A man accused of murdering a 19-year-old Prince George’s County woman and dumping her body into the Severn River will remain behind bars following a bond hearing Monday.

35-year-old Hugo Hernandez-Mendez, who authorities say is in the United States illegally, is charged with killing 19-year-old Dacara Thompson.

The young woman was reported missing on August 23, and Maryland State Police discovered her body a week later, on August 31, along a riverbank near Route 50 in Anne Arundel County.

Investigators said Thompson was found naked and left on the shoreline during Labor Day weekend.

According to police, surveillance video captured Thompson in the early morning hours of August 23 speaking with the driver of a black SUV before entering the vehicle.

That SUV was later traced to a residen

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