ORLEANS, Mass. (AP) — A Cape Cod trash hauler was charged Friday with the 2002 stabbing death of fashion writer Christa Worthington, a case that turned a national spotlight on the isolated outer Cape town of Truro and inspired a bestselling book.

Christopher M. McCowen was arraigned in Orleans District Court on charges of first degree murder, aggravated rape and armed assault. He pleaded innocent to all three charges and was ordered held without bail.

His court-appointed lawyer, Francis O'Boy, described McCowen's mood as "somber."

Worthington, 46, was found dead on Jan. 6, 2002, in her secluded Truro home, clothed only from her waist up and lying in a bloody pool on her kitchen floor. Her then 2-year-old daughter, Ava, was unhurt but smeared in her mother's blood as she clutched the lifeless body.