Syracuse, NY -- A Schroeppel woman accused of helping dismember and burn a murdered man's body thought the bag with his remains contained a dead dog, her lawyer said today.

Connie Ingoldby, 48, is charged with felony hindering prosecution and concealment of a human corpse in the Dec. 8 murder of Aikeem Hudgins, according to the indictment.

The accused murderer, Corey Slattery, 28, of 9462 Chalkstone Course, Apt. 9F, Cicero, choked the victim before cutting his throat inside the apartment, the indictment alleges. It's not clear what sharp object was used to cut his throat.

Corey Slattery, left, and Connie Ingoldby, right, are being indicted for the December 2016 murder of Aikeem Hudgins.

Over the next five days, Slattery and Ingoldby are accused of conspiring to:

1) Buy cleaning supplies to clean up the blood

2) Putting the victim's body into a plastic container

3) Driving around the area with the plastic container in a van

4) Obtaining a chainsaw and shovel (only Slattery is accused of cutting up the victim)

5) Burning the victim's body in an undisclosed location

6) Putting body parts in garbage bags and disposing of those bags in numerous Dumpsters.

Only Slattery is actually charged with the murder. Ingoldby's lawyer today said that she wasn't as involved as prosecutors believe.

For starters, Ingoldby wasn't there for the murder itself, said her lawyer, William Kurtz. She met up with Slattery days after the murder looking for drugs, Kurtz said after court.

Slattery told her a bag with the murdered man's body was actually a dog, Kurtz said. (The "bag" appears to be the plastic container mentioned in the indictment.)

The two of them drove around with the bag. But Kurtz said Ingoldby was told to remain in the vehicle and didn't know that Slattery was actually disposing of a person.

She later became suspicious and cooperated with authorities, Kurtz said. Copies of an interview Ingoldby gave to sheriff's deputies were discussed in court today.

Authorities have not yet said in how many places the victims' remains were left. Onondaga County sheriff's deputies have not yet officially identified the victim as Hudgins, though the indictment names him as the victim.

Hudgins' remains were sent to Texas for further testing, Chief Assistant District Attorney Melinda McGunnigle has said.

Today, Ingoldby was arraigned on the indictment. She faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.

Kurtz said he needed to see how much money the family had before making a bail argument. Right now, Ingoldby remains in jail because she's unable to make $50,000 bail.

Kurtz said after court that his client suffers from a drug addiction and has 10 children.