Husband-Killing Stabber Pleads Guilty to Reduced Charge

JOLIET, IL — A Bolingbrook woman who plunged a knife into her husband’s chest might get off with probation after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder.

Michele Evans, 52, had been charged with first-degree murder for killing her husband, 55-year-old David Evans, in April 2015.

Michele Evans stabbed her husband in their Bloomfield Drive home. He died soon after at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove.

Michele Evans posted a $1 million bond for her release from the Will County jail a month after she killed her husband. Twice since her release, she petitioned for protective orders against a man who moved into her marital home with her after her husband’s death. Michele Evans accused this man, 53-year-old John Hollyfield, of menacing her and holding her “hostage.”

“Over the last month that John has moved in with me, he has become verbally and physically abusive to me,” Michele Evans said in one of her petitions. “He will throw things, he has picked up my crutch and waived (sic) it at me threatening me with it.”

Michele Evans’ sentencing was scheduled for May 22. She will no longer have to take drug tests prior to her court appearances.

Evans failed a test for cocaine in October and ended up back in jail for a month and a half.

Michele Evans | image via Will County Sheriff's Department