Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The trial comes to a close nearly one month after it began, and more than three years after three Kramer family members were killed.
A jury has found a Willow Springs man guilty of conspiring to kill a Darien family. Johnny Borizov was found guilty on all counts, including first-degree murder and solicitation of murder charges. The verdict was announced Tuesday evening at the DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton. Although Judge Daniel Guerin told the crowded courtroom to withhold emotion during the verdict reading, a gasp was heard along with feet stomping. Many Kramer family members and friends hugged each other and cried openly as they left the courtroom, WBBM Newsradio reports. Borizov showed no emotion as the verdict was read and also when he was led out of the courtroom, according to the Chicago Tribune. The jury took about two hours and 20 minutes to convict …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Acquaintances and family of Jacob Nodarse testified Thursday that he repeatedly said he was in danger and looked worried, tired and drained.
Confessed triple-murderer Jacob Nodarse was highly paranoid that his life and his family's safety were in extreme jeopardy in early 2010, and said as much aloud on multiple occasional, former coworkers and Nodarse's sister testified in court on Thursday , the Daily Herald reports. "He said something to the effect people were after him," the paper quoted Tom Masson, a former co-worker of Nodarse's at Laurel BMW of Westmont, testifying. "He said it was over a custody battle... He said he felt like he was being followed. He thought his phone was being tapped." Another coworker, Derk Janssen, from Bill Jacobs BMW in Naperville, testified that Nodarse was "increasingly worried" about his family's safety, saying that "they had dirty cops [and] …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
According to the former Countryside officer, who has since retired, the accused murder plotter lost his cool over car repairs and threatened his girlfriend's father with a knife.
A former Countryside police officer took the witness stand Wednesday to detail how a furious Johnny Borisov flew into a rage over a used car and confronted his then-girlfriend Angela Kramer and her father Jeffrey, 11 months before Jeffrey, his wife Lori and their son Michael were murdered in Darien in March 2010, the Daily Herald and Chicago Tribune report. Borisov stands accused of orchestrating that murder; the gunman, 26-year-old Jacob Nodarse, has confessed to killing the Kramers and said he was bullied into the deed by Borisov, who has a toddler son with Angela Kramer. According to the Tribune, former Countryside cop Steve Muszynski, who responded to the April 2009 incident, said that Borizov was enraged in a dispute over car repairs …
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Jacob Nodarse thought the night of the Kramer family shootings might have been imagined at one point. Johnny Borizov's defense attorneys questioned his actions and memories on Friday.
Although three people lay dead at the hands of Jacob Nodarse in 2010, at one point he didn't believe it actually happened. Nodarse on Friday said he was so anxious and under the influence of drugs on March 2, 2010 that he didn't think his fatal shootings of the Kramers was real, the Daily Herald reports. Nodarse was on the witness stand for most of Friday as the first full week of the Johnny Borizov trial came to a close. Nodarse was already convicted in the killings, but Borizov was also charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation of murder. The state argues that Borizov came up with the plan to kill his ex-girlfriend Angela Kramer and her family. Kramer survived but her mother, father and younger brother did not. …
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Jacob Nodarse said he was instructed by Johnny Borizov to kill Borizov's ex-girlfriend and her family in 2010. He began his first day of testimony on Thursday.
According to Jacob Nodarse, there was someone else behind his decisions before, during and after the killing of three Darien residents in 2010. That man, he said, was Johnny Borizov. Nodarse and Borizov once spent time together as friends, and they were in the same room again on Thursday for Borizov's murder trial at the DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton. Prosecutors say Borizov manipulated Nodarse into killing Jeffrey, Lori and Michael Kramer on March 2, 2010 in Darien. Nodarse broke into their home and shot them all multiple times. They say he instructed Nodarse to kill his ex-girlfriend Angela Kramer as well, but she hid in a closet and survived. Nodarse, wearing an orange jumpsuit, answered questions about his childhood, his drug use…
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Angela and Anthony Kramer give their account during Johnny Borizov's trial of the night their mother, father and younger brother died.
