Man Gets Life Sentence For Hinsdale Murder

HINSDALE, IL — A man convicted of killing a Hinsdale woman in her home in 2017 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office announced Tuesday. In January, Dominic Sanders, 33, of University Park, was found guilty in the first-degree murder of 51-year-old Andrea Urban.

About 3:30 p.m. May 4, 2017, Hinsdale police responded to a 911 call about an unresponsive woman, identified as Urban, in a house in the 700 block of Town Place. Upon their arrival at the home, officers found Urban lying on the kitchen floor with apparent knife injuries to her head and neck.

An investigation found that in the morning hours of May 4, 2017, Sanders entered Urban's house. Once inside the home, a physical altercation between Sanders and Urban ensued resulting in Sanders repeatedly striking Urban in the head and slashing her throat, authorities said. After the murder, Sanders stole family heirloom jewelry from the house and left. On May 25, 2017, Sanders was taken into custody and arrested on an unrelated Will County traffic violation.

After a nine-day trial in January, a jury found Sanders guilty of first-degree murder, home invasion and residential burglary.

“The pain and suffering he inflicted upon Andrea and the entire Hinsdale community that day will never go away," State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a news release Tuesday. "The physical pain Andrea endured at the hands of Dominic Sanders has now transformed into emotional and psychological pain thrust upon the shoulders of those who loved her. A pain they must now bear with no end in sight."

Berlin said Sanders sealed his own fate.

"He does not deserve to enjoy a minute of freedom for what he did to Andrea, her family and the entire community," the prosecutor said.