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 been casually dating Thomas, according to Lake Criminal Court records. Nicholas Lile, 42, was shot and killed early Jan. 3.