EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty but mentally ill in the 2019 stabbing deaths of an Edwardsville couple. An associate Madison County judge accepted Zachary Capers’ guilty plea to one count of first-degree murder Tuesday, immediately after finding him fit to stand trial following mental-health treatment. The Belleville News-Democrat reports the 27-year-old Collinsville man was then sentenced to a 60-year term. Capers was indicted in April 2019 in the killings of 68-year-old Lois Ladd, a chiropractor, and her husband, 79-year-old Michael Ladd, a contractor. Their bodies were found in March 2019 in their secluded Edwardsville home.
