A 22-year-old au pair from the Czech Republic was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the death of his former girlfriend, Ana Elisa Toledo of Brazil.
Martin Novotny is accused of going to a home in the 2500 block of Cook Street in Denver where Toledo lived and worked as a nanny and killing her Tuesday morning. Novotny called police later from the Pepsi Center and told them he had killed his girlfriend.
Novotny told detectives he went to the home with a knife and got in through a basement window. When Toledo, 24, woke up, he stabbed her, police said in court documents. He then covered her face with a pillow when she started screaming and kept stabbing her, the documents said. Novotny is being held in the Denver County Jail without bond.
