Jason Marksteiner Was Selfish
October 30, 2008 by Jaded
Update:4/03/09-Charged with three counts each of murder and intentional homicide of an unborn child and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, Jason Marksteiner was offered a deal; plead guilty to one count of murder, and prosecutors would dismiss the other seven charges. Marksteiner took the plea. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison. The deal requires that Marksteiner serve 100% of his sentence.
LeRoy, IL–Jason Marksteiner, 21, is married and a father to three young children. Neighbors describe him as a ‘loving husband and a great father, a fine young man.’ In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Jason sexually assaulted and bludgeoned his wife’s sister, 19-year-old Jodi McGrew. Jodi was pregnant…about 5 months along. He selfishly and savagely took her life, and the life of her child, in the same room where his wife and children lay sleeping. Yeah, great guy!
Jason, his wife, and his children were all staying at his parent’s house in LeRoy. Jodi spent the night there Monday evening so she could be around to help babysit her nephews the following day. After a few drinks that evening, Jodi and her sister went to bed. Jason was outside smoking a cigarette, and at some point, he put his plan into motion. He grabbed a rock, entered the house, and started beating Jodi in the head with the rock. Jodi fought back…she told him to stop. To no avail. Jason told police that he hit Jodi in the head at least 15 times. Then he raped her. While he was raping her, he strangled her…to keep her quiet.
911 dispatchers got a call about a possible assault at 6:15 Tuesday morning. When police arrived at the home, they found Jason on the floor in an upstairs bedroom, naked with blood on his hands. They found Jodi in the same room, naked and with obvious head trauma. Jason’s wife, who was in the same room, said she didn’t see or hear the attack. She said she only woke up after the alarm went off at 6:15 a.m.
Jodi McGrew was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the preliminary autopsy results, Jodi died of blunt-force trauma to the head with strangulation as a significant contributing factor.
Jason wasn’t about to leave the scene quietly. He refused to be handcuffed and had to be tasered. A taser isn’t the weapon I would have picked, but I can at least hope he got jolted more than once or twice.
When interviewed by police, he admitted to the rape and murder and indicated that ‘he was frustrated by sexual relations with his wife and he wanted sex.’ He says that he doesn’t know why he hurt Jodi, only that he had thoughts of doing bodily harm to her. When asked why he raped and murdered his sister-in-law, the brainiac could only come up with one answer, ‘I dunno.’
Jason Marksteiner sits in McLean County Jail now, facing three counts of murder and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault. Since Jodi was pregnant at the time of her death, that opens up the possiblity of an additional charge of killing an unborn child. His bond is set at $100,000, a paltry amount if you ask me.
Jodi was a beautiful young lady who was looking forward to the birth of her little girl. She enjoyed babysitting her siblings children. She was planning on entering college next year. She loved to sing. Her family says that she was a fun-loving girl who was always the first to smile. She was close to her family. She had her whole life in front of her. Rest easy Jodi and baby girl.
Fuck you Jason Marksteiner. You had no right to touch her. You had no right to hurt her. You had no right to take her life and the life of her child. I hope you rot, asshole.
8:04 am on October 30th, 2008
The guy is an animal. Plain and simple. My question is: 1) What is his wife on that she slept through that???
My thoughts are with Jodi’s family. So sorry for your loss.
8:24 am on October 30th, 2008
Ick. LeRoy is right down the road from me–I pass by it every day on my way to work. Strange little town. I had a batshit crazy stalker several years ago…guess where he lived? You got it–LeRoy.
I find it hard to believe the wife slept through the attack. And the kids, too? The first paragraph says that his wife and kids were both sleeping in the room with him; how on earth did they ALL sleep through it, especially since Jodi fought back? There had to be screaming and lots of noise.
LeRoy is not very far from Clinton, where Amanda Hamm and Maurice LeGrone shoved her car–containing her three terrified children–into a lake, drowning them. (Hamm just got out of prison after only a couple of years.) I hope Illinois isn’t becoming the new Florida.
8:29 am on October 30th, 2008
I had a difficult time writing this one….I was so friggin pissed off I was shaking. The brutality of the whole thing just floored me…and considering some of the stories I post on this site, that’s not an easy task.
He is either very stealthy or his wife and kids are extremely heavy sleepers. I just don’t see how they couldn’t hear the attack. He hit her 15 times with a rock for fucks sake! You know that girl made some noise while she was fighting him off.
And the fucker planned it. He knew what he was going to do from the minute he picked up that rock. I think he should be strangled almost to the point of death, revived, hit on the head about 15 times with a boulder, strangled again, revived…..etc. All while having his nads electrocuted every 30 seconds. Fuckin waste of skin…..
