Mike Boudet
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Episode 285
Okay. And she spent most of the money on my car. Dan was a friend of Sherry's. He helped her out by moving and setting her up in a new apartment, but he also lent her money. As much as Eric disapproved of this man and Sherry's life, he had no problem using the funds Dan gifted Sherry for himself or his car. Then Dan bought Sherry a laptop.
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Episode 285
And one day, after an afternoon of lovemaking, Eric just couldn't let the laptop go. Maybe it was the fact that Dan could buy her something nice like a computer that Eric simply couldn't afford. Anyway, it made him angry. Because she was messing with it.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Eric had been a quote-unquote serious Wiccan for many years. In fact, it was his whole identity. Usually people that are really, really stupid assume new identities from new things they discover and find kind of weird and cool and different, you know? They want to be different because they're boring and dull. So they adopt things like, you know, witchcraft and nonsense.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
When you get hit over the head with an idea over and over and over again, even for the dumbest of us, something eventually sticks. What happened on New Year's Day in Everett, Washington, is a great example of that. The misty city of Everett was boasting its typical winter colors of gray and green.
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Episode 285
Maybe they start reading satanic verses or something. Something edgy, you know? And then that becomes their whole personality. Because what else is there? Anyway, Eric was one of these. And Sherry had also joined the church a few months prior. Mostly because of Eric's influence.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Eric was a talker, and when his pagan beliefs came up, something shifted. A fire blazed in his eyes, sending a chill down the detective's spines. They needed to know more about this deal that he made with Sherry, but nothing could have prepared them for what came out of this Wiccan's mouth. Snohomish County detectives were trying to find out what happened to 35-year-old Sherry Harlan.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
She hadn't been seen in days and her apartment was a wreck. Police found ripped up carpet, bleached floors, blood spatter, pieces of human tissue on a A glove? It was clear she'd been killed, but there was no trace of her remains whatsoever. The last person to see her alive was her boyfriend, Eric Christensen. A kilt-wearing Wiccan with a bald head and a 10-inch braided goatee.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Couldn't have been him, right? Anyway, when the detectives found Eric outside the hospital with a hand injury, they started asking him about Sherry. He was more than happy to talk about how their relationship had gone downhill after she started taking financial gifts from a friend called Dan Young. This bastard, this bastard that had, you know, all this money for stuff like laptops.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
You know, Eric just wasn't happy about it. And he told police that he had Sherry make a deal with him using some of his coveted Wiccan rituals. Tell me about the ceremony.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Nestled in Puget Sound, it's your typical Pacific Northwest port town, where the drab rainy skies are offset by the endless green shrubbery and towering Douglas fir trees. Beautiful, but super depressing. Outside the Cedar Creek apartments, two officers arrived to do a welfare check on 35-year-old Sherry Harlan.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
That's it. It's hard to take a ritual seriously when it involves buying wands at a store next to Sears.
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Episode 285
Mm-hmm. They returned to the apartment and Eric set up his ritual space. But there was one problem. They needed a church witness to bind the ceremony and make it real. That damn fine print.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Holding his wand in one hand and a dagger in the other, Eric stood outside the invisible circle he had just cast in their living room. Or at least he pretended to. Because it was not a real circle, he just invented it. Anyway, Sherry waited quietly beside him and closed her eyes. Eric's friend was on speakerphone as Eric looked up to the ceiling and began summoning his gods.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
We're going to have some company today. Put out the good china, I guess. As this was happening, the incense burned, clouding the apartment with a musky, thick smoke, potentially masking some of the body odor, I would imagine. Eric was in a trance as he worked his magic ritual. Then he turned to Sherry and pointed the wand at her. And then what happened? I asked her, why are you here?
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
I love the cops, very banal, very ordinary people. Oh, okay. The way it offsets the absurdity of what this guy's saying. Anyway, after the blood oath ritual was complete, Eric was satisfied. Sherry had admitted her transgression and committed her own life essence to him. So what was the sin that she confessed? that there would be no more sugar daddy whatsoever.
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Episode 285
Eric explained that things went well for a while, even though he found it strange that they were no longer living together. Christmas came and went, and then Eric found a message from Dan and Sherry's phone. Talking about my religion and my beliefs, I get into, I guess, an oracle mode.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
He let that one slide. Maybe she didn't get it. They reconciled, but spent New Year's Eve apart because Sherry had to work. The next day, Eric picked her up from JCPenney. They had a nice evening together. Then the next morning, when Sherry went to have a shower, Eric took her phone and started snooping. That's when he saw that Sherry had still been talking to Dan.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Oh man, what are the other guys on the subreddit going to think? I said, you broke your own. She says, what do you mean? What do you mean?
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Episode 285
He threw Sherry's phone across the room and started berating her. Yeah, I told her, you broke your blood off.
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Episode 285
She had become a warlock. Her blood was garbage. But Eric said that he had not seen her since he left that day. They had a loud fight. She slammed the door and he left. As for the cuts on his hand, Eric said that on his way back to Gold Bar, he was jumped by, quote, three Mexican guys, unquote. How did you fight the three of them off? With my fists.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Shelly hadn't shown up for the last few shifts at JCPenney. One of my first jobs worked in the men's underwear department. More suit and everything. It's crazy. Imagine young Mike Boudet in a suit at JCPenney selling you underwear. Neither can I. Anyway, Sherry's coworkers grew more and more concerned every time they tried to call her because they weren't getting an answer.
