When 52-year-old American University accounting professor SueMarcum was found dead at the bottom of the stairs inside herupscale Bethesda, Maryland, home in 2010, her murder madeheadlines. Medical examiners ruled her death a homicide causedby blunt-force trauma and asphyxiation. DNA evidence foundunderneath her fingernails signaled a possible struggle with anattacker. But what initially appeared to be a burglary gonewrong soon took a darker turn when authorities focused onformer boyfriend Jorge Rueda Landeros, a self-describedfinancial guru who had lost large sums of money Marcum investedwith him and who also stood to collect a 0,000 lifeinsurance policy in her name.Landeros disappeared to Juarez,Mexico, and eventually to Guadalajara, where he assumed a newidentity, living as a yoga teacher and poet until he wascaptured and extradited to the United States. Last October,Landeros stood trial for Marcum's murder, and a jury verdictsealed his fate.
