An Illinois woman will spend decades behind bars for the murder of a former Maquon Police Department chief, a judge ruled Monday.
According to KWQC, Knox County Circuit Judge Andrew Doyle sentenced Marcy L. Oglesby, 53, to 50 years in prison for the murder of her boyfriend, Richard “Rick” Young.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Knox County deputies found Young’s body at Roberts Self-Storage in Maquon, after investigating a suspicious odor, in October 2022.
Oglesby met the deputies at the unit and told them the smell had been from an opossum that had died. Deputies arrested Oglesby after she admitted a human body was inside a large box inside the unit.
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.
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[Feature Photo: Rick Young/ Handout via Danny Thomas]
