December 5, 2007

Glen Cove Killer Sentenced

Marshall receives 30 years-to-life in prison

MINEOLA, NY – Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced this morning that Evan Marshall, 33, of Glen Cove, has been sentenced by Nassau County Judge Richard LaPera to serve 30 years-to-life in prison for the dismemberment murder of 57-year-old Denice Fox, and an unrelated assault on a Glen Cove woman, in August 2006.  In September, Mr. Marshall pleaded guilty to Murder in the 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.  Mr. Marshall also pleaded guilty to 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. 

The defendant faced the possibility of receiving life in prison without the possibility of parole, a penalty District Attorney Kathleen Rice called for at the time of the plea and again advocated for in the moments leading up to the sentencing.

“Defendants like Evan Marshall are the reason the law allows judges to sentence defendants to life in prison,” Rice said immediately following the sentence.  “This defendant deserves to never again see the light of day.  We will work tirelessly with the family to ensure that he stays behind bars for the rest of his life.”

On August 18, 2006, Evan Marshall, then 31, was arrested by a Glen Cove police officer driving into his gated community on 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 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, 2006.  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 the victim’s injuries.  This car, registered to the defendant, was being driven by the defendant when he was apprehended in Glen Cove the following day.

In September 2006, a grand jury handed down a 13-count indictment, including an elevated charge of Murder in the First Degree.