8:46 am on October 30th, 2008
I wonder who the 911 call came from? A neighbor? How could some one else hear a possible disturbance, but not the family in the same room!?!
What a sick piece of shit he is to take the life of his sister in law and her unborn baby. I just hate to think the wife knew it was happening, and did nothing to save her.
8:49 am on October 30th, 2008
Well, the wife said that she awoke when the alarm went of at 6:15…that is about the same time a call came into 911. I have a feeling that it was her who first discovered what happened.
9:00 am on October 30th, 2008
Holy Crap! Great writeup of an awful crime, So Jaded. Notice his eyes? You couldn’t get a finer example of the patented Dreamin’ Demon Perp Step-Stair Eyes if you tried… very scary.
I can see how the kids slept through it – my kids will sleep through ANYTHING when they’re really out. But the wife and other adults in the house? That’s very, very hard for me to believe.
9:02 am on October 30th, 2008
FIRST
To Jodis family, I AM SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS, MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY, YOU LOST YOUR DAUGHTER AND GRANDAUGHTER, I AM SORRY FOR THIS
SECOND
DOUBLE FUCK YOU JASON / I CAN ONLY PRAY EVERY NIGHT YOU DIE FROM A HORRIFIC TRAGIC DEATH IN PAIN WITH NO MEDICAL HELP ROT IN HELL AND sorry God for thinking this way but how dare someone do this
THIRD, HOPEFULLY the sister FILED A SPEEDY DIVORCE WITH HIM AND SHE WISHES NOTHING BUT PAIN AND SUFFERING FOR HER EX HUSBAND AND PLEASE TELL ME SHE LEFT HIM AND IS WITH HER FAMILY WHERE SHE OBVIOUSLY BELONGS TO mourn her sisters death along with her unborn niece
I wish i was judge, These sick F>>>>>>ckers would be put to death right after their hearing of found GUILTY, no waiting in my Jail for years on death row, RIGHT AWAY and be done with it
9:06 am on October 30th, 2008
So Jaded
I will hook up with you and kidnap him and we can get rocks and i will strangle him and you hit him let him breath and do it again and again and again, but honestly we don’t want to sound like we have become any of these evil people but what is good for one is good for the other in my book
9:06 am on October 30th, 2008
Yes…not only the eyes, but that sloping, unbalanced-looking forehead.
9:07 am on October 30th, 2008
OMG!! What a sick twisted fuck….. i’m literally sick to my stomach. But wait, it’s says 3 counts of murder? Was she pregnant with twins or did I miss something?
So, he wanted sex did he? And his wife wasn’t giving it up? Puh-leez……..
Rape is not about sex. It’s about control and violence. He wanted to hurt someone and he wanted to make that person suffer.
He planned this, he thought about it while he was outside, he chose the rock he would use and he went in and did it.
I’m so sick and furious right now i’m shaking with rage! I hope he gets the death penalty. And I hope the boys in cell block D make him sorry every minute of everyday until he meets his maker………
And it says they were staying at the parents house? How did no one hear what was going on? His wife and children were in the same room! Were there others in the house? Too many questions…..
Poor woman and baby, God bless them and keep them…….
9:12 am on October 30th, 2008
I have no idea where the 3 counts come from…she wasn’t pregnant with twins. As of right now, I don’t think he’s even being charged with the death of the baby. Some of the articles I researched have conflicting reports. I guess it’s ‘wait and see’ for now.
9:14 am on October 30th, 2008
Another news article mentions that his bail is actually a million dollars…
9:15 am on October 30th, 2008
Holy God Jaded, you must have been sick researching and writing this up. God bless you. I’ll pray for the family………..
9:23 am on October 30th, 2008
Im also thinking that there is something not right here. How could anyone not hear ANYTHING, being in the same room? Im sure this girl fought like hell. Jason you are nothing but useless piece of trash. Im sure the fellows in jail will take from you what you did to Jody at least I hope so. Sick little fuck!
RIP Jody and her unborn child.
9:26 am on October 30th, 2008
That makes sense, except it said a possible disturbance. If she woke up and saw that… I’d think the call would have been to report a murder.
Either way.. very fucked up.
Great write up though!
9:27 am on October 30th, 2008
Lovely story. I’m so proud to be a human being.
9:33 am on October 30th, 2008
“LeRoy police were called to the 300 block of South White Street in LeRoy by Teresa Marksteiner, who reported that her son, Jason, was upstairs. The mother told police she thought her son had killed Ms. McGrew, the prosecutor said.”
