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Woman's murder solved

Sunday, April 12, 2009
Sikeston Standard Democrat

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Deborah L. Martin
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- An arrest was made Friday in the 1979 murder of a former Sikeston resident.

Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle announced Friday that Max Allen Ellison Jr., 61, was arrested at his Nixa home for the first-degree murder and robbery of Deborah L. Martin.

Ellison, a former Stoddard County sheriff's deputy, is accused of beating Martin, a 24-year-old Sikeston native, and pushing her to her death over the balcony of her Cape Girardeau residence.

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