Report: Suspect in Sylvania homicide allegedly confessed to acquaintance in Monroe County

TOLEDO, Ohio — A newly released report from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is shedding light on how a Sylvania homicide suspect was located and arrested in Michigan – and what a witness says he told him in the hours after the killing.

Jonathan Schmidt, 35, is charged in the death of his mother-in-law, 68-year-old Marcia VanDruten, in Sylvania earlier this month.

A Lucas County grand jury has indicted Schmidt on seven charges, including:…

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