Secrets about Rob and Sabrina’s lifestyle emerge and police get a warrant for wiretaps. This episode originally published on December 10, 2024.
Chapter 1: How did Rob and Sabrina meet?
Their eyes met in a busy grocery aisle at Costco. She was handing out tasty samples, maybe some crackers with a new savory spread. She did not know when he approached that this stranger wearing a firefighter's t-shirt was also walking into her private life. And he? Well, he never suspected the oversized role she would soon be playing in his.
It was a routine encounter like thousands of others, unremarkable in every way except for this. That fleeting moment in the grocery aisle and the events that followed had lifelong ramifications for both of them and for everyone who knew them.
It was devastating. Absolutely devastating. I don't know. I couldn't believe it.
So was this fixed or fated, ordered and ordained? If she'd been off that day, if he'd turned down a different aisle, would any of this have happened? That is unknowable. What is known is that the lives they led leading up to that moment gave no hint of what would come after it.
I'm fascinated in relationships that end in the ultimate worst possible way. And I'm also fascinated by the secrets that lurk underneath.
In this episode, you'll hear about the lives of that misaligned pair in the Costco aisle, from those who knew them best and loved them most.
Brina is such a positive, amazing person.
Jonathan was always so thoughtful. We were best friends.
You'll hear the bedroom secrets of a bedroom community on the high desert.
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Chapter 2: What secrets emerged about Rob and Sabrina's lifestyle?
Up until then, the detective had found a lot of probable, but not much cause. The phone records of Sabrina Limon and Jonathan Hearn changed all that. Using an Excel spreadsheet, investigators were able to chart all of the calls and texts between the two since the day they first met in that aisle at Costco two years earlier.
There were thousands of contacts. They had multiple conversations via telephone calls and text messages. Clear evidence of an affair, to be sure.
But now the detective wondered if those phone records might also be evidence of a murder plot. As the detective studied two years worth of calls and contacts, he noticed a sudden break in the pattern that looked suspicious. In the spring of 2014, just three months before Rob Lamone's murder, those communications between Jonathan and Sabrina
abruptly stopped. Sometime in April, about the 25th of April of 2014, those phone calls stopped and a new phone showed up on Jonathan Hearn's phone records. When you run that number, who's it come back to? It came back to no subscriber information found.
Meaning it's a pay-as-you-go phone, a burner. Possibly, yes. The kind of phone that somebody would use if they were either committing a crime or having an extramarital affair. Yes, yes. The number of calls and texts from Jonathan Hearn's phone to and from that new number was overwhelming. 7,000 of them from April through October of 2014.
There's conversations daily via either phone or text messages. Every once in a while, you'd have a day that there was nothing, but most of the days there was some sort of conversation going on.
In the weeks leading up to Rob Limone's murder, those phone logs showed nearly 2,000 text messages between the two numbers. The detectives suspected Sabrina Limone was the person using the burner phone to communicate with Jonathan Hearn, but there seemed to be only one way to know for sure. The investigators asked a judge for permission to wiretap those phones. Difficult to get that warrant?
Very difficult. Courts take that very seriously, and so it does take an substantial amount of effort to get that warrant.
In addition to showing a judge there was reason to believe Jonathan Hearn had conspired with Sabrina Limon to kill her husband, they also argued that a conspiracy to cover up that crime was, at that very moment...
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