DIXON, Ill., Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A 17-year-old Illinois girl faces up to 60 years in prison after being convicted of the first degree murder and dismemberment of a schoolmate.
A jury in Dixon, Ill., found Sarah Kolb guilty in the violent death of Adrianne Reynolds, 16, last year. Prosecutors said the victim was choked, cut up with a saw, burned and left scattered in two counties.
Reynolds had just moved to East Moline, Ill., and had befriended Kolb, but the jury heard that Kolb wrote in a class journal she was going to kill Reynolds just hours before Reynolds was beaten and strangled.
Kolb's boyfriend, Cory Gregory, 18, is also charged with first degree murder in the case, and will go to trial in May.
While investigators suspect Gregory carried out the killing, prosecutors in Kolb's case said she instigated it and participated in the beating, the Quad City (Ill.) Times reported.
