No ID yet for decomposed body found in Maquon

By NICK VLAHOS
For The Weekly Post

GALESBURG – Finding a positive identification for certain human remains found in October in Maquon might take two or three more months, according to a Knox County Sheriff’s Office investigator.

Meanwhile, a woman arrested following the discovery remains in the Knox County Jail as her case proceeds through circuit court after additional charges were filed.

A University of Illinois forensic pathologist is to analyze additional samples from the remains found Oct. 7 in a storage unit, Sgt. Brad Davis said last week. Initial samples contained insufficient DNA. That isn’t uncommon in a body as badly decomposed as this one was, according to Davis.

“There needs to be another collection of a little-better samples,” he said. “Usually what they collect in an autopsy, in that case it didn’t have the DNA in the samples. They had degraded to the point where the DNA was gone. So we have to go deeper, basically.”

Marcy L. Oglesby, 50, of Maquon is accused of two felony counts of concealing a death. She also has been accused of two counts of forgery and two counts of possessing a firearm without a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card. Those also are felonies.

The forgery and firearms charges were registered about a week after Oglesby’s arrest Oct. 11, as was an additional count of concealment.

It’s alleged Oglesby sold in May seven guns the deceased individual apparently owned, the Galesburg Register-Mail reported. Oglesby was on probation at the time for a forgery conviction in September 2020 in Knox County.

During a hearing Nov. 1, a judge increased Oglesby’s bond from $10,000 to $100,000, according to court records. Oglesby needs to post 10 percent to be released. She sought to have her set at $1,000.
A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Jan. 9. Oglesby has pleaded not guilty.

“There hasn’t been any major movement on her side of the case,” Davis said.