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Despite his assertions that his fiancee was badly injured and died after a car crash, police believe a Mount Pleasant man may have had something to do with her death.

Anthony Jeffrey Christensen, 35, was booked into the Sanpete County jail on Saturday on suspicion of homicide, obstruction of justice and desecration of a body. His arrest came a day after police went to his home and found the body of his fiancee, Kammy Edmunds.

Police found Edmunds on the bathroom floor "very bruised, bloody and deceased," a Mount Pleasant police officer wrote in a probable cause statement.

Christensen told police on Friday that he had been drinking alcohol with Edmunds and another woman the night before, on Thursday, when there was an argument because the other woman wanted to leave and he didn't want them driving drunk.

The man reported that he was "very drunk" and went to bed when the two women went outside to smoke, according to the probable cause statement released by the Sanpete County Attorney's Office.

"Later in the night, Christensen woke up and checked on the other two, and saw the car was gone," the officer wrote. "At about 7:00 a.m., Christensen said that he thought he was dreaming and Edmunds was there and she told him that she was in a car wreck and her face was smashed. Christensen dismissed the moment to a dream and rolled back over to sleep more."

Christensen told police that when he woke up that afternoon, he saw that Edmunds was not in bed and went to find her. He forced open a bathroom door, he said, and found his fiancee badly injured in the bathroom. He called 911, he told police, and went back to the bathroom and found she had no pulse.

But the state medical examiner's office later reported to police that Edmunds' injuries were not consistent with being in a car crash — she died from "multiple blunt force trauma" to her head.

Police later found the car that Christensen said his fiancee had been driving in a dry creek bed east of Mount Pleasant near Power Plant Park. Investigators do not believe the damage to the vehicle was "consistent with damage that would result in the death of a person," the police officer wrote. Blood was found in the car on the lower portion of a door panel — but not high enough where a person's head would be.

At the home, investigators found blood, prints from shoes belonging to Christensen and other evidence suggesting he had dragged a person through the living room to the bathroom, according to the probable cause statement.

They also found that the carpet at the home appeared to have been cleaned, and was still wet when investigators arrived.

Police have not publicly released a theory for how they believe Edmunds died, and formal criminal charges had not been filed against Christensen as of Monday.

But police noted in the probable cause statement that Christensen's cell phone "pinged" in an area east of Mount Pleasant during a time when he reported he had been sleeping.

They also noted that Edmunds' mother reported that she noticed her daughter with "multiple bruising and black eyes" since she had been dating Christensen.

Sanpete County Attorney Brody Keisel said Monday that the investigation is ongoing, and charges may not be filed until next week.

Christensen is currently being held at the county jail in lieu of $500,000 cash-only bail.