“The sister awoke to an alarm at 6:15 a.m. and saw Ms. McGrew and her husband on the floor and began screaming”
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2008/10/30/leroy_man_charged_in_rape_murder_of_sister-in-law
I could not, in a million years, imagine what his wife was going through when she woke up to see that.
10:28 am on October 30th, 2008
its crazy the things ppl do these days.. just when i think that nothing can amaze me nemore some dickface bastard comes along and proves me wrong by hurting/killing this innocent girl who was only there to help this pathetic asshole and his wife & kids. rest in peace jodi & ur unborn bby! im so sorry u had 2 suffer this way.
11:03 am on October 30th, 2008
ONE QUESTION…how the hell do you sleep thru a rape, strangulation and skull bashing? Something smells really shitty here!
Please, did I miss something?
11:04 am on October 30th, 2008
something seems wrong, this guy could not have seemed normal before this. This whole story is weird, planned a brutle rape and murder with wife & kids in the room, mother in the house, I’m assuming he must have passed out from the booze or whatever he was on to be lying there
on the floor, this is as sick as it’s strange.
11:07 am on October 30th, 2008
“Fuck you Jason Marksteiner. You had no right to touch her. You had no right to hurt her. You had no right to take her life and the life of her child. I hope you rot, asshole”
That says it perfectly for me.
11:28 am on October 30th, 2008
The mother may have been under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol at the time…but no matter how soundly kids sleep I don’t understand how they could’ve slept through that! Unless, since he did plan it, he may have drugged them all….
11:45 am on October 30th, 2008
I was wondering about his past…..if there was a sign, a hint, anything at all that could have foretold this. I’m still trying to get some background info on the guy.
12:00 pm on October 30th, 2008
He looks like he knows his way around a crack and/or meth pipe ! I’ve never seen a 21 y/o that looks like that.
12:12 pm on October 30th, 2008
He kinda looks like Ben Stiller…
On another note-SICK MOTHER FUCKER…
12:15 pm on October 30th, 2008
this story is so scarey but i just cant imagine a person sleeping through that,,,im sorry im just not buying it,,,to similar to the Karla Homolka/Paul Bernardo murders here where they murdered/raped her baby sister(15 yr old) as a xmas gift to Paul because Karla wasnt a virgin when they met and she “owed it to him” i bet more will come out down the road
1:42 pm on October 30th, 2008
Damn. That’s about as savage an attack as I’ve heard of in quite some time. And to think, just feet away from a sleeping family. This dude needs to be put down.
You know, I’m a pretty heavy sleeper naturally. Add a few drinks to that, and it’s amazing what I can sleep through. If reports suggest the wife started screaming when she woke up, I can’t imagine she was in on it or anything.
The three murder counts and two assault counts is awfully strange, though. Unless he killed three people, he can’t possibly get charged with it three times.
3:57 pm on October 30th, 2008
What’s sad is she was there to help and she lost her life because of it.
5:00 pm on October 30th, 2008
I was near LeRoy a couple weeks ago on the way to visit my Mother who lives somewhat near LeRoy. This is my first post, and I am sickend and horrified by this…but LeRoy was the town my parents always told me to stay away from!
ARG, you had no right to hurt and kill this poor girl and her unborn child Jason! I can only hope that you get the same treatment, maybe worse in prison!!
6:03 pm on October 30th, 2008
Jodi’s myspace page…..how sad.
It seems she really loved her sister and her nephews.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=212527018
RIP Jodi and child.
10:46 pm on October 30th, 2008
thanks for the myspace link,
Great write up So Jaded I am really enjoying your writing style.
Such a beautiful girl, putting a face to the attack makes it so much more real, hopefully he will get what is coming to him.
I am also a heavy sleeper and with a few beers I am out also. I also thought maybe he drugged them all with sleeping pills or something.
11:01 pm on October 30th, 2008
My God, i can’t believe nobody heard anything, it’s really hard as hell for me to absorb. sighs~
Do you think just maybe, it might’ve been Jason’s baby she was carrying?
Just a thought
2:50 am on October 31st, 2008
Personally, no…I don’t think the baby was Jason’s. I think Jodi had entirely too much love and respect for her sister to have allowed him to touch her.
4:49 am on October 31st, 2008
Jason Marksteiner, 21, now faces three counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child in addition to three counts of murder and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault.
Marksteiner may be eligible for the death penalty if convicted. Campbell said Thursday that any death penalty potential will be reviewed by State’s Attorney Bill Yoder. The death penalty is possible in cases in which murder was committed during another felony, such as an aggravated sexual assault, and that murder involved a calculated, premeditated plan.
