A 22-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death and then living for weeks with her body in his apartment before he contacted the police. He told police he found her dead, and police say her body was on the floor with a pillow under her head.

A Turkish national is behind bars in Milwaukee after he showed up to a police station last month and claimed his girlfriend was not only dead inside his apartment -- but she had been there, as he slept next to her stabbed body,

The man was charged with first-degree reckless homicide after authorities said he lived with his girlfriend's dead body for weeks.

The man, originally from Turkey, is accused of murdering his girlfriend and living in the apartment with her body for a month before reporting her death.

Silan Tut was stabbed multiple times in the neck, abdomen, back and right arm A Wisconsin man, who lived with his girlfriend’s decomposing body for 20 days before reporting her death to police, has been charged with reckless homicide.