Man left wife's body in bedroom for more than a day after killing her, sheriff says

November 22, 2015 at 11:26 p.m. | Updated November 24, 2015 at 10:41 a.m.

by Tyler Jett

Walker County deputies and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are at the scene of an apparent homicide in the 1900 block of Kemp Road in LaFayette, Ga.
Walker County deputies and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are at the scene of an apparent homicide in the 1900 block of Kemp Road in LaFayette, Ga.
photo Steven Marcus Denson

Steven Marcus Denson shot his wife and left her in the bedroom for longer than a day, police say.

According to a news release from Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson, detectives responded to 1967 Kemp Road in a rural stretch of LaFayette around noon Sunday after a "concerned citizen" gave them a tip that they would find a dead body. After searching the home, they found 38-year-old Christina Michelle Denson, shot in the neck with a .22 caliber handgun.

Officers brought her husband, 41-year-old Steven Marcus Denson, to the sheriff's office. There, according to a news release, he gave investigators a statement "acknowledging responsibility" for his wife's death.

The sheriff's office charged him with murder. Wilson said in the release that investigators believe Christine Denson had been dead for 24-36 hours before they found her.

Walker County court records show that Denson was arrested in 2005 for trafficking in methamphetamine and in 2007 for battery and cruelty to children.

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