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First Alert 4 reported Darryl Greenlee was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Sheila Mills.
First Alert 4 reported Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, that a St. Louis County court sentenced Greenlee, 62, to life without parole after an August jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the killing of Sheila Mills, 64. The station did not name the judge.
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Friday's life-without-parole term is the sentence First Alert 4 reported. The August verdicts on first-degree murder and armed criminal action are what the station says the jury returned after a four-day trial. The station's Friday story does not name the judge, and it does not describe a notice of appeal.
First Alert 4 reported Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, that Darryl Greenlee, 62, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a St. Louis County jury found him guilty of murder in the August 2025 killing of 64-year-old Sheila Mills. The station reported the jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action following a four-day trial in August. First Alert 4 did not name the judge who imposed Friday's term. The life-without-parole sentence is the judgment the station reported from that hearing.
According to prosecutors, as First Alert 4 reported their account, Mills's daughter had requested a welfare check. When officers arrived, they found Mills dead in her basement. Investigators say she was found bound and shot. Prosecutors say evidence on Mills's phone and on her doorbell camera pointed to Greenlee. Investigators say Mills and Greenlee had been in a turbulent relationship, and that Mills had broken up with Greenlee the day before she was killed. Those are the prosecution accounts the station published with the sentence. They are the accounts a jury heard before the August verdict.
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Melissa Price-Smith told First Alert 4, "Ms. Mills was a mother with a beautiful spirit, and she should still be with us today." She also said, "It is very unfortunate that people are unable to express their desire to leave a relationship without fear of retaliation from their intimate partner. Our office remains committed to giving a voice to survivors and holding perpetrators of domestic violence accountable." Friday's term is what First Alert 4 reported. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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