Posted: Sep 10, 2010 12:24 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 10, 2010 6:57 PM EDT
Patrick K. Williams (Source: Williamson County Jail)
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By Heartland News
CARBONDALE, IL (KFVS) - A Carbondale man already charged with beating his girlfriend now faces murder charges in connection with her brutal death.
Patrick Williams, 47, faces two counts of first degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Tina Pickens.
Williams is accused of beating and stabbing Pickens to death.
Marion Police say evidence found in her home point to Williams in Pickens' stabbing death. During a press conference on Friday, police would not elaborate on what type of evidence led them to Williams.
Court documents show a long list of domestic violence charges involving the couple, some include him slapping and beating her.
The court had ordered Williams to have no contact with Pickens, but police arrested him for violating that court order early Thursday in Carbondale.
Pickens was found dead in her Marion home at 408 South Van Buren street late Wednesday.
Police were called to her house to do a welfare check when she didn't show up for work.
Police arrested Williams in Carbondale.
He was taken to the Williamson County Jail on a $1 million bond.
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