Overview
- Family members reported 21-year-old Arianna Jones missing after losing contact on July 5 and finding signs of a disturbance at her Glendale apartment.
- Detectives located decomposing human remains in a shallow grave near Lake Pleasant on July 11 and identified the remains using clothing and other physical items recovered at the scene.
- Police say surveillance video, vehicle alert data and cell‑phone location pings linked 24‑year‑old Domonic Rodolico to Jones and to the burial site, and he was arrested on a first‑degree murder charge.
- Investigators recovered movie‑theater souvenir cups and other scene evidence that tied the site to Jones and say Rodolico’s statements changed during questioning; he is being held on a $2 million cash bond.
- The medical examiner has not released an official cause of death and prosecutors are reviewing digital and forensic evidence as the case moves through Maricopa County court, leaving motive and sequence of events unresolved.