Report: Suspect in Marcum Homicide Emailing Detectives From Mexico

The Washington Post is reporting that Jorge Rueda Landeros, the man accused of killing American University professor Sue Marcum in her Bethesda home last fall, has been writing emails to law enforcement officials from his home in Juarez, Mexico.

Landeros is in an international warrant in the killing of Marcum, who was found in her Massachusetts Avenue home Oct. 25. Police initially characterized the murder as a robbery gone wrong, but later charged Landeros in her death.

The Post reports that Landeros, a dual American and Mexican citizen, recently wrote an e-mail to a detective in El Paso refusing to return to the United States. Montgomery County Police have said they are working with federal and Mexican authorities to have Landeros arrested and transported back to the United States.

“Of course you are cordially invited to cross the same bridge, in the opposite direction, and meet me at Sanborn’s, a great cafe and restaurant here in Juarez, and we can talk shop all you want,” Landeros e-mailed the El Paso detective, according to the Post. “It’s best if you come on a Sunday. We can have brunch. It will of course be my treat. Yours, Jorge.”

People close to Marcum told Patch that Landeros was Marcum’s and though the two shared a close relationship, her friends said they believed the relationship was not a romantic one.

But in a series of interviews with a Post reporter, Landeros claims the two briefly shared a romantic relationship. Landeros also told the Post that he has been named the beneficiary of Marcum’s life insurance policy, though he said he had not received any funds and he maintains his innocence in the crime.

The full story is available at the Washington Post.