A man’s now in custody, charged with the murder of an eastern Iowa woman found dead on Monday. Authorities in Cedar Rapids arrested a man Tuesday in the slaying of Shelley Razor-Markwell, at her home near Cedar Rapids. Twenty-one-year-old Christopher Wheeler had been staying at the woman’s apartment. Just 24 hours after Hiawatha police found the body of 36-year-old Shelley Razor-Markwell, officers made an arrest. Twenty-one-year-old Christopher Wheeler was arrested at a Cedar Rapids hospital and charged with first degree murder. Friends and family say Wheeler was staying with Razor-Markwell and her three children at the Hiawatha apartment where she was found dead. Authorities say Razor-Markwell was suffocated. It’s not clear whether any of her three children were at home at the time of the murder. Wheeler has been charged in the past with domestic abuse, theft and possession of marijuana. When booked on the most recent drug charge, he listed his address as the apartment where Razor-Markwell lived. (1 cut, Angie Hunt, KCRG-TV, Cedar Rapids)
