Melinda Baseden
WILLIAMSON CO., Ill. - In another installment of the saga of a Williamson County convict who was successful at eluding authorities for lengthy period of time, his wife, reported as a missing person yesterday, has been found and is okay.
The situation surrounds James Glenn Marks, a Williamson County con who rose to notoriety several weeks ago when he was the subject of a SWAT raid on his house in Pittsburg.
Of course, he wasn't there, and he spent several days on the lam, despite authorities being tipped repeatedly as to his whereabouts.
The law finally caught up to him, however, and he was charged with an incident in which he's alleged to have threatened some young folks and tried to run them down in a vehicle.
James Marks in a mugshot from 2008
Yesterday (Thursday, November 22), his wife, Melinda Baseden, 39, was reported missing from her Pittsburg residence; she'd not been seen since the previous day.
This morning (Friday, Nov. 23), we learned that Baseden has been found safe, and that she had been in hiding from Marks, whom she claimed is abusive, hence the need for the "in-hiding" thing.