From Mark Allen Wisehart’s appeal:
The facts tend to show that at 10:30 p.m. on October 9, 1982, Anderson, Indiana police officer Wasilewski entered Apartment 304 at 29th and Brown Streets. The police had received a phone call informing them they would find the body of a woman at that location. Officer Wasilewski, receiving this information by radio dispatch, found the body of Marjorie Johnson at said apartment. Her clothing was torn and wrapped around her mid-section and her head beaten and bloody. A bloody butter knife was lying near her body and numerous stab wounds appeared on her body. What appeared to be her billfold, with the contents removed and scattered was found on the bathroom floor.
Marjorie Johnson had been a regular visitor at the Christian Center where Mark Wisehart resided. The director of the Christian Center said that on the morning after the murder he noticed Mike Wisehart look at the papers, go straight to the article about Marjorie Johnson’s murder, read it, and return the paper. Another resident of the Center, also named Johnson, said that earlier Wisehart had sent a letter to Johnson, talking about going to old people’s houses and robbing them. The letter was put into evidence and it concluded by saying defendant Wisehart would be armed and would kill if anyone got in his way. Johnson testified that he talked to Wisehart after Marjorie Johnson’s murder and Wisehart, aware Johnson would be a witness, said to him, “Try to make it look like I’m crazy.”
On October 15, Officer Tracy and Detective Brown went to the Christian Center to pick up Mark Wisehart. He was cooperative and agreed to go to the police station. Once there, he executed a written waiver of rights and gave statements to the police confessing to this crime. In his statements to the police he admitted stabbing Marjorie Johnson several times with several weapons, striking her with his fist and hitting her about the head with a whiskey bottle. He also stated he went through her purse and took fourteen ($14.00) dollars. He admitted it was he who had tipped off the police, disguising his voice in a high-pitched manner to sound like a woman. An autopsy performed by forensic pathologist John Pless indicated there were several severe blunt force injuries and fractures to Marjorie Johnson’s head and thirteen stab wounds to her body. A photograph of her body shows cuts just at or below the left jawbone, stab wounds to the chest and one on the left shoulder. The fibroid cartilage commonly called the “Adam’s apple” was fractured with hemorrhage and she also had broken ribs. The cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt force injury to the head and multiple stab wounds to the face and chest. The pathologist was not able to determine the time of death.
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Murderpedia: Mark Allen Wisehart
INMATE INFORMATION
MARK A WISEHART
DOC Number 22622
First Name MARK
Middle Name A
Last Name WISEHART
Suffix
Date of Birth 11/21/1962
Gender Male
Race White
Facility/Location Correctional Industrial Facility
Earliest Possible Release Date 04/18/2019
Sentence Information
Date of Sentence 09/01/2010
Description MURDER
Term in Years / Months / Days 60 00 00000
Type of Conviction M
Indiana Citation Code 35-42-1-1
Cause Number 48D01 0907 MR 113
County of Conviction MADISON
Projected Release Date 04/15/2012
Sentence Information
Date of Sentence 09/01/2010
Description ROBBERY (ARMED OR BODILY INJURY)
Term in Years / Months / Days 15 00 00000
Type of Conviction FB
Indiana Citation Code 35-42-5-1
Cause Number 48D01 0907 MR 113
County of Conviction MADISON
Projected Release Date 04/18/2019
Sentence Information
Date of Sentence 09/01/2010
Description BURGLARY
Term in Years / Months / Days 15 00 00000
Type of Conviction FB
Indiana Citation Code 35-43-2-1
Cause Number 48D01 0907 MR 113
County of Conviction MADISON
Projected Release Date 04/18/2019
Sentence Information
Date of Sentence 09/01/2010
Description THEFT,RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY
Term in Years / Months / Days 03 00 00000
Type of Conviction FD
Indiana Citation Code 35-43-4-2
Cause Number 48D01 0907 MR 113
County of Conviction MADISON
Projected Release Date 04/18/2013
