GUILTY IL - MeLisa Cleary, 30, brutally murdered, Mackinaw, 6 June 2008

[KeRoLe]

Cleary gets the max for murdering wife

http://www.pekintimes.com/news/x447604887/Cleary-gets-the-max-for-murdering-wife

PEKIN, Ill. —



At his sentencing hearing Wednesday morning, Daniel K. Cleary, 36, was given the maximum possible sentence for murdering his wife MeLisa Cleary.

Cleary was sentenced to 60 years in prison. The sentencing range for first-degree murder is 20 to 60 years. Murder convicts are ineligible for day-for-day good time.

 

[STANDREID]

At least that's a better result than another Mackinaw IL murder that occurred in 1973. On an early September evening when it was still light out, a Mackinaw High School teacher named Skip Ahlberg decided to drag his wife Jan out into the front yard and stomp her to death in full view of the neighbors. Although charged with murder, he was just convicted of voluntary manslaughter and only served something like 5 years in prison.

 

[Shelby2]

At least that's a better result than another Mackinaw IL murder that occurred in 1973. On an early September evening when it was still light out, a Mackinaw High School teacher named Skip Ahlberg decided to drag his wife Jan out into the front yard and stomp her to death in full view of the neighbors. Although charged with murder, he was just convicted of voluntary manslaughter and only served something like 5 years in prison.

That is horrible!!!! And he tried to get his sentence reduced to ONE year because he was not found guilty of murder?? Wonder where he is now...
http://il.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19730924_0001127.IL.htm/qx

 

[Shelby2]

I wonder why it took so long, and his poor daughter who probably knew what happened had to live with him until his arrest?

 

[STANDREID]

That is horrible!!!! And he tried to get his sentence reduced to ONE year because he was not found guilty of murder?? Wonder where he is now...

Probably on some internet dating site.:maddening:

 

[STANDREID]

The Judge James Heiple mentioned in that link was always one of my favorites. In the early 1960s when he was a member of the Illinois State Legislature, he submitted a bill to raise the speed limit in Illinois to 95 mph!:rocker: