By: Associated Press//March 11, 2015//
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A western Wisconsin man accused of killing his girlfriend and texting a photo of her corpse to another man is being held on $500,000 cash bond.
Twenty-nine-year-old Bryce Anderson made his first court appearance in La Crosse County on Tuesday. A judge entered a not guilty plea on Anderson’s behalf to a charge of first-degree intentional homicide.
According to a criminal complaint, Anderson suspected Kristen Johnson was having an affair. Prosecutors contend Anderson struck the 28-year-old victim with a hammer several times and cut her throat at the couple’s duplex in Holmen on March 1. The couple’s two young boys were home at the time, but were not harmed.
Johnson’s body was found in a car parked in the garage.
Online court records didn’t list a defense attorney who could be contacted for comment.