Bolingbrook Murderer Michele Evans Is Being Sentenced

BOLINGBROOK, IL - Knife murders are intensely personal because the killer gets to look into the eyes of their dying victim as that person tries gasping for air as their body bleeds. In April 2015, Michele Evans, an employee with the Valley View School District who worked as a secretary at Romeoville High School, thrust one of her kitchen knives deep into the chest of her 55-year-old husband. David Evans fell to the floor of their house in Bolingbrook, and he died the following day. On Tuesday, the Bolingbrook woman who killed her husband more than 2 1/2 years ago may learn her fate.

Will she wind up in prison? If so, for how long? Those questions will be decided on the fourth floor of the Will County Courthouse, in Courtroom 407. Tuesday marks the second day of Michele Evans' sentencing hearing. The Bolingbrook resident, who resided in the 500 block of Bloomfield Drive, is being represented by attorney Joel Brodsky of Chicago. Her sentencing is before Will County Circuit Judge David Carlson. Michele Evans was originally charged with first-degree murder but this past February, under a plea bargain with the Will County State's Attorney's Office, Evans pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder.

Back in 2015, Patch reported that Michele Evans stabbed her husband to death during a domestic dispute inside their home on a Thursday night, on April 16, 2015. When Bolingbrook police officers got to the house, she was outside and her husband was sprawled across the kitchen floor, Patch reported at the time.

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Michele Evans, 2015 mugshot

At the time of the slaying, Evans was 50 years old. Nowadays, she is 53. In April, Patch reported that Evans was arrested while out on bond for the murder. Oswego police were dispatched to the McDonald's on Douglas Road to investigate a suicidal person, according to court records. Michele Evans was found to be sitting inside a car and Oswego police also found suspected cocaine, pot and drug paraphernalia, court documents indicate. Back in 2015, after being charged with murder, Evans was given a $1 million bond and she managed to come up with $100,000 to bail herself out of jail while her murder case was pending at the courthouse.

Patch previously reported that Evans worked for Valley View School District, and she had been in the U.S. Air Force from 1985 until 1990.

Mugshots of Michele Evans via Will County Sheriff's Department