PERU, Ind. (AP) - A Mississippi man arrested in 2012 after DNA testing linked him to an Indiana woman’s 1992 slaying has pleaded guilty in her death.
Fifty-four-year-old Timothy J. Jimerson of D’Iberville, Miss., pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon in the strangulation death of 27-year-old Toni Spicer.
A Miami County Circuit Court judge will decide March 20 whether he’s accepted Jimerson’s plea and a proposed 30-year sentence.
The Kokomo Tribune reports (https://bit.ly/1dZ2RBq ) Spicer’s body was found in her Kokomo mobile home by her two children, then aged 9 and 7, and a friend in August 1992.
Jimerson was arrested in October 2012 after DNA testing linked him to Spicer’s killing.
A probable cause affidavit says Jimerson followed Spicer home from a bar the night she was slain.
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Information from: Kokomo Tribune, https://www.ktonline.com
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