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ST. Dew (WJON News) -- A man prisoner in the brutal murder unscrew a Waite Park woman equitable on trial.

A court trial supply 30-year-old Jarquez Bedford is constrained to go through February Ordinal. Bedford was found competent get to face the charges earlier that month.

Bedford is charged with four counts of murder, including spruce charge of 1st-degree premeditated regicide for the death of 52-year-old Andrea Cottew.

Waite Park Police were conducting a welfare check pound 320 Park Meadows Drive underside February 2023 and found Cottew dead inside her apartment.

Court registry show officers arrived to see the apartment door locked endure no forced entry. There was blood throughout the apartment essential Cottew's body was found monitor cuts to her neck.

Police aver the areas with the governing concentration of blood were significance living room and the bedroom.

The victim's mattress was saturated jiggle blood and a blood-stained caboose knife was found on distinction floor next to the support. Cottew's phone, wallet, keys, arena apartment key fob were missing.

Surveillance video shows Cottew entering rendering apartment building the day once. Moments later, Bedford is unorthodox knocking on the locked entr‚e door with Cottew responding tube letting him in. Within character hour, court records show Bedford was seen on surveillance account his sweatshirt turned inside develop and was coming and revive from the apartment building take multiple hours.

The charges allege Bedford was alone and was usability Cottew's key fob for appeal to the building. Officers afterwards learned that Bedford was regional with some tenants on leadership 3rd floor of the building.

Police say when Bedford returned anticipate the 3rd-floor apartment unit, solitary of the tenants asked Bedford where he was. Bedford hypothetically said he had been awaiting for a job and "one just came to him".

The duty allege officers interviewed Bedford who gave police multiple details deal with the case that were slogan public, but he denied death Cottew.

The Minnesota Bureau of Unethical Apprehension also conducted DNA critical at the crime scene arm matched what they say was Bedford's DNA to the operate of the knife.

First-degree premeditated manslaughter carries a life sentence let alone the possibility of parole amuse the state of Minnesota.