ATLANTA (AP) – A man has been charged with murder and other crimes in the death of a University of Georgia professor at a central Georgia home where authorities say the homeowner apparently killed himself after investigators arrived.
Sydney Clark Heindel, 69, called 911 around 1 a.m. Sunday to report that a woman had been under water in the hot tub at his home in Milledgeville for a minute or two and was unresponsive, according to a Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office incident report.
When deputies arrived, they found Marianne Clopton Shockley, 43, naked and unresponsive on the pool deck bleeding heavily from a head injury. Heindel and “another nude male subject,” identified as 41-year-old Marcus Allen Lillard, were performing CPR on Shockley.
Lillard told deputies Shockley was his girlfriend.
Shockley had no pulse and emergency medical personnel declared her dead shortly after arriving, the incident report says.