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Friday, April 3, 2009
Man pleads guilty to aggravated murder of longtime Sinclair employee
DAYTON — A Dayton man pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and tampering with evidence Friday, April 3, in the July 2008 beating death of a Sinclair Community College employee.
Under the plea agreement reached between Montgomery County prosecutors and defense attorneys, Mark Anthony Nolan will serve 20 years to life in prison. Common Pleas Judge Michael L. Tucker sentenced Nolan during the Friday hearing.
The charges are in the death of Stephen Linderman, 59, who was found fatally beaten in the bedroom of his home in the 1600 block of Northdale Road. Detectives said he had severe blunt force head trauma.
Under the plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed a second aggravated murder charge, plus counts of aggravated burglary, theft, grand theft, failure to comply and petty theft.
Nolan, 31, has been in the Montgomery County Jail on $1 million bond since his arrest.
Linderman was an Enterprise Applications administrator in information technology and had been employed at Sinclair since 1987, the school said.
Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Dan Brandt said Linderman met Nolan on July 18 outside the Greyhound Station in downtown Dayton. The two went to Linderman’s home, where they drank and watched television before they had a disagreement.
Nolan beat Linderman in the head and face with a “large heavy glass jug,” and a flower pot, even as Linderman tried to crawl away from him, Brandt said.
After Linderman died, Nolan stole his iPod, laptop, a starter pistol and his sport utility vehicle. Police spotted Nolan driving the vehicle a few days later; a chase started, but Nolan escaped on foot after crashing the vehicle, Brandt said.
Police arrested Nolan near the Dayton Metro Library’s downtown Dayton branch on July 24. He was carrying a backpack that contained Linderman’s starter pistol, Brandt said.
