Alaska man Nyrobbie Chandler murdered girlfriend Kaylynn Bishop , then impersonated her in text messages

An Alaska man murdered his girlfriend in a jealous rage and then pretended to be her in a series of text messages over the next few days, including one that said she would miss work, police said.

Nyrobbie Chandler was arrested on Friday and accused of killing Kaylynn Bishop sometime around May 6, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

On May 7 and May 8, authorities said, Chandler sent several texts from Bishop's phone, including one to her bosses at Taco Bell saying she was headed to a hot springs resort and another asking about picking up a $400 apartment deposit, the newspaper reported.

The woman's strangled body was found in a shallow grave beneath an abandoned car near the Richardson Highway, a major north-south road.

Cops interviewed Chandler four times before his arrest.

According to his story, Bishop came home the moing of May 6 after working at the Hideout Bar and was later picked up by someone Chandler didn't know.

Chandler told police that the person had called before picking her up, but phone records showed she didn't receive any calls that moing, according to the Daily News-Miner.

"The underlying theme of these interviews was that Chandler was a jealous and controlling boyfriend and that Bishop was scared of Chandler and had been trying to end the relationship for some time," detective Peyton Merideth wrote in the criminal complaint.

"Chandler had been asked to leave the Hideout on more than one occasion for harassing customers Bishop was attending to."

The 35-year-old appeared in Fairbanks court via video conference on Saturday and was charged with first-degree murder and three counts of evidence tampering.

“Do I get a bail or anything?" he asked the judge.

He later said that he pleaded "no contest," but was told he wouldn't be able to enter a plea until he appears in court with an attoey next week.