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Suspect in Oswego murder placed tracking device on victim’s car weeks before killing, court records state · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Suspect in Oswego murder placed tracking device on victim's car
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  weeks before killing. Court record state written by Eric Schlkoff,
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  this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. A man charged in the killing
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  of his ex wife inside her Oswego home had been
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  using a GPS tracking device to monitor her whereabouts. According
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  to court documents, Ryan Dodd, forty four, of Aurora, was
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  arrested on January twenty ninth, after Ashley A. Stewart, forty one,
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  was found stabbed death in her home on Valentine Way
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  in Oswego on January twenty seventh. The Kendall County Coroner's
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  Office did a forensic autopsy on January twenty ninth that
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  indicated the victims suffered multiple sharp force injuries. Police said
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  Dodd has been charged with felony counts of the first
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  degree murder, home invasion, armed violence, residential burglary, and aggravated stocking.
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  Court records state that Dodd had a GPS tracking device
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  installed under the rear bumper of Stuart's twenty twenty two
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  black Ford expedition. Police found four separate incidents of surveillance
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  conducted by Dodd, starting on December fourteenth and ending on
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  January twenty first. According to court records, police responded to
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  two calls for service involving Dodd and Stuart. On December fourteenth,
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  there was a domestic incident where Dodd showed up at
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  Stuart's house unannounced. Court record state Ryan was spoken to
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  by officers and advised not to return. Court record state
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  no report was taken for this incident. On January twenty first,
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  there was a citizen assist where Stuart wanted information about
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  an order of protection against Dodd. According to court records,
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  Ashley did not make a report. Court record state a
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  few weeks before being charged in Stuart's murder, a judge
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  had ordered Ryan Dodd to pay her fifteen thousand dollars
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  in per month in emergency temporary child support. On or
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  about December nineteenth, Dodd was ordered to pay fifteen thousand
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  dollars per month in emergency temporary child support, according to
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  bankruptcy records. Dodd and Stuart married in October two thousand
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  and four in Greenville, Michigan, and had five children together.
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  As part of a marital settlement, he agreed to pay
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  Stuart two point two million dollars over ten years in
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  the form of a monthly payment in the amount of
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  eighteen thousand, three hundred and thirty three dollars over Tito
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  as Terence per month beginning September one, twenty twenty two.
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  Will County Circuit Court records show a caller identify himself
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  as Stuart's current husband, had initially called police about one
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  ten pm January twenty seventh after seeing VI a home surveyor.
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  It's a man run after his wife, Oswego police said.
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  According to court records, Oswego Police detectives on January twenty
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  eighth executed a search warrant on Dodd's house in Aurora.
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  Oswego detectives located a black garbage bag inside of the
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  attached garage containing clothing that matched the suspect and the
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  victims video during the murder. Court record state. Additionally, a
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  large fixed blade knife was seen inside of the garbage
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  bag with shoes. Court record state the bag was opened
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  at the Oswego Police Department in an evidence processing bay.
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  The bag contained all of the external clothing matching the
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  surveillance video, to include socks and undergarments worn. Court record
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  state Dota remains in custody at the Kendall County Jail