Jury finds Springfield man guilty of killing Sheila Wilson
DECATUR - A Macon County Circuit Court jury took less than three hours on Friday to find Tony A. Rolfe guilty of first-degree murder in the May 4, 2003, stabbing death of Sheila M. Wilson.Associate Judge James Coryell set Rolfe's sentencing hearing for April 24.The 30-year-old Springfield man faces 20 to 60 years in prison when he is sentenced, said Assistant State's Attorney Steve Langhoff, who prosecuted the case with Assistant State's Attorney Elizabeth Dobson.Rolfe will have to serve 100 percent of whatever sentence he receives, Langhoff said.Wilson, 30, suffered at least 50 stab and cutting wounds from a box cutter-style knife and died from loss of blood in the basement of her mother's house in the 1900 block of East Prairie Avenue. Police found bloody shoe impressions in the basement and kitchen of the house.A theory of the case presented by state witnesses was that Wilson was killed when Rolfe went to her house to steal up to a pound of marijuana.Key testimony in the weeklong trial came from Torre Wilson, Sheila Wilson's boyfriend at the time of her death.
