Louis A.
Bianchi, McHenry County State’s Attorney, announces that Richard G. Nielsen, 53,
formerly of Wonder Lake, was sentenced today to 32 years in the Illinois Department
of Corrections for one count of First Degree Murder following a jury trial in August
2013.
The
evidence at trial revealed that on February 6, 2012, Defendant was asked to
leave a Wonder Lake residence earlier in the day, but returned to the home late
that night drunk, angry and demanding that he be allowed to stay. When the victim, Jeremy Lechner, asked
Defendant to leave, he was stabbed in the chest with a knife. The medical
evidence at trial showed that there was significant force to break through the victim’s
rib, go through his lung and puncture his heart. The victim died from a single knife wound to
his heart.
This case was investigated by the
Wonder Lake Police Department and McHenry
County Sheriff’s Office and was prosecuted
for the State by Assistant State’s Attorneys Sharyl Eisenstein and Michael
Combs.
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