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Nathan Middleton, the man who investigators say admitted to burning the corpse of a young Fitchburg woman in a backyard fire pit, had pleas of not guilty on three felony charges entered for him by a judge Tuesday in Rock County Court.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the 29-year-old Evansville man stood mute with his attorney, as a judge entered the pleas to charges of mutilating a corpse, hiding a corpse and attempted escape. A trial date will be scheduled at a hearing on March 6.

Middleton admitted to Rock County investigators that he burned the body of 18-year-old Aprina Paul after he found Paul dead in his bed the morning of October 28th. According to a criminal complaint, Middleton met Paul on the Internet, paid her to have sex with him and watched her take drugs. Rock County Sheriff Bob Spoden has said that further forensic analysis of bones found near the fire pit may yet determine whether Paul was murdered.

The escape charge was added last month. According to a criminal complaint, Middleton sent a letter to his mother, asking her to search online for information on how to make a bomb, and then blow up the side of the Rock County Jail. The letter also asked his mother to get a rental car and to steal a set of license plates, to help aid in an escape to Mexico. He wrote that he knew people in Mexico who could help them.

Nathan Middleton

A Rock County man accused of dismembering a burning a corpse in his fire pit, and then plotting an escape from the Rock County Jail, is going to need a new lawyer.

29-year-old Nathan Middleton’s attorney resigned from his case after unknowingly becoming a part of his escape plot.

Middleton is facing new charges, after Sheriff’s Deputies say they found out he was plotting an escape from jail. According to a criminal complaint, the letter Middleton’s attorney delivered asked Middleton’s mother to search online for information on how to make a bomb, and then blow up the side of the Rock County Jail. The letter also asked his mother to get a rental car and to steal a set of license plates, to help aid in an escape to Mexico. He wrote that he knew people in Mexico who could help them.

Authorities have not said whether Middleton’s mother could face any charges.

Middleton has been jailed for the past month on charges that he dismembered the body of 18-year-old Aprina Paul of Fitchburg, and then burned her body in the fire pit at his rural Evansville home. The two met after Paul answered an ad on Craigslist. Middleton claims he awoke to find Paul dead in his home and decided to dispose of the body. An investigation has so far been unable to determine how the teen died.

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A man accused of burning a woman’s body is his backyard fire pit is arrested for plotting to escape from the Rock County Jail. Nathan Middleton is in jail on a $100,000 cash bond on two felony charges of hiding and mutilating a corpse. The 29-year-old Middleton is accused of burning the body of 18-year-old Aprina Paul of Fitchburg on his property in rural Evansville, back in November.

According to a news release from the Rock County Sherifff’s Office, during security checks at the jail, corrections officers learned that Middleton was planning an escape from the jail in Janesville.  Sheriff’s Office Detectives say Middleton had communicated to other inmates as well as people on the outside about his escape plan.

Middleton was arrested for solicitation to escape jail, and his security has been increased. He is due in court at 3:00 p.m. on December 16th.

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Nathan Middleton

A “person of interest” in a Rock County homicide investigation has been arrested on charges stemming from the investigation into the disappearance of 18-year-old Aprina Paul of Fitchburg. Nathan Middleton faces several charges including hiding a corpse, mutilating a corpse and failure to notify the coroner of a death. The charges come after a review of findings in the ongoing investigation by the Rock County Sheriff’s Office by Rock County District Attorney David O’Leary.

Paul was last seen October 27th and her remains were found a week later in a burn pit in the yard of a residence Middleton occupied near Evansville. Middleton subsequently admitted that he had sex and did drugs with Paul – and he woke up the next day to find her dead. The two allegedly met when Paul responded to his online ad.

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A search warrant affidavit obtained by a Madison television station indicates that a Rock County man who is a possible suspect in the death of a young Fitchburg woman reportedly met her when she answered his Internet ad for sex.

The document obtained by WISC-TV said 29-year-old Nathan Middleton, who is being held on a probation violation, apparently burned the body of 18-year-old Aprina Paul body in a pit at a residence near Evansville which he shared with his fiance. That was two days after they met.

Paul’s family said they last saw her October 27th when she left their home with a man they didn’t know. The Janesville Gazette cited search warrant documents stating that Middleton took Paul to his house, where they had sex and smoked marijuana together. The paper said he woke up the next day, found Paul dead in his bed, and tried unsuccessfully to revive. Middleton allegedly hid her body in a blanket outside his garage, burned her purse and clothing, threw her cell-phone in a ditch, built a fire pit, and started burning Paul while his fiancée was out shopping.

The documents said Middleton and his fiancée tended to the fire that night, and he allegedly burned the body again the next day.

The Rock County sheriff is confident bone fragments found in a fire pit outside of a home in Evansville over the weekend are those of a missing Fitchburg teen, although it may be difficult to confirm that beyond a doubt.

Sheriff Robert Spoden says they are currently trying to find a lab that can help analyze the badly burned bones to determine if they are those of 18-year-old Aprina Paul. A lab in Madison was able to determine they belong to a human female, but could not identify how she died or who she was. Still, Spoden says other information given to investigators indicates they are the remains of the girl, who was last seen leaving her home in Fitchburg on October 27.

Sherrif’s deputies were called to the home late last week after Fitchburg Police said they had reason to believe that Paul may have died there. Spoden says they spent the weekend collecting evidence from the residence, but have not yet been able to determine if the case is a homicide. He says the badly burned condition of the remains makes it very difficult to determine how the person might have died, and investigators will be looking at other evidence and conducting interviews to help retrace what the recent high school graduate was doing on the night she was reported missing.

A resident of the home in Evansville, 29-year-old Nathan Middleton, is currently in custody on a probation violation. Spoden says they know Middleton had contact with Paul after meeting her through a website, but he has not been charged with any crimes at this time. Spoden says “We’re going to proceed forward with this, but obviously we want to make sure that we have all of the facts and all of the information before we proceed with whatever criminal charges we deem are appropriate.”

Spoden says the entire situation is “very tragic” and they have been in contact with Paul’s family to make sure they can “bring some measure of comfort and closure for them.”