The first court appearance in northwest Missouri for a Kentucky Amish man who confessed to killing his wife after nearly a decade has been continued.

Samuel H. Borntreger, 39 was charged Sunday, Jan. 10 in Harrison County with a felony for first-degree murder stemming from an incident that took place in 2006.

“I got a phone call Sunday from a deputy advising that he had got a phone call from a sheriff’s office in Kentucky about an Amish man coming in and confessing to murdering his wife back in 2006 here in Harrison County,”said Sheriff Josh Eckerson with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office.

According to court documents Samuel Borntreger admitted to deputies in Ken. to killing his then wife Anna Borntreger by giving her battery acid up her rectum twice in one day and antifreeze in her drinks sometime between Nov. and Dec. of 2006.

Borntreger was scheduled for an arraignment in Harrison County for Wednesday but that arraignment has been continued to Feb. 3 due to the fact that the defendant is in transit from Tennessee to Harrison County and will not be available for the hearing.

Anna’s body was exhumed last week from an Amish cemetery in northwest Missouri.