St. Charles man who killed twin daughters, self, sought treatment, guns
Randy Coffland knew the depths of depression well. He'd tried therapy. He'd taken an increasing amount of antidepressants. But by January 2017, Coffland began shutting out family and making threats no one took seriously until it was too late.
When all the mental health treatments failed , he erased his twin daughters ' names from his life insurance policy . On March 10, he murdered them in his St. Charles apartment, shot his wife and killed himself.
Now his widow, Anjum Coffland , is fighting to undo that change to Randy's life insurance policy . Litigation filed this week argues Randy was not of sound mind when he made his brother and a friend the beneficiaries of his $750,000 policy.
Burt Brown, the attorney representing Anjum in the case, acknowledged his client has an "uphill battle" to reverse the beneficiary changes in the insurance policy because the holder is presumed to have a right to make changes and Randy is deceased and can't...