Angela Kramer remembers waking up in the middle of the night to shattered glass and screaming. It was about 3 a.m. on March 2, 2010. Her brother Anthony also woke up from a loud noise and then what sounded like a heavy object hitting the floor. “I heard my brother say ‘Oh my god’ and heard a gunshot go off,” Anthony Kramer said. “I heard multiple shots go off.” The Kramers recounted the night of three killings in their home on Tuesday and Wednesday during Johnny Borizov’s trial at the DuPage County Courthouse. Their father Jeffrey, mother Lori and Michael Kramer were all shot to death by Jacob Nodarse. Borizov, the ex-boyfriend and father of Angela’s child Nicholas, is charged with first-degree murder and solicitation of the family's …
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Prosecutors say Johnny Borizov was the mastermind behind the Kramer family killings, while the defense wants to put the blame on Borizov's friend Jacob Nodarse.
Prosecutors on Tuesday portrayed a 32-year-old Willow Springs man as the mastermind behind three killings in a Darien home in 2010. The defense painted a different picture, instead focusing on the man's friend as the actual killer of three members of the Kramer family. The attorneys on Tuesday morning gave their opening statements to the jury in Johnny Borizov's murder trial. He faces first-degree murder and solicitation of murder charges. The courtroom was nearly full on Tuesday, which was the first full day of the trial after jury selection. Borizov sat at the courtroom's defense table wearing a blue and white-striped shirt. He listened with little movement or reaction as prosecutors detailed his tumultuous relationship with the Kramer …
Monday, March 18, 2013
A judge overruled attorneys' objections and will allow cameras in the trial of Willow Springs resident Johnny Borizov, set to begin next month, for a Darien triple-murder.
The trial of a man charged with plotting the murder of three Darien residents will be open to photographers and videographers, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday, a first in DuPage County according to the newspaper. Johnny Borizov of Willow Springs will be on trial beginning April 16 for the murder of Jeffrey, Lori and Michael Kramer, who were shot to death in March 2010 by Jacob Nodarse in a scheme, prosecutors allege, plotted by Borizov and meant to kill Angela Kramer, daughter of Jeffrey and Lori, sister of Michael, and father of Borizov's son. Angela Kramer was in the house at the time and survived by hiding in a closet and dialing 911, officials have said. Nodarse pleaded guilty in 2011 to a single murder count in a deal with …
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Nodarse ruled mentally ill, now faces 45 years to life for role in March 2010 triple murder.
In an emotion-filled courtroom, Jacob Nodarse sat quietly off to the side by himself. He occasionally looked over toward his family and supporters in the gallery and nervously bounced his leg. Nodarse, 25, also read through an eight-page agreement that, once approved by Judge Daniel Guerin, will send him to prison for most, if not all, of the rest of his life. Some 19 months after Michael, Jeffrey and Lori Kramer were gunned down inside their Darien home, Nodarse pleaded guilty, but mentally ill, to a single murder charge. In a deal with DuPage County prosecutors, Nodarse admitted to shooting Jeffrey Kramer to death on March 2, 2010 and has agreed to cooperate, including testifying, in the prosecution of codefendant Johnny Borizov. Nodarse…
Monday, August 22, 2011
Here are the cases Patch is keeping its eye on in DuPage County.
Among the DuPage County court cases with hearings this week is a Darien triple-murder, an aggravated DUI in Lisle, and the alleged murder of a father by his son in Woodridge. Elmhurst—Sandra Clanton, who was found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity, returns to court Aug. 23 for an update on a Department of Human Services report on treatment options for Clanton. Darien—Jacob Nodarse returns to court again on Aug. 24 for a possible move to sever his triple murder trial from co-defendant Johnny Borizov. Lisle—James Kisla, accused of aggravated DUI in the death of a pedestrian, is scheduled for a hearing on Aug 22. The summary suspension of his license was dismissed, so there might be trouble for the prosecution. Lisle—A …
Darren McRoy
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