The state has 120 days to make the death penalty decision.
Marksteiner remains jailed in lieu of posting $100,000.
The accusations against Marksteiner follow several past disputes with his wife and members of her family.
In August, he was accused of criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct after police said he damaged his mother-in-law’s vehicle. He received 12 months of court supervision and was ordered to undergo drug and alcohol treatment.
In August 2007, Samantha Marksteiner filed two petitions for order of protections against her husband. Both were dismissed when she failed to appear in court, according to DeWitt County court records.
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/10/30/news/doc490a159b0503d369098395.txt
Hmmmm…anger issues? I never woulda guessed….
I’m hoping for death.
8:12 am on October 31st, 2008
Near as I could gather, here is how they come up with 3 murder charges:
1st – The bludgeoning that caused death
2nd- The strangulation that contributed to her death
3rd – The fact that he killed her while committing another felony, the rape.
The baby died because of all of the above, therefore, he gets the same 3 charges. Had all of the above not occurred, the baby would have survived (in theory)
He’s a worthless piece of shit and I pray he gets the death penalty.
R.I.P. Jodi.
10:22 am on October 31st, 2008
This makes me want to fucking hurl.
Unbelievable, it really is.
Fuck you, murderous douchebag
12:14 pm on October 31st, 2008
Thanks for the added info. I hate to say this but the law can’t protect you and your loved ones if you won’t let it.
He proved he was a threat and she wouldn’t follow through and lose the animal, she filled than failed to appear in court twice?
1:25 pm on October 31st, 2008
ok, I saw someone who sd maybe the baby was jason’s.. 1st of all let me set the record straight..NO, NO , NO, HEll NO it wasnt! She was not involved with him in anyway shape or form. Yes there is a little more to the story that what was in the newspapers, but until I know it’s ok. I cant give any details and put some questions to rest. It is very hard for anybody to wrap their mind around..in regards to the circumstances. There are still some unanswered questions, but I’m sure time will bring everything out. There are also some statements that have been made to the police that the public isnt aware of at this time. If and when the time is right, I will let people in on them. But for now ..just be patient.
And yes, Jodi did have alot of love and respect for her sister and would have never, ever have done anything like that… As for Jason looking like that, lets just say he didnt have an easy morning once his family saw what he had done.. Could that be the undisclosed reason he had to go to the hospital …. hmmm… use your imagination is all i will say.
for now..
2:09 pm on October 31st, 2008
Wow… Just.. WOW!
If I understand your implication — he got a bit of “street justice” before he went to jail? Hooray! This despicable piece of trash deserves that and sooooooooooooo much more!
Anyone else see shiners developing under his eyes? Nice.
I feel so bad for the family – especially those who awoke to and walked in after this happened. So traumatic!
I pray for the healing of their hearts and a slow, painful death to the scum who murdered Jodi.
2:26 pm on October 31st, 2008
This poor girl..she should have been having the most wonderful time in her life. She should have been able to see her baby born and take a breath. May she rest in peace. Her and her baby.
5:24 pm on October 31st, 2008
I personally know jason and his wife samantha and have for years.Dont get me wrong i am in no way defending that sick sob but he really didnt seem like someone who would sink to this level.Yea,he was kind of strange and alot of people around leroy thought so but other than being kind of wierd there wasn’t anything wrong with him until recently.If you would have done more research, you would have come up with the facts that samantha had put in for orders of protection against jason a while ago and that he was in alcohol and drug therapy and had also severely damaged his mother in law’s car.I know alot of children who can sleep through almost anything (i myself used to be one) and samanthas children were pretty heavy sleepers along with her.But honestly,if you woke up seeing something like that happening,being unarmed yourself and having your children in the room,what would you be able to do.If sam was afraid enough of him to file for restraining orders for reasons uncomparable to this,she must have been terrified.I think that even if she had woken up during him attacking her she was in fear for her life and if he would do that to Jodi what would keep him from also killing samantha and her young children.As horrifying as it would be to see and as unbearable as it would be,as much as i love my family if i was in samanthas shoes,i dont think i would have been able to get myself to try and stop him for the fear of him also killing me and my children.Even if samantha did wake up during the attack,i can understand why she wouldnt try and stop him,and for those of you who are pretty much accusing her of not caring and being a bad person for not waking up or hearing anything,give her somewhat of a break.She now has to raise three children on her own for the rest of their lives,live with the fact that the man she loved is a murderer,and the fact that the man she loved killed her sister and niece.It has to be a very hard time for her right now but she just lost her sister,niece,and husband (even though he is a very sick man,he was still her husband).So just have some decency and cut her a break.Everyone has all the right in the world to talk about that sick fuck but leave samantha out of it,she’s in mourning and she should be.
