Darien Shooter Thought 'Dirty Cops' Were After His Family

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] were pretty much in control," the paper said.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, jurors were also played a vide of an interrogation in which Nodarse testified that "“I went over there and I did it because if I didn’t, my family was going to die."

Nodarse, 26, has testified that he was conned into committing the murders of Darien residents Jeffrey, Lori and Michael Kramer by Johnny Borisov, 31, who is on trial for orchestrating the murders, supposedly by intimidating the younger man. Borisov was involved in a custody debate over his son with Angela Kramer, Jeffrey and Lori's daughter.

Read more at the Chicago Sun-Times and the Daily Herald websites.

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