Man gets life in prison for 2023 stabbing death of Waite Park woman

Man gets life in prison for 2023 stabbing death of Waite Park woman

Jarquez Bedford was charged in the death of 52-year-old Andrea Cottew, who was found in February 2023 during a welfare check in her apartment in the 300 block of Park Meadows Drive in Waite Park.

Man gets life in prison for 2023 Waite Park murder

ST. CLOUD — A man who murdered a Waite Park woman in 2023 will spend the rest of his life in prison. Jarquez Javon Bedford, 30, was sentenced Friday, May 9, in Stearns County District Court by Judge Andrew Pearson for the stabbing death of Andrea Rae Cottew, 52, of Waite Park. "Mr. Bedford, I don't know what to tell you — you know the pain you caused," Pearson said before delivering Bedford's sentence. "I hope you figure out life. You'll have a …