A Michigan man who killed an Alabama man he said he met on the smartphone app Grindr and is suspected of another slaying in Wisconsin was sentenced to life without parole for the Alabama murder.

Caleb Anderson, 24, was sentenced Jan. 4 by Escambia County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Todd Stearns for the fatal August 2022 stabbing of 52-year-old Flomaton resident Dwight Anthony Dixon, court records showed.

Anderson pleaded guilty to killing Dixon, who was found dead Aug. 3, 2022 in his Flomaton home, under a deal with prosecutors that spared the Michigan man the death penalty.

Anderson is also a suspect in the death of Patrick Ernst, who was stabbed 38 times in his home in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Anderson allegedly told police that he also met Ernst on Grindr, a dating app popular with the LGBTQ community, although he maintained he believed the app was the best way to find someone to kill and he was not using the app to date LGBTQ individuals.

“I always just wanted to kill somebody” since he was 14 or 15 years old, he said in a police interview, according to Green Bay Fox affiliate WLUK, which cited the criminal complaint in the Ernst case.

Several Alabama law enforcement agencies and U.S. Marshals captured Anderson in Shelby County on Aug. 3, 2022 after receiving a bulletin from Green Bay police.

Alabama’s State Bureau of Investigation said at the time that agents used “a variety of resources as well as investigative methods” to identify Anderson as the suspect.

Anderson also admitted to attacking an 18-year-old female jogger in Michigan, according to WLUK.

He claimed he had thoughts of sexually assaulting the jogger but did not act after thinking about his mother, the station reported.