রেজাউল করিম (২০০৬) বর্তমান রংপুর বিভাগীয় কুড়িগ্রাম জেলার চিলমারী থানায় জন্মগ্রহণ করেছেন। তাঁর পিতা জে এ এম জামিউল ইসলাম একজন সরকারি চাকুরিজীবী ও মাতা গৃহিণী। তাঁর পিতা ২০০৩ সাল থেকেই ঢাকা প্রকৌশল ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় গাজীপুরে কর্মরত বিধায় তিনি গাজীপুরে সপরিবারে বসবাস করেন। ২০০৯ সন থেকে তিনি গাজীপুরে বসবাসরত। দু'বোন জাকিয়া সুলতানা ও জাহারা জাবিন সহ তাঁরা তিন ভাই-বোন।

শিক্ষা জীবন স্কুল দিয়ে শুরু হলেও তিনি এখন হাফেজ, মাওলানা। ২০১৩সনে পি এস সি সমাপনী পরীক্ষায় উত্তীর্ণ হয়ে গাজীপুরের সুপরিচিত জামিয়া ইসলামিয়া আব্দুল্লাহ বিন ওমর রা. মাদ্রাসায় হিফজখানায় ভর্তি হন। অত্র মাদ্রাসায় হিফজ সমাপনী শেষ করে ঢাকাস্থ এরাবিক মডেল মাদ্রাসায় কিতাবখানায় ভর্তি হয় সেখান থেকে আরবি ভাষা ও খত্তে রুক'আ কোর্স সমাপ্ত করে জামিয়া রশিদিয়া আরাবিয়া মাদ্রাসায় বেফাকুল মাদারিসিল আরাবিয়া বাংলাদেশ (কওমি মাদ্রাসা বোর্ড) মুতাওয়াসসিতা   পরিক্ষায় পাশ করেন। বর্তমানে তিনি জামিয়া ইসলামিয়া আব্দুল্লাহ বিন ওমর রা. মাদ্রাসায় অধ্যায়নরত। 

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lt a second, larger home about a mile north, at the head of Metts Branch, and the family moved there. During that time he earned recognition for surveying and graveling the main route to St. Louis, the Lemay Ferry Road. He also was commissioner of the long, red, barn-like covered bridge spanning Sandy Creek, which today is the centerpiece of a state historic site and park. Mack was 17 years old when his mother died. Little is known of his life through his twenties, but about 1878 he joined the throngs of men who set out for the Black Hills of Dakota in search of gold. He had some success, but when there was a dispute over the claim he shared with some other men, resulting in one of them being shot dead, the peace-loving Mack returned to Missouri.

Marriage
About a year after his return to Jefferson County, Mack married a childhood sweetheart, Emma Jean Hensley, daughter of Leander Hensley and Cynthia Ann Williams Hensley. Her family was known for its evangelists and preachers and founded the stalwart Sandy Baptist Church, which has persisted well into the 21st Century. Mack and Emma Jean's only child, Samuel Matthew Marsden, was born in 1879.

Stock Trading Business
Mack came from a family of lead and tin miners in England, who immigrated to America and were successful in mining at Galena, Illinois, a town named for the ore that produces lead. His grandparents came to Missouri about 1840 after the discovery of lead deposits there. Mack's father Samuel devoted himself to mining and engineering in Jefferson County, but Mack chose to become a livestock trader, dealing in hogs, cattle, and horses, buying them from local farmers and driving them to markets along the Mississippi River on the outskirts of St. Louis.

