KNOX COUNTY, Ill. — A Knox County woman allegedly involved in the death of former Maquon police chief Richard Young is once again facing first-degree murder charges following an Illinois court ruling.
On Tuesday, Nov. 7, the Fourth District Illinois Appellate Court ruled to reinstate charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery against Marcy Oglesby. Oglesby is accused of killing Young and hiding his body in a storage unit in Maquon, Illinois.
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Oglesby was initially charged with concealment of a nonhomicidal death, but the Illinois State Attorney's Office added murder and battery charges in February 2023. Those charges were dismissed the next month after Oglesby's defense claimed that the prosecution wasn't brought within 120 days. The State Attorney's Office appealed that decision.
The Tuesday ruling decided that because the murder charge and concealment of a death charges weren't part of the same act, the charges weren't required to be filed at the same time, and that reinstated the charges.
A pretrial hearing for Oglesby is set for Jan. 8, 2024.
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On Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, Knox County deputies responded to the 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. She was then taken into custody and received her initial charge of concealment of death.
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