Your Black World Headlines: 11/10/2008

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Your Black News: Robert Marko Formally Charged With Murder

COLORADO SPRINGS — A Fort Carson soldier who boasted about his transformation into a killer on his MySpace page has been formally charged with 19 felony counts, including first-degree murder.

Robert Hull Marko, 21, is being held in the El Paso County jail without bail in the slaying of 19-year-old Judilianna “Judi” Lawrence. The body of the developmentally disabled woman was found Oct. 13 on Old Stage Road, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records.

The charges filed Monday included felony murder, first-degree murder and five counts of sexual assault with force and with a weapon. He also was charged with sexual assault on a child and kidnapping, according to CBI records.

After a tour of duty that ended in February, Marko was earmarked for psychological counseling because of an “overactive imagination.” He was cleared for combat before he admitted to El Paso County sheriff’s investigators that he slashed Lawrence’s throat.

From Denver Post

Your Black News: Black Woman Raped, Gagged, Blindfolded, Throat Slit

A Fort Carson soldier told police he had “rough sex” with a 19-year-old woman and then slit her throat, leaving her to die in the forest west of Colorado Springs, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by 7NEWS.

The coroner determined her cause of death as an “incised wound to the neck,” the sheriff’s department said Wednesday.

Robert Hull Marko, 21, is being held without bond on suspicion of first-degree murder and sexual assault with a deadly weapon after police said he led them to the area of Old Stage Road where the naked body of Judilianna “Judi” Lawrence was found Monday.

Authorities had been searching for the 19-year-old woman since she was reported missing by her mother last Friday.

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Investigators began questioning Marko Friday evening and he relented on Monday — his 21st birthday, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said. Marko said he met the victim on myspace.com and they met in person for the first time Friday.

That’s when Marko said he picked her up, took her to the woods for sex and then had an argument. According to the affidavit, Marko said he blindfolded Lawrence and gagged her before cutting her throat as she stood next to a tree […]

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