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		</div><h6><strong><span style="color: #362a2a;">Joshua Keadle was sentenced to 71 years for the second-degree murder of 19-year-old college student Tyler Thomas who disappeared in December 2010 </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #362a2a;">He was the last person to see Thomas and gave a constantly changing account off events</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #362a2a;">Keadle, 38, who is already serving time for an unrelated rape conviction of a minor was found guilty of murdering a Nebraska college student whose body was never found after she vanished 10 years ago</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #362a2a;">Keadle who was found guilty in February maintains he&#8217;s innocent, although he chose not to testify at his trial</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #362a2a;">The victim&#8217;s father said before the sentencing on Wednesday in a Nebraska court that Keadle &#8216;does not deserve any leniency for what he has done&#8217;</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #362a2a;">Loved ones of Thomas hugged and cried after the sentence was read</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #362a2a;">A jury awarded the victim&#8217;s family $2.6billion in a wrongful death lawsuit, but It&#8217;s unlikely Thomas&#8217; family will ever collect on the award, because Keadle doesn&#8217;t have the assets to pay </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #362a2a;">Keadle will be eligible for parole in 35 years when he&#8217;s 73 years old </span></strong></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351159" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Joshua-Keadle-1.jpg" alt="Joshua Keadle 1" width="766" height="433" />Joshua Keadle [L-R], was sentenced to 71 years for second-degree murder on Wednesday in the death of Tyler &#8216;Ty&#8217; Thomas. Keadle who was arrested in 2016 had been a person of interest in the disappearance and by then was serving time in prison for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in 2008 in Fremont</h6>
<p>A sex assault convict was sentenced Wednesday to 71 years to life in prison in the death of a Nebraska college student whose body has never been found since she vanished in 2010.<br />
Already serving time for an unrelated crime Joshua Keadle protested his innocence, having refused to testify at his own trial.<br />
Loved ones of Tyler Thomas hugged and cried after 38-year-old Joshua Keadle was sentenced for second-degree murder in the killing following his conviction by a jury in February.<br />
On Wednesday in court, Keadle maintained that he is innocent and told the court he feels guilty seeing Thomas&#8217; grandmother cry.<br />
&#8216;I&#8217;m sorry for the choices I made. I feel responsible for Tyler not being here, [but] I did not kill Tyler Thomas,&#8217; Keadle told the 10 family members present.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">He was convicted in February for the murder of Tyler Thomas who disappeared in December 2010.</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"> He was sentenced Wednesday to serve 35 years to life in prison.</span></p>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351162" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tyler-Thomas-1.jpg" alt="Tyler Thomas 1" width="768" height="502" /></span>Tyler &#8216;Ty&#8217; Thomas [photo], disappeared in December 2010. The killer Joshua Keadle was sentenced 71 years for the death of the Nebraska student. Earlier in Feb, he had been convicted of second-degree murder</h6>
<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351163" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Missouri-River-1.jpg" alt="Missouri River 1" width="766" height="375" /></span>Keadle initially told investigators he was not with Thomas on the night she disappeared. Later he revised his story claiming that he left her at a Missouri River boat ramp before she vanished</h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Keadle initially told investigators he was not with Thomas on the night she disappeared. He later changed his story and claimed he left her at a Missouri River boat ramp before she vanished.<br />
</span>&#8216;I&#8217;m sorry, I know that&#8217;s not good enough. You are the last person I see every night before I go to sleep. I did not kill Tyler and I&#8217;m sorry for that.&#8217;<br />
The sentencing hearing was delayed because of COVID-19 concerns but on Wednesday Thomas&#8217; loved ones got some justice.<br />
&#8216;We haven&#8217;t been able to heal, we can&#8217;t really mourn, we don&#8217;t have a body to bury. We don&#8217;t have that closure&#8230;. we don&#8217;t have that,&#8217; Thomas&#8217; mother LaTanya said, <a class="class" href="https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/joshua-keadle-sentenced-in-2010-killing-of-ty-thomas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">KMTV</a> reports.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;I still don&#8217;t know where she [Tyler] is. I always hoped during all of this that we would find out where she is and what he did to her. It&#8217;s gonna be a start of our healing, I think more than what we expected to be because we&#8217;ve been holding our breath for a long time.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Thomas was 19 when she disappeared in December 2010 after the Omaha student left a party near Peru State College in southeastern Nebraska, where Keadle also was a student, the Omaha World-Herald reported.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Keadle initially told investigators he was not with Thomas on the night she disappeared. </span></p>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351164" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Joshua-Keadle-4.jpg" alt="Joshua Keadle 4" width="714" height="443" /></span>Joshua Keadle [photo], was was convicted on second-degree murder in the death of Tyler Thomas in February, but the sentencing hearing was delayed because of COVID-19 concerns</h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351172" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Joshua-Keadle-6.jpg" alt="Joshua Keadle 6" width="762" height="423" />Still protesting his innocence after his conviction for murder, Keadle told the family in court: &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry, I know that&#8217;s not good enough. You are the last person I see every night before I go to sleep. I did not kill Tyler and I&#8217;m sorry for that&#8217;</h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351175" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Kevin-Seaman-left-and-Dillion-Thomas-right-1-1.jpg" alt="Kevin Seaman [left], and Dillion Thomas [right] 1" width="762" height="431" />The victim&#8217;s father Kevin Seamans, [left], said before the sentencing on Wednesday in a Nebraska court that Keadle &#8216;does not deserve any leniency for what he has done&#8217;. &#8216;We no longer smile just because we&#8217;re happy,&#8217; Thomas&#8217; younger brother, Dillon Thomas [right], said</h6>
