A woman from Illinois has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term for the murder of a former police chief from Maquon, according to a decision made by a judge on Monday.
Knox County Circuit Judge Andrew Doyle delivered a 50-year prison sentence to Marcy L. Oglesby, aged 53, for the murder of her boyfriend, Richard “Rick” Young. This significant ruling was reported by KWQC, highlighting the gravity of the crime.
The grim discovery of Young’s remains was made in October 2022, when Knox County deputies, responding to a report of a suspicious odor, found his body at Roberts Self-Storage in Maquon. As previously covered by CrimeOnline, Oglesby initially attempted to mislead the authorities by attributing the odor to a dead opossum. However, she ultimately confessed that a human body was concealed within a large box inside the storage unit, leading to her arrest.
Oglesby was found guilty in June of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery. The prosecution presented a chilling case, revealing how Oglesby had methodically poisoned Young by adding eye drops and various medications to his food and beverages over several months. This sinister act began in the summer of 2021 and tragically culminated in Young’s death on November 1, 2021.
In June, Ogelsby was convicted of first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery.
According to the prosecution, Oglesby put eye drops and other medications in Young’s food and drinks over the course of months, beginning in the summer of 2021, until he passed away on November 1, 2021.
“She killed a man who loved her and who cared for her for nearly 30 years, and she didn’t just kill him,” Knox County State’s Attorney Ashley Worby said during the sentencing hearing. “She poisoned him and watched him suffer.”
In court Monday, Oglesby denied killing Young, and claimed she had been with him against her will for decades.
“My allocution today will have to take a slightly different path because I respectfully disagree with the court’s findings, and I will not be referencing a murder that did not happen.
“He didn’t go into that box immediately. I put him back to bed and continued to talk to him for three days.”
Oglesby’s godmother, Karen J. Doubet, 79, testified that she purchased eye drops at Oglesby’s request.She said she then witnessed the defendant putting eye drops in Young’s coffee.
Doubet admitted that she continued to buy eye drops for Oglesby “because she asked me to,” but claimed that she did not help Oglesby place the drops in Young’s drinks.
During victim impact statements, friends remembered Young as a man with “a big heart who deserved better.”
Oglesby gets credit for 326 days served in jail while. Meanwhile, a motion for a new trial is scheduled for November 6.
[Feature Photo: Rick Young/ Handout via Danny Thomas]
