10/16/2012: I regret to bring the news Heather Carroll missing from Hollister,
California was ▬►LOCATED DECEASED on 10/13/2012. Article: A body found inside a Hollister home where a man had a 10-hour standoff with a SWAT team was positively identified on Tuesday as Heather Alaina Carroll, 25, of Hollister.
Forensic pathologist doctor John Hain determined Heather Alaina Carroll's cause of death was a combination of blunt force trauma and strangulation.
An autopsy was conducted on Carroll Monday.
David Quiroz, 30, pleaded not guilty to one count of first degree murder and kidnapping to cause bodily harm Tuesday afternoon during his arraignment in San Benito County Superior Court. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Quiroz appeared listless in court. He kept his eyes down even when the judge asked him questions, and he never looked at his mother or the large crowd of Carroll's friends and family who were sitting in the courtroom.
Quiroz remained locked in the San Benito County jail Tuesday night on $1.5 million bail.
Carroll's accused killer was arrested at 3 a.m. Saturday following a standoff at his mother's house on the 2100 block of Cerra Vista Drive.
Hollister Police Chief David Westrick said Quiroz directed officers to a woman's body during interviews after his arrest, police said. He told officers that Carroll died Wednesday morning after they got into an argument at his home, Westrick said.
Carroll was reported missing after the usually responsible mother failed to pick up her son from Ladd Lane Elementary School on Wednesday.
At 2 a.m. the following morning, Carroll's sport utility vehicle was found torched in an agricultural field near Enterprise Road and Glenview Drive in Hollister.
Forensic pathologist doctor John Hain determined Heather Alaina Carroll's cause of death was a combination of blunt force trauma and strangulation.
An autopsy was conducted on Carroll Monday.
David Quiroz, 30, pleaded not guilty to one count of first degree murder and kidnapping to cause bodily harm Tuesday afternoon during his arraignment in San Benito County Superior Court. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Quiroz appeared listless in court. He kept his eyes down even when the judge asked him questions, and he never looked at his mother or the large crowd of Carroll's friends and family who were sitting in the courtroom.
Quiroz remained locked in the San Benito County jail Tuesday night on $1.5 million bail.
Carroll's accused killer was arrested at 3 a.m. Saturday following a standoff at his mother's house on the 2100 block of Cerra Vista Drive.
Hollister Police Chief David Westrick said Quiroz directed officers to a woman's body during interviews after his arrest, police said. He told officers that Carroll died Wednesday morning after they got into an argument at his home, Westrick said.
Carroll was reported missing after the usually responsible mother failed to pick up her son from Ladd Lane Elementary School on Wednesday.
At 2 a.m. the following morning, Carroll's sport utility vehicle was found torched in an agricultural field near Enterprise Road and Glenview Drive in Hollister.
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