GUILTY OH - Brian Martin, 52, Toledo, 22 June 2014

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http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/07/sister_of_ypsilanti_man_killed.html

Robert and Desirae Strauss, both 36, are being held in an Indiana jail awaiting an extradition hearing that will send them to Ohio to face murder charges in the death of Martin. Martin had been in a relationship with Desirae Strauss for about three years, said Toledo police Sgt. Joseph Heffernan.

The Strausses were recently arrested in Anderson, Indiana while driving Martin's gold 2002 Cadillac Seville, Heffernan said...

Martin was last seen coaching a softball game in Holland, Ohio, on June 22. His debit card was used on the same day at a Del Taco in Toledo. He was due in Louisville, Ky., later that day, but never showed up.

http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-F...in-apartment-of-East-Toledo-husband-wife.html

Though his body remains missing, Brian Martin is dead, police say.

He was bludgeoned, allegedly by a woman with whom he was romantically involved and that woman’s husband. Police searched through the couple’s East Toledo apartment, ripped through their trash, questioned their neighbors but, still, no Mr. Martin.

“Our best information right now is leading us to believe that his body may be in some type of barn or shed-type of structure,” said police Sgt. Joe Heffernan. “We're asking everybody from Toledo to Anderson, [Ind.], if you have a barn or some type of shed or something like that on your property, take a look.”
 
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/07/16/Family-organizes-search-for-missing-Ypsilanti-man.html

The family of a missing Ypsilanti man believed to have been murdered in Toledo has organized a search for his body.

Michele Flynn, the cousin of Brian Martin, 52, who disappeared in Toledo June 22, has asked volunteers to join the search at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The search will be coordinated from the VFW Post 4906, 2161 Consaul St.

FB missing page: https://www.facebook.com/Helpfindbrianmartin
 
http://www.nbc24.com/news/story.aspx?id=1072632#.U8yHoygqWAA

Family and friends of a missing Michigan man are searching the Toledo area for his body...

“We have to start somewhere,” Smith said. “The police have been looking and we need people to search. We have to find him.”

She broke everyone into groups and sent them all over the Toledo area. The family didn’t know much about where the body might be, but detectives told them the suspects may have left the body in barn.
 
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/12/brian_martins_wife_speaks_out.html

Linda Martin said family, the community and specifically, members of the Huron High School community where Brian Martin worked as an announcer have been key for the family's coping.

"We just want to bring Brian home so we can give him a proper burial, because he deserves that," Martin said. "It'll give my kids, once we get him buried, a place to go and visit him.

"We just hope it's him."
 
Still no positive ID.

http://www.nbc24.com/news/story.aspx?id=1131241#.VIBsk4vZIWc

On Tuesday afternoon, Toledo Police detectives, along with detectives from the Putnam County Sheriff's Department, removed a body from inside an abandoned barn at 2455 County Road Y near Leipsic in Putnam County.

According to Putnam County Sheriff's detective Marvin Schwieberd, the Strauss' had no connection to the property. "No connection, the Toledo Police advised that the couple was driving around and looking for a secluded area to dispose of the body," Mr. Schwieberd said...

The couple will be tried separately next year. Desirae Strauss is scheduled to go on trial in February, and Robert Strauss the following month.
 
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/12...lanti-mans-death-as-remains-found-in-granary/

As authorities await to confirm whether skeletal remains found in an empty granary in northwest Ohio belong to a missing Ypsilanti man, the couple accused in his death appear to have reached a deal with prosecutors...

“We had been in talks with defense counsel in regards to resolving this matter, and as a result of those talks and further investigation by Toledo Police, we were able to locate human remains,” Jeff Lingo, with the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, told the Toledo Blade...

Attorneys for the Strausses say they’ve reached tentative plea agreements with prosecutors in the pending cases. Both declined to discuss details of the deals.
 
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/12...in-ohio-granary-are-of-missing-ypsilanti-man/

Incidentally, the couple was located in Indiana after police received a complaint they were dealing drugs out of a vehicle that turned out to be Martin’s...

According to reports, Martin apparently believed he was the father of Desirae Strauss’ recently-born twins. Martin was allegedly pressing Desirae Strauss to take a paternity test — which she refused. Reports say Robert Strauss found out about his wife’s relationship with Martin shortly before his disappearance.
 

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