Black Husband Also Facing Charges After White Wife Murdered Elderly White Neighbour

Las Vegas Sun
August 11, 2015

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84-year-old Mary Luebeck was stabbed to death in her own home by an inter-racial couple.

The husband of a woman facing felony murder, robbery and home invasion charges in the slaying of an elderly Las Vegas neighbor will also face prosecution in the case, a chief deputy district attorney said Tuesday.

Timothy Coleman is jailed in an unrelated felony vehicle vandalism case, and prosecutor David Stanton told a judge that he’ll seek an indictment against Coleman in the slaying of 84-year-old Mary Luebeck.

Stanton spoke before Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa postponed until Wednesday an initial court appearance for Coleman’s wife, Margarita Balandova, to determine if Clark County public defenders can represent her.

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Margarita Balandova and her Black husband are accused of invading the elderly woman’s home and killing her.

Deputy public defenders Norm Reed, for Balandova, and Jeremy Wood, who represented Coleman, declined later to comment.

Luebeck was stabbed to death early July 29, and items including a purse, credit cards, jewelry and cash were stolen from her home near Desert Inn Road and Decatur Boulevard, according to a police report.

Outside court, Stanton said Tuesday the brazen smash-and-entry through a glass back door and the bloody stabbing of an elderly grandmother in the head, neck and chest could qualify the case for the death penalty.

Balandova’s fingerprints were found on vertical blinds near where Luebeck’s daughter found her body surrounded by bloody footprints on the tile floor of her neatly kept home, Stanton said.

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Timothy Coleman is already jailed for something else, but will now also face murder charges alongside his wife, for killing their neighbour.

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