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Nicholas T. Sheley (Booking photo taken Tuesday evening)

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- A man suspected in a killing spree that left eight people in two states dead is being transferred to a county where he's charged in one of the slayings.

Nicholas Sheley was picked up Thursday morning from the Madison County jail east of St. Louis by Knox County authorities.

Sheley faces Knox County charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery, vehicle hijacking and theft in last month's beating death of 65-year-old Ronald Randall.

Sheley also is charged in the death of a Sterling man, and authorities have named him a suspect in four killings in Rock Falls and two in Missouri.

Sheley was arrested Tuesday night outside a bar in Granite City in Madison County, Ill.

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