Iowa man charged in Prairie du Chien murder

Prosecutors have charged an Iowa man with strangling his girlfriend to death four years ago in Prairie du Chien and hiding her body in the garbage.

Michael J. Burroughs, 26, 0f Marquette, faces one count of first-degree reckless homicide and one count of hiding a corpse.

According to a criminal complaint, Burroughs strangled 23-year-old Shannon Fischer to death in his apartment in December 2006 in a dispute over methamphetamine. He kept Fischer's body in the apartment for several days, then dumped it in the trash after it began to smell.

Fischer's disappearance had gone unsolved until Sunday, Oct. 10. The complaint says Burroughs walked into the Prairie du Chien police station that morning and told a dispatcher he had killed her.

Online court records didn't list a defense attorney for Burroughs.