According to a press release from the Idaho Falls Police Department, Chris Foiles, 42, of Spokane was taken into custody last Friday in connection with Megan Ashley Stedman’s alleged death and placed without bond in Idaho’s Bonneville County Jail.
According to USA Today, Foiles yelled, “I am Chris Foiles, I killed my girlfriend, she is in the RV,” right before his arrest on Friday, instantly waiving his Miranda rights. Since Stedman vanished on December 15, police in Bozeman, Montana, said they had been looking for her motor home and her boyfriend.
According to KRTV, Idaho Falls Police discovered a woman’s body inside the car with credit cards in her name and a tattoo that looked similar to Stedman’s. To formally identify her, an autopsy is currently being conducted, the Bozeman Police Department informed Fox News Digital.
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Foiles reported to the police that on December 22nd, he and Stedman parked the motor home in an Idaho Falls Walmart parking lot. Stedman was stabbed in the neck by Foiles “a few weeks” prior to his arrest on Friday, he informed police. He then “intentionally stabbed Megan in the chest with the intent to kill her,” according to arrest records that USA Today examined.
According to reports, Foiles admitted to stabbing the woman multiple times until she stopped moving.
However, the 34-year-old nail technician’s family told Fox News Digital that when the mother of two never called on Christmas or her daughter’s birthday, they knew something was seriously wrong. They said it was unusual for her to disappear without speaking to her kids, and they believe she was slain earlier this month.
When the woman’s best friend contacted Stedman’s siblings to let them know that she hadn’t heard from Stedman, they reportedly looked for the woman nonstop for weeks. Stedman’s sister Marie Mitma claimed that on New Year’s Eve, the family hit up the bars and holiday gatherings in the Montana towns of Livingston and Bozeman, where Stedman had just moved into a motor home.
In the meantime, pictures of Stedman’s missing RV with its broken left tail light and red stripe were circulated by Bozeman police. Shortly after he made the call, Mitma claimed to have spoken with the man who reported the RV to the police.
According to Idaho Falls Police, Foiles had repainted the car approximately four weeks prior. The good Samaritan reportedly informed Mitma that he had almost forgotten about it.
Mitma stated on Wednesday, “I feel like my sister was with him, but the blue stripe that he put on the RV threw him off.” “He had a strange feeling, but for some reason, he didn’t think he would call it in. I appreciate that he did.