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Episode 285
After Eric's interview, the police thanked him for his time and he returned home. seemingly unbothered by the conversation. Then, detectives immediately called the prosecutor's office to expedite a search warrant for Eric's house.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
While police searched Eric's guest house for evidence, the interview, as bizarre as it was, remained purely circumstantial. They needed more. Then came a breakthrough that set everything in motion. They found Sherry's car.
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Episode 285
Down Reeder Road, the detectives descended upon Sherry's Nissan in a desolate pit.
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Episode 285
Sherry's Nissan was a husk of a car. It had been burned to a crisp. Just the bare metal bones of the car remained as smoke swirled all around. Then they saw something unforgettable.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
There it was. The first piece of Sherry. Her skull just sitting there like a message from whoever had done this.
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Episode 285
The brutality of Sherry's death was becoming apparent. This had been a violent, savage murder.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
It was clear that Sherry had been killed with the knives Dan had gifted her. All signs pointed to Eric, but there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime. No confession. No proof. Detectives were left questioning, was Eric the killer or was someone else involved? Then, an unexpected phone call would blow the investigation wide open.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
A man named Ryan Gessme called the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office and said he needed to talk to someone. Ryan was one of Eric's only friends and a member of the same Wiccan church that Sherry and Eric belonged to. He was the one Eric had called on the phone to witness the blood oath. Ryan said that a few days after the oath, Eric called him asking for help.
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Episode 285
And as we've heard before, this just wasn't like Sherry. Again, I'm not sure who the type is that just disappears and doesn't answer people. Oh, right. That's me. That's me. Don't call me. Anyway, she actually enjoyed working at JCPenney. She had a lot of fun with her co-workers who teased her about the awkward laugh she had. This awkward laugh happened so often they decided to catch it on video.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Craig, the detectives, Ryan, and his lawyer sat down as Ryan gave his proffer statement, his account of what happened to Sherry. As the only witness to the aftermath, his story would be crucial at trial.
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Episode 285
Ryan drove while Eric directed him. Inside the trunk was Sherry. Eric had cut her body up into pieces and stuffed her bloody limbs into garbage bags.
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Ryan acted as a chauffeur around wooded parts of the county. Eric would make him stop, then get out with another body part and his shovel.
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Ryan detailed every spot they went to that afternoon. repeating the same awful process of hiding Sherry's remains as Eric showed them off, like trophies.
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Episode 285
As the process went on, Eric became less secretive and started showing Ryan the parts in the bags. After Eric threw Sherry's thigh over the guardrail, a car drove by.
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Episode 285
Small town problems, huh? Ryan's own mother drove by as the two scattered around Sherry's body. And Ryan's mom stayed for five whole minutes. Ryan stood there, swallowing his terror as he made up excuses for his mom and prayed she would leave before Eric came back with another bloody trash bag.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
When she was gone, they continued driving around for the next few hours, digging small graves for Sherry's bloody parts.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
According to Ryan, Eric did not seem upset. He toggled between elated and frustrated. Probably from having to dig the wet, hard dirt. He clearly wasn't saddened to have lost Sherry. After Eric had had enough for that day, he took Ryan back home and said he'd pick him up again tomorrow. The next day, they got back in the car with the remainder of the body and continued their sick task.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
By this time, Eric started talking more and more about what happened to Sherry and how she died.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
After every single piece of Sherry had been dispersed, except for her head, Ryan told Eric he was done. He'd had enough.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
No, we didn't get the trigger warnings on this episode incorrectly. That was not a wounded animal. That was Sherry's laugh. Anyway, Sherry had left her shift at JCPenney on January 1st and hadn't been seen since. Her co-workers called the police and asked for a welfare check on January 5th.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Ryan then took the police to every place where he'd watched Eric dig a grave for Sherry. They collected every piece of her until they finally had a whole woman again. But Ryan's edgy demeanor cast a shadow of doubt. Had he really just been an observer in all of this? The police still had to tie the physical evidence back to Eric...
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
The last place to investigate was his own property, and they hoped he'd leave something bloody behind. What had started as a welfare check on Sherry Harlan had quickly become a murder investigation. Detectives were suspicious of her boyfriend, Eric Christensen, who had admitted to getting into a fight with Sherry after she broke a blood oath during a Wiccan ritual.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Now his friend and fellow Wiccan, Ryan Gessme, had admitted that he helped Eric scatter Sherry's severed body parts around the county.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
The police now had Eric in custody. And at his home, their search warrant turned up even more pieces of incriminating evidence.
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Episode 285
On top of all the blood-soaked items in Eric's dingy guest house, they also searched his car.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Eric left evidence everywhere. A shocking amount for someone so calculating. He cut linoleum out of the floor, yet left his cleanup list in his car. Maybe Eric thought he had more time. Maybe he was just a little clumsy. I don't think he ever anticipated that Ryan would turn on him the way that he did.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
But I've found late in life that all those sayings we learn as a kid have a lot of truth and a lot of learnings to be derived from. You know, sayings like, there is no honor amongst thieves or murderers.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Like all criminals facing trial in Washington, Eric was granted the right to a speedy trial. In Washington, speedy means 60 days. Not sure why they've adopted that definition, but it is what it is. Craig and his team had a solid theory of exactly what had happened to Sherry, and enough physical evidence to nail Eric.
