Midwest City Man Charged in Slaying of Fiancee

Staff and Wire Report

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A Midwest City man has been charged with two counts of murder in the slaying death of his pregnant fiancee.

Oklahoma County prosecutors on Tuesday filed two counts of first-degree murder against 28-year-old Eric Ray Knox.

Knox is accused of killing 25-year-old Stacey Beesley, whose beaten and bloody body was found by police on Dec. 21 inside Knox's Midwest City apartment. According to a police affidavit, Beesley was 21 weeks pregnant.

Read the police affidavit and charges against Knox.

The affidavit stated a newspaper carrier alerted police to the scene after seeing a man covered with blood.

Police said Knox confessed to the killing during an interview with detectives.

Knox is being held without bond in the Oklahoma County jail. Court and jail records do not indicate if he has retained an attorney.

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