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 ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — The latest attempt by Barton McNeil to overturn his decades-old conviction for killing his daughter was denied by a trio of appellate judges on Friday. McNeil, 65, has been ...

BLOOMINGTON — A private attorney will be named to represent Misook Nowlin on her claim that she deserves a new trial on murder charges in the strangulation death of her mother-in-law. The appointment ...

NORMAL — Police are investigating a report of shots fired Sunday in Normal. Since her death in 1998, Barton McNeil has maintained he did not kill his 3-year-old daughter Christina, urging police and ...

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 ...

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 ...