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Episode 285
Eric was clearly a fucking loser, in case you haven't figured that out yet. He had no income. and barely a home. He was also a convicted felon. He was a Wiccan. Do I have to say more? Anyway, in 1990, he was convicted of statutory rape and forgery in Oregon. He served his prison time, and he moved up to Seattle. He was supposed to be a registered sex offender in Washington, which... He was not.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Probably because a lot of those states over on the West Coast, they just don't give a shit about crime. And especially crimes involving sex offenders for some reason. Not sure why that is. Anyway, in 1994, he tried to kill his ex-girlfriend by shooting her and her boyfriend with a rifle. This is a guy that should have never been out on the streets after that.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
It was in the Washington prison that Eric discovered the Wiccan religion and the Aquarian Tabernacle Church. Why is it Aquarian? I don't know. Go down that rabbit hole yourself if you want to. Leave me out of it. Anyway, behind bars, he immersed himself in pagan beliefs, becoming obsessed, as easily obsessed people do.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
After his release, he met Sherry on that app called Tagged, which nobody's ever heard about. And just 11 months later, he would kill her.
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Episode 285
Craig believed that Eric attacked Sherry as soon as she got out of the bathroom. He grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and went into a white-hot rage.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
When Eric showed up at trial, he had finally shaved his signature 10-inch goatee and put on a nice suit, you know? Put on a nice suit every now and then. It's nice. It's good for you. It's good for your health. Eric was unrecognizable. He was still evil, of course. All that evil bubbling below the surface, but at least he had the proper attire.
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Episode 285
Sherry's friends and family were all there. She had a lot of mourners. Vigils had been held in her honor and the whole community mourned for this kind-hearted girl with a funny laugh and curly hair. Because of that, Craig was very careful when selecting pictures of the crime scene. There were over 1,000 graphic images of Sherry's body parts. her skull, and the murder scene.
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Episode 285
Craig managed to narrow it down to an essential 100 images to spare her family and the jurors.
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It was a tense 16 days in that courtroom, but in the end, the jury came back with a guilty verdict. Eric would spend almost 50 years behind bars, which is probably where he should have been for his entire useless life. One day we'll have an AI that will tell us if you're predisposed to become an Eric, and we can just throw you in there from birth. Won't that be great?
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Anyway, Eric, this hateable character that we've spent an hour telling you about, he was a deadbeat. If you haven't figured that out by now. A deadbeat cloaking himself in Wiccan beliefs to project a false sense of power. A sense of power that he probably felt he didn't have. Really. Because he's just a powerless dork. You know? Kind of like most of us.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Some people can't handle the reality that we're mostly just powerless dorks. So they come up with these stupid ideas. Eric's pagan identity and spirituality weren't expressions of faith whatsoever. They were just ways for him to peacock, to pretend to be something he isn't. As Sherry started to pull away, he used their shared religion, twisting its teachings to tighten his grip on her.
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Episode 285
Beneath his facade, there was nothing real to begin with. Just a sad, pathetic, useless bag of blood and guts that's just continuously performing to build up their own ego because they know, they know deep down inside how useless they actually are. When Sherry finally found her independence, Eric snapped. His ego couldn't handle it.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
He butchered her and then he attempted to get rid of her in the most vile way possible. As for Ryan, the one who ratted out Eric, well, Ryan wasn't so innocent after all. Though he traded immunity for his testimony, he was later convicted of child molestation in 2019. Are you surprised?
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
In 2024, he petitioned the Snohomish County Courts to change his last name to Creed so that no one will know that Ryan Creed from Washington is a child molester. Ryan Creed, by the way, is spelled R-Y-A-N. C-R-E-E-D. In case you're doing a search. Sherry Harlan led a simple life. She had her own troubles, but kept to herself and tried her best to make ends meet.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
She was a lost woman who got mixed up with a very, very deranged man. Sherry was Eric's final victim, but her death is a stark and very real reminder. In this world, there is such a thing as monsters, and they look exactly like Eric Christensen. All right, that's going to do it for another one. If you want to check out our award-winning, amazing TV show, you can do so at swordandscale.com.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
But there was no sign of Sherry or her beloved dog, Roscoe. She was gone. The deputies could tell that something horrific had happened in her apartment. They slowly backed up, closed the door to the crime scene, and called in the higher-ups. Sherry's welfare check had quickly turned into something much more sinister.
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Episode 285
When detectives descended on the Cedar Creek apartments, they got to work trying to figure out what happened.
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Neighbors who shared the walls with Sherry all heard the commotion during the early morning hours of January 2nd. They hadn't seen anything, but they confirmed that they all heard Sherry fighting with someone. But it just sounded like a heated argument. Sherry's blue Nissan should have been parked in its regular spot outside the complex, but it was gone.
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Episode 285
As officers examined the spot where she usually parked, Another neighbor piped up.
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Eric Christensen was Sherry's boyfriend. They had to find him, but it wouldn't be hard. Let's just say that the guy didn't exactly blend in in Everett.
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When you saw him, you knew who you were looking at. Detectives soon got a call that Eric Christensen had been spotted at a hospital in Monroe. Monroe was about 20 miles from Sherry's apartment, but close to the guest house that Eric rented on a rural property in Gold Bar.
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Episode 285
Detective Betts headed to the scene and found Eric outside the hospital, his hand freshly stitched up, wearing his signature mid-calf Doc Martens and braided goatee. What a look.
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Episode 285
2009. 41-year-old Eric had met Sherry on a site called Tagged, which is similar to just about every other dating website out there.
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Eric and Sherry stayed with some friends in Everett for a while, but it didn't work out. They had two couples under one roof in a small apartment, and we know where that goes. Nowhere good, very fast. So, they found themselves back in Eric's car.
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Sherry and Eric started renting a small guest house in Gold Bar on their friend's property. It was cramped, but they made the best of it. Plus, anything was better than living in a car. Tell me about your relationship with Sherry during this period of time.
