Mishealia Marie Meredith was 19 when her body was found in a remote Gallatin County cornfield on March 14, 2021. She had been last seen alive the evening of March 12, 2021, when she called her mother about 7 p.m. to say she was walking home; her phone was later recovered in the Eldorado area a few miles from where her body was located. The investigation determined she had been shot twice and maliciously murdered.

Authorities identified 36-year-old Alexander McWilliam of Harrisburg as the primary suspect; he was Mishealia’s boyfriend at the time. A witness later testified that McWilliam became upset after Mishealia allegedly rolled her eyes, shot her in the head while she sat on a couch, and then threatened the witness to help conceal the crime and dispose of the body. McWilliam was charged with first-degree murder, listed as armed and dangerous, located by U.S. Marshals in Union County, Kentucky, and extradited to Saline County to await trial.

Mishealia was born June 18, 2001, in Carbondale, was a student at Southeastern Illinois College, and attended Star General Baptist Church in Eldorado. Her family remembered her as sweet and always smiling. Does anyone have information about Mishealia’s last movements or saw her in Eldorado on March 12?