By Nancy Huddleston

Correspondent

 Craigslist murder suspect Michael John Anderson of Savage will be in court next week for his omnibus hearing.

His attorneys will have a chance on Tuesday 5 to enter a plea for him. If he pleads not guilty, a trial date will be set.

The 19-year-old is accused of luring Katherine Ann Olson to his parents’ Kipling Avenue home in downtown Savage on Oct. 25 with a Craigslist Web advertisement for a babysitter.

Police say he killed the 24-year-old woman from Cottage Grove in the bedroom of the home. Olson’s body was found in the trunk of her vehicle on the evening of Oct. 26 in the Rudy Kraemer Park Preserve, just over the Burnsville/Savage border.

Anderson was initially charged with second-degree murder, but those charges were upgraded by a Scott County grand jury to first-degree murder in December. Anderson also still faces the original second-degree murder charge.

Court documents regarding the first-degree murder charge indicate that Anderson intentionally caused the death of Olson with premeditation.The complaint further details that the autopsy on Olson concluded that the cause of death was a loss of blood caused by the gunshot wound to her back.

“The wound would not have been instantly fatal, and Katherine Ann Olson would have lived for 10-15 minutes after being shot,” the report states.

Further, the autopsy concluded that Olson died 40 hours before her body was found in the trunk of her car and that she “had been placed in the trunk of the vehicle just prior to, or soon after, her death.”

Court documents also offer more details about the murder weapon – a .357 Magnum Blackhawk revolver, which was recovered in Anderson’s parents’ bedroom. Forensic evidence concluded that the gun had fired the bullet found in Olson’s body. It also matched the shell casings found in Anderson’s bedroom, which were located under a pillow on Anderson’s computer desk, according to court documents.

Court documents show that at Anderson’s house, police gathered evidence that included blood spatter and blood drag marks in several locations. An examination of Anderson’s shoes detected the presence of blood on the heel of one shoe, said the court complaint.