A Bloomington woman who pleaded guilty in January to concealing a homicide and mutilating a human body was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years in prison.

Vishawn Mills, 25, was accused of covering up the August 2013 death of Oakley Mitchell, an elderly Secor man whose remains were found at his home and under a bridge just south of Kappa on U.S. 251.  Murder charges were dismissed against her as part of the plea deal.

Mills’ boyfriend, Rayshawn Johnson, is serving 50 years for murder.

In handing down the 14 years for mutilation and four years for concealing the death, Associate Judge Michael Stroh said some parts of Mills’ story that she feared for her life if she contacted police were not believable.

Citing at least six times when Mills could have disclosed the murder, Stroh told Mills his decision centered one issue: “Did you come forward because of guilt or fear of being caught?”

Mills’ admission that she paid for manicures for her two young daughters with money she took from Mitchell’s bank account after his death also failed to impress the judge.

In her testimony Tuesday, Mills explained how the 74-year-old man she met at a bingo game was murdered. The two exchanged phone numbers and she moved into his home after he offered to help her while she went to nursing school, she said.

But an ongoing discord between Oakley and Johnson erupted on Aug. 1, 2013, she said, over Oakley’s insistence that Johnson sleep in a shed outside the house.

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One of two people charged with the death of a 74 year old rural Secor man last year was sentenced in Woodford County court Thursday.

Rayshawn Johnson received a 50 year sentence for the dismemberment murder of Oakley Mitchell whose remains were found last year in Woodford and McLean Counties.

Johnson is the boyfriend of Mitchell’s former caregiver, Vishawn Mills who appears in court next month. Johnson must serve 100 percent of the sentence.

During his sentencing hearing, Johnson apologized to the victim’s family. Mitchell was shot five times , dragged to a burn pit and lit on fire.

Mitchell’s charred remains were later found in the Mackinaw River in both McLean and Woodford Counties.