SPARTA, Wis. – A murder trial was ordered for a Sparta man accused in the fatal beating of a girlfriend in October. Meanwhile, Andrew Nauman, 39, remains in jail in lieu of $1 million bal. His arraignment hearing will be in mid-December. In the criminal complaint, Nauman is quoted that he found victim, Ticarra Manning, at the bottom of the stairs and that she had been lying there probably 10 minutes. Investigators said Nauman told them that he took her upstairs and laid her on the floor. Police are quoted in he criminal complaint that a knife with blood was found near the kitchen sink. Asked why he didn’t call police earlier, Naumann reportedly said that he was afraid and didn’t know what to do. A related fact: Nauman already was being investigated for battery and strangulation and suffocation of a different person and was out on bail.
