GRANITE CITY, Illinois  Wearing orange jail scrubs and a slight  frown, a man suspected of beating eight people to death in a one-week killing  spree in two states was led out of a small-town jail Wednesday to a waiting  police car for his transfer to a county courthouse, where he will make his  initial appearance before a judge.         Nicholas Troy Sheley (prono: SHEE-lee) gazed intently at reporters  gathered outside the Granite City jail, but did not answer any of their shouted questions. He was transferred to the Madison County Courthouse in Edwardsville, Illinois. Officials said he would use an underground entrance to enter the  building, and that his court appearance would be scheduled by Madison County  officials.        Sheley, 28, of Sterling, Illinois, was captured Tuesday night at a
shopping center in Granite City, 10 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, the FBI   said.        He was held in Granite City on $10 million bail, but officials had said  they did not know how to handle his initial appearance there, as the courthouse was small and not set up to accommodate media. Sheley was the only inmate in  the Granite City jail. A jailer told CNN most inmates are accused of minor
offenses and leave quickly. The town might see a murder once a year, the jailer said.        Sheley was picked up outside a bar in the shopping center after an  intensive manhunt that included a $25,000 reward for his capture.        A lead investigator in the case told CNN that the motive for the killings was not known, but said Sheley was a methamphetamine addict with a history of  arrests and fighting with police.        Authorities say Sheley's alleged crime spree spanned some 300 miles until he gave up without fight when police confronted him outside a Granite City bar  Tuesday night.        Sheley was taken into custody on an arrest warrant charging him with the  murder of an elderly man in Whiteside County, said Mark Maton, regional  commander for Illinois State Police.  
      Just before he was arrested, Sheley stopped at Bindy's bar in the  shopping center, prompting at least two patrons who recognized him from news  reports to excuse themselves and notify police.        "He came in and he ordered a water ... went to the bathroom and then ...  asked my boss to borrow a lighter to go outside and smoke," said Katie Ronk, a  bartender.  "When he went outside, that's when all the cops came in."        Sheley faces another arrest warrant from Galesburg, in northwestern  Illinois, charging him with first-degree murder of a 65-year-old man. He is  also suspected in six other killings, including that of a child, in Illinois  and Missouri. 
      All the victims -- six in Illinois, two in Missouri -- apparently died  from blunt force trauma to the head, the FBI said.         While at large, Sheley was considered armed and dangerous, with a  criminal history of armed violence and resisting arrest, according to the FBI.  
      On Sunday, police conducting a welfare check at an apartment in Rock  Falls, Illinois, found four people dead, including the child. Four days  earlier, another body had been found in nearby Whiteside County. Sheley was a  "known associate" to at least one of the Rock Falls victims, state police said.       Monday, authorities found a body in Galesburg, Illinois, about 80 miles  south of Rock Falls and Whiteside County. Police in Galesburg obtained an  arrest warrant against Sheley on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated
battery and vehicular hijacking in the death of Ronald Randall, 65, whose body  was found behind a grocery store.         Sheley also is suspected in the killing of an Arkansas couple in Festus,  Missouri, in suburban St. Louis. Missouri authorities told reporters that
couple were in town for a graduation and last seen at the Comfort Inn in  Festus.        "We don't believe he had a prior relationship with them," Maton said        Authorities suspected that Sheley was likely in the St. Louis area. A  bulletin issued by the St. Louis County Police Department described him as an  "extremely dangerous" methamphetamine addict.         "He has stated to his ex-wife that he has more killing to do," the  bulletin said.        According to a Tuesday affidavit by FBI Special Agent Susan Hanson,  Sheley invaded a home in Sterling, Illinois -- just a mile from Rock Falls --  on June 14. A woman inside the home told police the man was Sheley, it says.        Sheley then took off to Iowa -- where he made a phone call to his wife in Sterling on Saturday -- and then went to Missouri, according to the affidavit.        A gas station attendant in Galesburg, less than 60 miles from where the  call was placed near Davenport, Iowa, told police that he saw Sheley, who  appeared to have blood on him, at the gas station, the affidavit stated.        A stolen truck belonging to Randall -- the victim in Galesburg -- was  recovered Sunday in Festus, near an Anheuser-Busch distribution plant,
authorities said.