ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — The man accused of killing a woman and bringing her body around Adams County in a trash can has been formally charged with murder and tampering with a deceased human body, according to an arrest affidavit and the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

The district attorney's office announced on Wednesday afternoon that Thomas Lee Perales, 38, now faces charges of first-degree murder, violation of a protection order (two counts), tampering with a deceased human body and domestic violence (habitual offender).

According to an affidavit for Perales' arrest, all of these charges are connected with domestic violence.

The affidavit, which Denver7 obtained on Wednesday morning, reads that he had been in a relationship with the victim, Annette Valdez, 37. The document sa

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