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Man charged in slaying of Bethesda professor back in Md. after 12 years on FBI's 'Wanted' list
Man charged in slaying of Bethesda professor back in Md. after 12 years on FBI’s ‘Wanted’ list
Jack Moore | jmoore@wtop.com
July 26, 2023, 2:41 PM
A man charged in the 2010 killing of an American University professor in Bethesda is making his first court appearance in Montgomery County, Maryland, after more than a decade on the run in Mexico, authorities said. ... Jorge Rueda Landeros, 53, is set to have a bond review in Rockville District Court on Wednesday after being extradited from Mexico back to Maryland earlier this week. ... Montgomery County police officials, as well as officials from the FBI, will also hold a news conference later Wednesday afternoon to discuss the case.
Landeros, who was arrested in Guadalajara, Mexico, late last year, has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Sue Ann Marcum, an accounting professor, who was found dead in the basement of her Bethesda home in October 2010. She had been beaten and asphyxiated, according to an autopsy.
Police said the crime scene initially bore signs of a robbery. A rear window appeared to have been pried open, and the house was partially ransacked. However, several expensive items were left behind and investigators said evidence of a struggle indicated Marcum possibly knew her attacker.
Suspicion eventually landed on Landeros, a yoga instructor and English teacher, who had developed a personal relationship with Marcum sometime in the mid-2000s, police said. According to charging documents, Landeros was the sole beneficiary of a $500,000 life insurance policy on Marcum, and the two also shared a joint investment fund. ... A 2008 tax form in Marcum’s name listed proceeds of over $100 million in the fund, which investigators believed to be “very unusual,” given her occupation as a university professor, according to the charging documents.
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Jack Moore joined WTOP.com as a digital writer/editor in July 2016. Previous to his current role, he covered federal government management and technology as the news editor at Nextgov.com, part of Government Executive Media Group.
jmoore@wtop.com
Jack Moore | jmoore@wtop.com
July 26, 2023, 2:41 PM
A man charged in the 2010 killing of an American University professor in Bethesda is making his first court appearance in Montgomery County, Maryland, after more than a decade on the run in Mexico, authorities said. ... Jorge Rueda Landeros, 53, is set to have a bond review in Rockville District Court on Wednesday after being extradited from Mexico back to Maryland earlier this week. ... Montgomery County police officials, as well as officials from the FBI, will also hold a news conference later Wednesday afternoon to discuss the case.
Landeros, who was arrested in Guadalajara, Mexico, late last year, has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Sue Ann Marcum, an accounting professor, who was found dead in the basement of her Bethesda home in October 2010. She had been beaten and asphyxiated, according to an autopsy.
Police said the crime scene initially bore signs of a robbery. A rear window appeared to have been pried open, and the house was partially ransacked. However, several expensive items were left behind and investigators said evidence of a struggle indicated Marcum possibly knew her attacker.
Suspicion eventually landed on Landeros, a yoga instructor and English teacher, who had developed a personal relationship with Marcum sometime in the mid-2000s, police said. According to charging documents, Landeros was the sole beneficiary of a $500,000 life insurance policy on Marcum, and the two also shared a joint investment fund. ... A 2008 tax form in Marcum’s name listed proceeds of over $100 million in the fund, which investigators believed to be “very unusual,” given her occupation as a university professor, according to the charging documents.
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Jack Moore joined WTOP.com as a digital writer/editor in July 2016. Previous to his current role, he covered federal government management and technology as the news editor at Nextgov.com, part of Government Executive Media Group.
jmoore@wtop.com
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