A 24-year-old man left strangled a Forest View woman he’d met on social media and then left her in the back seat of her car in South Austin last month, prosecutors said Saturday.
Judge Susana Ortiz on Saturday ordered Richard Chavez held without bail on a first-degree murder charge during a bond hearing Saturday afternoon.
Doorbell surveillance from a nearby home shows Chavez walked out of his home and walked back in with Ehresman around 10:38 p.m. Jan. 23, prosecutors said. Ehresman is never seen leaving Chavez’s home and Ehresman’s last phone call was to Chavez’s phone, prosecutors said. While in custody, Chavez called his parents and asked them to “get his passport ready,” prosecutors said. He told police he’d gone to sleep by 8 p.m. after the two “hooked up” on Jan. 23 and when he woke up after 10 a.m., Ehresman was gone.