Secretly recorded phone calls show witnesses discussed Navy veteran's fatal shooting
CROWN POINT â Defense attorneys questioned the wife of a slain Navy veteran Thursday about secret recordings she made of phone calls between herself and her best friend, a witness to her husbandâs homicide. Jessika Lile said she made the recordings after learning her friend, Angela Gauler, initially told Lake County sheriff's police she saw defendant Timothy R. Thomas and Nicholas Lile in a "physical altercation" seconds before Thomas fatally shot Nicholas Lile. Thomas, 40, of Highland, arrived at the Liles' Lowell-area home late Jan. 2 to have drinks with them and Gauler, who had b...