A Greenwood man was sentenced to more than three decades in prison after being convicted of rape in 2023.
Tyler Klingensmith, 37, was sentenced to 31.5 years in prison after being found guilty of 13 felonies by a Johnson County jury in November 2025.
Rape was a felony, as were five acts of criminal imprisonment, six counts of intimidation, and domestic assault as a misdemeanor.
The punishment hearing was originally planned for Jan. 5, 2026, but was postponed several times at Klingensmith’s request.
Klingensmith will be obliged to register as a sexual offender.
According to court documents, Klingensmith had a past conviction in Arkansas and was sentenced to ten years in prison for stalking a former lover.
On December 28, 2023, a victim reported domestic assault by Klingensmith to the Greenwood Police Department. Arkansas police were still monitoring Klingensmith at the time.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the evidence presented at trial and the sentencing hearing caused the court “great concern for ordering anything less than the maximum sentence allowed by law.”
According to the prosecutor’s office, Deputy Prosecutor Bridget Foust claimed that Klingensmith’s criminal history, and this case in particular, demonstrate that he is “an ongoing danger to women” and “needs to be securely held for a long time where he cannot harm anyone else.”
“Judge (Douglas) Cummins thoughtfully and carefully considered the evidence and arguments in this case. Criminals like Tyler Klingensmith are exactly what the maximum sentences were made for,” Johnson County Prosecutor Lance Hamner said. “I commend Deputy Prosecutors Bridget Foust and Virginia Kirk for their tremendous work in bringing justice to our victims. Putting a dangerous criminal like this in a steel cage for decades so he cannot harm anyone else is exactly what the criminal justice system was designed to do.”
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