55-year-old man charged with murder after brutally beating 63-year-old sister
Feb 18, 2024, 5:02 PM | Updated: 5:10 pm
FILE - A 55-year-old man, Samuel Shroy Martindale was arrested and charged with murder after allegedly beating his 63-year-old sister on Feb .15, 2024. (Gustavo Caballero, Getty Images for UNITAS)
(Gustavo Caballero, Getty Images for UNITAS)
SALT LAKE CITY — A 55-year-old man was taken into custody and charged with murder on Thursday after beating his 63-year-old sister in her home, according to a court document.
The document states Samuel Shroy Martindale began punching the victim in her bedroom until she fell to the ground. He then dragged her into the bathroom and locked the two of them inside. He tied her up and stated she would not be leaving the bathroom alive.
Martindale then “took the lid off of the toilet tank and slammed it onto the victim’s face,” the document states. “The victim asked why Samuel was doing this to which Samuel responded the victim would not leave this bathroom alive.”
The document states Martindale continued beating the victim for “approximately two hours.”
He then cut the victim free of the cables he had tied her with and demanded she walk to the basement, forcing her downstairs. The victim was placed there in a concrete room where she attempted to screw a coffee table leg off to defend herself but was intercepted by Martindale.
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