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Suspect in decades-old child-sex case appears in court

Lewis Marshall

A man charged with one child-sex crime, and under investigation for several more, will remain behind bars without bail. Details are emerging from an ongoing investigation into the 57-year-old Albany, Mo. man accused of sexually-molesting children, some of them at gunpoint, some of them nearly 30 years ago.

Lewis Marshall is charged in Buchanan County with sodomy for the alleged abuse of a five year old over the course of three years starting in 1990. But investigators warned in court documents of at least six other victims in multiple jurisdictions in Northwest Missouri.

During Marshall’s initial court appearance Tuesday, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kristina Zeit told Associate Judge Keith Marquart there are numerous other victims, including family victims and non-family victims.

An investigator for the Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a probable cause statement that he has identified six sexual-assault victims, all of them children. Trooper K. Schrage said in the court filing that the victim in the Buchanan County case received a death threat if he 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.”

Judge Marquart ordered that Marshall continue to be held without bail as a danger to the victim. Marshall is scheduled for a preliminary hearing July 7 at 11 am.

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