PEORIA, Ill. (AP) – A man who confessed to fatally stabbing his parents and dumping their bodies in a central Illinois river has been sentenced to life in prison.
Jose Ramirez confessed last year to killing his parents in their home near Peoria. A prosecutor says he told friends he was “sick” of them.
The bodies of Susan Brill de Ramirez and Antonio Ramirez Barron, both 63, were found in October 2018 in the Spoon River near Annawan, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from their home. Ramirez was sentenced Friday by Judge Katherine Gorman.
An accomplice, Mathew Roberts of Princeville, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in November and was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
