Holly Sheley's mom: My daughter is 'just as guilty' as her husband

MOUNT MORRIS – Holly Sheley’s testimony Wednesday infuriated her mother.

Her daughter is “just as guilty” as her husband because she never called the police the night he contacted her, Marcia Frey told Sauk Valley Media Wednesday night.

“Even though it’s her husband, she knew it was wrong,” Frey said from her Mount Morris home. “If she had turned that man in, they could have gotten him and prevented the other murders.”

Nicholas T. Sheley, 32, is accused of killing eight people; investigators believe the last two were killed after Sheley met with his wife the night of June 28, 2008.

Holly Sheley, 33, of Franklin Grove, testified Wednesday that she rode around Whiteside County that night with her husband in the blood-soaked truck of Ronald Randall, 65, who prosecutors say Sheley killed earlier that day.

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She did not call police, although she knew he was a fugitive, and did not tell police about the meeting until the following year, she testified.

Sheley is on trial for Randall’s murder and is charged in the death of a rural Sterling man, killed that June 23, with the deaths of four people killed in Rock Falls the night he met his wife, and finally, with a couple from Arkansas who were killed in Festus, Mo., the next day.

Frey said Holly and Nick Sheley were living with her in June 2008 and were planning to buy a house in Mount Morris. They went to Rockford on June 23 to get a loan on their car to finance the house, she said.

While there, Holly bought Nick alcohol, which Frey said she believes helped fuel the 8-day, two-state killing spree with which he is accused.

Frey said she will not attend the Galesburg trial.

“He’s my son-in-law, yeah, but what he did to those people is unforgivable, and for him to not show any remorse or emotion is sad,” Frey said.