A jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court found 55-year-old Jorge Rueda Landeros of Juarez, Mexico guilty of second-degree murder in the 2010 death of Bethesda resident Sue Ann Marcum following an eight-day trial.
Rueda Landeros, who fled the country shortly after the incident and was extradited from Mexico in 2022, is scheduled to be sentenced on February 6, 2026 and faces up to 30 years in prison.
According to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, “On October 25, 2010, Sue Ann Marcum was found dead in her home in the 6200 block of Massachusetts Avenue in Bethesda. The Medical Examiner found her cause of death to be blunt force trauma and asphyxiation. A Montgomery County Police investigation determined that Rueda Landeros had been Marcum’s Spanish and Yoga teacher. The two developed a personal and financial relationship. They made investments using Marcum’s funds and over the course of approximately two years Marcum lost $312,000 while Rueda Landeros gained a total of $252,000 from her.
In April of 2011, evidence collected from the crime scene identified Rueda Landeros as a suspect and an arrest warrant was issued, charging him with murder. Detectives learned that Landeros left the country and was in Mexico.
In December of 2022, Rueda Landeros was taken into custody in a joint operation involving the Department of Justice, Legat, Mexico Task Force (Criminal Investigative Agency (AIC) and Jalisco State Police. The FBI – Baltimore Field Office coordinated with Mexican authorities to extradite him.
Deputy State’s Attorney Ryan Wechsler and Assistant State’s Attorney Debbie Feinstein are prosecuting this matter.”
