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Police: Husband wrote threatening notes

WATERLOO, Ill., May 28 (UPI) -- Court documents released this week outline some of the evidence police have gathered against an Illinois man charged with killing his wife and sons.

Investigators believe that Christopher Coleman wrote threatening messages and spray-painted others on the walls of his home in Columbia to suggest that the killings were aimed at him, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Coleman was formerly a security guard for Joyce Meyer Ministries.

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In January, Coleman reported to police that a threat had been left in the mailbox: "Deny

your God publicly or else! No more opportunities. Time is running out for you and your family!"

One piece of evidence revealed when files were unsealed Wednesday was a receipt at Home Depot last year for a can of spray paint.

Investigators also said rigor mortis was developing in Sheri Coleman's body when it was found at 7 a.m. May 5. Coleman told police his wife and sons, Garret, 11, and Gavin, 9, were asleep when he left the house just over an hour earlier to go to the gym, while rigor usually takes several hours to set in.

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Police found orange twine on the roadside on Coleman's route to the gym with a knot that "resembled a noose." Similar twine was found in the house.

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