Franklin murder trial defendant confirmed dead - WKRN, Nashville News, Nashville Weather and Sports

FRANKLIN, Tenn. – A former plastic surgeon convicted in the 2007 murder of a Cool Springs woman was pronounced dead at a Chicago hospital Friday morning, Franklin police said.

Police received confirmation from the Cook County, Illinois Medical Examiner's office that Christ Koulis died at Chicago's Northwestern Hospital at 5:45 a.m.

It is not clear how he died.

Koulis was convicted of criminally negligent homicide in September 2007 in Lesa Buchanan's murder.

Buchanan was killed on July 4, 2005 in her apartment in Cool Springs.

Koulis was released on an appeal bond after his conviction.

Pending that appeal, he had remained free without serving his court ordered two year sentence.