January 26, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. –
A man accused of leaving his elderly mother in a bath tub for more than 18 hours and also bilking her out of thousands of dollars is being sought by Multnomah County deputies.
The county's Warrant Strike Team is trying to track down 48-year-old Douglas Marcks.
Marcks was supposed to be his elderly mother's live-in caretaker at her southeast Portland apartment, according to Deputy Jon Zwick. After paramedics found the woman unconscious in 2007, detectives said they discovered Marcks wasn't fulfilling his duties.
"Her living conditions were horrid. Her bed was full of feces. She was covered in feces," Zwick said. "It was obvious there was a serious lack of someone talking care of her. The smell was wretched."
Trevor Erlacher, who lived next door to Marcks for about two years, said he's disturbed by the details of the case against his former neighbor.
"It's not that surprising when I think about it. They kept this place in terrible shape," Erlacher said. "He was a terrible neighbor."
In addition to the living conditions, investigators said, there were other problems at the apartment.
"He would physically lock her in her room for unknown amounts of time," Zwick said. "(He would) take her pension money and spend it on whatever he saw for himself."
Detectives said Marcks' mother received about $1,000 per month in Social Security and also receive a pension check of $7,000 each year.
Marcks spent his mother's final pension check within a couple of weeks, deputies said. She passed away in 2008.
"When asked what happened, he said he had taken a trip to New York to buy a program he had seen on an infomercial," Zwick said.
Anyone with information on Marcks' whereabouts is asked to call the sheriff's office.
SOURCE: KPTV.COM
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