work the next morning and take her out to dinner and that was the code they use the next morning Christi Paschen received this call Christi Paschen, how can I help you?

Well, during interrogation, Christi tells the detectives that Yang was obsessed with the football star and when she found out that Shawn's girlfriend, Ronnie, was pregnant, Yang flew into a jealous rage. Fearing that the baby would abandon their relationship, we believe that this was the moment he decided to kill Ronnie and put a very carefully executed plan into action. Yang put his evil plan into action on the morning of October 4, he covered his face. with dark makeup. Yang placed her homemade silencer on her nine-millimeter Beretta and drove to Ronnie's condo in the black rental car and opened fire.

This was the most premeditated and carefully executed crime I have ever seen, Kristie confesses After the murder, she drove Yang all over the city to get rid of evidence, at one point, Yang told Kristi to stop and stop behind a banquet hall. Marni got out of the car, opened the trunk and took out a small hand shovel. He had something in his other hand and he walked away from the vehicle and buried something in the ground now more than a year after Ronnie's murder Kristi take the police back to that location our evidence technicians came out with a metal detector I think we were hoping to find a gun, they dig this up and find her bracelet is that the MedicAlert pregnancy bracelet that Ronnie never took off was a big discovery because now we have physical evidence linking Marni to the crime scene.

She had been paid to resolve this. We're still out there. You didn't have the murder weapon, we didn't have the weapon, we didn't have a confession, everything we had was circumstantial, no, we needed the only thing that was going to be a mate, how did you get that mate? She needed to prove that that morning she killed Ronnie, what else? To save her own skin, Kris Christie agrees to work undercover for the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Christie agreed to wear a body wire and have a conversation with Marni and record the conversation. They set up a meeting at a Denny's and the cops are listening as Marni Yang washes her own dirt off of her, but as Christie walks through the mess, Christie's wire comes undone.

Kristy pulls the plug, but she knows Yang and if she's suspicious, she won't talk, so of course I'll finally ask the question I told her. You, I never wanted to know when you hit them. Marnie tells Cristy that she buried the gun in a cement bucket and then threw it in a dumpster. Chrissy is safe. Marnie never suspects that her best friend turned her over to the police but without the gun. Cops still don't have what they need to arrest Marni Yang for first-degree murder. Two circumstantial evidence. We needed more. Yes. The detectives asked Kristy to meet Yang once again at Denny's and this time Marni Yang cooks her own goose.

Not really. I think you would, it's very sad. I mean, she talks about how she waited outside Ronnie's apartment and hid behind her in the alcove waiting to hear the sound of the door opening and Ronnie walking out. What did she see? She was making straight shots. She started. I also evaluated myself. She made the %. If she starts to describe, she will empty a clip. She leaves it all on the wire. Yes. Marnie's girlfriend spoke up. She condemned her correctly. Marni Yang is sentenced to life in prison. She will never get out of prison. The healing process.

We, unfortunately, she will not protect Onion Schuyler, we will always miss them. We've reached out to Shaun Gayle for comment. He didn't want to talk, but right after Yang's sentencing, the football hero said that he would now forever be tormented by guilt if he had hit him. the dating relationship she wanted this tragedy may not have happened instead of celebrating the birth of little Skylar Ronnie Ryder's family buried them in a single coffin Ronnie eternally cradling her unborn baby in her arms Yang's lawyers asked A retrial saying the confession she gave in that restaurant was illegally recorded, they also argued that Yang was denied the opportunity to get a haircut or makeup during the trial, which made her look guilty in the eyes of the jury; that appeal was denied.

She will spend the rest of her life. locked up without the possibility of parole