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February 9, 2024
Kelsey Watznauer
Since her death in 1998, Barton McNeil has maintained he did not kill his 3-year-old daughter Christina, urging police and prosecutors to investigate his former girlfriend Misook Nowlin. Convicted in 1999, he is serving a life sentence for murder.
Read our ongoing coverage of McNeil and Nowlin, from Nowlin’s conviction and sentencing in the 2011 murder of her mother-in-law and continuing as both sought new trials to reverse their convictions.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/mclean-county-judge-denies-new-trial-for-barton-mcneil-murder-case-appeal/article_34608cf8-c77e-11ee-ba32-d3cd781389b2.html
Nov 21, 2023
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/mclean-county-judge-hears-new-evidence-in-barton-mcneil-case/article_35f12482-88c3-11ee-96d2-1b84b2b1312b.html
August 11, 2023
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/bloomington-woman-wont-get-new-trial-on-charge-tied-to-2011-murder/article_f393ecec-3885-11ee-8e13-d766796208f5.html
June 7, 2023
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/mclean-county-judge-grants-limited-discovery-items-in-mcneil-exoneration-case/article_af959154-04ae-11ee-9dd4-83a253e976f5.html
May 27, 2023
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/judge-considers-new-trial-for-charge-tied-to-2011-bloomington-murder/article_3ed3c714-fc1c-11ed-a003-3323e1428fc7.html
October 25, 2022
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/judge-allows-hearing-in-1998-bloomington-murder-case-appeal/article_da96489c-547f-11ed-83cf-ab8032bc86fc.html
May 12, 2022
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/watch-now-new-evidence-to-be-weighed-in-bloomington-mans-1999-murder-conviction/article_8cb92a6a-d21e-11ec-ae82-879c7b4d419b.html
April 1, 2022
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/prosecutors-agree-to-hearings-on-bloomington-mans-innocence-claim-in-1998-murder/article_945f2ef9-af2a-5983-88b5-51cfabb1802e.html
March 9, 2022
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/bloomington-woman-convicted-in-11-murder-continues-pursuit-of-new-trial/article_b753ea36-f4f3-5f06-8625-5120eaa534ec.html
February 23, 2021
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-courts/watch-now-bloomington-dad-serving-100-years-in-death-of-daughter-seeks-new-trial/article_851a4019-41c7-5d67-b7e8-dae0edb81d84.html
January 3, 2018
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nowlin-claims-inmate-lied-to-mclean-county-jury-about-confession/article_99861f9c-39aa-554c-99b5-ab5c470a3278.html
July 30, 2017
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/with-new-legal-team-convicted-killer-no-longer-wants-death-by-prison-in-mclean-county/article_166b7a2c-b76a-5303-9cfd-e6683d31de1f.html
January 7, 2017
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-woman-convicted-of-2011-murder-wants-new-trial/article_aa99dc1e-bf47-51c5-8872-d79fd5d47a67.html
August 26, 2014
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-judge-orders-more-dna-testing-in-mcneil-murder-case/article_b5139bb1-aa20-53bb-b771-a559fd636fb3.html
March 1, 2013
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/nowlin-gets-55-years-in-death-of-mother-in-law-in-mclean-county-murder-case/article_201febe0-82b5-11e2-83f5-001a4bcf887a.html
February 5, 2013
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/no-new-lawyer-for-bloomington-woman-convicted-of-killing-mother-in-law/article_4b368fe2-6fc7-11e2-b85b-001a4bcf887a.html
December 18, 2012
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nowlin-convicted-of-first-degree-murder-in-mclean-county/article_3ad70dd0-4938-11e2-a36e-0019bb2963f4.html
December 10, 2012
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-woman-admits-hiding-mother-in-laws-death/article_49c88418-42ee-11e2-bd81-001a4bcf887a.html
February 14, 2012
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/mcneil-claims-bloomington-woman-charged-in-different-slaying-killed-his-daughter/article_731d219c-5763-11e1-8b10-0019bb2963f4.html
September 14, 2011
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/charges-bloomington-woman-lured-mother-in-law-with-ruse-killed-her-in-parking-lot/article_8b9c3c12-ded7-11e0-bcbb-001cc4c03286.html
September 13, 2011
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-woman-jailed-in-70-year-old-s-death/article_9b2d60a0-de43-11e0-8117-001cc4c03286.html
TO SEE A SUMMARY OF PANTAGRAPH HEADLINES FROM THE BARTON MCNEIL MURDER TRIAL SPANNING 1998 through 2004 see below
About Author
Chris Ross lives in San Diego and is strong advocat for Bart’s freedom. For thirteen years there was really no breaks in Bart’s case to disprove the circumstantial evidence which sentenced him to serve a life sentence without parole until the day he heard that Misook Nowlin Wang had killed her mother-in-law in a similar state of rage in defiance of her significant partner. She deprived her husband, Don Wang, of his mother just as she had deprived Bart of his three year old daughter, Christine.
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