Josh Jones
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This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
My name is Josh Jones. I'm an assistant state's attorney for Adams County and lead trial attorney for the state's attorney's office.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
The way Miss Keck and I handle these cases is we don't look that much into the hearts and minds of the people we prosecute. Before this date, Bradley Yon was nobody to us. So he wasn't somebody that was on our radar, wasn't somebody that, you know, when the police told us the name Bradley Yon, I vaguely recognized it, but it wasn't, you know, one of those names that pop into your head.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
I mean, I hate to sound crass, but he was a nobody.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
So once we had the names Karen Blackledge and Bradley on, obviously we issued warrants for their arrest and the police were looking for them as well. I think we used the marshals, US marshals, to help assist in that as well. We knew a possible location for a friend or a family member they had in the Springfield. The police arrived at that location based on, I believe, on a tip.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
The day that I first found out about it was the night that it happened. It was actually at the Quincy Community Theater. And in the middle of rehearsals, I got an urgent text message from the sheriff's office saying that there was a home invasion and sexual assault and they needed to speak with me.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
and found the car in the general area. And we're also able to determine that Mr. Yon and Ms. Blackledge were in a trailer.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
So I stepped out of rehearsals, got an update on what was going on, and then went into the office the next morning, found out a little bit more about it, and met with Laura and started talking with her about the case.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
Did Bradley Yon cause her death? Absolutely. But legally proving that would have been exceptionally difficult, if not impossible.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
We know that she was coming home. It was getting dark. She wasn't sure how the lights on her car worked. There was some confusion about that. And so she pulled over to the side of the road where she was hoping that she was going to get some help. You know, it was one of those things that everybody's scared about.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
You know, you're on the side of the road and it's dark and she's a 77-year-old woman and she's like, you know, what's going to happen to me? You never really think that it's going to be a nightmare. You live in Quincy. Somebody's going to show up and somebody's going to help you. That's what we've come to expect.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
I mean, I've seen, I don't know how many stories of somebody's on the side of the road and somebody shows up and helps them to change a tire or brings them gas or things like that. That's what we would anticipate happening in Quincy, Illinois. And I think that's what Tina thought was going to happen.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
He forced her into the passenger seat as they were driving. The man began to force Tina to perform sexual acts on him. They then got to her house. She ran away from them. got into the house, locked the door.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
The man kicked open the door, followed her in, ransacked the house looking for jewelry, looking for cash, looking for anything, stole a significant amount of jewelry, stole some cash that was in the house. sexually assaulted her again according to tina he sprayed her with a can of carpet cleaner on her body and in her mouth got into tina's car took her car keys and fled from the location
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
Ms. Sloman had significant injuries. She was bruised. She had contusions on her legs and on her arms and on her hands. She had chemical burns or what appeared to be chemical burns in her mouth. She underwent a pelvic exam and there was tearing and bleeding in her vaginal area as well.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
miss loman gave the police a generalized description of the man and the woman who had carjacked her and broken into her home and sexually assaulted her we also knew that the suspects had taken tina loman's car and so we were looking for that car
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
Turned out that that car was later found in Hannibal, Missouri at a gas station. We were able to get the video from that gas station showing the man and the woman coming into the gas station, leaving Tina Lohman's car, I think maybe an hour or certainly less than two hours after the events occurred. The suspects then fled that location, fled across the river back into Illinois.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
But once we had the video of them, it was easier to identify who they were. Both suspects were people who were known to Quincy police officers based on prior involvement.