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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, cousin of Barton McNeil, lives in San Diego and is an unwavering advocate for his innocence. For thirteen years there were no breaks to reverse the fate that had befallen a loving father no person can imagine. Then in September 2011 his violent estranged girlfriend Misook Nowlin Wang, always the known second leading suspect in his daughter’s 1998 murder, returned to Bloomington and strangled to death her mother-in-law in a macabre premediated murder. A murder in which she buried her mother-in-law at a post-midnight hour in the presence of her 5-year-old son. She exacted revenge against her husband Don Wang for having an extramarital affair just as she avenged Barton 13 years earlier for breaking up with her leaving her the classic woman scorned.
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