The Winona County Daily News is reporting that 23-year-old Kyle Benjamin Allers has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder. [UPDATE: The charge has been changed to second-degree murder.] He was booked into the Winona County Jail shortly before 7 a.m. this morning.

The Lewiston Police Department provided this update on their Facebook page:

The investigation began on Friday, May 13 at 6:22PM , after a caller provided information about a possible homicide. Based on information developed during the course of the investigation, law enforcement personnel began a search for the woman around 8 p.m. Friday. A woman's body was discovered at approximately 12:35am Saturday in a wooded area about three-quarters of a mile off the road near the intersection of County Road 25 and County Road 23 east of Lewiston.

An individual has been taken into custody on probable cause of 2nd degree homicide. The individual is currently in the Winona County Jail and has not yet been charged.

Read their full statement in the post below:

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