Inset: Cedric Dion Callaway (Anne Arundel County Jail). Background: The Maryland area where Callaway killed his wife (Google Maps).
A 51-year-old Maryland man has been sentenced to decades in prison for killing his wife and leaving her body beneath tires in what prosecutors described as an apparent effort to hide the crime.
Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Christine Celeste sentenced Cedric Dion Callaway to life in prison, with all but 40 years suspended, for the 2025 murder of 44-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Bundy, authorities said. The sentence followed Callaway’s guilty plea last month to first-degree murder, ending a jury trial after four days of testimony.
According to a press release from the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office, police and fire crews were called around 9 a.m. on May 23, 2025, after a report of a dead woman at the intersection of Alley 79 and Disney Avenue in Brooklyn Park.
The woman was later identified as Bundy. Investigators said her body had been “covered with tires in an apparent attempt to conceal her body.” She had suffered extensive trauma to her head, face and neck. Her remains were taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.
Surveillance video from a camera near the alley showed someone matching Bundy’s description walking with a man dressed in dark clothing and a black hooded sweatshirt during the early morning hours of May 23. Investigators said the man led Bundy toward the alley where her body was eventually found.
As detectives investigated the homicide, a Baltimore Police Department officer contacted Anne Arundel County investigators about Callaway, who was being held on an unrelated matter.
Callaway had told Baltimore police that he and his wife were robbed the night before in the same area where Bundy’s body was discovered. He claimed someone had struck him with a pistol and said Bundy was still missing.
Detectives determined that Callaway matched the man seen in the alley footage. They also found no injuries indicating that he had been pistol-whipped. Instead, blood was discovered on his hands and beneath his fingernails.
Callaway was taken to the Criminal Investigations Division building for a formal interview, where he made a statement that immediately drew investigators’ attention.
“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.”
Further surveillance footage helped investigators reconstruct the couple’s movements in the hours before Bundy’s death.
Video recorded at a laundromat on Church Street showed Callaway and Bundy together until approximately 12:15 a.m. They then left the business and walked in the direction of Sixth Street.
Around 1:30 a.m., surveillance footage captured Callaway returning to the laundromat alone from the direction of Alley 79. He was carrying a jacket and a crossbody bag, both of which he discarded in a trash can outside the business. Prosecutors said the bag was the same one Bundy had been wearing in earlier surveillance video.
“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. “Our hearts remain with Ms. Bundy’s loved ones as they continue to grieve.”
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