Josh Mankiewicz
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The detective knew firsthand the railroad shop in Tehachapi was hard to find. The building wasn't marked.
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?
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.
If Sabrina Limon knew anything more about her husband's murder, she didn't say it. Even when the detective told her that Jonathan Hearn had asked to speak to him. What do you think he's going to say? That was not true, of course. It was just more bait, a last-ditch effort to chum the waters enough so that Sabrina might flip on her lover, close the case, maybe even salvage a plea deal for herself.
Well, good. After four hours of watching Sabrina's interview from the next room, department brass decided they'd seen enough. Another investigator stepped into the room and brought it all to an end.
And with that, Sabrina Limon, mom, widow, Wolfpack member in good standing, was handcuffed and taken back to jail. On November 20th, the day after Sabrina's long post-arrest interview with Detective Meyer, the Kern County District Attorney charged Jonathan Hearn with first-degree murder. That done, the DA felt the case against Sabrina Limon was weak.
The problem was this. Out of hours and hours of wiretaps, Sabrina had said nothing incriminating.
So a few days after being picked up by Kern County deputies, Sabrina was released from custody.
Sabrina Limon may have been out of jail, but she was not free from suspicion, not from the law, and certainly not from former friends like Jason and Kelly Bernatine. And so now she's back in your town, living her life. Does she know you guys cooperated?
The American writer Thomas Wolfe famously said, you can't go home again. A lot of the time, that's certainly true. And it didn't take Sabrina Limon long to learn her hometown had turned on her.
It wasn't just hard for Sabrina to show her face in town. Julie says the kids were taunted and teased. It got so bad, Sabrina decided to homeschool them. And eventually, she decided to leave town.
Once the house sold, Sabrina packed up the kids and moved 145 miles away to Camarillo, a small town north of Los Angeles. There, she rented a three-bedroom condo and tried to start a new life amid neighbors who knew nothing of her old one. Of course, leaving one's past behind is not that easy. Sabrina still had Rob's family to contend with.
The kids had a grandmother who wanted to see them, aunts and uncles and cousins who wanted to know what happened. What about them?
That's Lydia Marrero, one of Rob Lamone's sisters. If she did call, what would you say to her?
And that's Chris Wilson, another of Rob's sisters.