ROSEBURG, Ore. - A man accused of killing a Roseburg girl in 1998 will remain in a Nevada prison until July.
Dale Wayne Hill, 39, was scheduled to face an extradition hearing on Monday, which would have determined when he was returned to Oregon to face aggravated murder charges in the death of Stephanie Condon.
Lyon County, Nevada officials said Hill's extradition hearing was rescheduled until July 1.
Hill was indicted in April by an Oregon grand jury on charges of aggravated murder, murder and kidnapping in Condon's death.
Background:
Hill was taken into custody in Reno, Nev. in March on unrelated charges of failing to register as a felon. He pleaded guilty to those charges and spent 20 days in jail. The day before he was set to be released he was indicted on the Condon murder charges. He remains in prison in Nevada.
Condon's remains were found on a remote logging road near Glide, Ore. in March. She was 14 when she vanished from a family member's home in Tri City while babysitting for family on Oct. 30, 1998.
Hill was 28 at the time Condon disappeared, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
The decade-old Condon case had gone cold until Friday, March 13, when a man exercising his dogs on a remote forest road in the Glide area spotted what appeared to be human skeletal remains and alerted the sheriff's office.
The bones were about 40 miles away from the home where Stephanie was last seen babysitting. Investigators said Hill was the last person to see Condon alive.
Investigators spent over a week studying the remains and dental records of missing persons until the medical examiner positively identified the deceased as Stephanie Condon, according to Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin.
This is certainly not what any of us was hoping for, said Stephanie Condon's father, Martin, after learning the news. But after 10 years, it's an outcome we've been trying to prepare for. My family is doing pretty well. My family is doing well under the circumstances.
Investigators also said they recovered evidence from the site around Stephanie's remains, but they didn't indicate specifically how she died.
