CALEB ANDERSON

GREEN BAY, Wis. — A Caspian man accused in a multi-state killing spree in August 2022 will face arraignment March 26 in Brown County Circuit Court for the Aug. 1 stabbing death of 65-year-old Patrick Ernst in Green Bay.

Caleb Scott Anderson has already been ordered to serve life in prison in Alabama without possibility of parole after pleading guilty in January to capital murder charges in the Aug. 3, 2022, stabbing death of Flomaton, Ala., resident Dwight Anthony Dixon, 52.

Anderson, who left his cell phone at that murder scene, was driving a vehicle he allegedly stole from the man he is accused of killing in Green Bay.

Anderson, then 23, was apprehended without incident in Shelby County, Ala., the same day as the Alabama murder.

He is currently held on $2 million cash bond in Brown County as he awaits trial, according to WLUK in Green Bay.

Anderson waived a preliminary examination earlier this week. He is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a mandatory life prison term in Wisconsin.

Court documents show Anderson found Ernst through a smartphone app men use to meet other men for sex. He is accused of taking selfie videos and photos with the victim’s body, writing a Bible verse on the wall and leaving a handwritten apology.

Authorities say Anderson then stole Ernst’s car and drove to Flomaton, where he killed Dixon two days later. He was arrested by U.S. marshals in Helena, Ala., after the Green Bay victim’s car was spotted driving into the city.

Anderson is also suspected of assaulting 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 attacker and get away.

Last summer, Anderson’s attorney filed notice in Alabama of intent to pursue a plea of “not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect,” WLUK reported. A psychiatric exam was ordered, but Anderson was found fit to face trial.

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” case. He was accused of running up behind unsuspecting women in Marquette, grabbing their buttocks and then running away.