Arrest made in 1989 crime that was subject of true crime podcast [Video]

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — A Bonne Terre, Missouri, man was arrested on one count of assault in connection with a fatal attack nearly 35 years ago.

Wesley Marler, 69, was charged with first-degree assault in connection with the death of 29-year-old Jimmie Wade Martin on Oct. 14, 1989.

According to a press release from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Martin was found wounded in front of a home in Bonne Terre on Oct. 14, 1989, and later died from his injuries at a hospital. The case went unsolved until December of 2020, when members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control and St. Francois County Sheriff’s Office started to review the case.

When investigators finished the review, they turned their findings over to the Missouri …