Posted on 04/19/2011 7:17:32 AM PDT by OneVike
Her name was Dorothy Dixon, and she was betrayed by a person the state told her she could trust. The person, Michelle Riley, worked as a coordinator for a regional center that helps developmentally disabled people get food, clothing, and a place to live. Dorothy had the mind of a child, so she needed all the help she could get to survive in a world of adults who usually have very little time for the mentally disabled. In her capacity of helping Dorothy, Michelle would eventually strike up a good friendship with her. It wasn't long before Michelle decided that the she could best help Dorothy if they moved into a place together and shared rent. From all accounts everyone thought Michelle was just helping Dorothy out from the kindness of her heart. For $800-a-month rent, Michelle with her two children, and Dorothy with her baby began what was supposed to be a good thing for everyone. Instead, it turned into a nightmare that would end in death.
From all accounts you would have thought that Michelle would be the best thing that ever happened to Dorothy. After all just a year earlier the Quincy Herald-Whig newspaper did a story on how this twice-convicted drug offender, who had been hooked on methamphetamine and cocaine, had turned her life around and become a decent, respectable, hard-working member of the community. Michelle even latched onto a job with the West Central Illinois Center for Independent Living. Everyone figured Michelle was giving back to a community that helped get her back on her feet. So when they learned she was going to move into a place with Dorothy, they were all very supportive and marked it in the book as a success story that would help them while lobbying for more funds from the state. If they only knew of the pure evil that lurked in the heart and mind of their success story.
Before Dorothy died, she would be beaten, scalded with hot water, burned with a glue gun, and shot with a pellet gun for target practice. Investigators would later learn that when her torturers ran out of pellets, they dug them out of her body with a knife to go on shooting her. The unattended wounds would become infected as her misery continued, until her body couldn't take anymore, and she finally succumbed to a slow and agonizing death due to dehydration. Authorities say that the woman she thought was a friend collected her disability checks and burned all her cloths, while using her as a personal slave. When the truth about her treatment came to light through forensics and interrogation, it would paint a picture that would sicken even the most experienced investigators. Now, three years later, the last of Dorothy's and her unborn child's murderers has been sentenced.
The last remaining perpetrator of Dorothy's hell was given a 30-year prison sentence with no chance at parole. Nineteen-year-old Benny Wilson, who was 16 at the time, got off easy in my opinion, as did the slave master who was the architect of her demise. By pleading guilty a year ago, Michelle Riley received 45-years without the possibility of parole. Michael Elliott who was18 at the time, got off even easier. With a plea agreement and his testimony against Riley and Wilson, Michael got just eight years behind bars. Even Michelle's two children were involved in the crime. At the time her daughter LeShelle was 15 and her son was but 12. Pleading guilty to 2nd degree murder, LeShelle was given only six years while her brother received but 60 days detention and five years probation.
Then there was 43-year-old Judy Woods, who is also said to be slow in the mind and unable to completely comprehend what went on in the house that became Dorothy's torture chamber. Initially, Michelle and the others blamed everything on Judy. Being the loyal patsy that she had become, Judy told investigators that she was the one who killed Dorothy. That is until an investigation and an autopsy revealed the horrible truth. In the end Judy was given just 18 months, and from what I have been able to learn, she has either already been released or will be in the next few months.
Below is a comment I found on a blog by Gregg Olson who claims to be a NY Times best selling author. The person who left it who goes by the name, "alex_aaliyahs_mom", and she posted a comment about a week after the blog covered the story that broke in March of 2008. It seems she knew who Dorothy was and offered the following information. I did not amend my article to fit this persons information because I could not verify the truth of what she wrote, but I do offer it as food for thought.
I just want to say that I knew Dorothy Dixon,she lived in La Belle,mo before she was murdered. I seen her son Zion the day she brought that beautiful little boy home from the hospital. The lady, Michelle Riley, was Zion's aunt. Her children were his cousins. There is some belief that they abused Dorothy's son as well. To the people who feel that Michelle Riley's children aren't to blame, I have this to ask you, would you let them stay in your home? Around your children?
The papers never really told how Michelle knew Dorothy except that Dorothy was a client where Michelle worked. What I have stated here about Michelle being Dorothy's sons aunt is true. Michelle and everyone else in that house knew what they were doing was wrong! Yet NO ONE did anything to stop it, so I feel that every single one of them should treated the way they treated Dorothy ............ I would like to ask everyone to please remember Dorothy's son Zion in their prayers, and may god bless you all.
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I for one can forgive even the man who murdered my oldest sister 30 years ago, but that does not mean I want him to ever so the light of day again outside the walls of the prison he was given to live in by a lax justice system. He deserved death, just as Michelle Riley did in this case, but she too got a light sentence.
As for the rest, they should have recieved a minimum of life for the lives they stole. On my balance sheet, prisons are 1000 time cheaper to build and maintain then the cost of rehabilitating. Harsh yes, but our society worked a lot smoother and our loved ones were much safer when we all demanded such treatment of the criminals in America.
This is an update about a sad story that happened to a certain woman named Dorothy Dixon who was tortured to death back in early 2008. The last of her torturers has finally met justice. I would have preferred a much stiffer penalty, but it was more then most got for a crime whos brutality shocked even the most seasoned investigators.
Dorothy Dixon's Hell, and Her Executioners Soft Punishment..............
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OK, I’ve just read the 1st paragraph. And already I know this will not end well. Where are the husbands of these women? The fathers of these children??
Heck, even the 1st sentence gave me the shudders.
OK - back to the rest of the story...
So many bullets needed, so little time.
Sigh.
Thanks for the ping.
These are savages that should have been executed right after they were found guilty.
Oh yeah, men are such great creatures.
Drinking, drugging, porning, ganging, taking their mother’s money, wearing their pants buckeled on their thighs............that’s where the men are.
If the community doesn’t kill these vermin then they are ALL equally guilty. I’d kill them right now but I have my own vermin to deal with.
It is high time for vigilantism when the system is this corrupt. Truth be told it wouldn’t be this corrupt unless the majority of Americans were corrupt. There are filthy vermin all around us.
Does anybody know what happened to her child? I hope he was adopted by a loving family, it’s the least society can do.
Prove me wrong.
Now that would be a site to see. Just as the Muslim hoards returned to their land when they saw the thousands of impaled Muslims that Vlad defeated in an earlier battle, so to would the criminals return to their hole out of fear of meeting the same destiny.
It worked to keep the Muslims out of Europe for 600 years, and they say stiff punishment is not a deterrent.
Dittoes.
yldstrk needed to have used the sarc tag.
Because, without the sarc tag, yldstrk’s post above makes her look stupid and ignorant.
Really sad bump, nothing fancy this time, OV.
I beg to differ, You’re fancy without any help from animated gifs.
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If this blog comment is true, then we can only assume that Michelle's brother raped Dorothy.
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