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Episode 285
For a few months, Eric and Sherry spent every waking moment together, getting by on his disability checks. But that was no longer sustainable. Unlike Eric, Sherry actually wanted to work and was thrilled to get a full-time job at JCPenney. That's when things changed.
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Episode 285
Eric admitted that Sherry moved out after he went to jail to serve time for unlawful possession of a firearm. He told the detective that Sherry had been kicked out for not helping out at the property or paying rent. But it was during this time that Sherry's new friend died. Dan Young agreed to help her move.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
We have this saying we throw around here a lot. The worst monsters are real. It's not something we came up with in a focus group or that someone threw around in a water cooler discussion. Something that would be great for a t-shirt. No, it's something that developed a lot more organically than that.
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Sherry had been transparent with Dan about her relationship with Eric. And when he went to jail, they sought as a way for her to get away and get her own place.
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Her life was threatened. She was beaten, raped, and sodomized. In an effort to hide evidence, the male criminal sprayed carpet cleaner on and in Tina. He sprayed her body, her genitals, and the inside of her mouth.
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As Tina was being assaulted, she feared for her life. She was certain that these two attackers were going to kill her. She knew that if she was going to survive this attack, she would have to try something, anything, to get these monsters out of her house. Earlier, Tina had convinced them to take her home with the promise of more money and jewelry. So, Tina used the same tactic again.
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David was the gas station attendant, which meant that he had to run the cash register and oversee the comings and goings of a small convenience store.
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To clarify, Tina gave her attackers a combination. It wasn't the correct combination because Tina didn't know what the correct combination was. The safe belonged to her husband and he was the only one who knew the code to open it. Nonetheless, Tina led her attackers to a safe in her basement. Along the way, just for added measure, the male attacker threw Tina down the basement steps.
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Once they were in the basement, the male attacker attempted to open the safe. But of course, the combination that Tina provided didn't work.
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Tina tricked her attackers and convinced them that the safe was wired to the local police station. The two criminals now believed that the cops would be showing up any minute. So they panicked, grabbed any valuables they could, and fled the house. When they left, they also stole Tina's car. Tina was left in the home. She was bleeding and traumatized, but miraculously, Tina survived this encounter.
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Soon after the criminals fled, Tina's husband, Tim Schmidt, arrived home. He found Tina, asked what happened, and then began making phone calls. He called 911 and Tina's two daughters. Soon after, police officers and Tina's daughters arrived at the home.
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Tina was taken to the hospital where a sexual assault examination was performed. While there, Tina was questioned by detectives about what happened. She was also re-interviewed by detectives the following day.
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When Tina was interviewed by detectives, she was asked to describe her attackers. In true Tina fashion, the description she gave for her male attacker was quite unique.
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So, according to Tina, the police should be on the lookout for a dirty country bumpkin leprechaun. As it turns out, this description was pretty accurate. After describing the male attacker, Tina went on to describe his female accomplice.
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As a night shift gas station attendant, David had seen all kinds of shady people come and go from his convenience store. But on this night, two individuals stood out.
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Tina gave detectives a description of both attackers and later detectives returned to Tina with some photographs. Not only could Tina perfectly describe her perpetrators, that she could easily point them out in a photo lineup.
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After speaking with Tina, the local police and the U.S. Marshal Service began searching. And it didn't take long for them to find the two monsters who committed this horrific attack.
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The man and the woman that attacked, raped, and brutalized Tina were captured by surveillance cameras at the Phillips 66 gas station in Hannibal, Missouri, about 20 miles south of Tina's home. They were seen driving Tina's stolen car, a white Toyota Avalon.
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Tina's attackers were taken into custody. But the nightmare for Tina and her family was far from over. The wheels of justice began to grind, and along the way, several things happened that nearly derailed the prosecution's case. Eventually, the wheels of justice came to a screeching halt. For Tina's family, it appeared that the justice system might not hold these criminals accountable.
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It seemed that delivering some justice to Tina Lohman was a lost cause. Next time, on This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me.
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Like most gas stations, the Phillips 66 had several surveillance cameras. These cameras captured two individuals as they parked at the gas pump, got gas, and made some purchases inside the convenience store.
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Stationed in the back area of the convenience store were some gambling machines because, well, why not? While your car fills up with gas, you can grab a slushie and throw away some money on a few hands of video poker.
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David spoke to the man with the red beard and warned him about carrying around a large Ziploc bag full of cash. Meanwhile, back in Quincy, Illinois, Tina Lohmann's daughter Ilsa was receiving a very troubling phone call from her mother's husband.
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The news of what happened to Tina began reaching her children and grandchildren. This included Tina's granddaughter, Carly.
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For most people, it's hard to imagine what your reaction would be when hearing news like this. For Carly, her reaction was mostly disbelief, which made sense. Learning that your mother or grandmother has been violently attacked and raped is the kind of thing that just doesn't happen to people like us. Right? Right?
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Welcome to This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me, a new serialized true crime podcast by the makers of Sword and Scale. We hope you enjoy it. And if you do, please tell a friend and leave us a review and a rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can find out more at swordandscale.com. I'm your host, Mike Boudet. This series was written and produced by Michael Stabile.
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While Carly was trying to make sense of things, Tina's daughter Ilsa drove to her mom's home. During this drive, she called Tina's husband to get more information.
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For Ilsa, when she saw her mom's house surrounded by police tape, any disbelief she might have had was gone. For Carly, the same thing happened when she learned that Ilsa, her mom, and a whole lot of cops were at Tina's house.
