DOUGLAS CO.—Sometimes you just want to shake people and say “Just leave him and get on with your life!”
Such would be the case for those in and around Douglas County, who learned this morning that an Effingham County woman has been charged with a Solicitation to Commit Murder for Hire count after a sting operation netted her arrest Wednesday night.
Jennifer Inman
The woman, Jennifer Inman, 30, of Teutopolis, has been charged with the Class X felony in Douglas County after authorities put together a “sting operation” to reportedly help her find someone to kill her boyfriend, Louis J. Thursh, 50, of Champaign. The sting was thrown together successfully after the Douglas County state’s attorney’s office and investigators learned about it only Tuesday of this week (August 6, 2013).
According to the probable cause affidavit filed in the case:
Inman supplied (the would-be killer) with approximately $5,000 cash along with a backpack containing items to commit and conceal the murder including two gel soles to glue on his shoes, glue, blue latex style gloves, a black skull cap, a black Gerber knife, mace, a digital camera, a T-Mobile cellphone, handwritten maps of the interior of the house, pictures of Thursh, and computer maps of his house and neighborhood.
The whole thing, according to authorities, may have something to do with the child the two have in common, and Thursh’s apparent refusal to pay child support, despite showing ownership in Champaign businesses. It might also have something to do with the fact that the man was charged with a child sex offense in late 2012, with a “girl under the age of 13″…which was later dismissed by the local prosecutor in Champaign. Details of this aren’t readily available, but one’s imagination can take the rest, as the prosecutor advised that there simply wasn’t enough evidence to follow through on the complaint…which in many cases means someone coached a poor kid into making a claim that wasn’t true.
Inman is being held in Douglas County on a half-million ($50,000 cash) bond.
She faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted.