Police have charged an Edmonton man in the murder of his common-law spouse after a seven-month long investigation.

Judy Lynn Jones, 45, was found dead inside a duplex at 19th Avenue and 104th Street. Police initially declared her death suspicious, but it was later upgraded to a homicide when an autopsy revealed she died due to blunt force trauma.

Jones was Edmonton's 24th homicide of 2007.

Jeffrey Glenn Kellar, 40, is charged with second degree murder.

Police arrested Keller Friday without incident.