Overview

• The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced on Oct. 2 that 31-year-old Thomas Brown was taken into custody in connection with the case.
• Jail records show Brown was booked on accusations of first-degree murder.
• Victims Pandora Kjolsrud, 18, and Evan Clark, 17, were found with gunshot wounds near Mount Ord off State Route 87 on May 27.
• The arrest comes more than four months after the teens were discovered in the remote Tonto National Forest area.
• Sheriff Jerry Sheridan scheduled a news conference for Friday at 10 a.m., and investigators have not disclosed the evidence linking Brown to the homicides.