Final Richmond Hill suspect pleads guilty

The last of five people arrested and charged with crimes in the 2012 explosion of a southside home has pleaded guilty.

Glenn Hults, 50, Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to assisting a criminal, a felony charge.

As part of his guilty plea, Hults admitted he knew about the plan to blow up and collect insurance money on Monserrate Shirley’s Richmond Hill home by Mark Leonard, Bob Leonard, Shirley and Gary Thompson, and did not tell police, according to a news release from the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office.

The neighborhood is located just north of County Line Road.

The explosion killed Greenwood teacher Jennifer Longworth and her husband, Dion Longworth, who lived next door, and damaged dozens of homes in the southside neighborhood.

Hults is the final person to either plead guilty or be convicted in the case. His sentence will be decided by the Marion County court next month, the release said.

Mark Leonard and Bob Leonard were previously convicted by a jury and sentenced to life without parole. Thompson, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson, will be sentenced to 20 years in prison later this month.

Shirley, who testified against both Mark Leonard, her then-boyfriend who police called the mastermind of the plot, and his brother Bob Leonard, is set to be sentenced Dec. 19, the release said.