Religious firefighter, mom of 2 convicted of killing swinger husband

they were as the saying goes meant to be really just in love with each other in love with their kids and seemed like a stable normal families but peel back the layers of Robert and Sabrina LeMans perceived stable normal facade and you'll find deep cracks in the marital armor starting with some risky sex on the side with neighbors it was usually Sabrina and I and then we would go have sex with our husbands the same room add a young impassioned evangelical firefighter to fan the flames he was a bit sheltered and you just might get the sense that this is not going to end well car accident and fire were two of things that were discussed but they ultimately decided on poison this is the coldest most calculating killer I've dealt with in my entire career and I've done a lot of them it sounds like a dating site cliche but everyone in the Mojave Desert town of Helen Dale California admired and envied the LeMans seemingly special bond they were best friends they were partners Robert was the spark that got the party started Roberts very outgoing air friendly a spirited outdoor people person who worked as the first to responder for the railroad he led the water Sabrina a vivacious blonde who could disarm with her charm everywhere we go she she puts a smile on everyone's face Lydia when Robert first brought Sabrina into the family how did everybody feel about her she seemed to have a lot of 11 compassion she was very friendly one vow exchange and two children later the Lamone family appeared solid and intact but in time Robert and Sabrina's lifestyle began to exceed the boundaries of traditional marriage they decided to open up the relationship and at that point she went along with it to make him happy she was a caretaker that's for sure Sabrina's family told Crimewatch daily the swinger lifestyle took its toll on Sabrina she did not want to have an open relationship anymore and he wanted to and it was a battle in their marriage the free loving crowd included Sabrina's best friend Kelly Bernardin and her husband Jason but there were some suspicions that Kelly and Robert were allegedly having a private one-on-one affair behind the scenes he come home and actually start telling Sabrina what Kelly had just done that was so awesome sexually and she go I don't want to hear this Sabrina her family tells me was feeling tormented lonely and desperate he wasn't there for her in the emotional way that she needed with the kids in school Sabrina got a part-time job at the local Costco at least it was a distraction and she could earn a little money on her own one day a fresh-faced 22 year old firefighter named Jonathan Hearn walked into the store while Sabrina was on the job there were sparks and even though their lives were worlds apart the attraction could not be denied she was 11 years older than him he was a bit sheltered he was home-schooled but very educated grew up in a religious home had a good family Jonathan was intrigued she lived that other lifestyle that he was never exposed to but Sabrina needed an emotional connection Jonathan turned out to be just that guy Sabrina lured him in with sexy snapshots in lingerie and love notes this one reading you are so special to me and I'm truly grateful to have found you signed by Sabrina with hearts she was getting attention from somebody who told her you know you'd be the only person in my life you know I'd only want you I would never do those things to you and and you know it makes someone feel good after not getting attention for how him you know many years and Jonathan appeared head-over-heels in this phone message to Sabrina Sabrina wanted no one to know of the affair she was admired in the community as a good wife and devoted mother she wanted to keep this image of a perfect family Robert Lamone is ambushed gunned down in the dark of night at the remote railroad facility where he was working the graveyard shift Robert was there all alone and now lays dying in Tehachapi California about 85 miles from his home in Hallandale and shot twice it was a shoot-to-kill attack he was struck in the face and it can travel through and exited the neck the other one was a shot in the chest it went up into the jaw area and lodged in that brain a grief-stricken Sabrina posted a loving tribute to her husband while struggling to stay strong for their two young children no one wants to see their children in that much pain given Roberts unconventional lifestyle it's hard to tell just to had it out for him a jealous husband a jilted lover don't know where we're going next we were still looking for leads there was no relevant forensic evidence at the crime scene all Kern County detectives had was this surveillance tape about shadowy figure roaming the crime scene subject was wearing some heavy clothing and also walked with a limp and footage of someone with a similar build on a motorcycle at a nearby gas station and convenience store right around the time of the murder crime scene photos show Roberts office looked as if it had been ransacked was this a random attack they thought maybe it was a robbery or something to that effect so there's a lot of stories going on sheriff's offered a $100,000 reward even that wasn't tempting enough for anyone with good Intel to come forward and they all pretty much led us to a dead end this is the picture taken last night before my brother is murdered the unknown is almost as painful as the grief for loved ones it left a lot of open questions and nobody's seen don't answer or give us the answers to those questions so that we could heal a few weeks later detective Robert Meyer gets an interesting call from