MEDICINE LODGE ? A woman will face trial in the death nearly two years ago of a man with whom she was said to have had a “love-hate” relationship.

Lisa Pinnick, 35, of Lake City was bound over for trial on a charge of first-degree murder after a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Barber County District Court.

She is accused of killing Brent Thornburg, 36, of Attica. His body, with gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen, was found in his pickup truck along U.S. Highway 160 west of Medicine Lodge on Oct. 28, 2000.

Cory Latham of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation testified that during a lengthy interview with Pinnick in July, she went from absolute denial of having anything to do with Thornburg’s death to giving varying accounts of what happened the night he was slain.

Latham said Pinnick eventually said she was involved and implicated an accomplice, sobbing uncontrollably as she ended the interview saying, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry I lied. I killed Brent.”

Several witnesses described a “love-hate” relationship between Pinnick and Thornburg. Tracy Wells, who said she was a friend of Pinnick’s, said she had become obsessed and threatened repeatedly that she was going to kill Thornburgh.

“She said she was going to invite him over for supper and make a salad and put ground glass in it,” Wells said. “She said she had an ax and rubber gloves in her car and she had a gun to shoot him.”