Legal Problems
Mack was first associated with crime in the fall of 1881, when a reclusive farmer, Anson Vail, was found dead in his cabin after it was destroyed by fire. Although there was no evidence of foul play, the sheriff was certain Vail had been murdered. Mack admitted to visiting Vail on business on the evening of his death. He was arrested for the killing in 1882, stood trial, and was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Also beginning in 1881, Jefferson County farmers suffered from a series of livestock thefts, particularly hogs. The sheriff questioned Mack about those thefts, as well as about the murder of prominent merchant Joseph Yerger in the town of Antonia. The local newspaper, The Democrat, repeatedly accused Mack of various crimes, stated he was the leader of a gang of thieves, and labeled him a "desperado". A local vigilante committee even tried to lynch him. Yet in all that time there was no evidence and no witness to tie Marsden to any crime.

In the spring of 1883, Mack was arrested after selling some stolen hogs to a butcher in Carondolet. Although he had a bill of sale to prove he'd bought the hogs, he and several other men were indicted for livestock theft. With their trial approaching, all of the men were out of jail on bond. One of them had turned state's evidence, intending to name Mack as the leader of a gang of thieves. Mack planned to testify similarly against the man who accused him.

Death
On August 29, 1883, Mack was returning from a trip selling livestock in St. Louis with his brother-in-law and constant companion, Allen Hensley. They were riding along the Lemay Ferry Road in Mack's wagon. At a remote location on the route, a group of men stepped into the road and one of them fired a shotgun, killing Marsden with a blast to the head and torso. Hensley was hit with a second blast, but the horse ran away with the wagon, carrying him to safety in the next town, Antonia.

Hensley survived for two days. As he lay dying, he named the men who killed him and Mack. They were finally brought to trial in 1886, but were acquitted. Fearing reprisals, the accused men all moved out of the state. The murders of Mack Marsden and Allen Hensley remained unsolved.

Mack Marsden in Literature
Matthew H. Marsden's story is told in The Mack Marsden Murder Mystery: Vigilantism or Justice?, published by the Missouri History Museum in 2011. The narrative history book, by journalist Joe Johnston, is the result of years of research into locations, newspaper accounts, books, and legal records, as well as oral family histories. It details the lives of Mack and many others who were part of his story, and unravels the question of who killed Allen Hensley and Mack Marsden.

References

Sources

Civil Government and History of Missouri, The MacMillan Company, New York, NY, 	1933
County Clerk, Jefferson County, Missouri
DeSoto Public Library
Festus Public Library
Family interviews
Firearms research: www.joesalter.com; Roy G. Jinks, Historian, Smith & Wesson
Hallemann's Interpretation of the 1876 Historic Atlas, Dave Halleman, Jefferson County 	Historical Society
Hillsboro 1839–1989, City of Hillsboro, 1989
Historic Sites of Jefferson County, Missouri
Goodspeed's History Of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford, & Gasconade 	Counties, Missouri, Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888*
Jefferson Count Democrat, transcribed by Lisa K. Gendron
Jefferson County Historical Society, www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mojchs/index.html
Jefferson County History Center, Jefferson College Library, Hillsboro, Missouri
Jefferson County, Missouri 1876 Atlas, Brink, McDonough & Company, 1876
Jesse James research: The Old West, The Gunfighters, Time-Life Books; Wild West 	Magazine. Vol. 19, 4, Weider History Group
Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/index.html
Missouri Birth and Death Indexes, http://www.deathindexes.com/missouri/index.html
Missouri History Museum, www.mohistory.org/
Missouri Secretary of State Archives, www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/
Our Jefferson County Heritage; Reminiscences of Early Missouri, Zoe Booth Rutledge, Ramfire Press, 1970
Our Missouri, E.W. Stephens Publisher, Columbia, Missouri, 1898
Railroad and depot history: Tim Jones and Jacob C. Jones, http://moshortline.com/
The Mack Marsden Murder Mystery: Vigilantism or Justice?, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri,  2011, 
The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The St. Louis Post Dispatch, www.stltoday.com/help/archives/

External links
 http://www.mohistory.org/publications/catalog/node/6174

1849 births
1883 deaths
People from Jefferson County, Missouri
Deaths by firearm in Missouri
American murder victims
People murdered in Missouri
 1883 murders in the United States