It has taken 2 years to get just one person convicted in this horrible murder. Just one conviction. So far, that is. Hopefully the others will come soon. Michelle Riley, considered the ringleader, received only 45 years in prison. However, she must serve every single day of that 45 years, no parole. She will be around 80 years old when she gets out. But of course, she thinks that is an unfair sentence since there were other people involved as well. I wish she would have said this to me. Personally, I believe they all should have received the death penalty (since this was a case involving horrible torture to a pregnant woman) or at the very least, LWOP. I think Michelle got off easy. She seems to really forget that at the heart of this, there was a human being that was tortured to death. Needlessly. And that human being was a pregnant woman. Her unborn child was murdered as well. Obviously these sociopaths did not consider either one a human being, so of course they complain that they have to pay the piper. Well, Michelle, why not complain to Dorothy’s family and loved ones about how you got a raw deal. See if they have any sympathy for you. Hell, complain to me and see if you get any sympathy. But honestly, you may not want to waste your breath. Dorothy and her unborn child have my compassion. Now and forever. And never forgotten.

Defendants
Judy E. Woods
Benny Wilson
Michelle Riley
Michael Elliott
Leshelle McBride
(and a juvenile – who received probation for his part)
IL woman sentenced to 45 years in torture killing
Alton woman gets 45 years in woman’s murder
45 years for Alton torture-murder of disabled, pregnant woman
Woman in torture case gets 45 years

The story behind identifying Paula is simply amazing. Paula’s sister, Stephanie, watched an episode of “The Forgotten” and saw the advertisement at the end about The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) . She scoured the website and came up with 10 matches, one of which turned out to be her sister, missing since 1987. She was the victim of a homicide, strangled and left by the side of a freeway in Ohio (although detectives do not believe she was killed in Ohio but in Missouri and dumped in Ohio). They are now looking into the possibility that she was the victim of a serial killer who was working in her area at that time, Lorenzo Gilyard (who has since been convicted of 6 murders, but is suspected of several others).

The photo is a picture of Paula’s sisters, Stephanie and Alice with pictures of Paula.

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