Stone County, Mo. woman sentenced in connection to a body found in Dade County in 2021

STONE COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) - A woman from Galena, Missouri, has been sentenced in connection to a body that was found in Dade County in 2021.

Court records show 61-year-old Sheila Phillips was sentenced last week to six years in prison. She is also charged with abandonment of a corpse in Dade County and is scheduled to appear in court on April 10.

In 2022, deputies arrested two people wanted in connection to the death of a Galena man.

Billy Mack Walker died from a gunshot wound in late November 2021. Dade County authorities found his body near Hulston Mill, northeast of Greenfield.

The Stone County prosecutor charged Gerald Keith Hoffman and Sheila Renee Phillips with tampering with evidence in Walker’s death. Hoffman is currently serving three years in prison for two counts of tampering with evidence.

Investigators say Hoffman admitted to shooting Walker. Hoffman and Phillips wrapped Walker’s body in a blanket and dumped his body in Dade County. Investigators say Hoffman and Phillips burned Walker’s clothes, the blanket used to transport him, and a chair he had been sitting in when he was shot.

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