Woman handed 13-year sentence for arson attack at Crystal Lake home

CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. — A Boone County woman who mistakenly set fire to the wrong home during an arson attack in Crystal Lake will spend more than a decade in prison.

Brittany Terrell, a 33-year-old Garden Prairie, Illinois, resident, has been sentenced to 13 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, McHenry County State’s Attorney Randi Freese announced Tuesday.

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According to Freese, the incident began on April 20, 2025, when Terrell and an accomplice drove to a residence near downtown Crystal Lake.

Once at the residence, Terrell got out of the car with a metal container containing an ignited accelerant and threw it at the home…

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