Man charged in murder, suspected in another

HILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) -- A man being held on an unrelated stalking charge was accused on Friday of killing one woman and is a suspect in the death of a second woman, the sheriff said.
The bodies of the women were found this week. One had been missing since November 2003 and the other was believed to have died in 1998, Highland County Sheriff Ron Ward said.
Michael Fogt, 40, of Hillsboro, was charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. A grand jury could upgrade those charges, Ward said.
Fogt was scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning in Hillsboro Municipal Court.
He is charged in the death of Cynthia Pickens, 39. Detectives found her body on Tuesday buried in a steel outbuilding in Liberty Township, about a mile east of Hillsboro. She had been missing since 2003.
The cause of her death had not been determined Friday.
The body of another woman was found Thursday inside a 55-gallon barrel that was buried under concrete near a driveway at a home in Hillsboro.
Ward said Friday the woman was identified as Fogt's former girlfriend, Martha Behymer, also known as Martha Perry, originally from Erlanger, Ky., who was 32 when she disappeared in 1998.
She and Fogt had a 14-year-old daughter who has been in the custody of Fogt's parents for several years, Ward said.
Hillsboro is about 50 miles east of Cincinnati.