Killer Of Indian Head Park Girl Dies: Prison

INDIAN HEAD PARK, IL – John Wilson Jr., the man convicted in the killing of a 14-year-old Indian Head Park girl, has died, the state Department of Corrections confirmed Thursday.

He died Tuesday at Pontiac Correctional Center in Pontiac.

In 2014, a jury found Wilson, who was 41 at the time, guilty of murdering Kelli O'Laughlin, a freshman at Lyons Township High School. He was sentenced to 160 years in prison.

On Oct. 27, 2011, Wilson broke into the girl's home in the 6300 block of Keokuk Road by putting a rock in a knit cap and throwing it through the dining room window.

He was confronted by O'Laughlin when she returned home from school. He used a butcher knife from a cutlery block in the kitchen to stab O'Laughlin repeatedly in the back, neck and chest. He then dragged her body from the family room into the kitchen.

O'Laughlin's body was found by her mother. Wilson was arrested a few days later. At the time, he was a parolee with three convictions, including one for armed robbery, authorities said.

Wilson stole O'Laughlin's phone and used it to send taunting messages to her mother and well as to post cruel comments on her Facebook page.

A Facebook page was set up in O'Laughlin's memory.