After a little over a year behind bars, Roy Herman Evans, 44, has pleaded guilty to murdering 28-year-old Sunday Blombergh.

District Attorney Paul Bowden said Tuesday morning that Evans pleaded guilty to malice murder late Monday afternoon at the Tift County Law Enforcement Center; Judge Melanie Cross sentenced Evans to life in prison. Evans will be eligible for parole after 30 years.

After the processing of paperwork in Atlanta, Evans will initially be sent to the Medical Diagnostic Center in Jacksonville, Fla., from the Tift County jail, where he is currently housed, and then most likely will be transferred, Bowden said.

According to a past article, Evans was arrested in 2010 in connection with the death of Blombergh, who disappeared April 22, 2010 from the 49 Briarwood Lane home she shared with Evans and his wife, Ruby Anne Evans, 45, the mother of Blombergh’s estranged husband, 30-year-old Theo Wayne Conoly, who is the father of Blombergh’s then 7-year-old daughter. Conoly was arrested in July 2010 in Florida and was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. He was booked into the Pinellas County Jail in Florida after being arrested by the St. Petersburg Police Department. Bowden advised that Conoly is currently housed in the Tift County jail.

Blombergh’s badly decomposed body was found May 27, 2010 in a wooded area in Colquitt County near the Tift County line.

Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Brock was reported as stating that Blombergh’s body was found in deep woods accessed from near the bridge at the dead end of Vickers Bridge Road. The location was between Ellenton and Lenox. Sheriff Gary Vowell was quoted stating that evidence would show that Sunday and her child lived with Ruby. Apparently, Sunday was preparing to move to Tallahassee to go to work on the day that she disappeared and had decided to leave the child with Ruby so she could finish the school year.

Vowell had said that he and others involved in the investigation didn’t believe Blombergh had been held against her will for any period of time before she was killed.

Evans’ friend, Kenneth Randall Tomlinson, 48, was also arrested in the case of Blombergh’s death. He was charged with concealing her death after he helped Evans hide Blombergh’s body. Bowden said Tomlinson is currently out on bond and is cooperating with authorities and the Tift County District Attorney’s Office.

Bowden stated that the trials for defendants Ruby Evans and Conoly have not been scheduled yet. Ms. Evans is currently charged with murder and conspiracy, and Conoly is charged with conspiracy.

Bowden said Blombergh’s mother has custody of her daughter. They are living in Texas, he said.

Bowden commented after being asked if justice has been served now that Evans has confessed, “It has to an extent that we have one person who played a part in this has admitted to it, but we still have others to deal with.”

To contact reporter Latasha Everson, call 382-4321.