The man arrested in connection with the death of former Sedona resident David Ian Wile has been indicted for second-degree murder.
A grand jury indicted the 48-year-old suspect on murder charges Thursday, Sept. 2, according to William FitzGerald, public information officer with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. He is being held on a $300,000 bond.
Wile was last seen at his home in Glendale on the morning of Aug. 14. After Wile failed to arrive at a ballroom dance competition in Tempe, Wile’s family in Sedona filed a missing person’s report with the Glendale Police Department.
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies found Wile’s body Aug. 24 in a trailer towed by a truck reportedly driven by the suspect, who was reportedly Wile’s former roommate. Deputies were responding to a call of a foul smell reportedly coming from the trailer.
After he was pulled over, the suspectwas reportedly very evasive and did not give the deputies many details, according to MCSO.
Deputies found a body wrapped in a garment inside the trailer. The suspect was booked on one count of abandoning or concealing a dead body, a Class III felony, and held on a $20,000 cash bond.
An autopsy determined the body was Wile’s. According to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Forensic Science Center, Wile’s cause of death is a homicide, caused by multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest with perforation of the right external jugular vein, the heart and right lung.
The suspect’s arraignment is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 9, at 8:30 a.m.
