Wagner’s
Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.
1 pm ET: Copland House presents
Underscored: Jalbert’s
Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry.
Crossings is built around a folk song from Quebec,
Quand j’ai parti du Canada (When I Left Canada), which is deconstructed, reinterpreted, reassembled, and reordered in inventive and unexpected ways. The program features a complete performance of the work, preceded by an introductory conversation with the composer, and followed by a live Q&A with viewers. Register and view here.
An alert taxi driver s information helped lead to the arrest of Christopher Sanders in the slaying of Peorian Mona Ellison, whose remains were found less than a day after she was reported missing this week.
Prosecutors provided that information Saturday when a first-degree murder charge was formally lodged against Sanders over the death of Ellison, 50.
Bail was set at $1.5 million, and Sanders remained in the Peoria County Jail on Saturday afternoon, online jail records showed.
Sanders, 42, was dating Ellison, and was seen carrying large, stuffed bags out of a residence he frequented and getting into a taxi with them, Peoria County State s Attorney Jodi Hoos said Saturday afternoon.
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A Peoria woman who had been reported missing to police was found dead Thursday in East Peoria.
Here s what we know about the deceased, the man charged in her death and details on the case.
Who is Mona Ellison?
Mona Ellison, 50, was a Galesburg native and a 1988 graduate of Galesburg High School.
She lived and owned a home in Peoria and previously worked as a waitress, bartender and certified nursing assistant, according to those who knew her. Her friends remembered her as kind and carefree.
“We’d ride motorcycles all the time,” Toni Morrison told the Journal Star. “She’d give you anything and the shirt off her back. She had a big heart.”
(Peoria County Jail)
The PPD’s Criminal Investigations Division has identified the suspect as 42-year-old Christopher Sanders.
During the course of an investigation, detectives developed information which led to Sanders becoming a suspect.
On Thursday, detectives had reason to believe Sanders left Peoria and was headed south, possibly to the greater St. Louis area. Local authorities were contacted and advised of the incident.
Sanders was taken into custody at approximately 6:30 p.m. Thursday in New Baden, Illinois.
PPD detectives transported Sanders back to the Peoria Police Department for interview purposes.
Sanders was subsequently arrested for first degree murder and transported to the Peoria County Jail.