Man Convicted Of Murdering Engaged Couple In Allentown

October 19, 2012

A Milton man has been convicted of murdering an engaged couple found on a secluded Allentown Road in September 2010.

A jury returned the verdict Thursday against Robert Lee Hobart, 43, for the first degree murders of Robert Hamm, 41, and Tracie Tolbert, 43.

Hamm and Tolbert were discovered shot to death September 22 on Jesse Allen Road in Allentown. Both victims died from gunshot wounds, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office. Prosecutors said Hobart murdered the couple in order to steal prescription drugs from them.

He will be sentenced next week and could receive a maximum of the death penalty.

Hobart was a suspect early in the investigation and arrested by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office after he was implicated by conclusive forensic evidence. Investigators said ballistics tests matched the weapon to both the shell casings and the bullets recovered from the crime scene.

The murders were discovered after a resident of Jesse Allen Road called authorities to report what looked like a large amount of blood in Jesse Allen Road. When deputies arrived, they found the two bodies on opposite sides of the roadway.

Jesse Allen Road runs west off Highway 87, about 18 miles south of Jay and not far from Central High School.

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One Response to “Man Convicted Of Murdering Engaged Couple In Allentown”

  1. ObeyThe Laws on October 19th, 2012 2:43 pm

    Want to do the crime? Be willing to do the time.

    Glad he’s off the streets. He deserves the chair. I hope the judge sees it that way too.

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