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Michael D. Horton, 26, was arrested about 7 a.m. by members of the
U.S. Marshal's Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force. They found him
hiding under a pile of clothing in a second-floor closet of a woman's St.
Clair Village home, said Michael Baughman, a task force member and
supervisor deputy marshal.
Horton is charged with murder in the death of Stephanie Ducheine, 19,
who was found on Nov. 18 strangled inside a vacant apartment in Columbus,
according to The Columbus Dispatch.
The newspaper said Horton, who once lived in Columbus but was recently
living in Minnesota, also is wanted in St. Paul where a former girlfriend
accused him of trying to strangle her in October.
Baughman said Horton met Ducheine through an Internet or telephone
dating service or chat line.
Federal marshals in Columbus contacted Baughman on Wednesday because
they had information Horton had met some women in Pittsburgh through the
dating service.
The marshals went at 6 a.m. yesterday to the home of a young woman --
about the same age as Ducheine -- whom he had met through the dating
service, Baughman said. The woman said Horton had visited her earlier in the
week.
After searching the house and seeing Horton was not there, Baughman
said the marshals went to the home of a middle-aged woman in St. Clair
Village where they found the wanted man, clad only in his underwear and a
T-shirt, hiding in the closet.
The marshals have not determined if Horton met the second woman
through the same dating service, Baughman said.
Horton was arraigned as a fugitive from justice and jailed to await
extradition.
Baughman said the case is a reminder to use caution in meeting people
through these services.
"You never know who you might be dealing with on the other end of the
keyboard," Baughman said.
Source: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_540456
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