Maryland teen Dacara Thompson is confirmed dead, and a 35-year-old man is in custody and charged with her murder. Authorities say surveillance camera footage led them to the suspect, and showed Thompson “willfully entered” the man’s SUV the night she disappeared. It’s unclear if Thompson knew the man before she vanished.
Reportedly, authorities tracked murder suspect Hugo Hernandez-Mendez to a home in Bowie, Maryland, about six miles from Lanham, Maryland, where 19-year-old Thompson was last seen. Investigators say they found evidence that Hernandez-Mendez murdered Thompson inside a bedroom at the home, before he left her body on the roadside in nearby Anne Arundel County.