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After the police and Tina's two daughters arrived at the home, Tina was taken to the hospital. While she was there, an invasive sexual assault examination was performed.
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For Tina's family, the priority was making sure that Tina was okay. The details of exactly what happened to her could come later, and indeed those details did come later. As time went on, the family learned that 77-year-old Tina had suffered and survived one of the most violent, horrific, and brutal assaults imaginable.
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On the night of November 9th, 2021, a man and a woman carjacked, robbed, and kidnapped 77-year-old Tina Lohman while she was parked on the side of the road. After taking control of her car, the man drove Tina to an isolated area and forced her to perform oral sex on him.
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Tina was convinced the man and his accomplice were going to kill her, so she convinced them to take her to her house where she could give them more money and jewelry.
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The man took Tina to her home, and when they got there, the man began arguing with his female accomplice. Tina used this opportunity to attempt an escape. She ran into her house and locked the door behind her.
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The man and his accomplice forced their way into Tina's home by kicking open the door. Once inside, they continued to rob and assault Tina.
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The man and his accomplice searched the home for money and anything of value. As they did this, they found a unique souvenir. It was a railroad spike that had been forged into a very sharp knife.
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The female accomplice brandished the knife at Tina. She pressed it against Tina's throat and threatened to kill her if Tina didn't do exactly what they told her to do.
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Tina's life was threatened and she was violently raped in her home. But this brutal and horrific assault didn't stop there. Somehow things only got worse for Tina.
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About 20 miles south of Quincy, Illinois, and just over the state's border into Missouri, there's another city. That city is named Hannibal. On the night of November 9th, 2021, a young man named David Joseph began a work shift in Hannibal at a Phillips 66 gas station.
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Two monsters brutalized a 77-year-old grandmother. They beat her. They raped her. They sodomized her. They sprayed her body, her genitals, and the inside of her mouth with carpet cleaner. This was a truly brutal and horrific assault.
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Tina knew if she was going to survive this, she would have to do something to get these two monsters out of her house. So Tina came up with a plan and it was a plan that actually worked. It was a plan that, in all likelihood, saved her life. On the night of November 9th, 2021, two criminals broke into Tina Lohmann's home. 77-year-old Tina was brutalized and tortured. She was robbed.
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Before Tina could make sense of what was happening, she was becoming this man's hostage. She was abducted in her own car. Tina later recounted these same events several more times. She told her daughter Ilsa what happened.
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With Tina in the passenger seat of her car, the man drove to an isolated area. Meanwhile, the man's accomplice followed them in the truck they had been driving.
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Eventually, Tina, the man, and the accomplice arrived at an especially isolated area known as the North Bottoms and parked there. Once there, the assault and robbery began.
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About an hour or so later, a patrol sergeant at the Adams County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to a nearby residence.
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Tina was terrified and she was certain that if she didn't find a way out of this horrific nightmare, she would end up becoming a murder victim. So Tina... came up with a plan.
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Tina's plan seemed to work. She convinced the man and his accomplice to take Tina home where she could give them more money and jewelry. But the man didn't accept this offer without giving Tina a warning.
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At this point, Tina did not know that her husband, Tim Schmidt, had decided to go shopping for hunting supplies that evening. As far as she knew, her husband could have been at their home and she might have been leading two killers back to their house. But Tina had no other options.
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The best she could hope for was that her husband could use one of his guns to scare off these criminals and save her. Unfortunately, that's not what happened. Tim Schmidt wasn't home when Tina and the two criminals arrived there. Nobody was there. And this nightmare for Tina didn't just continue. It got much much worse.
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On November 9th, 2021, 77-year-old Tina Lohman was abducted in her car by a young man and a female accomplice. While Tina was stranded on the side of the road, the man forced his way into her car and drove off with Tina as the accomplice followed them. They arrived in an isolated area and the man turned the car off. He stole Tina's money and jewelry and forced her to perform oral sex on him.
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Tina was terrified and assumed that the man was going to kill her. So she convinced him to take her home where she had even more money and more jewelry.
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Again, Tina didn't know if her husband was home or not. And the man even warned Tina that they better not find anyone when they got there.
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As the man drove toward Tina's home, Tina sat in the passenger seat where she remained terrified. She could have been bringing two killers to her husband's doorstep. During this drive, the man continued to assault Tina.
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As they were driving, the man accidentally made a wrong turn, which allowed his female accomplice to reach Tina's home first. When the man pulled onto their lawn... The female accomplice was already ransacking the garage.
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Tina found an opening to safety. The man and his accomplice began shouting at each other and Tina used this distraction. She ran as fast as she could into her home and locked the door behind her.
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Tina had escaped her abductors. She was inside her own home, safe for the time being. But Tina knew that safety wouldn't last long. Tina knew that she had to defend herself.
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Frantically, Tina ran to her husband's nightstand where he normally kept his handgun. But there was a problem. Tim's handgun wasn't there.
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As Tina searched for her handgun, the criminals forced their way into the house. The man kicked open the door and quickly began searching for Tina. Tragically, he found her.
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The nightmare for Tina didn't only continue, it escalated. It got worse and worse. By the end, Tina was left on her living room floor, bloody and broken. By the end, Tina's nightmare had become one of the most horrific and brutal crimes ever committed in the city of Quincy, Illinois. Next time on This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me.
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Fresh tire marks were dug into the yard of the residence. The patrol sergeant also noticed that the garage to the home was open. As he walked into the garage and began making entry to the house itself, the sergeant saw something else.
