Inset: Cedric Dion Callaway (Anne Arundel County Jail). Background: The area in Maryland where Callaway killed his wife (Google Maps).
A 51-year-old man in Maryland will spend decades behind bars for killing his wife, beating her to death before covering her body with tires in an apparent attempt to conceal his crime.
Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Christine Celeste ordered Cedric Dion Callaway to serve a sentence of life with all but 40 years suspended for the 2025 slaying of 44-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Bundy, authorities announced. Celeste handed down the sentence after Callaway last month pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder, putting an end to his jury trial after four days of testimony.
According to a press release from the state's attorney's office, Anne Arundel County police and fire personnel responded about 9 a.m. on May 23, 2025, to the intersection of Alley 79 and Disney Avenue in Brooklyn Park after receiving a report of a dead woman in the alley.
The woman, later identified as Bundy, had been "covered with tires in an apparent attempt to conceal her body." Investigators said there was significant trauma to Bundy's head, face and neck. Her body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.
Surveillance footage from a camera near the alley showed an individual matching Bundy's description in the company of a man wearing dark clothing and a black hooded sweatshirt during the early morning hours of May 23. Investigators said the man guided Bundy toward the alley where her body was later discovered.
During the homicide investigation, an officer with the Baltimore Police Department contacted Anne Arundel County detectives regarding a man identified as Callaway who was in custody on an unrelated matter.
Callaway had told Baltimore police that he and his wife had been robbed the previous night in the same area where her body was later discovered. He claimed he had been pistol-whipped and that Bundy was still missing.
Investigators determined that Callaway matched the man seen in the alley surveillance footage. He also had no injuries consistent with being pistol-whipped. Instead, detectives found bloodstains on Callaway's hands and underneath his fingernails.
Callaway was then brought in for formal questioning at the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) building, where he made an unusual statement that alarmed detectives.
"Upon arrival at the CID building, Callaway made the unsolicited remark that he was going to 'prison' and that he would kill himself if he was being charged with murder," prosecutors wrote in the release. "At that point, detectives had not yet informed him that Ms. Bundy was dead."
Additional surveillance footage provided investigators with a timeline of Callaway and Bundy's movements that night.
Video from a nearby laundromat on Church Street showed Callaway and Bundy together until about 12:15 a.m., when they left together and walked toward Sixth Street.
Callaway was captured on surveillance footage about 1:30 a.m. returning to the laundromat alone from the direction of Alley 79 carrying a jacket and a crossbody bag, both of which he threw in a trash can outside the establishment. The crossbody bag Callaway tossed was the same one his wife had been wearing in the surveillance footage, prosecutors said.
"This was a brutal, calculated act of domestic violence, and while no sentence can undo the devastating loss of Sarah Bundy, today's prison term ensures Cedric Callaway is held accountable for his heinous actions," State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said in a statement. "Our hearts remain with Ms. Bundy's loved ones as they continue to grieve."
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