MONROE — A man faces 20 felony charges in Green County Circuit Court related to child porn possession as well as intimate pictures he secretly took in Walmart changing rooms while employed at the store in Monroe, according to court documents.
Marcus Tyler Hendrickson, 27, was arrested last May after police investigated a report that he installed a spy camera in his Monroe apartment bathroom and covertly recorded women using the toilet.
He was charged with using a surveillance device to invade privacy, a misdemeanor, and capturing an intimate representation, a felony. That case is still pending.
Court documents filed in late March now allege this incident was not isolated and Hendrickson had, for years, been secretly taking and compiling pictures of girls and women without their knowledge or consent.
His preliminary hearing in the new case is May 24. He is charged with five counts of child porn possession, all Class D felonies, as well as 13 counts of possessing an intimate representation and two counts of capturing an intimate representation, all Class I felonies.
He signed a $25,000 signature bond April 15. His conditions of bond include no contact with anyone under the age of 18, not being within 100 yards of any school property and following court ordered limitations on his access to computers and the internet.
According to the criminal complaint:
The investigation of Hendrickson began May 10, when a woman reported to Monroe police that she and a friend discovered two cameras disguised to look like wall hooks across from the toilet in the 4th Avenue apartment he shared with one of them.
The two Fulao-brand “Hidden Spy Clothes Hook” cameras were ordered through his Amazon account, police found. Hendrickson was “evasive” with police, but eventually admitted to installing the cameras.
He also “admitted to recording random people in stores but said all of those videos were gone now,” police reported. He claimed he had used “an advanced cleaning system” to delete files from his computer.
As he was being processed at the jail, a jailer asked Hendrickson to remove his socks, and as he did, a “micro SD card fell out.” It was seized as evidence, along with his phone and other devices.
A search of these devices found images of “intimate parts of unknowing females,” some taken in the changing room at the Monroe Walmart store. Hendrickson also kept more photos of female victims in a digital folder labeled “PEOPLE I KNOW,” with photos labeled by the person’s first and last name. The majority of these photos had been taken in Walmart.
Pornographic images of prepubescent girls were also located in Hendrickson’s digital collection. Many images in the collection were flagged as child-exploitative.
Detective Dan Skatrud of the Monroe Police Department located one victim who “was very surprised” to see photos of herself, Skatrud reported.
In a statement included in the criminal complaint, she wrote that she worked with Hendrickson at the Monroe Walmart while she was in high school and she “talked with him as a friend.”
“He followed me around but I never thought he would do anything to hurt me,” she wrote. “I never gave him consent to take any photographs of me.”
Skatrud confirmed that Hendrickson was hired at Walmart in October 2011 and terminated in August 2017. Details about his termination, such as whether it was voluntary, are not mentioned in the complaint.