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Woman, 19, is facing life in prison for killing a man who 'raped her and sold her for sex' - after judge rules she cannot use law that shields trafficking victims as a defense
PUBLISHED: 02:05 EST, 18 December 2019 | UPDATED: 02:12 EST, 18 December 2019
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A 19-year-old is facing life in prison for killing a man who allegedly raped her and sold her for sex after a judge ruled that she cannot use a Wisconsin law that shields sex trafficking victims as a defense.
Chrystul Kizer met Randy Volar in 2016 when she was 16 and he was 33. Authorities say she was one of about a dozen victims Volar sexually abused and filmed without their consent.
On the night of June 5, 2018, Chrystul shot Volar in the head twice at his home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before setting his body on fire and fleeing the scene in his BMW.
Police located the vehicle hours later in Milwaukee and linked it to Chrystul, who confessed to killing him when questioned by police.
Four months earlier, Volar had been arrested on charges of child enticement, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, and second-degree sexual assault of a child. Photo and video evidence found at his home indicated that Chrystul was one of his victims.
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Chrystul Kizer, 19, (left) is facing life in prison for killing 34-year-old Randy Volar (right), the man who allegedly raped her and sold her for sex
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Chrystul confessed to shooting Volar in the head twice before burning his body at his home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on June 5, 2018. Volar's charred home is pictured above
Volar was inexplicably released from jail the day after his arrest, without bail, and remained free until the night Chrystul shot him.
District Attorney Michael Graveley, whose office knew of the evidence against against Volar but held off on prosecuting him, charged Chrystul with first-degree intentional homicide and homicide.
The prosecutor has argued that Chrystal had pre-planned the murder, based on text messages she sent to friends and a selfie she posted on social media two hours before Volar's body was found, which captioned 'My Mugshot.'
Chrystul, now 19, has maintained that she did not go to Volar's home that night with the intent to kill him, and says she acted in self defense after he drugged her and tried to have sex with her.
The teen's lawyers sought to apply an 'affirmative defense' under a state law which allows victims of sex trafficking to be acquitted of certain charges if they can prove they committed the crime because they were being trafficked.
A judge ruled on December 9 that Wisconsin's affirmative defense did not apply to Chrystul's case.
Her lawyer is now preparing to appeal that ruling as Chrystul remains in jail.
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Chrystul has maintained that she killed Volar in self defense after he drugged her and tried to have sex with her. The teen is seen in court in 2018
The Washington Post explored the complex inner-workings of the case in a lengthy feature published on Tuesday. The piece included nearly five hours of jail interviews with Chrystul.
The teen said she first met Volar after he responded to an ad she had posted on Backpage.com, a site that served as one of the country's largest marketplaces for prostitution before it was shut down last year for facilitating human trafficking.
Chrystul told Volar that she was 16, and soon began seeing him every other week. The Post describes how Volar groomed her by buying her expensive gifts and giving her money to bring home to her family.
The teen said Volar made it clear that he wanted to be repaid with sex.
'I told him that I never wanted to do that,' Chrystul said. 'He said that I had to owe him that.'
Chrystul said Volar also sold her through Backpage.com to other people, and would drive her to hotel rooms for meet-ups and then take the cash she earned.
As Volar became more demanding, Chrystul said she tried to distance herself from him. When she told him that she couldn't see him anymore because she was getting serious with her boyfriend, Delane Nelson, he got angry.
'He had started to talk violent and stuff,' she said. 'I was going to stop talking to him, and he said if I did that he was going to kill me.'
In May 2018, Chrystul’s boyfriend, Nelson, started to get suspicious that someone may be following her, so he gave her a .380 pistol and taught her how to use it.
