Alex Pulliam

MARION, IL. (WJPF) – Grisly new details have been released about a suspicious death investigation in Marion.

On Saturday, 62-year-old Donald Schultz was found dead in his Marion home. An autopsy on the body was performed Monday. Shultz’s death was ruled a homicide. The cause of death, according to a forensic pathologist, was chopping and slicing to his head and body with a machete-type weapon.

A police investigation led to an arrest warrant for First Degree Murder being issued for 33-year-old Alex Pulliam of rural Williamson County.

On Tuesday, Pulliam was located in Cape Girardeau. He was taken into custody by detectives from the Marion and Cape Girardeau Police Departments. He’s being held in the Cape Girardeau County Detention Center awaiting extradition to Illinois.

Pulliam is facing three counts of First Degree Murder. Counts one and two deal with the intent to kill and knowing the act would cause death. The third count deals with the killing of a victim over the age of sixty during the commission of an armed robbery.