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Longtime USU professor arrested in Maryland killing

A Utah man suspected of killing his cousin in Maryland was a longtime Utah State University professor who planned to teach an adjunct course there this fall, a school spokesman confirmed.

LOGAN — A Utah man suspected of murdering his cousin in Maryland was a longtime Utah State University professor who planned to teach an adjunct course there this fall, a school spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

Baltimore County police believe John Robert Malko, 72, of Salt Lake City, killed his 91-year-old cousin, Nadia Evanowicz Schaible, in her Parkville, Maryland, home on July 12.

"(Malko) stated that he had been visiting Schaible and left the location," the agency said in a statement.