A Medford man charged with murdering an Evesham woman who had been missing since September 2005 was a sex offender whose DNA was required to be kept on record due to Megan’s Law, authorities said.
Alex James Crow, 32, of Oak Ridge was convicted in 1998 of endangering the welfare of a minor stemming from an incident with a juvenile in Cinnaminson. Details about the incident were not available but prosecutors said the conviction required him to register as a sex offender under New Jersey’s Megan’s Law.
Crow was convicted of violating the Megan’s Law requirements by failing to report his address to authorities in 1990, authorities said. He was also charged in 2006 with receiving stolen property after he was stopped in Medford driving a vehicle that had been reported stolen.
The prior convictions and arrests were announced during Crow’s first appearance in Superior Court this afternoon on a first-degree murder charge in the choking death of Evesham resident Marianne DeMartin.
During the hearing, First Assistant Prosecutor Ray Milavsky told the judge that Crow confessed to choking DeMartin to death during a burglary inside her Sagemore Drive home in Evesham. He then backed her body in the trunk of her car, waited in her home for several hours and drove to Pennsylvania, where he dumped it next to an abandoned warehouse.
Milavsky said prosecutors would seek a life sentence for Crow.
Judge John A. Almeida maintained Crow’s bail at $1 million. He remains lodged in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly.
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