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California millionaire held without bail in 2012 murder case

Peter Chadwick (Newport Beach, Calif., Police Department)
Peter Chadwick (Newport Beach, Calif., Police Department)
Peter Chadwick, who is charged with killing his wife in their Newport Beach home in 2012, atten ...
Peter Chadwick, who is charged with killing his wife in their Newport Beach home in 2012, attends a pretrial hearing on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Santa Ana, Calif. The millionaire murder suspect has been ordered held without bail in California after he was arrested and deported by Mexican authorities following four years on the run. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)
This undated booking photo provided by the Newport Beach, Calif., Police Department shows Peter ...
This undated booking photo provided by the Newport Beach, Calif., Police Department shows Peter Chadwick. Authorities say they believe the millionaire fugitive charged with killing his wife in California spent the past four years in Mexico until intense media coverage led to hundreds of tips and eventually his capture. Newport Beach police Chief Jon Lewis said Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, that 55-year-old Chadwick was detained by Mexican authorities Sunday and flown to California on Monday. (Newport Beach Police Department via AP)
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer holds up pictures of the home of Peter Chadwick an ...
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer holds up pictures of the home of Peter Chadwick and the dumpster where his wife's body was found during a news conference in Santa Ana, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug 6, 2019. Authorities say Chadwick, charged with strangling his wife has been captured after being on the run for the past four years. Chadwick was charged with his wife's 2012 murder and released on bail. He skipped a court appearance in 2015. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP)
This Oct. 17, 2012 booking photo provided by the Newport Beach, Calif., Police Department shows ...
This Oct. 17, 2012 booking photo provided by the Newport Beach, Calif., Police Department shows Peter Chadwick. For four years, millionaire murder suspect Chadwick was nowhere to be found though his image was everywhere — in widespread media coverage, on the U.S. Marshals' most wanted fugitive list and a police-produced podcast about his case. All the attention and hundreds of tips paid off, authorities said, when the 55-year-old real estate investor from Newport Beach was arrested by immigration authorities in Mexico on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, and deported to the U.S. where prosecutors hope he will stand trial. (Newport Beach Police Department via AP)
Defense attorney Robert Sanger, left, talks to Peter Chadwick, who is charged with killing his ...
Defense attorney Robert Sanger, left, talks to Peter Chadwick, who is charged with killing his wife in their Newport Beach home in 2012, during a pretrial hearing on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Santa Ana, Calif. The millionaire murder suspect has been ordered held without bail in California after he was arrested and deported by Mexican authorities following four years on the run. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)
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August 7, 2019 - 7:02 pm
 

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A millionaire murder suspect has been ordered held without bail in California after he was arrested and deported by Mexican authorities following four years on the run.

Attorneys on Wednesday agreed 55-year-old Peter Chadwick would be held without bail but his lawyer reserved the right to request bail in the future.

Chadwick was arrested Sunday near Puebla, Mexico, after widespread media coverage and a police-produced podcast about his wife’s slaying.

Authorities say Chadwick strangled Quee Choo Chadwick inside the couple’s Newport Beach home in 2012.

Her body was found a week later in suburban San Diego.

Chadwick skipped a court appearance in 2015 and vanished. He was placed on the U.S. Marshals’ 15 most wanted fugitive list last year.

He is due back in court Sept. 16.

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