Convicted spree killer Nicholas Sheley has been moved from a prison in eastern Illinois, to one on the west side of the state.
According to an e-mail notification WGIL received from the Illinois Department of Corrections, Sheley – now about two months away from turning 45 – has been moved from the Lawrenceville Correctional Facility near the Illinois/Indiana Border, to the Western Illinois Correctional Facility in Mount Sterling, the Metro East area of western Illinois.
What may be significant about that is Lawrenceville is listed as a maximum security facility according to the IDOC website, while Mount Sterling is listed as medium-security.
Sheley was convicted here of the death of Ronald Randall, 65 – one of eight people he killed in Illinois and in Missouri — in June, 2008.
He’s serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole. He was not given the death penalty for the deaths of an Arkansas couple in Missouri, and Illinois no longer has the death penalty.
Sheley also was convicted of criminal damage to property for incidents in his Knox County Jail cell, and for an alleged assault on a jail correctional employee, along with a charge for stealing Randall’s truck.