Cedric Marks,45, is currently on trial in Temple, TX for the double killing of Jenna Scott and Michael Swearingin. Marks faces the possibility of a death sentence if he is found guilty of their murders.
Scott and Swearingin were reported missing on January 3rd, 2019. In 2018 Scott filed a protective order against Marks, accusing him of choking her unconscious on multiple occasions and threatening her life and the lives of those around her. In those court hearings Scott also said that Marks had told her that he knew how to cover up a murder.
Scott and Swearingin’s bodies were found in shallow graves near Clearview, OK on January 15th, 2019.