A Pennsylvania man was charged with criminal homicide after he allegedly tried to pass off his friend's stabbing death as a suicide.

Chase Steigerwald, 34, is currently behind bars at Clarion County Jail after police said he killed 45-year-old Rachel Roman, who was found dead in Steigerwald's apartment on the morning of Nov. 5. According to a criminal complaint obtained by local news outlet Explore Jefferson PA, Steigerwald and an unnamed woman were outside Steigerwald's home when police arrived on the scene. Steigerwald claimed to police that he and the woman left to take a walk, and when they returned, they found Roman dead inside .

That unnamed woman would later tell police a very different story.

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