A Bloomington High School Spanish teacher has been arrested for the stabbing death of her husband during a weekend camping trip.
According to Woodford County State’s Attorney Greg Minger, 30 year-old Sarah Mellor was at a private campsite just outside of Carlock when she and her husband, 31 year-old Mark Mellor, argued early Sunday morning.
Family members took Mark Mellor to Advocate BroMenn Medical Center where coroner Kathy Davis pronounced him dead from a single stab wound to the chest.
Sarah Mellor was known in the Bloomington-Normal running community and was considered a mentor for many who were new to the sport. One fellow runner who knew Mellor but did not want to be identified said, “She always had a smile on her face and it was one of those smiles that lit up a room. It’s difficult to connect the jail photo with the person I knew.”
Mellor remains in jail on a first-degree murder charge and would have to post $100,000 bail to be released. A Woodford County judge earlier set bond at $1 million with a requirement Mellor post 10 percent.
