An ongoing investigation into decades-old sex crimes against children in Northwest Missouri has now produced additional charges against an Albany man.

Authorities in Caldwell and Worth counties filed three new criminal cases against Lewis Marshall, who was charged in Buchanan County last month. Marshall on Friday asked Associate Judge Keith Marquart for a preliminary hearing, now scheduled later this month.  He is charged here with sodomy for allegedly abusing a five year old over the course of three years starting in 1990.

As we reported, a Missouri State Highway Patrol investigator warned in Buchanan County court documents of at least six additional victims accusing Marshall of forcible sex acts with children. Trooper K. Schrage said in a court filing that the Buchanan County victim received a death threat if the child ever told. The document also said “it has been reported several times that the defendant used a firearm in the perpetration of his sexual crimes.”

On June 29, Caldwell County authorities filed two criminal cases involving alleged sex crimes in July of 1993. In one case, Marshall is charged with rape and sodomy involving a 6-year-old child. In the other, Marshall is accused of sodomy with a 12-year-old victim. A judge set bail at $100,000 cash in those cases.

On July 5, the Prosecuting Attorney in Worth County filed a sodomy charge dating back to December of 1985. Bail was set at $50,000.

No court appearances are scheduled yet in Worth or Caldwell County for Marshall, according to online court records.  He is being held without bail in the Buchanan County Jail awaiting a preliminary hearing July 20 at 3 pm.