{"id":37617,"date":"2026-05-11T07:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=37617"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:14:27","slug":"fayette-county-man-convicted-of-criminal-sexual-offenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/37617-fayette-county-man-convicted-of-criminal-sexual-offenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Fayette County Man Convicted of Criminal Sexual Offenses"},"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>Madison County State\u2019s Attorney Tom Haine has announced that a jury has found a 42-year-old Fayette County man guilty of abducting a woman from the parking lot of a Collinsville coffee shop at knifepoint and forcing her to drive to Troy, where he raped her.<\/p>\n<p>The jury deliberated a little more than an hour before finding Timothy J. Dubois of Shobonier guilty of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault (Class X enhanced felony), aggravated criminal sexual assault (Class X felony), Aggravated Kidnapping (Class X felony), and Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse (Class 2 felony).<\/p>\n<p>The victim was abducted about 7 a.m. on Nov. 11, 2022, from the parking lot of a Starbucks. A man dressed in black got into her car, displayed a large knife, and ordered her to drive to a quiet residential area of Troy, where he sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant State\u2019s Attorney Rebecca Buettner told jurors the assailant then drove the victim back to the Collinsville business district, put a coat over the victim\u2019s head, ordered her to count to 100, and vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unknown assailant was gone,\u201d Buettner told jurors in her closing argument. \u201cBut not without a trace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said Collinsville Police, with assistance from multiple agencies, \u201cused the tools they had\u201d to make breakthroughs in a months-long investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was unfamiliar with the location of the sexual assault. But investigators were able to extract location data from the victim\u2019s Apple watch, even though the attacker had turned off the victim\u2019s iPhone in an apparent attempt to conceal their movements.<\/p>\n<p>Using the location data, police began a canvas of a residential area of Troy. There, on a secluded gravel driveway, a Collinsville investigator found a discarded condom.<\/p>\n<p>The condom contained male DNA, but there were no matches in the law enforcement database. Collinsville Police then used Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy to come up with a list of close relatives of the unknown DNA profile. That information eventually led them to Dubois.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of forensic genealogical DNA marked a major advancement in this investigation,\u201d Haine said. \u201cThis emerging technology gave investigators a path forward when other leads had been exhausted and ultimately helped bring justice to the victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Haine noted that determined police work was just as crucial to the investigation and successful prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took both to solve this case and bring this predator to justice,\u201d Haine said. \u201cIt also took technological expertise \u2013 extracting the location data from the Apple watch. Once the detectives had a general location, they burned shoe leather: canvassing the neighborhood in Troy, knocking on doors, scouring the area for evidence and ultimately finding the critical piece of evidence, the condom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haine commended the Collinsville Police Department and the multiple agencies that assisted in the investigation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Troy Police Department<\/li>\n<li>Illinois State Police<\/li>\n<li>Metropolitan Enforcement Group of Southwestern Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Louis County Police Department<\/li>\n<li>Jefferson County, MO Sheriff\u2019s Department<\/li>\n<li>Illinois Attorney General\u2019s Office<\/li>\n<li>Illinois Secretary of State Police<\/li>\n<li>Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center<\/li>\n<li>Vandalia Police Department<\/li>\n<li>Fayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/li>\n<li>Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System<\/li>\n<li>Belleville Police Department<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis was a thorough, painstaking, and textbook investigation carried out by dedicated investigators,\u201d Haine said. \u201cTheir work allowed our prosecution team to present a detailed picture to the jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The case was prosecuted by Buettner and First Assistant State\u2019s Attorney Ali Foley. Haine also praised the courage of the victim throughout the prosecution of the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile no conviction can erase the trauma suffered by the victim, today\u2019s outcome represents justice and accountability,\u201d Haine said. \u201cWe remain committed to standing with victims and pursuing those who commit violent crimes in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victim, in her testimony, said she feared for her life. She said she asked the abductor if he planned to hurt or rape her, and the abductor replied that he did not. The victim testified that when they reached the location in Troy, the abductor then told her, \u201cI lied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Judge Tim Berkley presided at the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois will be sentenced later. He faces up to 80 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison County State\u2019s Attorney Tom Haine has announced that a jury has found a 42-year-old Fayette County man guilty of abducting a woman from the parking lot of a Collinsville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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-37617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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>Fayette County Man Convicted of Criminal Sexual Offenses - 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\/37617-fayette-county-man-convicted-of-criminal-sexual-offenses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fayette County Man Convicted of Criminal Sexual Offenses - 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