“Judge Meersman, I did not kill Carrie Olson,” Tim McVay said at his sentencing hearing in Rock Island County Court on Friday, October 9, 2015.
“I requested a bench trial because I wanted to be tried on the facts of this case,” McVay said; he referred to some allegations against him, and claims about his conduct, as biased and false. He denied ever being a violent or abusive person to any woman with whom he had a relationship.
“I will tell you again. I did not kill Carrie Olson. I loved her and cared for her as my best friend,” Tim McVay said.
McVay called his conviction “wrongful.”
“Judge Meersman, sending an innocent man to prison is not going to solve this case,” McVay said. "And my wrongful conviction dishonors her memory because it allows her real killer to remain free and literally getting away with murder."
McVay was sentenced to 45 years in prison plus six years of supervised release.