Trial to Begin for Hooker Accused of Stabbing Beloved Teacher to Death

Jury selection is expected to begin Monday for the trial of a young woman who arrived at a high school teacher’s Orland Park house to provide sexual services, and later stabbed him to death.

Alisha Walker’s attorney will argue she lashed out after Brother Rice High School teacher Al Filan, 61, came at the 22-year-old Walker with a knife after they argued over her payment.

Walker, who’s charged with first-degree murder, and another woman met Filan after he responded to her ad on Backpage.com, a classifieds website with a section dedicated to sex exchange. She told police she wrestled a knife away from the teacher and stabbed him, after he allegedly threatened her and the other woman.

Filan was stabbed 13 times in the chest, the arms and behind his ear, and was found on his kitchen floor on Jan. 21, 2014. Police went to his home in the 9400 block of Georgetown after the popular teacher failed to show up for school.

It had been at least the third encounter between Filan and Walker, police later said, a pattern that Filan’s friends and family found shocking. Investigators discovered a stack of Backpage.com sex ads on his desk.

Police say that prior to the stabbing, Walker racked up several prostitution, battery and drug arrests. After stabbing Filan, they say she fled the scene, leaving a trail of blood on the floor with her high-heeled shoes. She was later located in Indiana, arrested, and has been held without bail ever since.

It’s not known at this time if she will testify.