Overview

• Deputies found a deceased woman and an incoherent man at a primitive campsite south of the Sierra Brooks community in the early hours of August 8.
• Nevada resident Jesse James Dallmann, 36, was arrested that morning on homicide charges and is held at the Nevada County Jail.
• Sierra County Sheriff’s Office says the cause of the woman’s death remains under investigation with unclear circumstances.
• Officials emphasize that the case appears to be an isolated incident with no threat to the public.
• State forensic experts from the California Department of Justice Bureau of Forensic Science and detectives from the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office have joined the probe.