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Fear Remains One Year After First Alleged Sheley Murders
ROCK FALLS, Ill. (AP) -- Residents in the northwest Illinois community of Rock Falls say they're still scared more than a year after four people were found beaten to death in an apartment.

Authorities have said the deaths were part of a string of eight brutal killings in Illinois and Missouri last summer. Charged in the deaths is Nicholas Sheley who's in custody at the Knox County Jail. He's awaiting trial on 10 first-degree murder charges, along with seven other felonies, for the suspected bludgeoning of 65-year old Ronald Randall. He's jailed on $10 million bond in that case, and is also facing felony charges for a suspected assault on Knox County deputies at jail.

On June 30 last year, the bodies of 25-year-old Kenneth Ulve, 29-year-old Brock Branson and his 20-year-old fiance Kilynna Blake, and her 2-year-old son, Dayan Blake, were found in an apartment.

Longtime Rock Falls residents James Capp and his wife, Irene, say they started locking their doors at night for the first time and they're being more careful.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. WGIL News contributed to this report.)


(Nicholas Sheley is taken out of the Knox County Jail during a July, 2008 court appearance. WGIL News File Photo.)
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