Geneva Man Accused Of Killing Wife Gets New Trial Date

GENEVA, IL — A Geneva man who was previously convicted of killing his wife and leaving her body on railroad tracks in 2014 is set to stand trial again this summer after the Illinois Supreme Court overturned that conviction last year.

Shadwick King’s new trial will start Aug. 12, the Kane County Chronicle reports.

In 2015, King was convicted of killing his wife, Kathleen, and putting her body on the Union Pacific Railway tracks less than a quarter-mile from their Geneva home in July 2014.

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King, now 54, was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison, but the state’s highest court overturned his conviction and sentence in January 2020 due to several errors Kane County prosecutors made during the first trial, including allowing a former FBI profiler to testify as an expert witness on crimes scenes when he was not qualified.

Prosecutors claimed during the trail that King killed his wife in a jealous rage over a possible affair with another man. They had been married for 12 years and had three children when Kathleen King was killed in July 2014.

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King has always maintained his innocence, and took the witness stand in his first trial to say he “absolutely did not do it.”

The killing was the first homicide in Geneva since 1975, as previously reported.

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