Yoga teacher murdered professor girlfriend after investment deal went bad, fled country and assumed a new identity

A 56-year-old antheral is headed to situation for decades, much than 15 years aft helium murdered a fashionable assemblage prof successful Maryland, fled the state and assumed a caller identity.

Jorge Rueda Landeros was sentenced connected Tuesday to 25 years down bars for the slaying of 52-year-old Sue Ann Marcum, according to the Montgomery County State Attorney's Office. A assemblage recovered Landeros blameworthy of second-degree execution successful October.

Landeros was Marcum's Spanish teacher and yoga teacher and the 2 had go lovers. Marcum, a beloved prof astatine American University, besides entered into an concern woody with Landeros. But Marcum soured connected the deal.

"The imaginativeness of you sitting astatine the extremity of my room array telling maine you person nary remorse for spending the wealth keeps appearing successful my caput present that I cognize that the magnitude was $50,000; it is physically playing havoc with my body," she wrote successful an October 2008 email to Landeros.

Investigators aboriginal learned that Marcum forked implicit immoderate $300,000 without getting thing successful return. Landeros pocketed astir $250,000 of the money. He besides made himself the sole beneficiary of Marcum's $500,000 beingness security policy.

Cops recovered Marcum dormant connected Oct. 25, 2010, wrong her location successful the 6200 artifact of Massachusetts Avenue successful Bethesda. She had been strangled and beaten. It appeared idiosyncratic had gained introduction done a rear model and immoderate items of worth were stolen. However, implicit the people of the investigation, cops determined that the burglary was staged and Marcum apt knew her killer.

Detectives recovered DNA belonging to idiosyncratic different than Marcum. They past reviewed Marcum's emails, which uncovered her narration with Landeros. They besides learned helium had crossed the U.S. borderline from his autochthonal Mexico conscionable days earlier the murder. Landeros had been going backmost and distant from the U.S. and Mexico connected a regular ground and during 1 of the crossings, Border Patrol agents obtained a feature swab for a DNA sample.

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In April 2011, authorities confirmed the chartless DNA astatine the transgression country belonged to Landeros. They obtained an apprehension warrant.

But by that clip Landeros disappeared into Mexico. Cops learned that helium assumed a caller identity. It took 11 years earlier authorities could find him, apprehension him, and vessel him backmost to Maryland to look charges.

A assemblage convicted him of execution aft a nine-day trial.

Marcum's member Alan Marcum noted that Monday was his sister's birthday.

"Today, we're lasting present with the idiosyncratic who murdered her sentenced to 25 years acknowledgment to the enactment of the Montgomery County police, the State's Attorneys, and I'm precise grateful for the enactment that they did, and appreciative for the attraction and attraction that the assemblage paid and that the justice gave america passim this case," helium said.

Sue Ann Marcum was the manager of the master's successful accounting programme astatine American University and taught some postgraduate and undergraduate classes, her obituary said. She was prof of the twelvemonth for 3 consecutive years.

Her longtime person Larry March said Marcum had precocious moved into a caller home, and helium believed she had chopped each ties to Landeros.

"She was benignant of starting her beingness implicit again, and past she was snuffed distant from the Earth," March said.