JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri is accused of strangling a woman and dumping her body down a mine shaft on his employer’s property near Joplin.

Monday 53-year-old Todd Greathouse of Webb City was charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 61-year-old woman who was his tenant.

Investigators said Greathouse got into an argument with Dunn on May 29 at a home she rented from him and choked her until she lost consciousness. They said he drove her body to an abandoned mine on property owned by the operator of Hillbilly Pumping and Hauling, tied her to a rock and dumped her into the mine shaft filled with water.

He was being arraigned Thursday, where he is expected to seek an appointed attorney.