Where There's Smoke Vincent Trevizo

Where There's Smoke    Joliet, Illinois fire fighters are shocked to find 28-year-old Melissa Plut strangled to death when they respond to a fire in her duplex. Police search the nurse's love life with no luck until a 9-1-1 call unmasks her killer hiding in plain sight.  

The facts underlying Vincent Trevizo’s convictions are detailed in this court’s prior order, and only the facts necessary to resolve this appeal will be recited.  On May 7, 2001, defendant was charged by indictment with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of concealment of a homicidal death, one count of aggravated arson, and one count of residential arson. The indictment alleged that, on September 3, 2000, defendant strangled the victim, Melissa Plut, thereby causing her death. The indictment further alleged that defendant set fire to the victim’s residence while the victim’ sbody remained inside.  Before he was indicted, defendant retained attorneys Tom Breen and Todd Pugh to represent him.

Vincent was convicted of homicide, aggravated arson and concealing a homicide. The murder charge
carries a prison term of 20 to 60 years, and Trevizo faces an additional 6 to 30 years for aggravated arson. He live in a nearby duplex with his wife and one year old child. They had shared one beer in her drive way.

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Story of Murdered Joliet Nurse to Be Featured on TV Show

You can write to Vincent Trevizo at:

Vincent Trevizo        R22750
Hill Correctional Center
P.O. Box 1700
Galesburg, IL 61402

Devils in the Details Quincy Damell Hughes

Devils in the Details this episode is described by Discovery ID as: the savage murder of single mother Cindy Pavey rattles the tranquil town of Murphysboro, Illinois. Police investigate a potentially deadly love triangle, but it will take over a decade to harvest the leads necessary to bring her killer to justice.   

Quincy Damell Hughes plead guilty first-degree murder seventeen years after the murder. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison.

He was caught when his DNA was entered into CODIS for an unrelated crime where it matched the DNA from this crime.





You can write to  Quincy Damell Hughes at:

Quincy Damell Hughes B26052
​Vienna Correctional Center
6695 State Route #146 East
Vienna, IL 62995

Murder 101 Daniel Woloson

Murder 101    Residents are struck with fear when the strangled body of 21-year-old Susan Schumake is found in Carbondale, Illinois. Lack of evidence stumps cops for more than two decades, but new technology leads detectives in a direction they never expected.    

 Daniel Woloson was caught twenty three years later via DNA. I expect he thought he would never be caught.

He was sentenced to forty years in prison in 2006.

You can write to Daniel Woloson at:

Daniel Woloson, A88114 
​Centralia Correctional Center
P.O. Box 7711
Centralia, IL 62801