`Cops: Blood, cars, guns link suspects to Londons`

By Erin Remai
Herald Staff Writer

Jean Neice/Herald : Mark Worley is led into trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Andrew D. Logan's courtroom. He was arraigned Monday on charged of aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary and grand theft of an automobile.

A second man was charged with murder in connection with the death of a Hubbard Township woman and the disappearance of her husband last week.

Hubbard Township police found Dorothy M. London, 74, of 3441 Broadway Ave. S.E. lying face up in a pool of blood on Thursday. She had been stabbed numerous times, police said. Mrs. Lon-don’s husband, Charles, 75, was missing along with the couple’s two cars.

London is presumed to be dead and police on Monday began searching the Mahoning River in Youngstown. According to a police spokeswoman, police were told London’s body was dumped in the river near the West Avenue bridge.

Mark A. Worley, 21, of Youngstown was arraigned Monday before Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Andrew D. Logan on two counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and grand theft of a motor vehicle.

Worley was arrested at his home Sunday.

On Saturday, the Londons’ neightbor Scott Burrows, 19, of 3477 Broadway Ave., was arraigned on charges of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and grand theft of a motor vehicle. He is being held in Trumbull County Jail until his preliminary hearing set for Dec. 28.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins asked Logan not to set bond for Worley based on information in a probable cause affidavit. Logan agreed, saying bond was not appropriate in Worley’s case. He will be held in Trumbull County Jail in Warren until his preliminary hearing set for Dec. 29.

According to the affidavit, Mrs. London’s body was found in the bathroom of her home by a neighbor and her husband and their gray 1996 gray Ford Crown Victoria and a 1984 Chrysler Parisienne were gone. The neighbor went to the house at the request of the Londons’ daughter, who could not reach her parents by phone.

Also missing were seven firearms, ammunition, a compound bow, a purse, a wallet and credit cards, the affidavit said.

Police believed Mrs. London was killed during a burglary and they released information statewide to police about the missing cars.

At 5:52 a.m. Friday, an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper found the Crown Victoria at a rest area on state Route 11 in Ashtabula County. Burrows was sleeping in the front seat. Next to him was a shotgun with a box of ammunition and other firearms were in the car, the affidavit said.

According to the paperwork, when the trooper asked Burrows his name, Burrows replied: “I want to talk to a lawyer.”

When Burrows got out of the car the trooper saw blood on the driver’s door panel and on Burrows’ jacket. When a Hubbard Township police detective arrived and asked Burrows where Charles London was, Burrows didn’t answer. When the detective asked Burrows how he obtained the car, Burrows again said he wanted to talk to a lawyer, the affidavit said.

After Burrows was taken to Trumbull County Jail on Friday and his clothing was taken as evidence, blood was found on Burrows’ boots and short gray hairs were found on his shirt and pants, the affidavit said. Burrows has brown hair; Mrs. London had gray hair, the affidavit said. Also, the guns in the car were identified as Charles London’s, the affidavit said. Also according to the affidavit:

Jean Neice/Herald : Mark Worley

On Friday the detective received information from a Hubbard Township resident who said Burrows and Worley were at his house on Dec. 14 and that they had discussed plans to burglarize a residence near Youngstown.

They told the man that they knew where two sets of keys were in the house and that there were two cars they could steal. Burrows showed up at the resident’s home on Thursday in a “grayish Ford,” which he told the man he had stolen, and said that Worley was driving the other car.

On Friday, Trumbull County 911 received a call from Worley’s father, who said his son was possibly driving a stolen car. He also said that one of his sons had a credit card, but he did not understand why because that son has no job. The detective said a patrolman talked to the employer of a second brother of Worley’s on Friday, who said that brother came to work on Saturday “very upset.”

The brother went on to say that he was with Worley on Friday evening in the car and that “Mark had the guy’s credit card” and said he needed to leave work so he and his father could find Worley.

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