Bolingbrook Murderer Michele Evans Gets Short Prison Term

JOLIET, IL - Last week, 53-year-old Michele Evans sobbed as she read from a prepared statement about her troubled life. At the time, the Bolingbrook woman was in Courtroom 407 for her sentencing hearing on a charge of second-degree murder. Will County Circuit Judge David Carlson took the matter under advisement and promised to announce his sentence on Wednesday. Back in April 2015, the former Valley View School District employee got into a heated argument with her husband David Evans in their kitchen. According to testimony, he had a hot frying pan in his hand when Michele Evans grabbed a knife and thrust the sharp blade into his heart.

He bled out and died at the hospital.

Evans and her lawyer, Joel Brodsky, the same attorney who represented Drew Peterson, had pressed the Will County judge to go easy on the Bolingbrook woman, who had proudly served in the U.S. Air Force during the 1980s. The defense argued that Michele Evans was a victim of a bad childhood. They claimed Evans was the victim of battered spouse syndrome. They implored Judge Carlson to put Evans on probation.

But that was not the case. Judge Carlson gave Evans a prison sentence of 56 months followed by another two years of mandatory supervised release. Evans will receive credit for the roughly 320 days she has already spent incarcerated at the Will County Adult Detention Facility, on and off, since her husband's murder.

It wasn't immediately clear how many days Evans will need to serve in prison, but it's likely to be another year or two, a court official indicated.

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Mugshot via Will County Sheriff's Department