5:39 pm on October 31st, 2008
in the last comment i posted i wasnt finished but it posted automatically for some reason.i didnt mean at the very end,what i was trying to say was that she is in mourning for her sister just like the rest of jodi’s family is.But also,jodi was 5 months pregnant with a baby girl.i have a friend who is very close to them that said that when jodi went to the doctor they said that she may be pregnant with twins but they werent for sure because if she was the other baby was behind the little girl but like i said,i just heard,its not fact.
5:42 pm on October 31st, 2008
If Samantha was so scared why didn’t she go through with her protective orders? Why did she not show up to court on those dates? Why was she still with him? Not trying to attack her or anything but it’s just the truth. She could’ve save her sister if he was a drunk wife beater.
and to answer your question about waking up and seeing what was happening and not doing anything, i would. to save my pregnant sister who stayed so she could babysit my kids, i would. that’s what family does. stand up, protect and care for each other, no matter what would happen to me.
But still, if she didn’t wake up then that’s fine, but if she did wake up and didn’t do anything, then that’s not fine. no matter how afraid you are. not good at all.
8:51 pm on October 31st, 2008
First the most important part, to Jodi’s family: I’m so sorry for your loss, and wish I could show more than simple words, that I know must sound so hollow in the face of this. I’d try to do better but I don’t think I would ever do the emotions I feel justice.
now… jason .. fuck you fuck you fuck you… you need to die… you are not fit for nor deserving of life. I wish for you to relive this moment over and over forever, except that you will be in her place & experiencing everything she did. I’d also like for you to have all the pain and torment her friends and family will go through for the rest of their lives… all bearing down on YOU until you can’t stand it & beg for release that doesn’t come, you selfish sob….
However for the sake of society, death should be swift. Anyone that can do this once… can do it again, agh… I am so so so angry, my thoughts are quickly losing coherency so I’ll shut up now
3:15 am on November 1st, 2008
I did research his history and posted that info here. I had a hard time believing that he was a great guy that just freaked out and decided to rape and murder his sister-in-law.
I would like to think that if I awoke to such a horrifying site, I would do whatever it took to save my sister. Anything.
Nobody is saying that Samantha is a terrible person. I think that most people are just shocked that such a murder could be committed in the same room and not cause a disturbance loud enough to wake others in the room.
I truly feel for Samantha and the rest of the family. They will all have to carry that vision around for the rest of their lives.
3:18 am on November 1st, 2008
Thanks for posting. I would love to hear more details on this when you feel you are able to give it.
7:59 pm on November 2nd, 2008
Where are the parents of these two women? Who was the father of the baby? Why was the sister living with them in the first place? How do at least four people all live in the same room? Were they all on welfare? Things just don’t add up here. It’s fairly common that a man or women has relations with a sister/bother of their spouse… That doesn’t surprise me, the part that does is that the wife didn’t have a clue or pretends not to have a clue… If he wanted sex and his wife would not give it to him… why not divorce? There is just to many question that are left unanswered…
4:33 pm on November 4th, 2008
ole jason liked to write poetry
4:36 pm on November 4th, 2008
opps i had the link here i hope it works….http://pantagraph.com/articles/2008/11/01/news/doc490bb690b794b425771653.txt
8:12 am on November 7th, 2008
for those who wonder why theres more than 2 counts of murder..its one count per degree of homicide .illinois recognizes 3 degrees..jodi was only pregnant with mariah,its 3 counts per each one he killed..secondly he strangled her hard enough she wasnt able to scream..the thudding from the rock hitting her makes a similar noise to one of the grandsons bed hitting the wall.so its a noise they were used to jasons mom told us that they figured it was one of the kids ..jodi was only there to babysit the next day but told samantha if she wanted to have a few drinks she could and shed take care of the babies
jodi never liked jason she thought he was a piece of shit..so no the baby wasnt his..im glad samantha didnt wake up …or id of had to bury her and my grandkids too..and this happened in jasons parents house only a thin wall seperated the rooms
samantha has been totally destroyed too..shes spent every night since then sleeping in bed with her mommy and me and wakes up crying and scared..reliving that morning over and over remember she found her sister, she knows her husband did it, and her kids dont have a dad
jason is a spoiled only son the youngest of three..he wasnt a great guy his parents have been cleaning up his messes from day one trying to hide what he was…now they cant do that with this ..just the other day they asked for some pictures of sam and the boys to send to him…wtf…they said “its the only thing to help him through this” omg!!who cares if he makes it through..
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