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Whiteside County Grand Jury Indicts Sheley
The Sterling man suspected of eight killings in a two-state spree in June, one of which occurred in Galesburg, has been indicted by a Whiteside County jury in the slaying of a 93-year-old Sterling man and the invasion of an elderly woman's home.

The 14-count indictment accuses Nicholas Sheley of first-degree murder in the June 23rd death of Russell Reed. Sheley also is charged with home invasion, burglary and robbery for allegedly storming Janice Wilson's Sterling home on June 14th. The indictment replaces a criminal complaint Sheley already had faced in the crimes.

Sheley is jailed in Knox County, where he's accused in the June 28th bludgeoning of 65-year old Ronald Randall. A grand Jury June 21st returned a 17-count indictment that was unsealed this week.

He's also accused in Missouri's Jefferson County of slaying an Arkansas couple, and he's being investigated in the killings of four people in Rock Falls.

Sheley is scheduled to be back in Knox County Circuit Court next Wednesday, August 6th, for arraignment on the local charges.


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08 01 08 by Newsroom
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