Pravin Varughese
JACKSON CO., Ill.—Disclosure has learned that the family of Pravin Varughese has confirmed they will be filing a wrongful death suit in their son’s February 2014 death in the city of Carbondale.
Gaege Bethune from his Twitter page, in the requisite social networking selfie
The suit, which is being planned against the last person to see the 19-year-old Southern Illinois University-Carbondale student alive, Gaege Bethune, as well as against the City of Carbondale, is to be filed mid-week next week, according to the Varughese family attorney, Charles Stegmeyer. We’ve not been told whether this will be a state Wrongful Death suit (like that of Larry Young’s against Richie Minton in Larry’s daughter Molly Young’s March 2012 death) or whether it will be in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (the feds, in Benton) like that of Brad Lewis’ case in his son Jordan’s October 2013 death. Needless to say, the suit will bring the eye of scrutiny on the city of Carbondale and their police department, who keeps saying “it didn’t happen that way” in the case of Varughese’s death, even after the Varughese family obtained their own forensic pathologist and private investigator, and showed that C-dale has been, at the very least, hedging about the details of the young man’s death and the “investigation” into it. In the meantime, Bethune, of Eldorado but who was reported to us to have recently moved out of the area, was apparently IN the area, of Franklin County, at least, last week, as can be seen by this: 
It’s nothing but a blip on the screen for people his age, but for those of us adults who live in Realville, it’s definitely not a good thing: 
Bethune’s scheduled to appear on this charge in a couple of weeks in Franklin County. If the wrongful death suit is filed as planned next week, he will have been served by the time the paraphernalia charge comes around. We’ll see what mainstream media makes of it. Bethune is well-connnected here in Saline County, with his father reportedly being one of the managers at the large Jim Hayes auto dealership in Muddy. More as it develops…be checking frequently for updates. and be watching for Read the Leads to start Monday…Bethune is the subject of a back page article in the July-August edition, and we’ll be featuring that one in the lineup, meaning that you’ll get to read the lead section of his article. Keep a tab up or check us on your RSS feeds for anything pertaining to this major event as well as any other breaking news….and keep up with us on our Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr pages, as well as the soon-to-be-forsaken Facebook page, which we still have, but which company is blocking our posts from our nearly 38,000 fans.