October 8, 2008
Letter reveals Marshall planned to kill
About the same time a case worker at Evan Marshall's upstate rehabilitation clinic was writing a glowing memo about his progress last year, Marshall was authoring a bloodcurdling note of his own, a prosecutor revealed for the first time Wednesday in court.
"Two months to go. Don't Give up," it read, prosecutor Mitchell Benson said in court. Marshall then began his to-do list:
"Talk to a guy. Be careful. Don't get caught. Move into another rehab program. Kill a girl. ... Do cocaine off her corpse. Do more cocaine. Do more cocaine. Do more cocaine."
At the end of it, Marshall wrote, "Next time I do cocaine, I will kill a girl."
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That was just weeks before Marshall killed schoolteacher Denice Fox, allegedly while high on cocaine, a crime that rocked the community for its brutality.
Marshall's lawyer, William Keahon of Islandia, would not comment on the note or on Benson's suggestion that Marshall's crime was premeditated.
Benson juxtaposed the case worker's confidence that Marshall was making progress against the to-do list, which he said showed that Marshall was sinking deeper into psychosis. He said no matter how much progress correction officials think Marshall makes in the next 30 years, he will always be a danger to society.
"It will never be safe," Benson said.
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