AURORA | Prosecutors formally charged an Aurora man Tuesday morning with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend last week.
Charles Bowman Anthony III, 36, appeared in court Tuesday, Feb. 16, at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in Centennial.
He is accused of killing Jessica Lyn Reese, 29, last week at an apartment near East First Drive and Sable Boulevard,
Michelle Yi, a spokeswoman for the Arapahoe County district attorney’s office, said Anthony was also charged with two sentence enhancers accusing him of using a weapon in a crime of violence.
Anthony, who is being held without bail at the Arapahoe County Jail, is due in court again March 8.
According to court documents, Anthony told police he had fantasies about hurting people before he killed Reese and that he was schizophrenic and has bipolar disorder.
Police found Reese’s body Feb. 9 inside an apartment at 14434 E. First Drive after they went there with Anthony’s father to check on Anthony’s welfare. The father said he had not heard from his son for several days.
When police arrived, they found Reese dead in the kitchen and said the home smelled like the body had been decomposing for some time, according to the affidavit.
Anthony initially refused to follow officers’ commands and was arrested only after police used a Taser on him.
During an interview after his arrest, Bowman told police he last saw Reese about four days before officers arrived at his home. He told them that after the slaying he left the home several times because it was too quiet there.
He told police he was on medication for schizophrenia but hadn’t taken it for about 18 months and hadn’t visited a doctor in six months.
Anthony told police he didn’t feel remorse for the slaying and said he had been holding in thoughts about hurting people but those just “fell by the wayside.”
Police asked Anthony what led up to the slaying and he told them only that he had fantasies about hurting people.
It wasn’t clear from the document if police found the murder weapon. Anthony told detectives he didn’t know what he did with the knife after the attack, but said he had a knife set.
According to state records, Anthony didn’t have much of a criminal record in Colorado. Before last week his lone arrest came in 2007 when Aurora police arrested him for failing to appear in court on a charge of having a restricted breed of dog. The outcome of that case wasn’t clear from state records.
Reese’s family set up a fundraising page to cover the costs of her funeral.
A relative of Reese said she was a school bus driver and is survived by two children, ages 9 and 4.