By NICK VLAHOS
For The Weekly Post
MAQUON – A woman was arrested Tuesday in connection with a dead body found last week in a storage unit in southern Knox County.
Marcy L. Oglesby, 50, of Maquon was accused of concealment of death, a felony, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. To be released from jail, Oglesby would have to pay $1,000 toward her bond.
The body was found Oct. 7 among storage units at 105 E. Third St. in Maquon. An autopsy didn’t determine the cause of death, according to Brad Davis, a sheriff’s-office detective.
“The body was in too much of a state of decomposition to be sure,” Davis said Tuesday, before Oglesby’s arrest was announced. “We’re hoping the DNA (testing) will give us what we need.”
Dental records also might be used to help identify the body, according to Davis.
Law-enforcement officials were summoned about 6 p.m. to the storage unit after the sheriff’s office received a complaint about a suspicious odor. The unit owner opened it but told deputies the smell was from a dead opossum, according to a news release.
Deputies asked the owner to open a large box inside the unit. At that point, the owner told them the box contained a body. Knox County investigators and Illinois State Police Crime Scene Investigation officials were called to the scene and opened the box after obtaining a search warrant. Decomposed human remains were found inside.
The unit owner was detained, then for unspecified medical reasons was transported to OSF Saint Mary Medical Center in Galesburg. It wasn’t clear if Oglesby is the unit owner.
Oglesby also was arrested on two Fulton County warrants, for fraud and deceptive practices. Neither accusation is related to the storage-unit case.
