CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A suburban Detroit man wanted by police in the slayings of his sister and her boyfriend has been arrested at an Ohio library. Clinton Township police say Robert Marzejka was arrested Wednesday, three days after the victims’ bodies were found in trash bags. He’s charged with first-degree murder in Macomb County.
Police say Marzejka was arrested without a struggle at a library in Cincinnati. He’s being held Thursday at the Hamilton County, Ohio, jail while awaiting an extradition hearing Friday.
The bodies of 18-year-old Danielle Marzejka and 19-year-old Seren Bryan were discovered Sunday in a shed in Clinton Township.
MLive reports Danielle Marzejka and Bryan were last seen alive Aug. 23. Danielle Marzejka’s father filed a missing person report when he hadn’t heard from her two days later.
The next day, Danielle Marzejka’s brother — not the one charged — noticed an odor coming from a small storage unit near the back of the family’s property. He cut open a black trash bag and saw an arm.
Police determined the bodies belonged to Danielle Marzejka and Bryan before announcing that they were searching for Robert Marzejka.
The Macomb County Medical Examiner’s Office hasn’t officially released the cause of death.
Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle told People that motive for the slaying is a mystery.
“What possessed him to do it?” Maierle says. “We don’t have any idea.”
According to court records, Robert Marzejka was the subject of a petition for forced hospitalization due to mental illness in February 2015.