TACOMA, Wash. -- Probable cause documents in the case of a man accused of stabbing his wife to death reveal new details about the woman's slaying and the fire at their home that sent the suspect to the hospital.

Jay Nathaniel Poe was rescued from the couple's Tacoma home after firefighters doused a fire there last week.

Once inside the home, fire investigators discovered the burned remains of Poe's 44-year-old wife, Eva Poe, wrapped in a bag. The medical examiner later said the victim died of stab wounds.

Suffering from smoke inhalation, Poe was transported to an area hospital and put into a drug-induced coma, police said.

Court documents said that when the 27-year-old man awoke in the hospital to find himself handcuffed to the bed and a police officer guarding him he immediately said, "I guess this is about my home burning" and "‘I guess this is about burning and stabbing my wife."

[PDF:] Jay Poe Probable Cause Documents

Tacoma police detectives were brought in and said that Poe confessed to killing his wife and then burning her body in an effort to cover up the crime.

Poe revealed that after arguing with his wife for several hours, at about 2 a.m. on Aug. 8, the victim told her husband that she was not going to do as he wanted and was prepared to leave their home, documents said.

In probable cause documents Poe said that he has “abandonment issues” and that he was not going to let his wife leave him so he hid Eva's car keys and then put on a pair of gloves, turned off the lights, got a butcher knife out and caught the victim in the hallway and stabbed her more than 15 times while holding her by the throat and ignoring her pleas to stop.

Official documents said after the stabbing, Poe dressed Eva's wounds and changed her clothes because she "looked bad."

Poe described in documents how he tried to clean up the scene of the slaying by renting a steam cleaner, buying hydrogen peroxide, bleach, charcoal and lighter fluid, tried to clean up the blood on the floor and then stuffed Eva's body into the fireplace and lit it on fire.

Poe said the body burning in the fireplace accidentally caught the house on fire, documents said.

Police said a passerby saw the fire and called 911.

Before authorities arrived, Poe put the charred remains of his wife in a bag and placed them in a closet, where they were later discovered, prosecutors said.

The Pierce County medical examiner said dental records had to be used to identify the victim because her body was so badly burned and that she suffered at least 10 stab wounds to the torso, which caused her death.

Police said parts of the victim's body were also found in the home's fireplace.

Poe was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife Thursday afternoon and ordered to be held in the Pierce County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.

A plea of not guilty was entered on behalf of Poe, who did not speak during the court hearing.