Ohio grand jury indicts Illinois man on murder charge

CINCINNATI (AP) — A southwest Ohio grand jury has indicted a 41-year-old man on murder charges in the slaying last month of a Kentucky woman on Interstate 75.

Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said today that Terry Froman of Brookport, Ill., could face the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder. He was indicted on two aggravated murder counts, two kidnapping counts and a firearms discharge count.

Froman was arrested Sept. 12, accused of killing his estranged girlfriend’s son in Kentucky, kidnapping her and then killing her on Interstate 75. Authorities approaching the car stopped on the side of I-75, some 30 miles north of Cincinnati, said they heard multiple gunshots.

Police said Froman had a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the body of Kim Thomas, 34, was in the back of his vehicle off the interstate, which police had shut down. He was treated at a hospital and later jailed.

Froman also faces charges in Kentucky of murder and kidnapping.