Male and female bodies werepulled from Spoon River near Route 78, just north of Laura sometime after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
It ends a two-day exhaustive search for the missing Princeville couple, though an official coroner’s ID is pending.
Susan Brill de Ramirez and Antonio Ramirez Barron, both 63-year-old Bradley University professionals, went missing late last week.
Their 21-year-old adopted son was arrested Monday after allegedly confessing to killing and dumping his parents.
Jose Ramirezmade his first appearance in a Peoria County courtroom Tuesday via video.
Dave Kenny is the charging prosecutor. He told the judge witnesses report Ramirez speaking of killing his parents multiple times.
Kenny says furtherRamirez, "told detectives essentially that he was tired of his parents, waited until they were asleep and went into the bedroom with a knife, used pepper spray to distract them, stabbed his dad in the stomach and then stabbed his dad in the neck. Then his mom got out of bed and he also stabbed her in the stomach and the neck.”
Kenny says Ramirez gave detectives a second version of the story Tuesday where he says he “hit each of them with a baseball bat.”
Ramirez has been assigned a public defender. His bond was set at $3-million.
The other man allegedly involved is 20-year-old Matthew Roberts of Princeville. Roberts was arrested as an accessory but was also charged with murder late Tuesday.
Neither Ramirez or Roberts have a criminal record.
The Peoria County Coroner says official identification will be necessary. Neither body included personal identification. An autopsy is planned Wednesday.
A vigil service for the couple is planned for Thursday, November 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Michel Student Center Ballroom on the Bradley University campus.
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