GUILTY KY - Dr. Emily Champion, her parents & mystery man found slain, Cadiz, 26 Oct 2014

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http://www.dailyworld.com/story/new...arians-brother-pleads-guilty-murder/20486957/

In a 12-minute arraignment hearing last week, Ryan Champion, of Trigg County, Kentucky, entered his plea, changed attorneys and requested a speedy trial that would start as soon as February. A February court date was not reasonable, Champion and his new attorney, Tom Osborne of Paducah, Kentucky, were told...

Motions for a speedy trial and a bill of particulars — the defendant asks full disclosure of the evidence against him — were scheduled for Feb. 13 in Trigg County Court...

Bond remains at $5 million for Ryan Champion, who remains in the Christian County, Kentucky, jail, located about 15 miles from Trigg County. Trigg County has no jail, Ovey said.
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He's not the sharpest tool in the shed, and he killed his parents (or at least arranged it), but he's kind of cute in a trashy sort of way.

(Sorry for that stupid statement. Don't know what came over me. I haven't even been drinking! Hell, I guess that makes it even worse!)
 
http://www.kentuckynewera.com/web/news/article_4e47d77c-b241-11e4-a2b3-a787894dcda8.html

Ann L. Plotkin, 41, was indicted by a special grand jury and booked into the Christian County Jail on Wednesday, according to a KSP spokesman. She is facing three counts of complicity to murder. Her bond has not been set...

KSP Trooper Jay Thomas said Plotkin was a person of interest early in the investigation and, in a little over three months, investigators built a case against her showing that she may have had knowledge of the murders before 22-year-old Vito Riservato, Hopkinsville, allegedly shot Champion’s parents and adult sister.
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http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/...innocent-emily-champion-murder-case/23418033/

Commonwealth of Kentucky prosecutor Carrie Ovey-Wiggins said Friday that Ann Plotkin waived formal reading of the charges and said she was innocent of three charges of complicity of murder in the cases of Emily Champion and her parents, Lindsey and Joy Champion, at their rural Cadiz, Kentucky home Oct. 26... She had dated Ryan Champion, Emily Champion’s brother...

Plotkin’s daughter, Kori-Marie Stroup, told radio station WKDZ outside the courtroom that authorities had pressured her mother, who dated Champion, to bolster their case against him. Stroup said she herself had once dated Riservato.

Authorities said Plotkin had been under investigation almost since the murders, and said she was arrested after State Police had used court orders to review her telephone and social media records.
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http://m.wave3.com/wave/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=od:QOTcDYaU
2 facing charges in quadruple murder appear in Trigg Co. court

Concerning Ms. Plotkin...

Ken Root, her attorney, tried to get the bond lowered, calling it an astronomical amount for someone who is indigent. He also proposed that she be released with an ankle monitor paid for by her family so she could go back home.

"What would be appropriate for her to be back home with her family and to be monitored electronically to make sure there is no flight risk," Root said.

The judge sided with the prosecution, saying $3 million fits the severity of the crime and that Plotkin is not only a flight risk but a danger to the public.


Good...very good, judge.
 
From September:

http://www.cadizrecord.com/view/full_story/26884103/article-Champion-trial-date-set?

Accused murderer Ryan L. Champion will have his day in court. Trigg County Circuit Court Judge C.A. “Woody” Woodall ruled Friday that Champion, 37, of Oak Grove would stand trial Aug. 15 on capital murder and kidnapping charges...

Woodall set the August court date after defense attorney Joanne Lynch made an unsuccessful attempt to have the death penalty removed from the table.
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Judge agrees to move Ryan Champion murder case out of Trigg County

TRIGG COUNTY, KY - Ryan Champion, the man accused in a murder for hire plot to kill his family, will now be tried in Livingston County.

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The next motions hearing is April 1st.

Meanwhile, Champion's former girlfriend, Ann Plotkin, who is charged as a co-conspirator, was in court as well.

She will also get a change of venue, but exactly where she will be tried will be determined later.
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http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/312...ryan-champion-murder-case-out-of-trigg-county
 
So sad. Two kids, same parents, same environment. One successful, one who kills them. Some people are just born with different neurological wiring, IMHO.
 
An Oak Grove man accused in Trigg County of murdering his family is seeking to delay his trial for another year.

Ryan Champion, 36, was charged in 2014 with four counts of capital murder and one count of kidnapping after the bodies of his father Lindsey Champion, 62; mother Joy Champion, 60; sister Emily Champion, 31; and his alleged accomplice Vito Riservato, 22, were found at the Champion family's home Oct. 26.

Champion's trial, which will take place in Livingston County, is scheduled to begin Aug. 15.

In a recently filed motion for a continuance, Champion's defense attorneys, Joanne Lynch and Audrey Woosnam, who work for the Capital Trial Branch of the public defender's office, asked the court to consider delaying the trial until July 2017, stating more time is needed to properly build a defense.
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http://www.kentuckynewera.com/news/ap/article_b0b5e824-1404-11e6-baea-cbfa95784a03.html
 
Wait a minute- this is the same guy who wanted a speedy trial?
 
Ryan Champion’s trial is now scheduled for February 2017. He could face the death penalty in the October 2014 deaths of his mother, father, and the man police believe Champion hired to kill them.

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Champion's defense team says it felt more time is needed to give him a fair trial. The lawyers have more than 1,600 pages to go through. Champion’s lawyers are also trying to get his military and adoption records. And, because their client could be sentenced to death, they say they want to give the case their full attention.

Friday was our first time hearing details of what took place in 2014. Hoping for justice, the Champion family had to relive the details of how their loved ones died in the courtroom.
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http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/32028846/champion-murder-trial-delayed-until-2017
 
Has anybody been able to find out WHY this happened?
 
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