Left: Gabrielle A. Stine (McLean County Jail). Right: Jamere Bew (Minor-Morris Funeral Home).
A woman from Illinois, aged 25, has been sentenced to many years in prison due to her involvement in the murder of her boyfriend. The boyfriend was violently beaten with a baseball bat and shot multiple times two years prior to this sentencing.
On Tuesday, McLean County Circuit Judge William Yoder sentenced Gabrielle A. Stine to 40 years in state prison for killing 31-year-old Jamere Bew, according to court records reviewed by Law&Crime.
Judge Yoder gave the sentence right after Stine admitted guilt to a charge of first-degree murder. In return for her guilty plea, the charges of kidnapping while armed with a firearm against her were dropped, according to court records.
Stine has already served 475 days, which will be deducted from her total sentence. After completing her term in prison, Stine will also spend three years on supervised release.
Her accomplices, 28-year-old Justin G. Kletz and 20-year-old Derek Siebring, have both previously pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. In March, Siebring received a 65-year sentence. Kletz, who pleaded guilty last month, is awaiting his sentencing on November 25 and could face a term ranging from 35 to 75 years.
Left: Justin G. Kletz (McLean County Jail) and Derek Siebring (McLean County Jail).
Additional court documents, as reviewed by The Pentagraph, have provided further insight into the details surrounding Bew’s murder and the involvement of the defendants.
According to the report, deputies with the McLean County Sheriff’s Office at about 7 a.m. on Nov. 25, 2023, responded to the rural area of 1375 East Road and 700 North Road after Stine called 911 and reported that her friend had been shot.
Bew’s body was soon found in a nearby ditch. He appeared to have been restrained, beaten and shot.
Investigators reportedly discovered that the previous evening, Bew was at Kletz’s apartment in the 1600 block of Springfield Road in Bloomington, Illinois. Deputies, accompanied by officers from the Bloomington Police Department, responded to the residence and described smelling bleach and finding blood-stained clothing and a couch in the dumpster.
Authorities said they knocked on the front door of the apartment and heard someone inside the residence say they had to “burn it all.”
It was later revealed that Stine had told Kletz and Siebring that Bew had sexually assaulted her in her sleep, per the report. Enraged, the two men reportedly beat Bew with a baseball bat, restrained him with duct tape, then stuffed him in the trunk of Stine’s car and drove him out to a rural area in Funks Grove Township. There, they threw Bew in a ditch and repeatedly shot him, then went back to the apartment and attempted to align their stories about the previous night.
At some point after the murder, prosecutors said Stine burglarized Bew’s apartment, local NBC and ABC affiliate WEEK reported.
Before charging Stine with murder, investigators said they discovered that she had taken cellphone videos and photographs of a bloodied and bound Bew just before he was killed.
“The details surrounding this case are horrific, and the knowledge that the victim’s family and friends now carry of the victim’s final moments is a burden nobody should have to endure,” McLean County State’s Attorney Erika Reynolds said in a statement. “It is our hope that the victim’s family and friends will find some peace knowing this chapter is closed.”
