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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Colorado Springs Police officers have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a homeless man last week.

Last Wednesday, a body was found in a vacant lot near the intersection of Mt. Washington Avenue and St. Elmo Avenue.

The victim was later identified as 50-year-old James Bidgood, a local transient.

The coroner said Bidgood was stabbed to death.

Then, Monday morning, officers got a break in the case.

A domestic disturbance lead them to an unexpected find, a knife hidden inside a bucket filled with concrete.

"In this case when they were interviewing the two parties involved, they became aware of some circumstances they felt they needed to call our homicide team out on," Barbara Miller with the CSPD said.

Officers said a woman at the home told them she believed her husband, 36-year-old James Bratt, was involved with the death of James Bidgood.

"During the course of their investigation and interviewing both parties the woman there was able to provide us with extra details that were very helpful in this case," Miller said.

According to Bratt's arrest warrant, his wife told officers her husband came home one day last week "very excited."

She said he went "straight to the kitchen, and scrubbed his hands and a folding knife."

She also said Bratt confessed to her that he had gone to the field to drink, and that is when he stabbed Bidgood five times in the chest, and two times in the neck.

Then, according to the warrant, Bratt hid the knife in a five-gallon bucket that he then filled with cement and a plastic tree.

Bratt has been charged with first degree murder.

A motive for the stabbing was not included in the arrest warrant.