and continued for about an hour, resulting in Chandler being “upset” and stating he was going to move out. During questioning, the women claimed Chandler and Wofford began arguing at around 10:00 p.m. Police also questioned the couple’s two roommates, sisters Christian and Elizabeth Rhodes, who lived in the home with one of the women’s 8-year-old daughters. “Paul made statements that he didn’t know what happened to her, but he believed some unknown person may have climbed through their opened second-story window and done something to her,” according to Fowler.
and that he found his girlfriend dead when he woke up hours later. Wofford died of strangulation “both by her throat and by compression to her chest.”įurther examination showed the blood from the victim’s mouth stemmed from “her bottom lip being ripped away from the gums” and that there was bruising and trauma to her head, which in and of itself was not fatal but ”showed significant signs” to the medical examiner that the victim was beaten.Ĭhandler allegedly initially told detectives that he and Wofford went to bed at around 1:00 a.m. Fowler stated there were signs of lividity indicative of the body being moved.Ī postmortem examination at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences revealed that Wofford was 32-weeks pregnant with a daughter and that the otherwise-healthy unborn child was “only dead because the mother had died,” according to the affidavit. The victim wore only a t-shirt and had blood coming from the corner of her mouth.ĭet. It was believed that Wofford, who was “obviously pregnant,” had been dead for several hours in the couple’s upstairs bedroom. When responders arrived at the Deer Park Way home in Wichita Falls, they found Wofford on her back, lying next to an air mattress, according to the warrant written by Wichita Falls Detective Tanner Fowler. on Wednesday to report his “wife” was dead and “blue in the face.”
An arrest warrant reviewed by states Chandler called police shortly before 7:30 a.m. Paul Raymond Chandler, 20, was placed under arrest for the beating and strangulation death of Kaycee Wofford, 19, according to the Wichita Falls Police Department. A man in Texas has been charged with the capital murder of his girlfriend and their unborn baby girl, after he allegedly told police that “rough sex” was the cause of the expectant mother’s death.