Plea Bargin Leads to 20 Years for Martin Curtis G. Martin, one of four defendants in the 2004 shooting death of Charles Windmann of Warren County, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime.

By: Charlie Denn
Posted 10/9/08

Martin, 40, of Ulman, pleaded guilty in November 2005 to three felony charges. He was sentenced last Friday to 20 years each for second-degree murder and armed criminal action, and 15 years for …

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Plea Bargin Leads to 20 Years for Martin Curtis G. Martin, one of four defendants in the 2004 shooting death of Charles Windmann of Warren County, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime.

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Martin, 40, of Ulman, pleaded guilty in November 2005 to three felony charges. He was sentenced last Friday to 20 years each for second-degree murder and armed criminal action, and 15 years for burglary. The sentences will be served concurrently, according to Warren County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wright. "Everything went just like it was supposed to go," said Wright. Wright said Martin, under a plea bargain, agreed to testify against the other three codefendants in the murder: Joseph J. "Jesse" Snyder, the trigger man; Jamie L. Snyder, the wife of Jesse Snyder who helped plan the murder; and Robert Snyder. Jesse Snyder was found guilty of first-degree murder and six other felony charges by a jury in Boone County on Aug. 13. He will be formally sentenced Nov. 13 and is expected to receive a prison term of life without parole. Jamie L. Snyder is currently serving a 25-year prison term. She entered a guilty plea to charges of murder in the second degree and attempted murder in 2006. Robert Snyder is serving a sentence of life without parole plus 90 years. He was convicted in 2007 of seven charges, including first-degree murder and two counts at attempted murder. Martin testified in the trials of both Jesse and Robert Snyder. "He was a witness for the state," said Wright. "He cooperated with us in both of those instances." Charles Windmann, 60, was brutally murdered in his home off Highway M near Foristell in eastern Warren County on Sept. 19, 2004. Jesse and Robert Snyder and Martin were all participants at the time of murder, authorities said. Jesse Snyder pulled the trigger on the 12-gauge shotgun used in the killing. Jamie Snyder was not present, although she planned the ambush. Windmann's wife, Alice, and their son, James, were also targets of the Snyders and Martin on the night of the shooting. Alice and James Windmann escaped when they went to a neighbors' house to call police after they heard shots inside the Windmann home. The plot to kill the Windmanns stemmed from a custody dispute over a child James Windmann had fathered with Jamie Snyder in 2000, according to authorities.


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