Man charged after southwest Missouri woman beaten to death

(AP) A 46-year-old man from southwest Missouri has been charged with second-degree murder after a woman, whom he had a relationship, was beaten to death. Shane Mackey was charged after 42-year-old Racheal Sanders was found dead in her home in Republic on Monday.

Officers sent to the house found Mackey trying to give Sanders CPR in a house that was in disarray and blood-spattered.

Mackey reportedly gave police conflicting versions of what happened before he was arrested in Sanders’ death. Investigators found multiple lacerations and bruises on Sanders and found that Mackey also had injuries, which made officers suspicious.

A probable cause statement says Mackey was arrested for domestic assault seven times between 2002 and 2013.