The morning of September 22, 2017, Cristopher Precopia went to work at a lumber yard. By the end of the day, he was in jail facing 99 years in prison.

A former girlfriend said that two days earlier, he had broken into her home and sliced an “X” into her chest with a box cutter.

The two dated several years earlier, but Precopia couldn’t remember the last time the two had contact.

Now he was facing a felony charge: burglary of a habitation with the intent to commit other crimes.

“I had no idea why everything was happening, and I was lost,” he said.