50-year-old Christopher Swilhart was in Butte County Superior Court on Thursday and changed his original plea from not guilty by reason of insanity to a plea of no contest to second-degree murder in the death of 55-year-old Cass Edison.

Investigators arrived at a home on Rose Avenue in Chico in March of 2015 after a body of a woman had been discovered. Investigators linked Swilhart to the alleged murder. He later turned himself in at Fall River Mills.