Domonic Rodolico, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder and abandonment or concealment of a dead body in the death of 21-year-old Arianna Bailey Jones.

An Arizona man is accused of murdering a young mother he met online and then burying her body in a shallow grave.

Domonic Rodolico, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder and abandonment or concealment of a dead body in connection with the death of 21-year-old Arianna Bailey Jones, who was reported missing by her family in early July.

“We believe that the two of them had been in communication with one another through some social media channels, and then they met for a date of some type,” Glendale police spokesperson Jose Santiago said at a press conference on Monday, July 13.

Santiago said the two were seen at a movie together “and then ended up in this remote area where we believe this crime took place.”

Remains believed to be Jones’ were discovered on July 11 in a remote desert area near Lake Pleasant.

“We are still waiting on some testing results from the medical examiner, but there was enough evidence — physical evidence of not only clothing, but other things matching Ms. Jones — to be able to identify her,” Santiago said at the press conference.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE, detectives discovered two movie souvenir cups, casings, concrete mix bags, a female bra and latex gloves at the scene. They also found concrete and lye in the dirt and with the body, per the affidavit.

Glendale Police became involved in the case on July 7 after Jones’ family members reported her missing. Officers responded to her apartment and found it “kind of disheveled,” Santiago said.

“They found her cell phone had been left behind,” he said. “They also found that a dog that was crated was still there and had been in its own waste for several days, and no food. So that was enough of an indication that there at least had been some kind of suspicious nature.”

Her social media accounts became inactive after July 5, according to the affidavit. Her last known cell phone ping was on July 6.

Investigators learned that Rodolico picked up Jones at her apartment on July 5 and they went to a movie. Video surveillance footage showed the two leaving the theater and walking through a parking lot.

Cell phone data allegedly tracked the two to the remote desert area.

Investigators believe the two “had been in contact at least on a couple of different occasions, but we believe that this may have been the first and only time that they had gotten together physically,” Santiago said.

Rodolico was arrested on July 11 while he was cleaning his car.

According to the affidavit, Rodolico’s mother told police that on the morning of July 6 she found her son in the bathroom with three large lacerations to his right hand.

“Domonic told her he had been attacked by two unknown male suspects. Domonic stated he had taken a girl he met on Snapchat to the Harkins Theatres for a movie that evening,” the affidavit states.

Rodolico allegedly told police he and Jones were jumped by two men. He claimed that the two men stabbed her, and that he was able to get away.

“He is saying that the two of them were in this remote area and that two individuals showed up and attacked them. And at some point, he made his escape and Ms. Jones stayed behind — and he believes that that’s how this all took place,” Santiago said. “We have sufficient enough evidence to believe that Mr. Rodolico is the person responsible and he is facing homicide charges.”

Rodolico is being held on a $2 million cash bond.

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