Three arrested in Tift woman’s death, including ex mother-in-law
Published 10:53 pm Thursday, May 27, 2010
Three people, including the victim’s former mother-in-law, have been arrested in connection with the death of Sunday Blombergh, authorities said this morning.
Roy Herman Evans, 44, and Ruby Anne Evans, 45, of 49 Briarwood Lane in Tift County are charged with murder, authorities say.
Ruby Evans is Blombergh’s former mother-in-law; Roy Herman Evans is Ruby’s husband.
Also arrested is Kenneth Randall Tomlinson, 48, of 311 Virginia Ave., Apt. 422 in Tifton. He is charged with concealing a death, authorities said.
All three suspects are in the Tift County Jail.
The badly decomposed body of Sunday Blombergh, a Tift County woman missing since April 22, was found Thursday in a wooded area in Colquitt County near the Tift County line, authorities say.
The body was found in deep woods accessed from near the bridge at the dead end of Vickers Bridge Road, said Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Brock. The location was between Ellenton and Lenox.
The body was turned over to the Tift County Coroner’s Office, Brock said.
Brock told the Moultrie Observer that he was called out to an area on Vickers Bridge Road at about 1:15 p.m. Thursday. The condition of the body prevented him from determining the person’s sex or age, he said.
“It was under investigation by the Tift County Sheriff’s Office and GBI,” he said. “After I did an on-site investigation, I released it to the Tift County coroner.”
Blombergh, 28, disappeared from her Tift County home on April 22. She and her young school-aged daughter were living with Herman and Ruby Evans in their home on Briarwood Lane in southern Tift County.
One of Sunday Blombergh’s sisters, Sunshine Blombergh, had told the Gazette that she was scheduled to pick up her sister at the home and plans were that Sunday would get a job in Tallahassee, Fla., visit her daughter in Tifton until school was out for summer break and then move with her daughter to Tallahassee.