GUILTY IN - Nicole Gland, 24, murdered, Chesterton, 19 April 2017 *Arrest*

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Christopher Dillard,50, charged with killing 24 year old Nicole Gland in Chesterton Indiana.
 
Per the live presser, Dillard was an employee of the Upper Deck Lounge.
 
It sounds like LE was tipped off by Dillard's common-law wife, if I heard that correctly. The wife said he took her truck without permission and she noticed that a knife was missing from their butcher block.
 
Dillard claimed he was selling drugs to Nicole I think. The video is cutting in and out. He apparently also had some selective amnesia when he spoke to LE.

He claims things "were hazy", but he also told his common-law wife that he "really effed up and didn't know if she would take him back."


I think his goose is cooked.
 
Dillard told his common-law wife he killed Nicole, but "didn't mean to". He said "the drugs took hold of him". He said he owed someone $400 for cocaine. He asked his common-law wife to marry him.
 
Dillard had a past criminal record that was "minor in nature only" per LE.
 
Indiana has the death penalty, so there's that.
 
Police said all parties questioned have been cooperative, including Dillard, up to a certain point.
 
I've been sick over this. She is from my hometown.....where I grew up. We have several mutual friends.
 
Chesterton Police Chief Dave Cincoski said Christopher M. Dillard, of Hobart, worked as a bouncer at the Upper Deck Lounge where Gland tended bar, and delivered marijuana and cocaine to her late Tuesday night.

The chief said Dillard was not working at the time, and admitted putting the drugs in her car and snorting a line of cocaine before leaving to go to another bar.

Dillard allegedly called his live-in girlfriend around 7 a.m. Wednesday – about 3 hours after Gland left work and before her body was found in her SUV – and told his girlfriend “I really *advertiser censored**ed up. I don’t know you’ll take me back.”

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/04...killing-bartender-nicole-gland-in-chesterton/
 
Later, after Dillard’s girlfriend heard about Gland’s murder, she called Hobart police and told them a knife was missing from their butcher block. She had called Hobart police two days earlier to report Dillard had taken her truck without permission, according to Cincoski.

Dillard was taken into custody, and asked to speak to his girlfriend on Thursday in a police interview room.

While being recorded, Dillard allegedly told his girlfriend “I killed that girl. I didn’t mean to.”

Dillard had allegedly told police he was in a drug-induced haze after dropping off the cocaine and marijuana for Gland, and didn’t remember what happened after that.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/04...killing-bartender-nicole-gland-in-chesterton/
 
Dillard also allegedly admitted he had taken a knife from the butcher block two months ago to use for protection, and placed it on the floor of his girlfriend’s truck, but claimed it later fell out at some point.

Cincoski said police have not yet determined why Dillard allegedly killed Gland, and said the exact circumstances of the stabbing are unclear. The chief said police are reviewing surveillance cameras from the area, and are investigating other “persons of interest” in the case.

Dillard was being held without bail at the Porter County Jail.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/04...killing-bartender-nicole-gland-in-chesterton/
 
The findings of a forensic autopsy conducted early Thursday morning, according to Porter County Coroner Chuck Harris: Gland bled to death after being stabbed 24 times in the torso, neck, and head.

The break in the case came only hours after Gland’s body was found, CPD Chief Dave Cincoski said, when Dillard’s live-in girlfriend, learning of the murder, found a knife missing from the butcher block and contacted authorities.

Investigators--including detectives from multiple law enforcement agencies seconded to the Northwest Indiana Major Crimes Task Force--subsequently learned this: Dillard was not on duty at the Upper Deck on the night Gland was working but did visit the tavern at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, at which time he had contact with Gland, Cincoski said. He then left the Upper Deck and is reported to have been drinking at another Chesterton tavern.

After that, Cincoski said, Dillard has been unable to account for his movements and whereabouts in the early morning hours of Wednesday, as he’d been “bingeing” on cocaine, possibly also marijuana, and was in a “self-reported drug haze,” confirmed by his girlfriend. Investigators have determined, however, that at 7 a.m. Wednesday--still two hours before Gland’s body was discovered--Dillard was at an unspecified casino in Gary, Cincoski said. Investigators are pursing that lead with the assistance of the Indiana Gaming Commission.

http://www.chestertontribune.com/PoliceFireEmergency/upper_deck_bouncer_christopher_d.htm
 
On closing the Upper Deck for the night, around 3 a.m. Wednesday, Gland exited the building by the back door and got into her SUV. At this point, Cincoski said, investigators are unable to say with certainty whether her attacker was already in the SUV--parked on Lois Lane in a striped parking space--or whether he surprised Gland outside of it, but they do believe he was waiting for Gland, to rob her.

The attack “occurred when the vehicle was in Drive,” Cincoski said, either as Gland was pulling out of the space to go home or as she was attempting to flee her attacker. “The vehicle was moved from its original location,” and eventually came to rest against the dumpster and sofa behind the Tribune building.

http://www.chestertontribune.com/PoliceFireEmergency/upper_deck_bouncer_christopher_d.htm
 
liltexans said:
Later, after Dillard’s girlfriend heard about Gland’s murder, she called Hobart police and told them a knife was missing from their butcher block. She had called Hobart police two days earlier to report Dillard had taken her truck without permission, according to Cincoski.

Dillard was taken into custody, and asked to speak to his girlfriend on Thursday in a police interview room.

While being recorded, Dillard allegedly told his girlfriend “I killed that girl. I didn’t mean to.”

Dillard had allegedly told police he was in a drug-induced haze after dropping off the cocaine and marijuana for Gland, and didn’t remember what happened after that.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/04...killing-bartender-nicole-gland-in-chesterton/
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Oh ok, he didn't mean to. Of course, because as we all know, 24 separate stab wounds are a case of a run away knife slipping.
 
jillycat said:
Oh ok, he didn't mean to. Of course, because as we all know, 24 separate stab wounds are a case of a run away knife slipping.
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I know. It's sickening. He also took the knife with him in the first place, which sounds like premeditation to me. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
 
He lied when he said he got Nicole's keys from her and unlocked her car door, later he said he returned the keys to her while she was bartending. Her friends had said that her car door lock was broken and did not lock. Wonder why he made this lie up? So he could lie about putting cocaine under her seat?
 
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