LEE COUNTY, Fla. - A Lee County man who admitted to killing his neighbor and drove his body 25 miles to his attorney's office is serving a 22 month sentence for a crime related to a different incident.
John Marshall, 53, was found guilty of aggravated battery after he drove into a man at the McDonald's on Pine Island Road and driving off in 2014.
Nine months later, the Lee County Sheriff's Office is still investigating the case in which he admitted to killing his neighbor, Ted Hubbell, in self defense.
Marshall has not been charged in that case.
Former State Attorney Joe D'Allessandro said there's no time limit when it comes to how long before charging someone in a Homicide, but said in cases like this one, if there is a reason to make an arrest, it should be sooner rather than later.
"You can't keep something open forever. You either have to close it, or charge, or decline to charge," D'Allesandro told Four in Your Corner's Lisa Greenberg.
He said the recent explosion in violence in Lee County could be the reason this case, which has no time constraints, could still be under investigation.
"It may have been on the side burner for awhile because there has been no pressure. We've had a lot of things going on in this community using law enforcement, so it may just be on the back burner, and they're moving it up to the front burner," D'Allessandro said.
