IRONTON, Mo. — A Neelyville woman was sentenced Thursday afternoon to the maximum punishment she could receive for burglarizing a Wappapello home in 2016.
Circuit Judge Megan Seay sentenced Felicia K. Crumley to seven years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on the Class C felony of second-degree burglary, according to a court official.
The seven-year sentence had been recommended by the state, represented by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office.
The defense reportedly asked for the 28-year-old to be placed on probation and given time served.
Crumley’s sentencing came after she was convicted of the charge in March following a two-day jury trial in Iron County.
The same jury also acquitted Crumley of two Class felonies of second-degree murder and the Class D felony of second-degree arson.
Crumley had been accused of acting with Nicholas Suiter to cause the deaths of Jimmy Lavoid Atchley, 70, of Wappapello and Nancy Sisco, 48, of Neelyville in October 2016.
Atchley and Sisco’s bodies were found by firefighters inside a travel trailer parked on his son, Michael Atchley’s property at Wappapello on Oct. 8, 2016.
The state’s evidence at trial, according to earlier reports, was that Crumley and Suiter had been hanging out with the elder Atchley and Sisco at various times before the couple allegedly was killed.
On Oct. 6, 2016, Crumley and Suiter reportedly made purchases at various Dollar General Stores around town and were selling guns.
“ … Over the next two days, they’re looting and stealing” from the younger Atchley’s home, a court official earlier said.
The presented evidence, the official said, was that Crumley and Suiter had rented a storage locker at Neelyville, which contained guns, TVs and other items that “were determined to have come from the Michael Atchley residence. … They also were selling guns out of this storage locker.”
Crumley and Suiter, the official said, later returned and burned the travel trailer to cover up their crimes.
Suiter is charged with two Class A felonies of first-degree murder, two unclassified felonies of armed criminal action, the Class D felony of second-degree arson and the Class C felony of second-degree burglary.
The 33-year-old Neelyville man could face the death penalty if he is convicted of Jimmy Atchley and Sisco’s deaths.
In January, Suiter’s case was moved to Lincoln County on a change of venue from Wayne County. He is to appear there on Aug. 18 for a hearing in his case.