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It was clear to the police officer that the door had recently been kicked open. The sergeant pulled his gun from the holster and continued beyond the broken door. He made his way inside the house.
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No. The patrol sergeant arrived at the residence on this particular night because earlier that evening, a 911 call had been made by a man named Timothy Schmidt.
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By 2021, Tim Schmidt had lived in Quincy, Illinois, for over three decades. But he didn't live alone. Tim shared his home with his wife.
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Yes. Tim Schmidt was Tina Lohman's husband. They had lived together for many years, but had only somewhat recently tied the knot. They also owned and operated a successful business together.
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He woke up that morning and went to work, just like he did on most weekdays. But when the sun set, Tim's Tuesday took a very dark turn.
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Yes. When Tim arrived at home that night, he immediately noticed some bizarre things around his house.
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After seeing his home in such an unusual state, Tim became concerned. And the most troubling thing he noticed was that his wife's car wasn't in the garage or the driveway.
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Tim stepped out of his car and made his way towards the garage. Once there, he noticed something else. Several of his belongings were missing.
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Tim walked further into the garage and noticed the door leading into his home had been kicked open. Tim continued to walk inside the house. When he arrived at the doorway of his living room, he stopped and was shocked by what he saw.
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Tim found his wife, 77-year-old Tina Lohman, sitting on the living room floor. She was crying and bleeding. Tim went to her and asked what happened.
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As Tim knelt on the floor with his wife, Tina Lohman recounted the horrific ordeal that she had just experienced. She told her husband that she had been carjacked, kidnapped, beaten, and raped. On the evening of November 9th, 2021, Timothy Schmidt returned to his home in Quincy, Illinois after a long day of work. After he arrived, Tim found his wife, Tina Lohman, on their living room floor.
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Tim and Tina were very close and they knew each other very well. As longtime sweethearts, they enjoyed going out to dinner, taking vacations together, and running their shared business. They also enjoyed watching Star Trek together.
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Tim and Tina were happy. They had a good life. But on November 9th, something unimaginably horrific happened that turned their lives upside down.
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When Tim discovered his distraught wife on the floor of their living room, he knelt beside her and asked what happened. Tina responded. With tears running down her face, she said, simply, they raped me.
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After Tim called for help, a patrol sergeant and other officers were dispatched to Tim and Tina's home.
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Tim had been told that help was on the way, and he quickly returned to his wife. Tina spoke to Tim and further explained some of what happened to her.
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In the early evening of November 9th, 2021, 77-year-old Tina Lohman found herself stranded on the side of a quiet road in Quincy, Illinois. It had started to rain and the sun was going down, but Tina's headlights weren't working. Tina was hopeful that a kind stranger would pull over and help her.
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As Tina was telling the story, the police began to arrive on the scene, and Tina had to explain things all over again.
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Tina spoke with police and explained that earlier that evening, she was parked on the side of the road because her headlights weren't working. A truck pulled up behind Tina with two people inside. A man stepped out of the truck and offered to help, but the man didn't help Tina. Instead, he threatened her.
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On November 10th, 2021, a team of US Marshals arrived at a mobile home park in Missouri. They were there to arrest the man and the woman. who had attacked, robbed, carjacked, and raped Tina Lohman the night before.
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The man who attacked Tina was 34-year-old Bradley Yon. And before the night of the attack, he had no prior connection to Tina at all.
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Eventually, Tina and her family were told who the two attackers were. This prompted Tina's granddaughter to learn more about these people.
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Unsurprisingly, this wasn't the first time Karen Blackledge and Bradley Yon had broken the law. In fact, Bradley had a long, long, long criminal history.
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Bradley had an extensive criminal background, and that's really all he had. All other elements of his life seemed non-existent or lost to time.
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Between them, Josh Jones and Laura Keck have nearly four decades of experience as lawyers, and they've prosecuted countless cases, many of which are pretty horrific. Even so, they weren't unfazed when they learned about what happened to Tina Lohman.
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All we know about Bradley's past is that he was raised mostly by his mother, who died before Bradley became an adult. We also know that he came from a big family, but it appears that his family wasn't particularly close.
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Bradley lost his mom and his father spent a good deal of time in prison. So it's safe to assume that Bradley didn't have the best guidance as he was growing up. Though these details about Bradley's life were of little concern to Tina's family and the prosecutors.
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Before the attack on Tina Lohman, Bradley truly did seem to be a nobody. He was just a repeat criminal offender with an unfortunate upbringing, and that's really all there was to him. Unfortunately, Tina crossed paths with this nobody, and Bradley Yawn victimized Tina in ways that are beyond comprehension.
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So for the sake of keeping the public safe and for the sake of hopefully getting some justice for Tina, Bradley and his female accomplice, Karen Blackledge, were arrested.
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Just one day after Tina was attacked, Bradley and Karen were found at the same location and arrested. The news of their arrests quickly reached Tina and her family.
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Bradley and Karen were in custody and the wheels of justice began to turn. At the first court appearance, the judge ordered a $5 million bond for Karen and a $15 million bond for Bradley, which was an Adams County record. At this point, it appeared that things were going to play out like they do in every other criminal case. Bradley and Karen could plead guilty or not guilty.
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They might take a plea deal from prosecutors or they might take their respective cases to trial. It seemed like business as usual in America. But about a month after their arrests, something unexpected happened that threatened the likely conviction of these two criminals.
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On December 12th, 2021, just weeks before her favorite holiday, Tina Lohman, died. While this was obviously devastating for Tina's family, it was also potentially devastating for the prosecution's case. Without Tina, the prosecutors no longer had a victim or a witness to the crime.
