A clemency hearing for Robert Turner has been delayed due to the fact that the victim's family was never notified by the Illinois Prison Review Board.

Robert Turner's hearing was scheduled for Wednesday, June 15, but has now been postponed with no new date scheduled at this time.

Turner was convicted of the rape and murder of 16-year-old Bridget Drobney of Downers Grove. His brother, Michael Turner served prison time, and Daniel Hines is serving a life sentence for the murder of Drobney. All three men were from Wilsonville.

According to testimony at the time, the three men used a flashing red police-like light to get Drobney to pull over on a rural road outside of Gillespie on July 13, 1985. She was in Gillespie to attend a relative's wedding. The men told her she had to go with them, and she got in the back seat of the car owned by Hines. They drove to a cornfield where Drobney was repeatedly raped and begged for her life.

Her body was found in that cornfield four days later 12 miles away from where she had been stopped. She had been stabbed multiple times.

Michael Turner confessed to his crimes and cooperated with police. He was given a lesser sentence for concealment of a homicidal death. Hines got life without parole; and Robert Turner, who was directly responsible for Drobney's murder, was sent to death row. When the death penalty was abolished in 2003, Turner's sentence became life in prison.