Ex-Nevada deputy AG gets no bail in Hawaii killing case
Tudor Chirila Jr. allegedly fatally stabbed a 19-year-old girl in Hawaii and fled the state
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Nevada judge has ordered a former deputy state attorney general accused of killing a 19-year-old woman in Hawaii 50 years ago to remain jailed without bail until he is arraigned next week on a fugitive charge.
Tudor Chirila Jr., 77, made a brief appearance Friday in Reno Justice Court where Judge Scott Pearson granted his request for a continuance and set his arraignment for Sept. 21 on a charge of being a fugitive from another state.
Chirila was arrested in Reno this week after Honolulu police filed a criminal complaint in Hawaii district court accusing him of second-degree murder in the January 1972 fatal stabbing of Nancy Anderson.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Ex-Nevada deputy attorney general Tudor Chirila Jr., 77, is arraigned for Sept. 21 on a fugitive charge.
Police said new DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene at her apartment in Waikiki, where she had recently moved from Michigan and was working at a McDonald's restaurant.
Chirila served as a deputy Nevada attorney general in the late 1970s, ran for the state Supreme Court in 1994 and later was the president of a corporation affiliated with the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel east of Reno.
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Police served a search warrant and obtained a DNA sample from him at his Reno apartment on Sept. 6, court records show.
A Reno detective said in an affidavit that he was notified by Honolulu police late Monday they had a signed warrant for Chirila's arrest, and early Tuesday he was taken into custody without incident at a Reno hospital where he had been taken "regarding an attempted suicide."
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Court records don't list a lawyer for Chirila.
The criminal complaint filed in Hawaii said police had reopened the cold case multiple times since the 1972 killing and received a tip in December that Chirila could be a suspect.