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As time went on, the chances that Bradley Yon and Karen Blackledge would walk free and avoid being held accountable for what they did to Tina started to seem like a real possibility. Next time on This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me.
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As Josh and Laura began reviewing this case and the police reports, they learned how Tina encountered the two criminals who attacked her.
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The police reports went on to describe what happened to Tina after she was carjacked and kidnapped.
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After the attack, and after the two criminals fled, police arrived on scene and found Tina sitting on the floor of her home.
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When Tina was examined at the hospital, she was in pretty bad shape. She had been brutalized. She was still in shock and had bruises all over her body.
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Despite her condition, Tina was able to give police descriptions of her attackers. The hunt to find these two monsters began immediately. They needed to be found and arrested as soon as possible.
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A bolo, or be on the lookout, was issued to local law enforcement for Tina's white Toyota Avalon. Eventually, surveillance cameras captured the vehicle about 20 miles south of Tina's home.
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The police had surveillance footage of their suspects and were quickly able to identify them. After they knew who they were searching for, the U.S. Marshal Service was contacted. Within a day of the attack, the authorities located Tina's attackers and arrested both of them. In November of 2021, detectives in Adams County, Illinois, as well as the U.S.
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Marshal Service, began their hunt to find the criminals who brutally attacked 77-year-old Tina Lohman. Meanwhile, Tina began what was going to be a very long journey towards recovery.
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Yes. Thankfully, Tina had a very loving family to support her. This included her two daughters, Heidi and Ilsa, and her granddaughter, Carly.
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When Tina spoke to her family, she left out the details of the attack. She wanted to protect them from the more graphic elements of the crime. Despite her weakened state and the shock she was experiencing, Tina was doing her best to stay positive. She was trying to recover.
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And she seemed in pretty good spirits. Tina shielded her family from the graphic nature of the crime. But when it was time to talk to detectives and prosecutors, Tina couldn't omit anything about what happened to her.
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Understandably, Tina struggled to grasp the reality of the assault she had endured. She was traumatized. The assault itself had ended, but the pain had not. Tina suffered both physically and mentally.
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Yes. For a time, Tina refused to go home. She stayed in hotels and at another property that she owned. All the while, Tina's family did what they could to support her.
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Tina did her best to get her life back on track. With the holidays coming up, she tried to settle back into a routine. And when she was around her family, she tried putting on a brave front.
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On November 9th, 2021, 77-year-old Tina Lowman described to Illinois detectives the horrible details of the attack that she endured at the hands of two criminals who broke into her home. After speaking with Tina, detectives contacted the Adams County State Attorney's Office. This brought two prosecuting attorneys into the investigation.
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While Tina was only beginning to recover, The local police and the U.S. Marshal Service were searching for the two monsters that attacked her. This search effort ended pretty quickly. Surveillance cameras at the local gas station and convenience store in Hannibal, Missouri, captured a man and a woman driving Tina's car.
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The couple had apparently stopped at this location to gas up and use the convenience store's gambling machines.
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As a thoughtful woman who enjoyed buying gifts for her family, Tina loved the Christmas season. This was her time to shine, and every year she went out of her way to make sure all the kids were spoiled.
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In early November of 2021, Tina was already thinking about the upcoming holidays. She had big plans for that Christmas. And like every other Christmas before, she wanted to make this Christmas the best one yet.
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On the evening of November 9th, 2021, Tina Lohman left the business she owned and operated with her husband and began driving home.
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Tina's plan for that evening was to arrive home and grab a quick nap before going out to dinner with her husband, but things didn't work out as planned. On her way home, something happened that changed her life and the lives of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren forever. On her way home that evening, Tina Lohman crossed paths with a monster.
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In early November of 2021, 77-year-old Tina Lohman was living in Quincy, Illinois, with her husband. The couple owned and operated a successful business together, and they were thankful to live in what they had come to know as a very safe city. Tina had no reason to think otherwise. After all, she lived in Quincy for years. She successfully raised four happy and healthy children there.
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This included her youngest daughter, Ilsa.
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was her family. Tina had four children, 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. This is Tina's granddaughter, Carly.
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On the evening of November 9th, 2021, Tina Lohman left work and began driving home. But she didn't get very far before she decided to pull over.
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The sun was going down and it had started to rain. Tina expected that the headlights on her car would turn on automatically, as that's what had always happened before. But for some reason on this evening, Tina's headlights didn't turn on and she didn't know how to fix them.
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Tina was alone at dusk and parked on the side of a fairly isolated road. She was worried and maybe a little scared, but she assumed everything would eventually be okay. She knew that her husband would inevitably be driving down the same road that she was parked on.
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Tina fiddled with the knobs on her steering wheel, hoping that some switch or lever would ignite her headlights, but nothing did. At the same time, Tina kept checking her rear view mirrors, hoping that the next car she saw would be her husband's car. But that never happened.
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A truck drove up and parked behind Tina. A man stepped out of that truck and approached Tina's driver's side window.
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The man offered to help Tina fix her headlights. He told her that first he needed to retrieve a flashlight from his truck. As he did this, Tina looked in her rearview mirror and she noticed something. Another person was sitting in the passenger seat of the man's truck.
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Tina sat in her car and waited for the man to return with his flashlight. She was hopeful that the man would resolve her headlight situation and Tina would soon be back on the road. Of course, Tina did consider the possibility that the man who stopped to help her could be dangerous. But she quickly put that thought out of her mind. That possibility wasn't likely at all.
