{"id":282772,"date":"2010-02-05T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T19:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=16487"},"modified":"2010-02-05T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T19:09:03","slug":"sentencing-set-in-torture-killing-of-developmentally-impaired-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282772","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing set in torture killing of developmentally impaired mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — An Illinois woman awaits sentencing in the murder of a pregnant, developmentally impaired mother who police say was beaten with a plunger handle, burned with a hot glue gun and used for target practice with a BB pistol.<\/p>\n

Thirty-seven-year-old Michelle Riley pleaded guilty in October to first-degree murder in the death of 29-year-old Dorothy Dixon.<\/p>\n

Riley faces between 30 and 45 years in prison, and she’s scheduled to be sentenced Friday. <\/span><\/p>\n

Investigators in Madison County say Dixon was a mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way when she was found dead in January 2008 at a house in Alton.<\/p>\n

Four other people, including three teenagers, await trial on first-degree murder charges.<\/p>\n

Riley’s teenage son has been sentenced as a juvenile to probation.<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — An Illinois woman awaits sentencing in the murder of a pregnant, developmentally impaired mother who police say was beaten with a plunger handle, burned with a hot glue gun and used for target practice with a BB pistol. Thirty-seven-year-old Michelle Riley pleaded guilty in October to first-degree murder in the death of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}