Medora man sentenced for Macoupin County murder

David Buck, Jr., age 39, of Medora, was sentenced last week in Macoupin County by the Honorable Joshua A. Meyer to 66 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for the first degree murder of Rachel Warren of Chesterfield.

Buck was found guilty by a jury in January of 2023. At the sentencing hearing, evidence was given as to the defendant’s criminal history showing Buck had been previously convicted of seven felonies, mostly out of the State of Texas. At the time of the offense Buck had been released from the custody of the State of Texas and was on parole. He fled to Illinois in the wint...