At around 7:00 a.m. on June 16, 1998, Barton McNeil, a thirty-nine-year-old divorced father, woke up on the couch after a muggy, stormy night. It was the beginning of one of those long summers in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — The latest attempt by Barton McNeil to overturn his decades-old conviction for killing his daughter was ...

The September 2011 murder of 70-year-old Linda Tyda of Illinois by her then-46-year-old daughter-in-law Misook Wang is a chilling reminder that family ties can bind -- and they can also kill. She also ...

BLOOMINGTON (AP) — A Bloomington woman who's accused of choking her mother-in-law to death has pleaded guilty to hiding the body. The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports that Misook Nowlin entered the ...

BLOOMINGTON — A dozen years into a 100-year sentence for killing his daughter, Bart McNeil had lost contact with the world and given up any hope that his conviction would be reversed, despite his ...

The evening before, he and his girlfriend, Misook Nowlin, had broken up. They’d gone out to Avanti’s, a local Italian restaurant, and gotten into it yet again. The previous year, Nowlin had been ...