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Man charged in Oswego woman’s murder assigned a public defender · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Man charged in Oswego woman's murder assigned a public defender.
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  Speaker 1: I waited Written by Eric Shelkoff. This article is being
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  Speaker 1: A man charged in the killing of his ex wife
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  Speaker 1: inside her Oswego home in January has been assigned to
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  Speaker 1: public defender. Ryan Dodd, forty four, of Aurora, was arrested
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  Speaker 1: on January twenty ninth, after Ashley A. Stewart, forty one,
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  Speaker 1: was found stabbed to death in her home on Valentine
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  Speaker 1: Way and Oswego on January twenty seventh. Dodd remains in
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  Speaker 1: custody at the Kendall County Jail. Kendall County State's Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Eric Weiss said his office will be tendering discovery between
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  Speaker 1: now and Dodd's next court hearing at nine am April
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth. The Kendall County Coroner's Office did a forensic
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  Speaker 1: autopsy on January twenty ninth, indicated the victims suffered multiple
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  Speaker 1: sharp force injuries. Police said Dodd has been charged with
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  Speaker 1: felony counts of first degree murder, home invasion, arm violence,
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  Speaker 1: residential burglary, and aggravated stalking. Dodd allegedly used a GPS
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  Speaker 1: tracking device to monitor Stuart's whereabouts. Court record state he
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  Speaker 1: allegedly had a GPS tracking device installed under the rear
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  Speaker 1: bumper of Stuart's twenty twenty two black Ford expedition. According
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  Speaker 1: to court records, it is clear that the defendant had
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  Speaker 1: planned this attack based upon the GPS tracker installed on
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  Speaker 1: the victims car, Weiss said in a petition to deny
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  Speaker 1: dodd pretrial release. It is also clear that the defendant
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  Speaker 1: was determined to see this through because the police contact
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  Speaker 1: with him earlier in the morning and a neighbor contact
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  Speaker 1: less than an hour before the murder did not deter him.
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  Speaker 1: The killing of Stuart was not done spontaneously, why said
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  Speaker 1: in the petition. In fact, it was done the day
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  Speaker 1: before his post decreed divorce case involving the victim with
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  Speaker 1: was to be heard in will County. Based on these facts,
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  Speaker 1: along with the totality of the circumstances, show that there
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  Speaker 1: are no less restrictive conditions that would assure the safety
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  Speaker 1: of the community, a quote he stated in the petition.
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  Speaker 1: Police found four separate incidents of surveillance conducted by Dodd,
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  Speaker 1: starting on December fourteenth, and ending on January twenty first.
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  Speaker 1: According to court records, police responded to two calls for
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  Speaker 1: service involving Dodd and Stuart. On December fourteenth, there was
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  Speaker 1: a domestic incident where Dodd showed up at Stuart's house unannounced.
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  Speaker 1: According to court records, Ryan was spoken to by officers
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  Speaker 1: and advised not to return. Court record state no report
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  Speaker 1: was taken for this incident. On January twenty first, there
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  Speaker 1: was a citizen assist where Stuart wanted information about an
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  Speaker 1: order of protection against Dodd. According to court records, Ashley
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  Speaker 1: did not make a report. Court record state a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks before being charged in Stuart's murder, a judge had
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  Speaker 1: ordered Dodd to pay her fifteen thousand dollars in per
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  Speaker 1: month in emergency temporary child support honor. About December nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Dodd was ordered to pay fifteen thousand dollars per month
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  Speaker 1: in emergency temporary child support. According to bankruptcy records. Dodd
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  Speaker 1: and Stewart married in October two thousand and four in Greenville, Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: and had five children together. As part of a marital settlement,
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  Speaker 1: he agreed to pay Stuart two point two million dollars
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  Speaker 1: over ten years in the form of a monthly payment
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  Speaker 1: in the amount of eighteen thousand, three hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: three dollars and thirty three cents per month beginning September first,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Will County Circuit Court records show Sieu,
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  Speaker 1: a caller identifying himself as Stuart's current husband, had initially
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  Speaker 1: called police about one ten pm January twenty seventh after
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  Speaker 1: seeing via home surveillance a man run after his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Oswego police said, according to court records, Oswego police detected
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  Speaker 1: it was on January twenty eighth, executed a search warrant
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  Speaker 1: on Dodd's house and Aurora. Oswego detectives located a black
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  Speaker 1: garbage bag inside of the attached garage containing clothing that
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  Speaker 1: matched the suspect in the victim's video during the murder,
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  Speaker 1: according to court records. Additionally, a large fixed blade knife
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  Speaker 1: was seen inside of the garbage bag with shoes. According
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  Speaker 1: to court records, The bag was opened at the Oswego
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  Speaker 1: Police Department in an evidence processing bay. The bag contained
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  Speaker 1: all of the external clothing matching the surveillance video to
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  Speaker 1: include socks and undergarments warrant. According to court records,