A Murder For Greed

Eaton, Ohio, is a small town in the southwest corner of the state, on the Indiana border, in Preble County. It was founded in 1806 and named after General William Eaton. In 1849 it had about a thousand people, mostly working in agriculture, before a cholera outbreak that year. Half the town fled, and of the 500 who remained, 140 died. In June 1859 a fire downtown destroyed thirteen or fourteen businesses and scorched the courthouse. At the time of the murder the town had about 8,400 people and had not grown since 2000.\n\nTim Johnson grew up in Eaton. He was an orphan and was adopted at the age of ten by a local family. this part of the story is covered for now The two did not always get along. When they were adults their adoptive father died, and their mother, Nancy, became extremely ill. She was in a wheelchair and needed round-the-clock care. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it On 20 January 2007 Tim disappeared. Nobody reported it at first, because a grown man is free to go away for a weekend, but after about two weeks another family member went to the house, saw that some of Tim's belongings were missing and called the police. His tools and his computer were gone, while both his cars, a car and a van, were still there. Inside, the police found his wallet and his checkbook in his room. this part of the story is covered for now She said she had no idea where Tim was and that she was annoyed with him for leaving her to care for their mother. She said that the last time she saw him they had argued, that he called someone who picked him up in a dark-coloured vehicle, and that he dragged his computer out with him. details of the account remain covered until revealed They asked them to bring Tim's vehicles to the station and to come in for an interview at their convenience. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The police then asked them to take a lie detector test to eliminate them. It was not a polygraph but a CVSA, a computer voice stress analysis test, administered by investigator David Lindloff of the Preble County Sheriff's Department. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Asked what Tim would say to her, she called him a low-down dirty dog. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Tim fought back. this part of the story is covered for now Tim suffocated. Their mother was in another room in bed and did not know what was happening. They poured petrol on it and set it alight, but the fire did not consume it, leaving muscle and bone. They stuffed the remains into an oil drum, filled the drum with concrete and planned to push it off a bridge into a river, where it would sink. Once the concrete set, the barrel weighed about 700 pounds and they could not move it, so they left it in the garage.\n\nThe motive was money. Their father was dead and their mother was ill, and Tim was going to inherit everything. details of the account remain covered until revealed The house was a three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,819 square foot home. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now The court found both indigent and appointed public defenders. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now The police recovered Tim's body by breaking open the concrete barrel in the garage with air chisels. Nancy, their mother, was left without the son who had cared for her, and the episode says a relative or someone else probably put her in a home.