FBI SEEKING INFORMATION ON MURDERED PROFESSOR

On October 25, 2010 police was dispatched out to a residence in the town of Bethesda, Maryland upon their arrival to the residence police discovered the body of 52 year old Sue Marcum; Marcum was a American University accounting professor and who is well loved by many was found lying lifeless in the basement of her residence.

After police discovered the body of 52 year old Sue Marcum they had discovered glass fragments underneath Marcums body which was a clear sign that the victim had been brutally beaten to death with a glass bottle.It must have been a burglary gone bad, her friends and police said at the time, especially when a District teenager was arrested driving Marcum’s missing sport-utility vehicle. But then detectives learned more about Landeros, the egocentric charmer who was 12 years younger than Marcum. The two had met about six years ago when Marcum enrolled in a Spanish class Landeros taught in Dupont Circle. He wrote poetry, studied yoga and day-traded stocks. Together, they practiced meditation before dawn, read books, went to concerts and enjoyed life together-Detectives had also learned that Landeros holds a dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship.

The detectives working the case had understanding that Landeros had became enraged that evening over what detectives suspect may had been over finances in which Landeros was responsible for trading on the foreign stock exchange market.

Jorge Rueda Landeros is wanted for his alleged involvement in the murder of Sue Marcum in her Bethesda, Maryland home on October 25, 2010 Investigators believe on the evening that Marcum was murdered the two got into an heated argument and Landeros became enraged and beat Marcum to death with a glass bottle. Since Jorge has been named a suspect in the murder of Marcum he had been in contact with detectives from his home in Juarez, Mexico, Landeros has been taunting detectives since he has been on the run, Landeros last reached out to El Paso detectives by email.

“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 wrote. “It’s best if you come on a Sunday. We can have brunch. It will of course be my treat. Yours, Jorge.”

In a series of interviews by telephone from Mexico, Landeros denied that he had killed Marcum but volunteered that he was the sole beneficiary of her half-million-dollar life insurance policy and that they invested money together. He described his relationship with Marcum as special, idiosyncratic and deep. For a brief period, he said, it turned into something more.

“We climbed that wall of romantic love at some point, but there was nothing behind the wall,” Landeros said. “There was nothing that could progress in that direction.”

Landeros said he was not in the United States in late October, when Marcum, 52, was slain. He answers e-mails from detectives, sometimes correcting their grammar, but declines to cross the border. “I had nothing to do with the murder of Sue Marcum. That was not me,” Landeros said. He added: “They want me to just turn myself in, like some silly scapegoat.”

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Jorge Landeros

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They later obtained a warrant charging him with first-degree murder. Marcum’s body was found in the lower level of her home on Oct. 25, 2010; Later on an autopsy showed blunt force trauma and asphyxiation to Sue Marcum.

Montgomery County police have sought help from Interpol and authorities in Mexico to locate Landeros and bring him to the United States, said Officer Janelle Smith, a police spokeswoman. “There is a process to be followed. That process takes time,” Smith said.

To Marcum’s friends, Landeros’s boasting and the flippancy with which he describes the case is infuriating.“If he’s so innocent, why is he staying in Mexico?” said fellow accountant Don Williamson, who, like others, thinks Landeros took advantage of a woman who had hundreds of friends but lived alone. “She was fascinated by that man. She was a loving, beautiful, vulnerable woman.”

The FBI has now joined the case and has offered a cash reward for information leading to the direct apprehension of Landeros, The United States FBI says Jorge Rueda Landeros is wanted for his alleged involvement in the murder of Marcum who was found deceased in the basement of her home, which also looked like it had been burglarized. Landeros allegedly had both a personal and financial relationship with Marcum, said a spokes person of The United States FBI

On April 16, 2011, a local arrest warrant was issued in the Montgomery County District Court, Rockville, Maryland, after Landeros was charged with first degree murder. A federal arrest warrant was issued on June 2, 2011, in the United States District Court, District of Maryland, Greenbelt, Maryland, after Landeros was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Jorge Rueda Landeros is asked to contact your local field office of the FBI or contact your local police immediately; According to the FBI Landeros is known to have fled to Mexico after the murder and may still be living there or in Central America. Landeros speaks both Spanish and English.