ELDORADO—Authorities are looking into the death of an Eldorado woman after she was found by acquaintances in her home this afternoon.
According to neighbors and family members, Johnna Vaughn, 54, was found deceased in her home on Elder Street in Eldorado at about 4:30 this afternoon. According to these sources, the two people who found Vaughn were the same two people who also found well-known ‘rado man Mike Talkington earlier this year, deceased in his brother’s home (having hung himself), these two reportedly being acquaintances of Vaughn who stayed with her on a temporary basis. There is no word on the identity of the two.
Because members of Vaughn’s family have been involved in meth and/or other dope in the area (her son Tim is in federal prison, grandson Ricky was just sentenced last week to DOC and Tim’s wife Heather, while having no dope record of her own, is the one who’s featured in this month’s issue has having been allegedly badly beaten by Josh Ragan, a dope felon, in early June of this year), the initial reaction by those hearing of Johnna Vaughn’s death was that it was an overdose of some sort. However, sources tell us that this may not be the case at all, and may simply be natural causes, as, it was reported, “She looked like she lit a cigarette, fell back in her chair and died.”
Family state that Vaughn, who has no criminal record, may have been involved in the dope scene in some aspect but in recent years had worked at “cleaning up her life” and was literally “counting down the days before Tim was to be released in December of this year.” Family notifying Tim in federal prison located in Pekin have described the situation as a very sad one, as both boys have been hemmed up on one dope charge or another, and can’t attend their mother’s funeral on account of it.
It’s unclear at this moment whether an autopsy is planned; check back to see if this will indeed be the case, and what such a thing might reveal.