Legal Opinion
Leuschner v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 14, 1980No. 945, September Term, 1979PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLowe, J.
Elwood Leroy Leuschner was a multiple offender felon who came to Maryland as a fugitive from California justice. His atrocities there were of such nature that his wife by petition alleged him to have been a sexual psychopath causing his commitment to the Mendocino State Hospital which, after 90 days, decided he was not so deranged. Violating his parole after imprisonment, Leuschner emigrated to Maryland where he subsequently kidnapped, sodomized and murdered two young boys, 10-year-old Russell Marine by stabbing and 9-year-old Troy Krause by strangulation.
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