Crime Scene Analyst
Appearances
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
Robert Limone is working at the rail yard in Tehachapi. He's covering a shift for someone else. It's about 7 p.m. when his coworker walks into the office and finds Robert Limone bleeding on the ground. He calls 911.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
So a few days following Robert Lamone's death, there was a memorial held at a local Hellandale church where hundreds of people gathered. He was somebody who was beloved by many in that community, so they gathered to pay their respects.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
When police found Robert Lamone on the ground suffering from the gunshots, they started to look around the office. They found the place really ransacked and disheveled. But what was really interesting as they thought about could this have been a robbery was there was no money really being held at the rail yard.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
So the Kern County Sheriff's Department and the investigators were spending a lot of time with Sabrina Limon trying to gather information about who might have had a motive to harm Robert Limon.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
So the investigation was slow, but on September 1st, 2014, investigators received a call that changed the entire course of the investigation.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
We'll continue to keep you up to date on our website, Turner23.com, as well as our mobile and tablet app. The general interest was insane. This wasn't just Bakersfield, Kern County, where I worked. This was a national attention story.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
Kern laid out for the jury how he met Sabrina, how their relationship started, and then how it evolved and blossomed into the level where they were having those deep conversations about having a future together.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
What Jonathan said was pretty ironic because that turned into the next part of the conversation for Jonathan and Sabrina.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
It was really chilling to hear how precise the descriptions of the preparation that he undertook for that day were.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
Sabrina Limon's defense attorney, Richard Terry, in his opening statements, really was trying to show Jonathan Hearn as a calculated killer who Sabrina Limon was a victim to.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
As they would play the wiretapped conversations in court, really the thing that stood out was how often Jonathan Hearn would bring up God, faith, Considering all the conversation about God and faith, it was very interesting to hear what he said when being cross-examined by Richard Terry.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
So the prosecution had Jonathan Hearn as their star witness. The defense, well, they had Sabrina Limon as their star witness.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. In his closing argument, Richard Terry really tried to hammer home that Jonathan Hearn had an incentive to get on the stand and potentially lie because he was given this plea deal.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
In Eric Smith's closing arguments, he really points to a lot of evidence showing that Sabrina Limon had to have known and played a part in the plot to kill Robert Limon.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
So after about five or so hours, the jury came back with the long-awaited verdict.
20/20
Unholy Matrimony
In stark contrast to when he was on the stand testifying against Sabrina Limon, this time at his sentencing, Jonathan Hearn was emotional from the start.