Dismembered body identified as missing Greenbelt teacher, man charged with murder

Harold Francis Landon III, 33, has been charged with the murder of missing Greenbelt teacher Mariame Toure Sylla

Sylla, 59, was reported missing after she left to take a walk on July 29, and never returned home

Neighbors said Sylla who lived in the community and would always be seen walking, was last seen in a condominium community around 8 pm

Clues that led police to suspect include video, a photo, GPS records and power tools detectives reported finding in Landon’s house

Among the power tools was a reciprocating saw that cops said could be used to dismember a body

Motive remains unclear and suspect did not appear to know the teacher he allegedly, killed

PG County police announced that DNA testing proved that dismembered human remains found in the 7300 block of Old Alexander Ferry Road in Clinton, Maryland belongs to Mariame Toure Sylla. The third grade Greenbelt teacher vanished on July 29, while out for a walk

A beloved Greenbelt teacher who was reported missing in July has been found dead and police say the man who killed her has been arrested. 
Mariame Toure Sylla, 59, was reported missing after she left to take a walk on July 29 and never returned home. She was last seen in a condominium community around 8 p.m. Neighbors say Sylla lived in the community and would always be seen walking. 
Investigators have been searching for the missing teacher for weeks. Greenbelt Police Chief Richard Bowers appealed for tips as the national website run by the Black and Missing Foundation featured Sylla’s case on their website.

Harold Francis Landon III, [photo], 33, has been Charged with the murder of missing Greenbelt teacher Mariame Toure Sylla

On Friday, the Prince George’s County Police Department, which was working with Greenbelt Police and other agencies on the disappearance, held a press conference announcing that 33-year-old Harold Francis Landon III was arrested for killing Sylla.

Prince George’s County Police Chief Malek Aziz said on Aug. 1 a concerned citizen called police after finding human remains, that had been dismembered, in the 7300 block of Old Alexander Ferry Road in Clinton. Those remains were later identified as Sylla through DNA testing. 
Aziz said detectives were able to identify Landon as a suspect. Police said the second- and third-grade teacher was at the park in Maryland the night of Saturday, July 29, the same time as the suspect Harold Francis Landon III, who lived in nearby University Park, driving a white two-decade old Chevrolet pickup truck.
Police said Sylla and Landon were strangers, and a motive remains unclear.

School teacher Mariame Toure Sylla, 59, was reported missing after she left to take a walk , in a park near her condo complex in Greenbelt, Maryland, on July 29. She never returned home

Court documents made public Friday night offer additional insight into the weeks-long investigation and the clues that led police to a suspect, including video, a photo, GPS records and power tools detectives reported finding in Landon’s house, among them a reciprocating saw they said could be used to dismember a body.
After the 59-year-old Sylla never returned from the park in Prince George’s County, prompting a frantic month-long search by police, her family, friends and colleagues at the Dora Kennedy French Immersion School.
On Friday, Prince George’s County police announced human remains found Aug. 1, 19 miles south of Schrom Hills, were hers and they charged Landon in her killing. Police said in court documents filed Friday that final results from DNA testing of the remains is still not completed. But preliminary comparisons provided enough information to conclude the remains are of Sylla.