GUILTY MI - Grand Haven, Male, 'Jack in the Box' 1288UMMI, burned in trunk, May'02 - Roberto Caraballo

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One of three suspects in 2002 mutilation death of Charlotte man pleads guilty

CHARLOTTE — A Grand Rapids man has pleaded guilty to a 2002 murder that remained a cold case until charges were filed last year.
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McMillan, 40, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, Eaton County Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Chris Anderson said. He'll serve a minimum of 15 years in prison.

He will have to testify against the two women also charged with Caraballo's death, Dineane Ducharme and her mother Beverly McCallum.

 

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but why

 

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GR man takes deal, describes cold case killing

 

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A judge ruled that there was enough evidence for Dineane Ducharme, one of three people charged last year in the 2002 killing of Roberto Caraballo, to stand trial on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and disinterment and mutilation of a dead body.

In October, Christopher McMillan, 40, of Grand Rapids, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder in connection with Caraballo's death and agreed to testify against Ducharme and her mother, Beverly McCallum.

Officials are still looking for McCallum, who is living overseas.

Woman to stand trial in 17-year-old, 'Jack in the Box' murder case from Charlotte

 

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Michigan woman accused of burning husband's body so badly it wasn't ID-ed for decade arrested in Rome

A Michigan woman wanted in the 2002 death of her husband, whose remains were so badly burned they weren’t identified for more than a decade, was arrested at a hotel in Italy after a multinational search, local police said.

Beverly McCallum, 59, of Charlotte, Mich., located about 100 miles west of Detroit, was arrested by Rome police overnight Thursday after she and her teenage son checked into the Il Papillo hotel on the northwestern outskirt of the Italian capital.

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U.S. authorities had been seeking to extradite McCallum from Pakistan, where she was believed to be living, to stand trial in the slaying of her husband, Robert Caraballo.

The man was beaten and suffocated in 2002. His body was not identified by police until 2015, after they received an anonymous tip – some 13 years after his charred remains were found inside a metal footlocker abandoned in a blueberry patch in Ottawa County in western Michigan.
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Woman found guilty of 1st degree murder in 2002 cold case | WOODTV.com

CHARLOTTE, Mich. (WOOD) — A woman has been convicted in a nearly two-decades old cold case murder of Roberto Caraballo in Eaton County.

On Thursday, an Eaton County Circuit Court jury found Dineane Ducharme guilty of 1st degree premeditated murder and disinterment & mutilation of a dead body, according to the Eaton County prosecuting attorney.

 

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Woman sentenced in cold case murder of man in Charlotte

Dineane Ducharme, formerly of Charlotte, Michigan, was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

 

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rbbm Oct 23 2023

Suspect in Eaton County ‘Jack in the Box’ cold case to appear in court

Beverly McCallum, 63, has been charged with second degree murder and disinterment mutilation of a body in connection to the death of her husband Roberto Caraballo.

www.wilx.com

'HARLOTTE, Mich. (WILX) - A suspect in the “Jack in the Box” murder case is expected to be in court Monday morning.

Beverly McCallum, 63, has been charged with second degree murder and disinterment mutilation of a body in connection to the death of her husband Roberto Caraballo.

Caraballo’s burned remains were found in 2002 inside a metal footlocker in Ottawa County, but investigators could not give a positive identification until 2015.'

 

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Beverly McCallum appears in court Monday, March 25, 2024. (Court TV)
Caraballo’s fate was a mystery for decades, as his charred remains were discovered in 2002 in a metal box in a blueberry patch in western Michigan. The body was not positively identified as belonging to Caraballo until 2015.

McCallum, now 63, wasn’t arrested until Feb. 13, 2020, when she was apprehended at a hotel on the outskirts of Rome. McCallum had been a hotel guest, along with her teenage son. Italian hotels are required to register their guests using an online system that connects to a police database. The database flagged an Interpol arrest warrant. The extradition process began there, and McCallum was returned to the U.S. on July 11, 2022, when local authorities picked her up at a Grand Rapids, Mich. airport.

MI v. Beverly McCallum: Fugitive Wife Murder Trial

Beverly McCallum is accused of pushing her husband down steps, beating him with a hammer and suffocating him.

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Codefendant Details Plotting Robert Caraballo's Murder

Christopher McMillan testified that defendant Beverly McCallum killed Robert Caraballo with a hammer after pushing him down the stairs.

www.courttv.com

 

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March 25 2024

Former Charlotte woman accused of killing her husband, burning his body 22 years ago faces a jury

Beverly McCallum, who was extradited from Rome, is a defendant in the grisly Jack in the Box murder case that was unsolved for more than a decade.

www.lansingstatejournal.com

''CHARLOTTE — A witness calmly explained to a jury how a man was brutally murdered in the basement of a Charlotte residence more than 20 years ago, bludgeoned with a hammer and suffocated with a plastic bag and a rope, before his remains were set afire at an Ottawa County farm.

Christopher Wayne McMillan, now 45, testified that he, Beverly McCallum and Dineane Ducharme discussed killing Roberto Caraballo, who was married to McCallum, days before they carried out the plan in May 2002.

McCallum pushed Caraballo down the basement stairs, where Ducharme struck him in the head with a hammer, McMillan testified Monday on the first day of McCallum's trial on charges of second-degree murder and disinterment and mutiliation of a body.

"Beverly was yelling at Dineane, 'give me the hammer, give me the hammer,'" McMillan testified, saying McCallum took the hammer and hit her husband in the left side of the head several times. The hammer became stuck in Caraballo's head, McMillan said.''

 

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Photos: Beverly McCallum testifies in her trial over her husband's death 22 years ago

Beverly McCallum, charged with second-degree murder and disinterment and mutilation of a body in her husband's death in 2002, took the stand Friday.

www.lansingstatejournal.com

Beverly McCallum appears in Judge Janice Cunningham's courtroom in Eaton County, Friday, March 29, 2024, in Charlotte. She is charged with second-degree murder and disinterment and mutilation of a body in connection with the death of her husband, Roberto Caraballo, in 2002.

 

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'I Didn't Know What to Think': Beverly McCallum Testifies to Night of Murder

Beverly McCallum described a violent altercation with the victim, but said it was her daughter, Dineane, and Chris McMillan who killed him.

www.courttv.com