Brit Poker Player Faces U.S. Court On Murder ChargesCourt To Determine If There's Enough Evidence For Marcus Bebb-Jones To Face Jury For Murder Of His Wife |
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A preliminary hearing of British poker player Marcus Bebb-Jones has been running since Feb. 24 and will continue until Mar. 15 when it will be decided whether there is enough evidence to take the case to a jury, according to The Denver Post.
The London High Court last year ruled upon Bebb-Jones’ extradition to the U.S. where he would face murder charges in Garfield County District Court for the alleged killing of his wife, Sabrina Bebb-Jones, in 1997.
The Denver Post says that according to court records in the days after his wife’s disappearance, Mr. Bebb-Jones told people he and his wife were at the Dinosaur National Monument in western Colorado and after an argument about his flirting with other women, his wife stormed off. After this, he went to Las Vegas with his then three-year-old son to look for her.
He spent a week there living it up, during which his wife was reported missing by an employee at the couple’s hotel. Also during this time his child was found alone and crying, naked from the waist down, by a housekeeper at the Flamingo Hilton, according to DenverPost.com.
Marcus Bebb-Jones apparently told a friend he rented a Ferrari and hired a couple of prostitutes before attempting suicide. According to court records, Bebb-Jones checked into the Mirage Hotel, slit his wrists, drank NyQuil, and lay down. He then awoke, put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger, but somehow survived.
In the days that followed, police found evidence which raised suspicion about Bebb-Jones but the British man remained poker faced. A few months later he and his son left for England where he remained until his extradition to Colorado. A cattle herder had found Sabrina Bebb-Jones’ body 50 miles south of Dinosaur National Monument and a forensic anthropologist confirmed skull fractures which occurred before her death.
This, along with Sabrina Bebb-Jones’ blood found in Mr. Bebb-Jones’ minivan, and flowers caught underneath the vehicle which were similar to those found near where the body was discovered, all point to Marcus Bebb-Jones. It now lies in the hands of the U.S. court system with the decision to be first made about the amount of evidence by Mar. 15.
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