If found guilty at trial, Marvin R. Markle Jr. faces 25 years to life, with the possibility of more time for being a previously convicted felon.
A 58-year-old convicted killer charged with the 1982 bludgeoning death of a 14-year-old Vacaville girl faces a newly scheduled September jury trial in Solano County Superior Court.Marvin Ray Markle Jr. appeared earlier this month in Department 2 for more proceedings in the case. Judge Daniel Healy, vacating a May 28 trial, ordered him to return at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 30 for a trial in the Justice Building in Vallejo. The judge also ordered him to return at 8:30 a.m.
As previously reported, in February 2017, after a resolution of the case that went cold, Markle pleaded not guilty to one count of murder in connection to De Anna Lynn Johnson’s death whenr at Kern Valley State Prison on suspicion of murder and use of a deadly weapon. At the time of his arrest, he was serving an 80-year sentence for the murder of a Biggs woman in 2001.
De Anna was first reported missing after her brother, another party attendee, returned home and discovered she was not there and out past her curfew. Police were never able to amass substantial evidence that tied Markle to the crime. And the case went cold.
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