Jamere Donte’ Bew, 31, was found dead in a ditch in Funks Grove Township, between McLean and Heyworth, on November 25, 2023. An autopsy determined he died of multiple gunshot wounds and showed he had been severely beaten. The investigation began after a woman called McLean County deputies around 7 a.m. saying her friend had been shot.

Police traced activity to an apartment on the 1600 block of Springfield Road in Bloomington, where officers smelled bleach, found a bloody couch and items in a nearby dumpster, and detained two men, Justin G. Kletz, 26, and Derek P. Siebring, 18. Prosecutors say Bew was assaulted in the apartment after Gabrielle A. Stine, who was dating Bew, accused him of sexually assaulting her while she slept. Prosecutors allege Kletz and Siebring beat Bew with a baseball bat, strangled him with a cord, bound him with duct tape, then placed him in the trunk of Stine’s car and drove him to the rural scene where Siebring shot him multiple times.

Two men were arrested the day Bew’s body was found; Stine was initially charged with residential burglary and later indicted on more serious counts. All three defendants ultimately pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received lengthy prison terms. Did anyone in Bloomington or Funks Grove know Bew’s movements or see his car around November 24–25, 2023?