Prosecutors won't rely heavily on medical evidence to support a murder charge against the boyfriend of a slain University of Arkansas at Fayetteville student.

Love's body was too decomposed for a definitive finding, Jones said. So medical examiners made a determination by ruling out the other possibilities: Natural death, gunshot wound, blunt- or sharpforce injuries or poisoning.

Prosecutors will file a charge against Brandon Sanders in Love's death before an Oct. 14 arraignment in Washington County Circuit Court, Jones said. "The autopsy doesn't prove she was strangled, it doesn't prove she was choked," Jones said. "What we have so far to support homicide is exterior evidence."

That evidence, Jones said, is the manner in which Love's body was wrapped — "like a mummy," police said in an affidavit — as well as Sanders' visit to Love in Fayetteville before she was last seen Sept. 11.

Love's body was found Sept. 15 in the locked bedroom of her apartment near campus. The 20-year-old from Hope was a wellknown political science major at UA's Fayetteville campus.

Police arrested Sanders on Sept. 16, 200 miles away at his Nashville home, where they seized Love's cell phone, her keys and identification, the affidavit states.

Whether Sanders believed Love was pregnant is of legal interest to prosecutors. "It speaks to his state of mind," Jones said last week. "It speaks to motive."

His attorney, Garnet E. Norwood of Texarkana, said he'll ask that Sanders' $500,000 bond be reduced at the Oct. 14 arraignment. Sanders has no criminal record and a stable reputation in south Arkansas, Norwood said. Sanders was a community college student in Texarkana until his arrest, his attorney said. "This boy's not your typical bad guy on the street," Norwood said.

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