Two suspects are arrested. Then one of them turns on the other. This episode originally published on December 17, 2024.
Chapter 1: How were Sabrina Limon and Jonathan Hearn arrested?
It was around 11 on the morning of November 17th, 2014, three months to the day after her husband's murder, that Sabrina Limon was taken into custody at her children's school. Like Jonathan Hearn, who had been arrested earlier, Sabrina was placed in the back of a patrol car and driven to the desert town of Boron, which was the closest Kern County Sheriff's Department substation
It was there that the couple's long journey through the American justice system would begin. Jonathan Hearn's family had already been notified of his arrest. Sabrina's sister Julie had been told by investigators that somebody needed to make arrangements to take care of her kids. Because she had been detained.
I was at work and I got the call on my cell phone. They said that they had arrested Sabrina and Jonathan Hearn. I needed to pick up the kids from school. We weren't able to talk to Sabrina. I just couldn't, couldn't believe it.
While Jonathan and Sabrina were being transported to Boron, teams of investigators fanned out to begin searches of their homes.
From Sabrina's residence, we were able to obtain lots of documents regarding financial stuff from life insurance companies, from BNSF Railroad, letters from Jonathan to Sabrina.
Every love letter, every racy photo, Every text message and every sales receipt were no longer just proof of a steamy, illicit affair.
They were now called evidence. From Jonathan's residence, we were able to seize the motorcycle that was ridden. We seized two styles of helmets.
In this episode, you will hear how some critical evidence was missed during those searches.
There were things at Jonathan's house that I was aware of that they didn't have.
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Chapter 2: What evidence was found during the investigation?
The detective knew firsthand the railroad shop in Tehachapi was hard to find. The building wasn't marked.
It's your husband's place of business. Why would you specifically tell him that it's a business rather than freeway in Tehachapi? That's where he works at.
I don't. I don't know why I told him that. It was in conversation. I don't know.
You know what? I think if you would have never told him that, he would have never been able to find it because it's not on the map. You can't Google it and find it. I tried.
Sabrina had no answer for that. For 30 seconds, she said nothing. Then she hung her head and whispered. Why did I tell him? Why did I tell him?
Yes or no? Did you ever suspect him of doing it?
Yes, after seeing the video and conversations, it could have been me, but it could have been planted. We could keep going over all these things. They could say this, we could do this, you know, kind of thing. We went over a lot of that kind of stuff, like a lot.
Sabrina insisted it had been the affair that she and Jonathan Hearn had wanted to hide all along, not murder. She said she'd never wanted to believe that Jonathan was a killer.
It wasn't about the affair. This is about him concealing the fact that he murdered your husband and he didn't want people to find out about it. And he thought he was doing God's work because you were living a life of sin. And he wanted to save you from that.
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