Girlfriend faces cemetery murder charge

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Charges have been issued for a woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death in a Grand Rapids cemetery.

Christina Kipkorir, 33, was arraigned on Wednesday on open murder and being a habitual offender charges in the death of a man she identified as her boyfriend, Robert Shields.

Police say Sheilds was stabbed repeatedly.

Kipkorir has a long history of mental illness and had recently talked of wanting to stab an ex-boyfriend, court records show.
 
Kipkorir threatened to shoot or stab her husband, then shoot a "meddling" neighbor and herself in 2004, according to records in Kent County Probate Court.
 
Doctors diagnosed her with "depression with suicidal and homicidal thoughts."
 
Since then, she's been also diagnosed with bipolar disorder , severe depression and Asperger's Syndrome, records show.
 
She's been hospitalized 10 times for psychiatric treatment -- including 6 times involuntarily. Each time, she stayed in the hospital for 60 days or less.
 
And, in most cases, she was back in a hospital emergency room a short time after being released -- often after trying to kill herself again. Records show she tried to overdose on cocaine, Tylenol, and by cutting herself.
 
In January 2012, a judge ordered her hospitalized after she reported "homicidal thoughts toward her ex-boyfriend who recently got out of prison. States she would have killed him if she had a knife."
 
As recently as this past January, she reported "homicidal and suicidal thoughts," and that she would have killed her ex-boyfriend if she had a knife. That got her 60 days at a psychiatric hospital.
 
The last report filed in her case was dated March 1, when she was taken to an emergency room after threatening to overdose on pills or jump off a bridge.

Kipkorir's preliminary exam  is scheduled for July 2.