MAQUON, Ill. — A Maquon woman has been arrested in connection to a 2022 homicide of former Police Chief Richard Young, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office.
78-year-old Karen Doubet was arrested on the morning of Friday, Oct. 4. The sheriff's office said she has been charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery administering a dangerous substance, concealment of a homicidal death and concealment of death.
No other information was provided as to why Doubet was arrested or if it's connected to Marcy Oglesby's case, who has previously been charged in connection to Young's death. News 8 has reached out to the sheriff's office and the Knox County State's Attorney's Office for more clarity on the recent arrest and any updates in Oglesby's case.
Previous reporting
On Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, Knox County deputies responded to a Maquon storage unit after complaints of a suspicious smell. The deputies contacted the facility's manager and Oglesby, the unit's renter, and began a search.
Oglesby claimed that the smell came from an opossum that had previously died in the unit. When police came across a large box that she refused to open, Oglesby admitted that there was a body inside it. The body was later identified as Young.
At the time, Oglesby was taken into custody and charged with concealment of death by the Knox County State's Attorney's Office. However, after further investigation, Oglesby received two additional charges of murder and battery in February 2023 — around four months from the initial concealment charge. Those charges were dismissed by a Knox County judge the next month after Oglesby's defense claimed that the new charges weren't brought within the required 120 days. The State Attorney's Office appealed that decision.
Back in November, the Fourth District Illinois Appellate Court ruled that the court erred when dismissing the case, saying "that because the concealment of a nonhomicidal death and the murder charges were not a part of the same act or action by the defendant, they were not required to (be) filed at the same time," according to the state's attorney office. As a result, they ruled to reinstate charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery in November 2023. Oglesby then appealed the appellate court's decision to the state's highest court. The Illinois Supreme Court rejected that motion to review the lower court's decision in January of this year.