Laura Keck
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I had prosecuted Mr. Yon about 10 years before for a domestic battery offense. Mr. Gahn had prior convictions, mainly from the state of Missouri for burglary, I think maybe a drug offense or two. He also had pending warrants, I believe, or we were looking for him as a possible suspect in some other burglary type offenses.
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I think he had a burglary warrant out of the state of Missouri when this offense occurred, as well as a pending case out of St. Charles County. But for the most part, his criminal history was drugs and burglary prior to this offense.
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My name is Laura Keck. I'm an assistant state's attorney for the Adams County state's attorney's office.
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It was a Sunday night, I was actually already in bed and I received a text message from the primary investigating officer, Kelsey Miller, and she texted me and said something to the effect of, I know it's late, but are you awake? I then either called her or texted her that I was available and her words to me were, Tina Lohman is dead.
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I found out about the case the next morning when Josh shared the initial reports that we had about what had occurred. And quite frankly, I was horrified because this is the type of case that occurs in a person's nightmares. It occurs in movies, but thankfully does not generally occur in real life. In real life, you don't normally have 77, 78 year old women
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sexually assaulted, attacked on the side of the road and in their own homes by complete strangers.
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Also, during the course of the sexual assault inside of the house, at one time the man, the woman, or both of them had a knife and was threatening her with the knife that she was going to be killed. And Tina was told repeatedly they would kill her if she did not comply with their demands.
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When officers arrived, they located Tina was sitting in the living room of the house right when you walked in. She was bleeding from what appeared to be the lower part of her body. She was crying off and on. They also observed blood on the floor of the house.
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In addition, in the kitchen, which was connected to the living room, it was all kind of one big room, on the floor was a can of carpet cleaner as well as a knife, both laying on the floor. They got a very brief statement from Tina about what had happened to her, which was basically her saying she had been raped and that there was a man and a woman.
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After they got that information from her, then they arranged with her daughters for her to go to Blessing Hospital to have a sexual assault kit done.
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The meeting we met with her in person, she was positive and she was upbeat, but it was because while she would talk about the crime, she wanted to talk about anything else other than the crime. She wanted to talk about her life, she wanted to talk about her family, she wanted to show pictures of her family, but she was in denial that such a thing had occurred to her.
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Talking with Tina, even at that time, and I don't think ever, she would not go back to her house where the incident had happened. She stayed at a different property that she owned. She lived in hotels because she did not want to go back to where it had happened. And she was so terrified about what had happened to her and that it could happen to her.
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After the defendant finished robbing Tina of her dignity, he fled. He fled with Tina's purse. He fled with her jewelry. He took her money. He fled with Tina's car. He even took Tina's rosary. Then he went across the river to Hannibal and he played video poker.