A yoga instructor who authorities say fled to Mexico in 2010 after killing an American University accounting professor has been brought to Maryland to face charges, according to authorities and court records.Jorge Rueda Landeros, 53, is expected to make his first courtroom appearance in Montgomery County on Wednesday afternoon. Investigators have long asserted that he killed Sue Marcum inside her Bethesda-area home.
Over the years, Rueda Landeros has proclaimed his innocence. “I had nothing to do with the murder of Sue Marcum. That was not me,” heThe case attracted wide attention from the beginning. Police were called to Marcum’s home on Oct. 25, 2010. Her body was found on a lower level. An autopsy showed she had died of blunt-force trauma and asphyxiation.Investigators initially suspected a burglary gone bad, a theory bolstered when an 18-year-old was found driving Marcum’s stolen Jeep.
The two became jointly involved in an investment fund, one that Marcum became increasingly uncomfortable with, according to an FBI affidavit in the case.