{"id":47,"date":"2026-07-16T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:21:32","slug":"illinois-starbucks-parking-lot-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Starbucks Parking Lot Rape Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Illinois court sentenced Timothy J. Dubois Jr., 42, to 120 years in prison after he was convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman. The attack took place on November 11, 2022, when the victim was waiting in her car for a mobile order at a Starbucks in Collinsville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to prosecutors, Dubois approached the victim with a knife and forced her to drive to a remote area in Troy, Illinois, where he sexually assaulted her. He later returned her to a shopping area, covered her head with a coat, ordered her to count to 100, and fled the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators solved the case using the victim&#8217;s Apple Watch location data, which led them to the crime scene. There, they recovered DNA evidence that was later matched to Dubois through forensic genetic genealogy. During the investigation, Dubois also confessed to the crime. In July 2026, the court sentenced him to 120 years in prison, calling the punishment appropriate for the seriousness of the off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Illinois court sentenced Timothy J. Dubois Jr., 42, to 120 years in prison after he was convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman. The attack took place on November 11, 2022, when the victim was waiting in her car for a mobile order at a Starbucks in Collinsville. According to prosecutors, Dubois&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rape-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslineamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}