Overview

• The indictment charges common law murder, tampering with physical evidence, and burying or disposing of a body in an unauthorized place.
• Hernandez-Mendez, 35, remains jailed without bail, and authorities identify him as a Guatemalan national living in the U.S. illegally.
• Surveillance video shows Thompson entering a black SUV that investigators traced to Hernandez-Mendez and to a residence on Kembridge Drive in Bowie.
• A search of that home recovered what police believe to be Thompson’s blood, a missing fingernail, hair, and other forensic evidence indicating she was killed in a bedroom.
• Charging documents allege Thompson was killed during a physical altercation and that her body was thrown from a South River bridge before being found near Route 50 on Aug. 31.