Murder trial date set for Toccoa woman's ex-husband

VINCENNES, INDIANA - An Illinois man implicated last year by his ex-wife in the 1975 killing of an Indiana woman will go to trial as scheduled later this month, a judge ruled. <br> <br> Wayne Gulley, 61, of Peoria, Ill., and his ex-wife, Ella Mae Dicks, 47, of Toccoa, Ga., are charged with killing Sherry Gibson while the 23-year-old as on a date with her boyfriend, Lindy Alton. <br> <br> Prosecutors say Gibson and Alton were taken at gunpoint while they were parked in a cornfield in Knox County. Her body was found the next day in a burned-out farmhouse. Alton survived. <br> <br> Last year, Dicks walked into a police station and said she and Gulley had committed the crimes, prosecutors say. Neither had ever been considered suspects before. Gulley has denied any involvement. <br> <br> Knox Circuit Court Judge Sherry Biddinger Gregg ruled Thursday the case will go to trial on July 28, despite opposition from the defense. <br> <br> The only possible delays in starting the trial on time could result from a motion filed by Gulley&#39;s attorney, Jessie Cook of Terre Haute, to suppress information about criminal activity unrelated to the Gibson case that could influence the jury&#39;s perception of Gulley. <br> <br> Court documents describe a number of incidents Cook is seeking to suppress, such as an alleged robbery of an Illinois hotel in 1974, a burglary in 1975, drug usage and the alleged theft of items from a fruit stand in Monroe City by Gulley and Dicks the night before Gibson&#39;s death. <br> <br> Dicks is scheduled to go to trial in October.

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