National Briefing - Midwest - Illinois - 4 More Murder Charges - NYTimes.com A man charged in the killings of four people who died during a June killing spree in Illinois and Missouri has been charged with murder in four more bludgeoning deaths. The Illinois Attorney General's Office announced the indictment by a Whiteside County grand jury. In the latest indictment, the man, Nicholas T. Sheley, 29, is charged with 15 counts of first-degree murder in the killings of three adults and a 2-year-old boy, whose bodies were found June 30 at an apartment in Rock Falls. Mr. Sheley also faces murder charges in the deaths of a 93-year-old man Sterling man whose body was found stuffed in the trunk of a car, a 65-year-old man whose body was found behind a grocery store in Galesburg, and an Arkansas couple whose bodies were found behind a gas station in a Missouri community near St. Louis.