Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

An Indiana judge sentenced a man to 67 years in prison for murdering his great aunt with a hammer in Waynesville.

Bobby Truitt II’s sentence included 65 years for murder and 2 years for abuse of a corpse, with those sentences being served consecutively.

The original charges against Truitt included rape and auto theft. However, the auto theft charge was dropped as part of a plea agreement. In addition, Truitt pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of abuse of a corpse instead of rape.

Bartholomew County sheriff’s deputies responded to a Waynesville home in September 2020 where they found Truitt’s great aunt, 64-year-old Sharon Lovins, dead under suspicious circumstances.

At only 19 years old, Truitt was named a “person of interest” in the case, with police saying they believed he was the last person to see her alive.

According to court documents, Truitt killed Lovins in her home on Sept. 27, 2020, one day after she had bailed him out of the Johnson County Jail, where he was being held on sexual battery charges. She also offered to let him stay with her at her home in Waynesville, a small Bartholomew County community about 45 miles south of Indianapolis.

It was during that time he killed her with a hammer, according to investigators.

After killing his aunt, Truitt stole her sport utility vehicle and drove to Indianapolis, where he reportedly inquired about buying a bus ticket to New York. He was arrested while panhandling with a group of homeless people in Indianapolis.

Bartholomew County Deputy Prosecutor Greg Long called Truitt “the poster child of someone who ought to be locked up for a very long time.”

Truitt never revealed a motive for killing his great aunt. In court, he called her death “inhuman” and said he wished he could take it back, according to The Republic.

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By Buffy Gunner

Independent Journalist + Business Owner | Lover of all things true crime. Mantra: Only YOU can be YOU. | Los Angeles Born | buffygunner@illicitdeeds.com

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