September 14, 2006

Glen Cove Man Indicted on Murder Charge

Rice announces indictment of Evan Marshall

MINEOLA, NY - Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced this morning that a Grand Jury has returned an indictment of Evan Marshall, 31, of Glen Cove, on charges of Murder in First Degree, three counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree, Burglary in the Second Degree, and Criminal Mischief in the Fourth Degree, in connection with an August 17 homicide in Glen Cove, New York.  Also included in the Grand Jury’s indictment were charges of Assault and Leaving the Scene of an Incident Involving Physical Injury Without Reporting, charges that stem from an unrelated vehicular incident the morning of the murder.

On April 18, 2006, Evan Marshall was arrested by a Glen Cove police officer driving into his gated community in Nassau County’s north shore.  He was charged that afternoon with Murder in the Second Degree after authorities found the mutilated and dismembered corpse of the defendant’s neighbor, Denice Fox, 57, in garbage cans in his family’s basement.  Later that same day, Nassau County Police Detectives found the victim’s severed head in a bag in the defendant’s car.  The indictment alleges Mr. Marshall murdered the victim on or about the morning of Thursday, April 17.

The assault and leaving the scene of an incident involving physical injury charges stem from an unrelated incident occurring early on the morning of August 17.  A Glen Cove woman was struck by a vehicle traveling Westbound on New Woods Road at approximately 8:30 A.M.  As a passerby responded to the victim, the car left the scene of the incident without notifying police and without attending to injuries that left the victim.  This car, registered to the defendant, was being driven by the defendant when he was apprehended in Glen Cove the following day.

Major Offense Bureau Chief and Assistant District Attorney Mitch Benson and Assistant District Attorney Ken St. Bernard are handling the case for the District Attorney’s Office.  Mr. Marshall is being represented by William Keahon, Esq.

Mr. Marshall was arraigned on the murder charge in First District Court, Hempstead, on Saturday, April 19, where he was remanded to the Nassau County Jail.  He was arraigned on the indictment today in Nassau County Court in front of the Honorable Richard A. LaPera.

Mr. Marshall is due back in court October 23, 2006.  If convicted on all counts, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The charges are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.