DIXON – Brian C. Sigler, 34, was arrested this morning and charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 12 strangulation of his wife, Yolanda M. Sigler, Dixon police said in a news release.

The Siglers' 10-year-old son called 911 at 2:26 p.m. that Sunday afternoon from their home at 230 Lincolnway. Police found Sigler in a second-floor bathtub with a knife, and his wife's body in the living room moments later.

Sigler was in KSB Hospital undergoing treatment for life-threatening, self-inflicted stab wounds to the neck and abdomen until his arrest.