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Caleb Anderson

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A former Caspian man already serving a life sentence after a murder conviction in Alabama also has been ordered to spend life in prison for killing a Green Bay man in 2022, only days before the Alabama death.

Caleb Anderson, 25, received his second life sentence Monday in Brown County Circuit Court in Green Bay. He had pleaded no contest Aug. 1 to first-degree intentional homicide in the stabbing death of Patrick Ernst, according to WLUK-TV.

Ernst, who was found dead Aug. 2, 2022, had about 51 stab wounds, a Brown County forensic pathologist determined.

A no-contest plea meant Anderson accepted a guilty verdict without admitting or denying any guilt.

Authorities have said Anderson assaulted an 18-year-old woman who was jogging in the early morning Aug. 1, 2022, in Gaastra in Iron County. She was alone but able to fight off the attack and get away.

He then drove to Wisconsin where Ernst, 65, was killed in Ernst’s Green Bay apartment.

Authorities say Anderson then stole Ernst’s car before driving to Alabama, where 52-year-old Dwight Dixon of Flomaton was killed two days later. Anderson reportedly left his cell phone at that murder site.

U.S. marshals in Helena, Ala., arrested Anderson the afternoon of Aug. 3, 2022, after the Green Bay victim’s car was spotted driving into the city.

Anderson pleaded guilty to capital murder in January in Alabama as part of a plea agreement that avoided that state’s death penalty. He was immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Court documents have shown Anderson found Ernst through a smartphone app that men use to meet other men for sex.

Anderson reportedly took selfie videos and photos with Ernst’s body, wrote a Bible verse on the wall and left a handwritten apology.

In 2019, Anderson was convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in Marquette County and sentenced to 12 months of probation in what was known as the “serial butt-grabber” box. He was accused of running up behind unsuspecting women in Marquette, grabbing their buttocks and then running away.