Olicia Lee
| “ | I was trying to use two hands cause this hand [the right] was moving. I was trying, and I was holding it in this hand. And I was trying to, you know, hold the thing, and this hand kept shaking. And the trigger went, and the potato exploded. | „ |
| ~ Lee's confession to the murder of Paul Shealey. |
Olicia Lee is a Jacksonville woman responsible for the murder of her boyfriend Paul Shealey in 2001.
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Lee met Paul Shealey in 1998, and the two of them began dating. However, in 2001 Lee received a phone call from a woman named Aisha James who identified herself as Shealey's girlfriend, revealing that he was cheating on her. In anger, Lee decided to kill Shealey, ultimately shooting him in the head on 25 February with one of his guns after placing a potato over the end to silence it. She then contacted several friends who dumped Shealey's body in Lofton Creek. Lee rewarded her accomplices with Shealey's gold jewellery.
Shealey's body was found on 28 February. Along with some jewellery and the rug his body was wrapped in, a pair of women's reading glasses were found with the body. The police were unable to solve the murder at first and the case went cold for nine months. After nine months, one of Lee's accomplices who was imprisoned for attempted burglary admitted to disposing of Shealey's body after Lee killed him.
Investigators obtained a search warrant for Lee's home and, using luminol, found Shealey's blood all over the walls and floor of the master bedroom. Lee was questioned over Shealey's murder and initially denied everything. However, after being confronted with the reading glasses found at the scene she admitted they were hers and soon confessed to shooting Shealey. She was charged with first-degree murder, but accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2006. She is scheduled for release in 2033.