Jason Bernardin remember Jason and his wife Kelly were best friends with the LeMans friends with benefits Jason wanted to provide me with cold text messages that he received from a subject by the name of Jonathan her yes the same Jonathan Hearn involved in an affair with Sabrina Lemone but why on earth would the young fireman be texting his married lover's best friends he basically was wanting to ask for forgiveness for how shameful he had been no it's not a murder confession Jonathan was actually texting a rather curious apology for having an affair with Sabrina but why I obviously thought it was very strange that he'd be apologizing for that I had some work to do so I started looking into jonathan her detective Meyers next move a visit not with Jonathan but with the adulteress herself Sabrina Limone I asked her if there were any issues in the marriage such as infidelity or boyfriend/girlfriend anything like that and she denied that when she said it was great her and Rob had a great marriage nothing like a bold-faced lie to energize the lagging criminal investigation but the ever image-conscious Sabrina may have been deceptive for a reason that doesn't involve killing her husband I don't think she wanted to paint Rob in a negative light or herself in a negative light for the children in this terrible time she didn't want her kids to know about the open relationship and how they were both having affairs detective Mayer keeps digging for clues and hits on some gold Sabrina had purchased what is commonly referred to as a burner phone they started communicating with that in fact in the five months leading up to Robert's death the illicit lovers exchanged seven thousand voice calls and text messages on their throwaway phones that was very suspicious ad to the suspicion Sabrina suddenly goes underground cutting off Roberts entire family even refusing to let them see the children and for no apparent reason it broke the heart of Roberts sister Lydia but it also raised suspicions why are you hiding Sabrina you know if you didn't do anything wrong why are you not communicating or talking to us Sabrina may have sidestepped her family but she can't beat the badge cops are listening to calls between Sabrina and her young lover our judge approved 24-hour surveillance and telephone wiretap of conversations with Jonathan the subject matter Jonathan's paranoia and stunningly a prayer for salvation not the kind in the afterlife but the one in the courtroom the couple prayed that God would steer the criminal investigation away from them as suspects while the calls don't reveal any direct evidence one might detect a certain consciousness of guilt in their conversations yes you really do want to be with them but cops needed more and it so happens they've been able to gather the incriminating goods when they searched Jonathan's house they find a motorcycle helmet and gloves like the one spotted in that surveillance video close to the crime scene the night Robert was killed based on Jonathan her name owning a motorcycle that was similar to the motorcycle it was around the scene around the time of the murder based on his relationship with Sabrina LaVon also him owning firearms that were similar to the caliber that killed Robert Limone and there's more Sabrina stood to gain a sweet payout from Roberts railroad pension cops are convinced Sabrina and Jonathan had the means motive and opportunity to get Robert out of the picture three months after the cold-blooded murder of Robert Limone Kern County homicide detectives are convinced they've got enough evidence to make cases against Jonathan Hearn and Sabrina Limone Hearn is arrested at his firehouse where he's on duty and Sabrina Lamone is on her way to her children's school where she's scheduled for a parent-teacher conference the whole thing's ridiculous if you who know Sabrina dog I mean she's I love her to death she's amazing she's got the biggest heart but she's no mastermind she said why would I you know want him dead or why would I wanted to add the best of both worlds we are confident with the two people we arrested yesterday are responsible for his murder or are they when prosecutors looked at the case they thought they had the goods on Jonathan but not enough to convict Sabrina it was a blow to homicide detectives who were forced to send Sabrina home to the comfort of her children and family Sabrina Lamone has not been charged she is a citizen she's free to do what she wants when she wants coming up the lovers turn on each other you know he said divorce was not something very appealing to her as an option she said I never wanted to believe that Jonathan was the one that did this in a knock-down drag-out courtroom battle I believe she told Jonathan to shoot Rob and the verdict is in we the jury find the defendant Sabrina a morning a cougar and her god-bearing young firefighter bonded in love partnered in crime or so thought the Kern County Sheriff's Department detectives were forced to kick Sabrina loose but put the screws to her forbidden lover Jonathan we spoke on several different occasions for several hours Jonathan Hearn fully expected to spend his last dying days behind bars and he knew there was only one thing he could do to change that he had to turn on his beloved Sabrina Lamone and for Jonathan nothing says I love you like throwing your girlfriend under the bus he provided the details of their planning and preparing and he allowed us access to his cell phone and then a move that would afford the young evangelical some mercy Jonathan's took a plea deal what he pled for is 25 years and four months in prison in exchange for that testimony against the breeder he was shocked I was