- Chrystul Kizer confessed to shooting Randy Volar in the head twice and burning his body at his home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in June 2018
- Authorities say she was one of about a dozen victims Volar sexually abused and filmed without their consent
- Volar had been arrested for child sex crimes four months before his murder but was inexplicably released
- Chrystul was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and arson by the same district attorney who conducted the Volar investigation
- The prosecutor says Chrystul, then 17, had planned the murder in advance
- Chrystul says she acted in self defense after he drugged her and tried to have sex with her after she told him she didn't want to
- The teen's lawyers sought to apply an 'affirmative defense' under a state law which shields victims of sex trafficking
- The law allows victims to be acquitted of certain charges if they can prove they committed the crime because they were being trafficked
- A judge ruled on December 9 that the defense did not apply to Chrystul's case
- Her lawyer is now preparing to appeal that ruling as Chrystul remains in jail
PUBLISHED: 02:05 EST, 18 December 2019 | UPDATED: 02:12 EST, 18 December 2019
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A 19-year-old is facing life in prison for killing a man who allegedly raped her and sold her for sex after a judge ruled that she cannot use a Wisconsin law that shields sex trafficking victims as a defense.
Chrystul Kizer met Randy Volar in 2016 when she was 16 and he was 33. Authorities say she was one of about a dozen victims Volar sexually abused and filmed without their consent.
On the night of June 5, 2018, Chrystul shot Volar in the head twice at his home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before setting his body on fire and fleeing the scene in his BMW.
Police located the vehicle hours later in Milwaukee and linked it to Chrystul, who confessed to killing him when questioned by police.
Four months earlier, Volar had been arrested on charges of child enticement, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, and second-degree sexual assault of a child. Photo and video evidence found at his home indicated that Chrystul was one of his victims.
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Chrystul Kizer, 19, (left) is facing life in prison for killing 34-year-old Randy Volar (right), the man who allegedly raped her and sold her for sex
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Chrystul confessed to shooting Volar in the head twice before burning his body at his home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on June 5, 2018. Volar's charred home is pictured above
Volar was inexplicably released from jail the day after his arrest, without bail, and remained free until the night Chrystul shot him.
District Attorney Michael Graveley, whose office knew of the evidence against against Volar but held off on prosecuting him, charged Chrystul with first-degree intentional homicide and homicide.
The prosecutor has argued that Chrystal had pre-planned the murder, based on text messages she sent to friends and a selfie she posted on social media two hours before Volar's body was found, which captioned 'My Mugshot.'
Chrystul, now 19, has maintained that she did not go to Volar's home that night with the intent to kill him, and says she acted in self defense after he drugged her and tried to have sex with her.
The teen's lawyers sought to apply an 'affirmative defense' under a state law which allows victims of sex trafficking to be acquitted of certain charges if they can prove they committed the crime because they were being trafficked.
A judge ruled on December 9 that Wisconsin's affirmative defense did not apply to Chrystul's case.
Her lawyer is now preparing to appeal that ruling as Chrystul remains in jail.
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Chrystul has maintained that she killed Volar in self defense after he drugged her and tried to have sex with her. The teen is seen in court in 2018
The Washington Post explored the complex inner-workings of the case in a lengthy feature published on Tuesday. The piece included nearly five hours of jail interviews with Chrystul.
The teen said she first met Volar after he responded to an ad she had posted on Backpage.com, a site that served as one of the country's largest marketplaces for prostitution before it was shut down last year for facilitating human trafficking.
Chrystul told Volar that she was 16, and soon began seeing him every other week. The Post describes how Volar groomed her by buying her expensive gifts and giving her money to bring home to her family.
The teen said Volar made it clear that he wanted to be repaid with sex.
'I told him that I never wanted to do that,' Chrystul said. 'He said that I had to owe him that.'
Chrystul said Volar also sold her through Backpage.com to other people, and would drive her to hotel rooms for meet-ups and then take the cash she earned.
As Volar became more demanding, Chrystul said she tried to distance herself from him. When she told him that she couldn't see him anymore because she was getting serious with her boyfriend, Delane Nelson, he got angry.
'He had started to talk violent and stuff,' she said. 'I was going to stop talking to him, and he said if I did that he was going to kill me.'
In May 2018, Chrystul’s boyfriend, Nelson, started to get suspicious that someone may be following her, so he gave her a .380 pistol and taught her how to use it.
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