The Investigation Discovery (ID) network will feature a murder that rocked Kendall County more than a decade ago on Tuesday night.
The June 4 episode of "Nightmare Next Door" will revisit the death of Melissa Plut, a 28-year-old Edward Hospital nurse murdered in her Kendall Ridge townhome in 2000.
On Sept. 3, 2000, Plut returned from a wedding in Tinley Park, stopping at a neighbor's home for drinks before heading home. Plut's body was discovered the next morning by Joliet firefighters responding to a fire at her duplex. She had been beaten and strangled.
Her neighbor, Vincent Trevizo, was convicted of her murder in 2003 and is serving a 45-year prison sentence. Trevizo was sentenced to 35 years for Plut's death, and 10 years for setting fire to her townhome unit — which was adjacent to the unit he shared with his wife and young son — to conceal the crime.
Titled "Where There's Smoke," the "Nightmare Next Door" special will focus on an anonymous 911 call that led police to investigate Trevizo. According to the episode description:
Joliet, Illinois firefighters are shocked to find 28-year-old Melissa Plut strangled to death when they respond to a fire in her duplex. Police search the nurse’s love life with no luck until a 9-1-1 call unmasks her killer hiding in plain sight.The episode will air at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday, and again at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 9.
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