On the morning of June 16, 1998, 3-year-old Christina McNeil was found dead in her bed in Bloomington, Illinois. Today, her now 65-year-old father, Barton McNeil, is serving a.
Beals returned home in December after serving more than three decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit the second-longest wrongful incarceration in Illinois' history.
New evidence presented in Barton McNeil’s challenge to his 1999 murder conviction was not enough to convince a McLean County judge to give him a new trial.