It’s taken more than 30 years, but the man wanted in connection to a 1994 attempted murder in Alton has pleaded guilty to that charge and identity theft and has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. 54-year-old Robert D. Mason III, who previously lived in Madison County, was caught in Kalamazoo, Michigan last summer, living under another man’s name.
That is what alerted investigators to his whereabouts, after the man whose identity was stolen called police. The 1994 charges, filed by then-State’s Attorney Bill Haine, allege that Mason shot a man four times with intent to kill him and used force to enter the home of an Alton woman while armed with a weapon, both on May 15 of that year. He disappeared shortly after that, but the charges remained pending. Current Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine talked about picking up a case started under his father’s watch…