Marcus v. State

The appellant, Jerry Marcus, was convicted of the murder of Wydeane Ellerbee, a violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to life in prison.

The evidence tended to show that, on April 17, 1987, a badly decomposed body was found behind the Tuskegee, Alabama, house of Ruth Marcus, appellant's mother. Approximately seven months prior to this, a missing person report had been filed on Ms. Ellerbee. Several weeks after the report was filed, her car was located in Tuskegee.

In April of 1987, Dolph Bryan, a deputy in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, was investigating a missing…