{"id":26181,"date":"2019-04-23T08:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26181"},"modified":"2019-04-23T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:59:42","slug":"illinois-postal-employee-burned-to-death-near-ofallon-sports-park-husband-wanted-for-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/04\/23\/illinois-postal-employee-burned-to-death-near-ofallon-sports-park-husband-wanted-for-questioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois postal employee burned to death near O\u2019Fallon sports park; husband wanted for questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=FvY3luaDE6ps1rvpDC8AcyZjHEdXL9yf&amp;pbid=c660b791c3704ff69d4162d7adb7c4a1&amp;pcode=d2b3E6s5rDofer9uw9hhgMxCRs6U\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">O\u2019FALLON, Ill. \u2013 4\/22\/19 &#8211; A woman was burned to death inside her vehicle Monday morning near the O\u2019Fallon Family Sports Park and police are looking for the victim&#8217;s husband.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">According to Lieutenant Kerry Andrews, O&#8217;Fallon Police Department, the murder took place just before 7:25 a.m. Monday near the intersection of Obernuefemann Road and West Madison.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1202664\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 100%; float: right; margin: 20px 0px 20px 20px; color: #212121; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; width: 460px;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/localtvktvi.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/4839747495126594127355308895757739124160462848095o1-e1555962588425.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1202664\" src=\"https:\/\/localtvktvi.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/4839747495126594127355308895757739124160462848095o1-e1555962588425.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1202664\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1202664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherry Billups<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">First responders were called to a vehicle fire and found bystanders attempting to save a woman who was on fire. The woman, identified as 35-year-old Sherry Billups, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Two members of Billups&#8217; family said she had two teenage children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Her cousin, Toya Bobo, was stunned to learn Billups had been murdered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cI never thought this would be her because she didn\u2019t live that kind of life,&#8221; Bobo said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Billups&#8217; family said she worked for the US Postal Service. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/2019\/04\/22\/ofallon-police-investigate-homicide-near-sports-park\/\">Fox St. Louis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnd.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article229572214.html\">Police capture husband of O\u2019Fallon postal employee who died after being lit on fire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019FALLON, Ill. \u2013 4\/22\/19 &#8211; A woman was burned to death inside her vehicle Monday morning near the O\u2019Fallon Family Sports Park and police are looking for the victim&#8217;s husband. According to Lieutenant Kerry Andrews, O&#8217;Fallon Police Department, the murder took place just before 7:25 a.m. Monday near the intersection of Obernuefemann Road and West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26190,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181\/revisions\/26190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}