A grisly discovery by Otero County Sheriff’s Office deputies conducting a welfare check has led to an open murder charge against Matthew Weems, 31, and a petition by prosecutors to keep him in custody through his trial.

It began on the morning of Nov. 17 with a service call about a burglary in progress at a residence on Spanish Daggers Drive, near U.S. 82 in Alamogordo. Deputies stated in an affidavit that they arrived to find Weems kneeling in the roadway and detained him.

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