A bodybuilder allegedly killed his ex-wife when she went to his home to choose up her belongings and incinerated her after retrieving her engagement and wedding ceremony rings.
Ian Christopher Baunach, 43, on Monday pleaded not responsible to killing Katie Baunach, 39, who’s the mom of their two kids.
The ex-Marine was arrested in November 2021 and charged with home battery by strangulation, however launched later the identical day on a $25,000 bond.
In September, 10 months after Ian’s arrest, Katie accused him of abusing one in every of their youngsters and obtained a restraining order towards him.
Katie left their two youngsters with a pal on September 29 and stated her ex-husband had allowed her to go to his house to take again a few of her ‘private objects’. She didn’t return.
The next day, police went to Ian’s home in LaBelle, which is about 30 miles east of Fort Myers in Florida, and located Katie’s automotive outdoors. Nevertheless, Ian was not contained in the residence. Cops later discovered Katie’s automotive was not parked outdoors the house.
Police obtained a search warrant as a result of Ian wouldn’t allow them to inside. Once they obtained in, they noticed blood stains which he stated have been from grocery objects.
They broke right into a secure and recovered an AR-15 higher receiver and 13 silencers – and Katie’s engagement and wedding ceremony bands.
Cops additionally discovered a .40 caliber pistol on a bookshelf, a shotgun and three rifles within the attic.
Exterior, they found human stays, together with ‘the fragment of a human mandible with an intact tooth in a recent burn pile’, court docket paperwork state.
A blue 50-gallon barrel contained ‘further human bone fragment’ and ‘regulation enforcement found different suspected human bone fragments within the space surrounding the burn pile’, in keeping with the doc.
Ian, who carried one other .40 caliber pistol on him, admitted to getting in a combat with Katie ‘over one other lady’ and being ‘indignant’ that she was granted a home violence injunction towards him.
However he denied murdering Katie and stated she had vanished and there was nobody there.
Ian was arrested and charged with first-degree pre-meditated homicide, cremating a lifeless physique 48 hours after dying and destruction/concealment of bodily proof.
He may face the dying penalty or life in jail if convicted.
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