A four-month old double murder of two teens from the Scottsdale area may have been solved.

A tall, expressionless Chandler man – who was a 10-year military veteran, according to his attorney – was arrested Oct. 2 and charged with killing two friends who were on a summer camping trip.

Pandora Kjolsrud, 18, and Evan Clark, 17, were slain May 26 in a rugged area near Mount Ord – roughly halfway between Mesa and Payson.

The two attended Scottsdale Unified School District’s Arcadia High, which is in east Phoenix just outside Scottsdale.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department detectives arrested Thomas Brown, 31, at his Chandler home Oct. 2.

He is being held on $2 million bail after being called “a danger to society.”

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office held a press conference Oct. 3, but d

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