Man Charged With Murder of Girlfriend: ICYMI

Editor’s note: A man has been arrested in Mississippi and charged with his girlfriend’s death in North Austin. Read the full story here in case you missed it during the week.

A man is facing murder charges in a suspicious death that police are now calling a homicide.

Kevin Michael Waguespack, 32, is charged with first degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, Catherine Dyer, 32, police said in a press release.

Waguespack called 911 Tuesday morning at around 2:12 a.m. and said he “killed this woman and her name is Catherine Dyer,” according to police.

Waguespack was taken into custody Wednesday after a short standoff with police in Adams County, Mississippi.

The death was originally ruled suspicious after Dyer’s neighbor found her body Monday night. When a crime scene unit searched the home they found blood, overturned furniture and pieces of what looked to be a rifle stock throughout the house, police said.

Mark Rangle, a next-door neighbor, said that he knew both Waguespack and Dyer and that he heard a commotion coming from the house.

“It’s just crazy, I never knew something like that would happen; they were nice people,”Rangel told KXAN. “I never knew he would do such a thing like that. I had a good friend relationship with both of them.”