Four people pleaded guilty Tuesday in an Illinois murder-for-hire plot that left a woman dead and her husband seriously injured.
Rebecca and Douglas Bolin were shot on October 22, 2021, by gunmen engaged by their then-15-year-old daugther, Dahlia Bolin, who was the first to plead guilty — to first degree murder, first degree attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, and solicitation to murder — in Tazewell County Circuit Court, WMBD reported. She was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Gunmen Nathaniel Maloney, 20, and Andre Street, 19, pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy. Maloney was sentenced to 66 years in prison and Street to 55 years.
Maloney was Dahlia Bolin’s boyfriend at the time.
The fourth defendant, 21-year-old Sage Reuber, pleaded guilty to the same charges and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. She was the getaway driver for Maloney and Street.
Prosecutors explained that Dahlia Bolin first asked her friends to kill her father and later included her mother in the plan. Reuber drove Maloney and Street to the house on the night before the murder to collect guns from the 15-year-old — her father’s guns — and then back the next night to kill the Bolins.
The plan was to “rob them, kill them and get it over with,” prosecutors said. Reuber allegedly admitted driving to the house on October 22 with Maloney and Street “knowing they were going to kill Rebecca and Douglas.”
Rebecca Bolin was shot multiple times and pronounced dead on the scene. Douglas Bolin was shot four times and survived.
Prosecutors did not say why Dahlia Bolin wanted her parents dead at any of the four hearings on Tuesday. She promised to pay her accomplices $100,000 from her parents’ life insurance policies.
Initially, the plan was to kill the parents and “rough up” the teenager to make it look like a robbery, but Maloney and Street only shot the parents and then fled, dropping the botched robbery plan.
All four were arrested the next day.
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