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Sheley Faces More Murder Charges in Whiteside County
POSTED: 1:42pm 9/18/08 The man suspected in a June killing spree that left eight people dead in Illinois and Missouri -- one of those in Galesburg -- is facing more first-degree murder charges.

The Illinois attorney general's office says a grand jury has indicted Nicholas Sheley in the deaths of four people found in an apartment in the northwestern Illinois community of Rock Falls.

Sheley had already been charged in the other four killings -- two in Illinois and two in Missouri. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in at least one of those slayings, the death of 65-year old Ronald Randall. Sheley allegedly bludgeoned Randall to death and left his body behind the East Main Street Hy Vee store back in late May.

Sheley is being held in Knox County Jail on one-million dollars bond. The Knox County public defender is representing Sheley there and he hasn't returned a call seeking comment. Sheley is scheduled to be in court in Knox County Friday afternoon, to addreess his ongoing displeasure with Public Defender Jim Harrell and co-counsel Jeremy Karlin.


(Nicholas Sheley. WGIL News File Photo.)
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