{"id":23758,"date":"2025-11-25T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=23758"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:38:16","slug":"vandalia-murder-suspect-to-be-examined-as-to-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/23758-vandalia-murder-suspect-to-be-examined-as-to-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalia Murder Suspect to Be Examined as to Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>A Vandalia murder suspect will be examined as to his fitness to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p>43-year-old Arnold Rivera, Jr. is being held on counts including first degree murder, aggravated criminal sexual assault and concealing homicidal death. Rivera is charged in the November 14th death of 14-year-old Kylie Toberman.<\/p>\n<p>Vandalia police received a report that Toberman was missing. Her body was located later the day she was reported missing.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera&#8217;s evaluation is due back on January 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vandalia murder suspect will be examined as to his fitness to stand trial. 43-year-old Arnold Rivera, Jr. is being held on counts including first degree murder, aggravated criminal sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vandalia Murder Suspect to Be Examined as to Fitness - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/23758-vandalia-murder-suspect-to-be-examined-as-to-fitness\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vandalia Murder Suspect to Be Examined as to Fitness - 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