The suspect, Troy Driver, has a violent criminal history and served more than a decade in prison in California before he was released in 2012.
RENO, Nevada -- A man kidnapped and killed an 18-year-old woman whose body was found in a remote grave in northern Nevada's high desert, sheriff's detectives said Friday.
Irion, of Fernley, had been missing since March 12, when surveillance video showed a masked man wearing a hooded sweatshirt get into her car at about 5:25 a.m. in a Walmart parking lot about 30 miles east of Reno. It wasn't immediately clear if Driver would appear in court again before a status hearing scheduled for April 5. He's also set for an April 12 preliminary hearing. His lawyer, Mario Walther, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Lyon and Churchill county sheriff's offices said in a statement late Thursday that they were investigating Irion's death as a homicide. They said they had established her cause of death but that information"cannot be released at this time as the circumstances around that event if released would compromise the ongoing investigation."