Monster Who Raped And Murdered A Toddler And Then Blamed Her Dad Gets Killed In Prison

A man who sexually assaulted and murdered a toddler from Illinois has died in prison. Scott Eby, 52, confessed to the killing of Riley Fox at just three years old after her body was found in a creek near her home in 2004. At the time, the case made headlines across the US - with young Riley’s father having been wrongfully accused of the evil crime. Eby was an inmate at Menard Correctional Center at the time of his death on Thursday (December 7), according to an online inmate notification system.

Kevin Fox, Riley’s father, had spent eight months in jail before DNA evidence cleared the grieving father from any wrongdoing in murdering his daughter. Investigators claimed Fox - who died earlier this year in an Arkansas car crash - had confessed to accidentally killing Riley before attempting to make it look like a kidnapping. But in 2010, Fox was entirely exonerated when Eby confessed to kidnapping Riley from her home in Wilmington, around 60 miles from Chicago. By then a convicted sex offender, Eby admitted to abducting Riley before sexually assaulting her, stuffing her in his car boot and drowning her in a creek.