Geneva man charged with murdering wife found on train tracks

GENEVA, Ill. (WLS) -- A Geneva man has been charged with murdering his wife and then placing her body on railroad tracks near their east side home, the Kane County state's attorney said.

Shadwick R. King, 47, of the 800 block of Oak Street is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, 32-year-old Kathleen King of Geneva.

Geneva police and the Kane County State's Attorney's Office allege that sometime after 5 a.m. Sunday, Shadwick King asphyxiated Kathleen King at their home.

Sometime after 6:30 a.m., a Metra train conductor reported seeing a body lying alongside the Union Pacific Railway tracks near the 200 block of Briar Lane and Esping Park. Geneva police responded to the scene at about 6:50 a.m. and determined that the woman was dead.

Shadwick King's bail was set at $1.5 million.