Flem Stiltner, IV, sentenced to 29-50 years for killing, dumping father in VBT

On Aug. 18, Flem Stiltner IV, 27, was sentenced by Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Wanda Evans to 29 to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the Aug. 9, 2020 death of his father, 48-year-old Flem Stiltner III.
Stiltner IV was initially charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing his father to death in Wayne and then placing him into the back of a pickup truck and leaving it at Quirk and Belleville roads in Van Buren Township. He also had been charged with home invasion-first degree and tampering with evidence and those three charges were dismissed in exchanged for the guilty plea.
He also was fined $1,898. Stiltner IV received credit for 739 days of time served.
On Aug. 9, 2020 Michigan State Police were notified by the Van Buren Township Police Department of a dead body in the bed of a pickup truck that was found stuck in the grass around Belleville Lake in its township. An investigation by the Wayne Police Department and MSP led to the identification and arrest.