Nephew's Christmas revelation leads to cold-case killer's prison sentence

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (KTVI) – A convicted killer who had escaped his crime for more than a decade learned Thursday that he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

It began as a missing persons case in 2013 when Patrenia Butler-Turner disappeared. Nine years later, the nephew of Roger Dale Sutton, 57, walked into the Pontoon Beach Police Department in Illinois to report that he had witnessed his uncle kill the woman, according to a press release from the office of the Madison County State’s Attorney.