Illinois man pleads guilty to dousing ex-girlfriend’s mother in gasoline and killing her in fire

TROY, Ill. (TCD) -- A 41-year-old man entered a guilty plea this week in connection with the 2022 death of his ex-girlfriend’s 69-year-old mother, who died in a fire he started. According to Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine, Michael Sloan Jr. pleaded guilty on Monday, Jan. 8, to the first-degree murder of Susanne Tomlinson. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 26 and faces up to 50 years in prison. As part of his plea, Sloan confessed to setting Tomlinson’s home ablaze in the 500 block of Wood Thrush Street on Sept. 22, 2022, "knowing that she was inside." A