Nicholas Sheley sentenced to 4 more life terms

By Washington Examiner
Published August 11, 2014 9:48pm ET
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Nicholas Sheley sentenced to 4 more life terms
Nicholas Sheley, convicted of murder in May 2014 for fatally beating three adults and a 2-year-old with a hammer in a northwest Illinois apartment, is escorted into the Whiteside County courtroom, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, for sentencing in the June 2008 killings. Sheley was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. The killings were part of a series of eight murders authorities say Sheley committed in the summer of 2008, stretching from his hometown of Sterling, Illinois, south to St. Louis. He next faces trial in Missouri, where prosecutors can pursue the death penalty in the deaths of Jill and Tom Estes, a Sherwood, Arkansas, couple who were traveling in that state. (AP Photo/The Telegraph, Alex T. Paschal, Pool) | Alex T. Paschal

MORRISON, Ill. (AP) — A man serving two life sentences for a pair of Illinois killings was sentenced Monday to four more.

Nicholas Sheley was convicted of murder in May for fatally beating three adults and a 2-year-old with a hammer in a northwest Illinois apartment. The Telegraph in Dixon reports (http://bit.ly/1A7zfKZ ) he was sentenced Monday to four life terms for those deaths.

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