DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — A murder case that led to a murder conviction for a man and his parents is getting reopened more than 20 years later. In 2002, Michael Slover Jr. and his parents, Michael Slover ...

DECATUR — It was a heart attack that finally ended convicted Decatur killer Michael Slover Sr.’s 65-year prison sentence, a coroner has confirmed. “The cause of death of this 75-year-old male Michael ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — A judge held a status hearing Thursday in the murder trial of Karyn Hearn-Slover. In 2002, Michael Slover Jr. and his parents, Michael Slover Sr. and Jeanette Slover, were found ...

DECATUR - On Tuesday, a judge ruled that evidence in a 1996 murder case that sent three members of a central Illinois family to prison should be tested with DNA. Macon County Associate Judge Timothy ...

DECATUR – Nearly 12 years after the Slovers were convicted of first-degree murder for shooting to death 23-year-old Karyn Hearn Slover, a judge ruled that items that were originally tested for ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois Attorney General's Office has entered the courtroom in the Illinois Innocence Project's effort to overturn the Slover family's murder convictions. In early June, ...

The Springfield-based Illinois Innocence Project is making claims that three members of a Decatur family convicted of the 1996 murder of a 23-year-old aspiring model are innocent. The Karyn Hearn ...

DECATUR — The prosecution is about ready to hit back in the looming court battle to clear the names of a Decatur family found guilty of murder. Former Macon Country State’s Attorney Jay Scott was ...

DECATUR - The Downstate Illinois Innocence Project has received a handful of telephone calls since the airing Saturday night of a television program on the Karyn Hearn Slover murder investigation. The ...

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) -- Despite the objections of defense attorneys, a trial date was set Thursday in the case of the former husband and in-laws of a Decatur woman whose dismembered body was found ...

As editor of the Decatur Herald & Review, George Althoff had covered many crime stories but never one like the Karyn Slover murder.