Jury finds Sabrina Limon guilty of first-degree murder of her husband

Sabrina and Robert Limon
Sabrina and Robert Limon

A jury has found Sabrina Limon guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her husband following a three-week trial that riveted local residents and attracted nationwide attention for its lurid details of swinging couples, twisted interpretations of Christianity and poisoned pudding.

The jury also found her guilty of solicitation of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and accessory to murder. She was found not guilty of attempted murder and not guilty of mingling harmful substances into food or drink, a charge that referred to a serving of allegedly poisoned banana pudding.

Limon, 37, sat facing away from the audience and sniffled as the verdicts were read. She grabbed a tissue and appeared to be wiping away tears.

Limon conspired with her lover, former Redlands firefighter Jonathan Hearn, in the killing of her husband so they could be together, according to prosecutors.

Her attorney, Richard Terry, had argued the only direct evidence against his client was Hearn’s testimony, which he said cannot bet trusted. Hearn accepted a plea agreement that spared him a life sentence in exchange for his testimony.

Terry said Hearn implicated his client to save himself.

During three days of testimony, Limon admitted to the affair but said she knew nothing of Hearn’s plans to kill her husband. She explained her repeated lies to investigators about the affair as an effort to preserve her and her husband’s reputations.

Hearn admitted to gunning down 38-year-old Robert Limon at a railway office in Tehachapi where Robert Limon was working. He testified he and Limon had long plotted her husband’s death, and had made a prior attempt on his life months before the Aug. 17, 2014, killing.

He said they had agreed to poison Robert Limon by placing arsenic trioxide in banana pudding and sending it with him to work. Hearn testified he mixed the poison into the pudding and Sabrina Limon gave it to her husband.

Later that day, however, Hearn said he and Sabrina Limon became concerned about getting caught. He said she called her husband and told him to throw the pudding out because the bananas had gone bad.

In addition to Hearn’s testimony, prosecutor Eric Smith presented dozens of text messages and wiretapped phone calls between Hearn and Sabrina Limon for the jury. In them, the couple profess their love for each other, details of the investigation and even what she should tell the lead investigator.

Source: bakersfield.com

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