MAQUON, Ill. (KWQC) - A Knox County woman who was found guilty of killing her longtime boyfriend and former Maquon police chief was sentenced to 50 years in prison Monday.

Marcy Oglesby, 53, will get credit for 326 days already served in the county jail. She will follow the prison term with three years of mandatory supervised release.

A motion for a new trial will be heard on Nov. 6 in Knox County.

Oglesby was convicted in June of first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery in the death of Richard Young.

Prosecutors said Oglesby poisoned Young by mixing eye drops and other medications into his food and drinks over several months during the summer of 2021, until his death on Nov. 1, 2021.

Investigators said Young’s body was found nearly a year later in October 202

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