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All of Tina's children and grandchildren loved Tina dearly. And when they got the news that she was in the hospital, many of them immediately began making their way to see her. This included Tina's daughter, Ilsa.
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This mindset that Quincy, Illinois is a safe and friendly place is not uncommon. Many of its residents feel that way about their city.
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Tina just wanted to go home and take a nap. So she waited for the man to return to her car with a flashlight. As a testament to the kind of person Tina was, she was already thinking about how she was going to thank this man for stopping to help her resolve her car trouble. While waiting in her car, Tina reached for her purse.
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After pulling $20 from her wallet, Tina looked in the rearview mirror again and eventually saw the man walking back toward her car. Whether he had a flashlight or not, we don't know. But what we do know is that this man had no intention of helping Tina.
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When the man returned to Tina's driver's side door, she looked at him. Tina didn't see a friendly face. She saw a face filled with ill intent and violence. Like David Adam explained, this was the moment that a long nightmare began for Tina. This was the moment when her life and the lives of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren took a very, very dark turn.
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Unfortunately, not all of Tina's loved ones could go to her because in December of 2021, the COVID pandemic had just started to wane.
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Tina's family waited for the hospital staff to give them more information about Tina's condition. And when a doctor came to see them, the news was all bad.
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Tina's family was devastated and they were caught off guard. As far as they knew, Tina was a healthy woman. When she last spoke to her daughter, Heidi, the day before, Tina seemed completely fine.
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Tina's family gathered around the hospital bed to say their goodbyes. They found themselves in a situation that, unfortunately, many have experienced. their eldest family member was dying. From the outside looking in, this likely seemed like a common occurrence. Tragic, yes, but common. Old people die every day and their loved ones have to say goodbye. That's just how life goes sometimes.
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Though, this situation with Tina and her family was anything but common. The doctor told the family that Tina was dying from heart failure, but they all knew better. They all knew that this wasn't a case where an elderly woman's life was simply coming to an end. They knew that Tina didn't just end up in a hospital bed. She was put there.
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About a month before this tragic day at the hospital, Tina had been assaulted. And there's no word in the English language to describe just how horrific that assault was. Putting it mildly, what Tina experienced was beyond brutal and extremely cruel.
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Tina and her family were traumatized by what had happened to her. The depravity of what Tina endured was more than any of them could bear. This is Tina's oldest grandson, Joshua.
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This series was written and produced by Michael Stabile, engineered by Rob Rovelli. I'm your host, Mike Boudet. On December 12, 2021, a 77-year-old woman was rushed to Hannibal Regional Hospital in Hannibal, Missouri. Her name was Tina. Tina was a kind, generous, and smart woman. Alongside her husband, she owned and operated a successful business. But what was most important to Tina
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The evil that Tina saw and experienced was beyond comprehension. And her family knew why her heart was failing. Tina was dying because she was brutally assaulted. Tina was dying from a broken heart. The assault she endured was killing her. And Tina's family wanted the people responsible to pay. They wanted justice.
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Unfortunately, Tina's family would come to find that the justice they were seeking was elusive, and the struggle to get it became a never-ending battle.
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I don't know if we ever will be. Many of you know, or at least you can imagine, the pain and the grief that comes with losing a parent or a grandparent. It can be the most tragic thing that a family can experience. This was the case for Tina's family, but for them things were much worse. They were saddled with the burden of fighting for justice and the fight became another tragedy all on its own.
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Roughly 100 miles north of St. Louis, and near the edge of Missouri's eastern border, is the small city of Quincy, Illinois. Quincy is the county seat of Adams County, with a population of 40,000 people. Throughout 2022 and 2023, many Quincy residents became well-informed about a crime that occurred in their city in November of 2021. Some refer to this crime as the Tina Lohman case,
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One of the reasons why so many people knew so much about this case was because it was covered extensively by the local news outlet Muddy River News.
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David Adam wrote and published countless articles about the Tina Lohman case, and he was pretty much the perfect person to do it. Not only because he was a professional news editor, but also because he was and continues to be a lifelong resident of Quincy, Illinois.
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And speaking with David, we learned that he loves his city. And despite his coverage of countless criminal cases, he does consider Quincy to be a great place to live and an ideal place to raise a family. I believe most parts of Quincy are a safe place to live.
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When it comes to David's opinions about Quincy, he isn't alone. Many of the residents feel the same way about their city. In 2021, that included a woman named Tina Lohman.
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77-year-old Tina Lohman had four children, two daughters and two sons. They are Heidi, Chip, Derek, and her youngest daughter, Ilsa.
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Tina was also a grandmother to several grandchildren, all of which were adored by Tina. One of her grandchildren is a young woman named Carly.
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By the age of 77, Tina Lohman had lived a very interesting life, which began on March 30th, 1944. Tina was the daughter of Earl and Mildred Lohman.
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Tina was born into a wealthy family, and her father's business led her to attend classes in Sorbonne University in Paris, France. as well as London, England's School of Economics.
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Throughout her youth, Tina traveled through the country. And eventually, she and her family made their way back to the United States. Once there, they decided to settle down in the small city of Quincy.
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As an only child, The idea of having a lot of babies and making a big family appealed to Tina. So, that's exactly what she did.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
1. Nightmare in Quincy
For her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, being related to Tina Lohman was a pretty lucky situation.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
1. Nightmare in Quincy
Tina was a loving and lovable mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. But she wasn't the typical white-haired woman you might find in a Hallmark Christmas movie. Tina Lohman had a bit of an edge.