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At the sentencing hearing Keadle told the victim&#8217;s family: &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry, I know that&#8217;s not good enough. You are the last person I see every night before I go to sleep. I did not kill Tyler and I&#8217;m sorry for that&#8217;.<br />
Before the sentencing on Wednesday in a Nebraska court, the victim&#8217;s father , Ty’s brother and other family members told Joshua Keadle to his face how it’s impacted their family.<br />
</span></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Kevin Semans, Thomas&#8217; father, made a statement before the sentence was read.</span></p>
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&#8216;It is hard to talk about Tyler with anyone, because it brings up emotions that I just can&#8217;t handle,&#8217; he said of his daughter, who was captain of the college&#8217;s dance team.<br />
&#8216;Joshua took so much more than Tyler&#8217;s life, he took a part of all of our lives.<br />
&#8216;Part of us died when she died. Joshua Keadle does not deserve any leniency for what he has done. Not a shred.&#8217;<br />
He said the last 10 years have felt like &#8216;eternity&#8217;.<br />
&#8216;We no longer smile just because we&#8217;re happy,&#8217; Ty&#8217;s younger brother, Dillon &#8216;DJ&#8217; Thomas, said.<br />
&#8216;We no longer laugh so hard our sides hurt or our eyes drip tears.<br />
&#8216;She was my best friend so my view on people has changed.&#8217;</div>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351173" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/LaTanya-Thomas-1.jpg" alt="LaTanya Thomas 1" width="723" height="443" /></span>&#8216;We haven&#8217;t been able to heal, we can&#8217;t really mourn, we don&#8217;t have a body to bury. We don&#8217;t have that closure&#8230;. we don&#8217;t have that,&#8217; LaTanya Thomas said after her daughter&#8217;s killer was sentenced on Wednesday</h6>
<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351177" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Kevin-Seamans-and-Latanya-Thomas-1.jpg" alt="Kevin Seamans and Latanya Thomas 1" width="745" height="416" /></span>Ty Thomas&#8217; parents, Kevin Seamans and LaTanya Thomas hugged [photo], and cried after the sentence was read</h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Later, he changed his story, saying that he had offered to give Thomas a ride to Omaha in exchange for a sex act. </span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">But he said she later reneged on the arrangement, and after an argument broke out, he left her behind at a Missouri River boat ramp near campus.<br />
During a search of the boat launch, a deputy said he saw tire tracks matching Keadle&#8217;s SUV, and what appeared to be drag marks leading to the river bank.<br />
Earlier that year, an 18-year-old student told authorities that he took her to the same boat launch and threatened to push her in the Missouri River if she didn&#8217;t have sex with him.</p>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351167" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tyler-Thomas-3.jpg" alt="Tyler Thomas 3" width="751" height="487" /></span>Tyler &#8216;Ty&#8217; Thomas [L-R], was the captain of the college&#8217;s dance team</h6>
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Weeks before Thomas&#8217; disappearance, Keadle was accused of sexually harassing two female students in a co-ed dorm.<br />
In 2013, the state issued a death certificate for Thomas.<br />
A jury found Keadle liable in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Thomas&#8217; family and ordered him to pay $2.6billion.<br />
It&#8217;s unlikely Thomas&#8217; family will ever collect on the award, because Keadle doesn&#8217;t have the assets to pay it.</div>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-351166" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tyler-Thomas-2.jpg" alt="Tyler Thomas 2" width="660" height="570" /></span>Keadle said on the night he had offered to give 19-year-old college student Tyler Thomas, [photo], a ride to Omaha in exchange for a sex act. He said she later reneged on the arrangement, and after an argument broke out, he left her behind at a Missouri River boat ramp near campus</h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Keadle said on the night he had offered to give 19-year-old college student Tyler Thomas a ride to Omaha in exchange for a sex act.Tyler later reneged on the arrangement, Keadle claims. After an argument broke out, he left her behind at a Missouri River boat ramp near campus.</span></p>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">He joined the search effort back in 2010 but didn&#8217;t look anywhere near where he said he had abandoned her. &#8216;You did nothing to make sure she got home safely,&#8217; the judge told Keadle on Wednesday. &#8216;Instead you chose to protect yourself&#8217;</span></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">With no body, the case went cold. But in 2016, the Nebraska attorney general&#8217;s office took a new look at the case at the urging of Thomas&#8217; family when the newly-elected General Doug Peterson took over.<br />
That led to the arrest of Keadle, who had been a person of interest in the disappearance and by then was serving time in prison for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in 2008 in Fremont, while Keadle was a college student there.<br />
That conviction was partially used as a basis for the sentencing request from the state prosecutor.</p>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-351165" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Joshua-Keadle-5.jpg" alt="Joshua Keadle 5" width="744" height="476" /></span>Keadle [photo], the last person to see Ty Thomas joined the search effort back in 2010 but didn&#8217;t look anywhere near where he claimed he had abandoned her, by the Missouri river bank</h6>
<p>Gage County District Judge Rick Schreiner noted on Wednesday that Keadle has been selfish in his actions since Thomas disappeared.<br />
He joined the search effort but didn&#8217;t look anywhere near where he said he had abandoned her.<br />
&#8216;You did nothing to make sure she got home safely,&#8217; the judge told Keadle. &#8216;Instead you chose to protect yourself.&#8217;<br />
Keadle will be eligible for parole in 35 years when he&#8217;s 73 years old.</p></div>
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Convicted rapist, 38, jailed 71 years for murder of a Nebraska college student whose body was never found after she vanished 10 years ago, but Joshua Keadle still maintains he didn’t kill Tyler Thomas
