It was one of the most horrifying stories Flagler Beach police had dealt with in years. Rhonda Lynn Wilkerson, a 49-year-old Flagler Beach woman, and William C. Dillow, her 27-year-old boyfriend, had been serially raping, molesting and threatening Wilkerson’s two preteen daughters, until the girls alerted a teacher at Old Kings Elementary in February 2014.
Dillow had developed an elaborate scheme to ensnare the girls in his grip, brutalizing them and shooting one of the girls with a BB gun, suffocating one of the girls on one occasion, and threatening to kill them if they told–or to have them killed if he was imprisoned.
Dillow, who lived in St. Augustine, where the brutality took place–in an RV next to his father’s property–and Wilkerson, were arrested in February 2014. Last May, Wilkerson was sentenced to 50 years. A few weeks earlier, Dillow–a convicted felon who’d served time for assault in New Jersey–was sentenced to 45 years in a plea deal. He ended up at Jefferson Correctional Institution, an 1,179-inmate prison in Monticello, just east of Tallahassee.
On Wednesday, Dillow was murdered by another inmate.
When he was a 22-year-old felon serving time in New Jersey, Dillon had sought to correspond with women by mail, saying he was “in search of female viewpoints and opinions on a variety of subjects.”
“I love music, computers, play guitar and drums (you don’t want to hear me sing!). Will answer all letters. I’m lonely and enjoy corresponding,” he’d written.
He’d also written: “This is my first incarceration and last.”
Wilkerson, now 50, is serving her time at the Lowell Annex in Ocala.
Tony says
That’s a dam shame I ain’t gonna sleep a wink thinking about him! Karma has a way of getting u back !!!!!!!
Veteran says
If anybody deserved to die, it was that dirt bag. Sorry. Just my opinion.
The Truth says
Absolutely no loss to society. The world is a better place now.
Dave says
Justice has been served
Freddy says
Isn’t Karma hell?
Anonymous says
Sure was his last.
jim says
One less piece of S–T .
Flagler Citizen says
I wonder if they will find the killer. I wonder how hard they will try.
tomc says
Best news I have read all day. Good riddance.
Geezer says
I am playing the world’s smallest violin to the tune of “My heart Bleeds for Him.”
But I do wonder how and why an inmate was murdered in the custody of corrections officers.
That folks, is a detail you should ponder even if the inmate is undeniably off-putting.
Outsider says
If they do, they should give him a credit for good behavior.
usedtobethere says
hopefully he suffered as much as those girls did
GT says
We can only wish that he had a cinematic death and that he had time to remember what he did to deserve what happened to him. RIP scumbag