Kansas- From www.kansascity.com – Israel Guadalupe Mireles, who is charged in the 2007 killing of Emily Sander, made his first appearance in Butler County District Court in El Dorado this morning.

A judge ordered that he be held under a $3 million bond in the death of Sander, an 18-year-old Butler Community College student, who had been missing for several days before a search team found her body along U.S. 54 about 50 miles east of El Dorado.

The disappearance drew nationwide attention after the discovery that she also was an Internet pornography model who went by the name Zoey Zane.

Mireles listened in court as Judge David Ricke read the charges against him: capital murder, rape, and aggravated criminal sodomy in the Nov. 24 death of Sander. Ricke appointed the state’s death penalty defense unit to represent Mireles.

Butler County attorney Jan Satterfield argued that the higher bond was necessary partly because Mireles has already fled to Mexico. He was extradited back from Mexico by U.S. Marshals on Thursday, she said.

Authorities allege that Mireles left a bar near El Dorado with Sander and killed her before picking up his 16-year-old pregnant girlfriend at her grandmother’s house in Baxter Springs and taking her to Mexico. Mexican police arrested him on Dec. 19, 2007.