Frank Schilt, accused of killing his wife, Teresa “Terri” Schilt, and then placing her body in a Dumpster, was picked up today by the Denver Sheriff’s Department in Arkansas and returned to Denver.
He is at the Denver City Jail and is expected to appear in a Denver courtroom at 9 a.m. Friday to be formally advised that he has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
On March 30, Schilt allegedly confessed to Denver Detective Tyrone Campbell that he killed his wife. Schilt claimed that on Feb. 25 Terri Schilt became angry after he told her he could not give her a monthly allowance.
He told Campbell he grabbed his wife and pushed her, causing her to strike the headboard of a bed, and killing her. Then he placed his wife’s body in a Dumpster in north Denver on March 3, according to documents. Schilt is also accused of trying to kill his daughter. Schilt, 53, said he made several suicide attempts.
During one of them, he said he expected that his daughter would also die because he had attached a hose to a running car and ran the hose from the tail pipe to a basement window which was below his daughter’s bedroom window. Authorities are looking for Terri Schilt’s body in a Keenesburg landfill.
