Douglas Walker

dwalker@muncie.gannett.com

MUNCIE, Ind. – A Muncie man is accused of holding a butcher knife to a female acquaintance’s throat and telling her to recite the Lord’s Prayer “because it was time for her to die.”

Bodee Lincoln Munden, 22, was preliminarily charged Thursday with criminal confinement, intimidation, domestic battery and strangulation.

City police on Thursday were told about a Tuesday night incident that allegedly saw Munden repeatedly holding the knife to the woman’s neck, telling her “it was going to hurt, but once she bled enough, she would just fall asleep and stop feeling the pain.”

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He also is accused of slamming the woman against walls and a baby’s crib, pulling her hair, and pushing her face down on a bed, making it difficult for her to breathe.

The woman said Munden was intoxicated at the time of the Tuesday incident. He was apparently a patient at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital on Friday, but was to be held in the Delaware County jail under a $35,000 bond upon his dismissal.

Tuesday’s incident came less than three weeks after Munden was arrested for battering the same woman.

In the March 18 incident, he allegedly grabbed the woman’s face so tightly he tore the frenulum inside her lower lip. He was also accused of trying to pull their 7-month-old son from her grasp, leaving red marks on the child’s arms.

He is set to stand trial June 26 in Delaware Circuit Court 1 on a related count of domestic battery.

Contact news reporter Douglas Walker at (765) 213-5851. Follow him on Twitter: @DouglasWalkerSP.