CARSON CITY -- A Trinidad man has been extradited to Nevada to face a murder charge in the 1982 slaying of a Carson City teenage beauty queen.

David Winfield Mitchell flew into Las Vegas under U.S. Marshal escort on Thursday night, then transported to Northern Nevada. He was being held without bail Friday at the Carson City Jail.

Mitchell, 60, is accused of killing Sheila Jo Harris, who was the then-reigning Miss Douglas County.

A local magistrate ruled Sept. 4 that Mitchell should be extradited. Lawyers for Mitchell had said they would appeal the ruling but missed a 15-day deadline, said David West of the attorney general's office in Trinidad.

Investigators said in court documents that DNA evidence found on Harris' clothing in 1982 was compared in 2000 to samples of hair and saliva taken from Mitchell in 1986 when he was arrested in the killing but released on lack of evidence. The testing came back a match.

Harris' body was found Jan. 6, 1982, in her Lompa Lane apartment by her mother and the complex manager. An autopsy revealed that the teenager had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled.