A Curtis Bay man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Thursday, Aug. 13, during the fourth day of his jury trial in the 2025 killing of his wife, whose body was found beneath tires in a Brooklyn Park alley.
Cedric Dion Callaway, 51, admitted killing 44-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Bundy during proceedings in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, according to the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Circuit Court Judge Christine Celeste, who presided over the trial, scheduled Callaway’s sentencing for Sept. 15.
Under Maryland law, a person convicted of first-degree murder must be sentenced to life imprisonment or, when statutory requirements for that sentence are met, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The State’s Attorney’s Office did not state in its announcement what specific sentence prosecutors intend to seek.
Callaway entered the plea after prosecutors had spent several days presenting their case to a jury.
Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess characterized the killing as a “cold-blooded, heinous crime” and credited Assistant State’s Attorney Katherine D. Anthony’s prosecution with helping bring the case to a guilty plea.
The case began shortly after 9 a.m. May 23, 2025, when Anne Arundel County police and fire personnel responded to the area of Alley 79 and Disney Avenue in Brooklyn Park after receiving a report of a woman lying dead in an alley.
Police said the woman had been covered with tires. Investigators later identified her as Bundy, a 44-year-old Curtis Bay resident.
Detectives with the Anne Arundel County Police Homicide Unit observed what they described as significant injuries to Bundy’s head, face and neck. Her body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.
Investigators began collecting surveillance video from the neighborhood.
According to prosecutors, footage from near the alley showed a woman matching Bundy walking during the early morning hours with a man dressed in dark clothing and a black hooded sweatshirt. The man guided her toward the alley where her body was later discovered.
While investigators were still processing the scene, Baltimore police contacted Anne Arundel County detectives about a man in their custody on an unrelated matter.
That man was Callaway.
Callaway told police that he and his wife had been robbed in the area the previous night, according to prosecutors. He claimed he had been struck with a handgun and that Bundy was missing.
Investigators said Callaway resembled the man shown with Bundy in the surveillance recording. Detectives reported seeing no injuries they believed were consistent with his account of being struck with a handgun, but said they observed apparent blood stains on his hands and beneath his fingernails.
He was taken to the Anne Arundel County Police Criminal Investigations Division for questioning.
Prosecutors said that when Callaway arrived, he made unsolicited statements about going to prison and killing himself if he were charged with murder. Investigators had not yet told him Bundy was dead, according to the State’s Attorney’s Office.
Additional surveillance video helped detectives reconstruct more of the couple’s movements.
Footage from a laundromat at 716 Church Street showed Callaway and Bundy together until approximately 12:15 a.m., when they left and walked toward Sixth Street, prosecutors said.
About 75 minutes later, at approximately 1:30 a.m., surveillance footage showed Callaway returning alone from the direction of Alley 79. He was carrying a jacket and a crossbody bag.
Prosecutors said the bag was the same one Bundy had been seen wearing earlier. The footage also showed Callaway throwing the jacket into a trash can outside the laundromat.
By the following day, Anne Arundel County Police publicly identified Bundy as the homicide victim and announced that detectives had obtained a warrant charging her husband with her killing.
The Police Department’s May 2025 announcement identified Callaway as a Baltimore resident and said investigators were continuing to seek information from the public even after an arrest had been made.
The case eventually proceeded to a jury trial before Celeste this month, but the jury was not required to return a verdict after Callaway changed his plea to guilty on the fourth day of proceedings.
His guilty plea resolves the question of criminal responsibility for Bundy’s killing, although his punishment remains to be determined at sentencing.
Anthony represented the state at trial. The Anne Arundel County Police Department Homicide Unit led the investigation.
Callaway is scheduled to return to Anne Arundel County Circuit Court for sentencing Sept. 15.
