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William Dillow, Serving 45 Years for Raping 2 Pre-Teen Flagler Beach Girls, Is Murdered

November 6, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

william dillow
William Dillow when he was booked in county jail in February 2014, right, then in his Florida prison booking photo. He was killed Wednesday.

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.

Rhonda Wilkerson.
Rhonda Wilkerson.
The Tallahassee Democrat, which first reported the killing, noted the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating the death, with help from the Florida Department of Corrections’ Office of Inspector General. Details surrounding the killings were not released. An FDLE spokesperson could not be reached late Friday afternoon.

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.

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Comments

  1. Tony says

    November 6, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    That’s a dam shame I ain’t gonna sleep a wink thinking about him! Karma has a way of getting u back !!!!!!!

    Reply
  2. Veteran says

    November 6, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    If anybody deserved to die, it was that dirt bag. Sorry. Just my opinion.

    Reply
  3. The Truth says

    November 6, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    Absolutely no loss to society. The world is a better place now.

    Reply
  4. Dave says

    November 6, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    Justice has been served

    Reply
  5. Freddy says

    November 6, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    Isn’t Karma hell?

    Reply
  6. Anonymous says

    November 6, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    Sure was his last.

    Reply
  7. jim says

    November 7, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    One less piece of S–T .

    Reply
  8. Flagler Citizen says

    November 7, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    I wonder if they will find the killer. I wonder how hard they will try.

    Reply
  9. tomc says

    November 7, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    Best news I have read all day. Good riddance.

    Reply
  10. Geezer says

    November 7, 2015 at 6:00 pm

    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.

    Reply
  11. Outsider says

    November 7, 2015 at 6:26 pm

    If they do, they should give him a credit for good behavior.

    Reply
  12. usedtobethere says

    November 7, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    hopefully he suffered as much as those girls did

    Reply
  13. GT says

    November 10, 2015 at 11:11 am

    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

    Reply
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