After driving Melissa Best’s dead body to the parking lot of a Grayslake apartment complex, Charles Best’s wife picked him up in her car and the couple went to Denny’s for bacon milkshakes, prosecutors said Friday.
Sherry Best admitted that she delivered the heroin and produced the needle that Melissa Best used on the day she died, according to Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Steve Scheller.
Charles Best admitted he grabbed the dead body of his brother’s wife under her arms, threw the body in her van and drove it to the parking lot, Scheller said. He chose the lot because he used to date a woman who lived in the apartment complex, Scheller said.
After the bacon milkshakes, the couple went back to their extended stay motel room in Waukegan and “continued to party,” Scheller said.
Sherry and Charles Best appeared before Lake County Judge Raymond Collins today and told him they could not afford to hire their own attorneys. Sherry Best was appointed a public defender because she does not work, however Collins told Charles Best that the approximately $1,100 – $1,600 he said he makes every two weeks at a tool company is too much to qualify for a public defender.
Bond was set at $1 million each. Charles Best is due back in court on May 19 for a status of attorney. Both are due back in court on June 8 for a preliminary hearing.
Police in Round Lake Park Thursday announced the arrests Charles Best, 37, and Sherry Best, 33, of Waukegan, in connection to the death of Melissa Best, whose body was found in her own van in a Grayslake parking lot on April 25, 10 days after the woman went missing.
Police said Melissa Best and Sherry Best both injected heroin on April 15 at the extended-stay motel room in Waukegan where Charles and Sherry Best live. Melissa Best had overdosed and died by the time Charles Best returned home from work that evening, and that he and his wife drove Melissa’s body to the parking lot and left her there.
Clinton Best had reported his wife missing on April 16, saying she disappeared after dropping off one of their two children at a friend’s house. He appealed to the public for help in finding his missing wife.
@centre21 Really? You can’t separate the two issues?
I was commenting on the “reporter” who shaded the facts to sensationalize a headline. It was easy for you to find out there’s no such thing as a bacon milkshake, and I have little doubt the reporter knew it, too. But “bacon sundae” does not have the pizzaz she wanted. Either that, or she was just mindlessly repeating something she’d heard somewhere else, which is nearly as bad.
Which is it, Ms. Fuller?
Ps. Brian, you don’t need to shout.
@barbyr Really? This is what you’re concerned about? Whether or not the reporter said that they had bacon milkshakes? THEY LEFT A GIRL WHO DIED IN THEIR PRESENCE IN A VAN WHILE THEY ATE AND “CONTINUED TO PARTY”.
And to be accurate, during this time of Baconalia at Denny’s, they do offer bacon sundaes. It could be that the accused described them as “milkshakes”. It’s not too much of a stretch to think that people who wouldn’t think much about a girl who OD’d in their presence wouldn’t really care much about calling anything that involves ice cream and a tall glass a “milkshake”.
Denny’s does not serve bacon milkshakes. Never did. This reporter chooses to lie rather than lose her carefully crafted headline.