Details show grim assault on FM woman

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FORT MADISON – A criminal complaint against the Fort Madison man accused of assaulting a woman he had a relationship with paints a grim picture of what the woman endured.
Fort Madison police arrested Kristopher Robbin Murie at Fort Madison hospital after he drove the woman to Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center-Fort Madison campus with what were considered significant injuries by medical staff. Murie had a no-contact order in place against him by the victim at the time of the assault.
Police responded to the hospital at 12:48 p.m. Saturday, April 12 where the victim had multiple lacerations. They also discovered Murie at the hospital and, after speaking with the victim, placed him under arrest and transported him to Lee County Jail.
According to records filed in N. Lee County Court, the victim was asleep in the living room the evening of April 11, when she heard loud banging on the door and found Murie standing in the doorway and it being dark outside.
The victim’s statement to police indicated Murie and the victim became engaged in an altercation and he had a machete and a hammer, along with a shorter knife and a box cutter in his hand. Murie told her that he was going to kill her and then kill himself.
After a period of physical assaults, the victim reported that Murie began to wake her up to tell her she needed to get in her vehicle to be taken to the hospital, where staff notified law enforcement.
The complaint also indicated that Murie had no weapons or tools on him at the time of his arrest. The victim was stabilized and then transferred to another facility for advanced care.
Murie, 44, of Fort Madison, was booked into the Lee County Jail on charges of violation of a no-contact order, domestic assault with a weapon, and willfull injury-serious injury, where he remains in custody.
Murie was convicted of 2nd-degree arson, a Class C felony, in 2013 stemming from a November 2012 incident. He received a 10-year suspended prison sentence and five years probation. He was also convicted of misdemeanor assault in Sept of 2013.
A criminal charge is only an accusation, and criminal defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.