shocked they were intent on making sure that she took the blame for this he is calculating he's not naive interrogating Sabrina was like trying to crack ice with a feather Bobby's dead interview no mistakes about that and it's something that you have to live with for the rest of your life three years after the fatal shooting of her husband Sabrina's case goes before a mostly female jury the star witness mr. Hearn still understand and once the floodgates opened an astonishing calculating cold-blooded made-for-tv flock would emerge she asked me how I thought would be best and we discussed car accident and fire and quickly skipped over those and arrived at poisoning their choice the poison pudding laced with arsenic crime-scene photos show bottles of arsenic found in Jonathan's trash I experimented with that on a neighbor dog who had caused me considerable issues in the past and put it on some semi the dog never bothered Jonathan again Sabrina then put some of the tainted pudding and Roberts lunch and sent him off to work but the lovers chickened out at the last minute she called Robert if she had told him to to not eat the pudding because I think she said that she told him the bananas had gone bad in it Sabrina still insisted Robert died on the job at the railroad because the medical care in the area was substandard but perhaps there was something else if Robert LeMond was killed in the line of duty that she would be also getting money from BNSF not to mention the $300,000 life insurance payout sabrina stood to collect you searched for how long for a life insurance policy to pay out is that correct it appears to be yes the question that comes up in every spousal murder wouldn't divorce be so much more simple the divorce was not something very appealing to her as an option she expressed that he would honestly rather be dead then divorced losing her would essentially kill him I had a frank disgust for him that was developing and contributing to me being very dismissive of his life ultimately Jonathan proved his disdain for Robert the night he disguised himself got on his motorcycle drove 85 miles then ambushed an unwitting Robert Limone he fired the first shot what happened to Robert he fell seemingly mortally wounded then headed up into the office to follow through with the previously discussed plan of overturning the interior of the office and making it look like a robbery I really didn't want to leave him if he wasn't entirely dead so I went back around the back side of the truck and quickly fired one more shot at him the public servant turned public enemy had killed a man and in a call to Sabrina after the fact appears convinced he was guided by a higher power when it came time for Sabrina to take the stand well I was protecting my image she tried to explain why she lied to cops I didn't want to put my affair into a murder investigation I never wanted to believe that Jonathan was the one that did this prosecutors reminded Sabrina of a certain significant prayer she and Jonathan shared after Roberts murder deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed Oh God you who are my God my Savior when you read that first what did you think what my memory recalls I remember Jonathan reading that Psalms 51 to me and I don't think I was following along I was distracted and when cops asked Sabrina if she knew of a man with a motorcycle possibly named John she gave them the names of two other John's who were acquaintances of her husband Sabrina suffers from a TD she's not been on medication for it she's not extremely articulate in fact she has difficulty in communicating her thoughts she's a high school dropout so why let her testify because in sister Attorney she's innocent considering a Jonathan Hearn is a psychopathic killer I would tend to believe Sabrina more than him but it only got worse for Sabrina's image when her formerly best friend Kelly burn a teen the friend with benefits took the stand are these wild sex orgies that you're going to the river to have no it was usually Sabrina and I and then we would go Kelly denies having a private affair with Rob but blamed his murder on Sabrina as she killed Rob she didn't kill anyone did she I believe she did you believe she actually went and shot Rob no I believe she told Jonathan to shoot Rob if Sabrina is convicted she'll get more prison time than the man who pulled the trigger 25 to life it's judgement day in Kern County we the jury find the defendant Sabrina them on guilty of a felony to it murder of Robert the mom does murder in the first degree the crime was done with premeditation and deliberation there was no mercy for Sabrina Lamone the term was prescribed by law 25 years to life as you're managing the property corrections we adjourn the court is supposed to find somebody guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and I've never seen a case in where there's more reasonable doubt than this one do you get any sense that she has any remorse for what transpired not at this time you forgive him not at this time I can't yet a husband and father dead and gone a wife and mother facing life in prison a religious firefighter who sold his soul to the devil and all for what you don't invite evil into your home like Sabrina invited Jonathan by bringing him in this relationship to destroy that family

Channel: True Crime Daily

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Keywords: Robert and Sabrina Limon, Mojave Desert, Helendale California, Sabrina Limon, Robert Limon, Jonathan Hearn, True Crime Daily, Crime Watch Daily

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Length: 21min 27sec (1287 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 16 2019