A Geneva man has been convicted for a second time of murdering his wife in 2014.
Kane County Judge John Barsanti ruled Friday in a bench trial that Shadwick King killed his wife in July 2014 and then staged her body on railroad tracks in the city, Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office officials said in a news release.
Prosecutors said King strangled his 32-year-old wife Kathleen King, who was found on train tracks not far from the couple’s Geneva home. Prosecutors said King had recently learned that his wife was emotionally involved with another man.
A train conductor spotted her body and cellphone on the tracks, stopping the train before it ran her over, officials said. Geneva police responded to the scene and determined the woman was dead.
Shadwick King was found guilty of murder by a jury in March 2015 and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court granted a new trial to King, stating the trial court erred when it allowed former FBI profiler Mark Safarik to testify for the prosecution as a crime scene expert witness and offer opinions in areas that went beyond his expertise.
King is due back in court on Oct. 30 for post-trial motions.
