With Richard Demello now back in Halifax County, sheriff’s office investigators begin work to trace his path after he allegedly killed Michael Wayne Davis on March 28.

“We’ve got a lot of legwork. It’s kind of premature to assume that,” Major Bruce Temple said of whether Demello spent most of his time on the run in Virginia. “We’re going to take a look into that today. It’s all under investigation.”

“I’m glad,” Sheriff Jeff Frazier said of the capture. “I hope justice will be done.”

Frazier said assistance from the media and the public helped pressure Demello into surrendering. “That’s what made him do it.”

Demello waived extradition and investigators picked him up this morning in Hanover County.

Demello said nothing to rrspin.com after he was asked for a comment as detectives Roy Rooks and James Matthews led him to the magistrate following fingerprinting. He appeared to mutter something but it was inaudible. He was jailed without the possibility of bond.

Wednesday around 4:45 p.m. Demello called the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office and said he wanted to turn himself in.

Virginia State Police located Demello at a truck stop in Ashland and he was taken into custody in Hanover County.

The Dodge Neon Demello allegedly stolen from Davis following the murder was recovered unoccupied in a Colonial Heights, Va., parking lot. Investigators have processed the vehicle.

Demello and Davis met in a North Carolina prison, where they became friends.

Davis was released first, while Demello continued to serve his sentence for several felony breaking and entering convictions.

Demello was released in January and was in touch with Davis, who helped him get back on his feet.

On March 28 authorities say Demello turned on his friend.

A woman phoned police in the early morning hours and told police that she had stayed the night at Davis' house the night before.

She said she woke abruptly between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. to find a man on top of her, who dragged her into another room in the house.

Demello allegedly already fastened boot laces to the bedpost and used them to tie the woman up.

When she asked the man where her friend Mike was, he replied, "He's not with us anymore," according to authorities.

She told police that the man seemed distressed, but didn't harm her. He told her that he would send someone to get her, then took off.

The woman managed to untie the laces and get to a friend's house in a nearby neighborhood, where she phoned police.

When investigators arrived at the home on Mobley Street where the woman said she'd been assaulted, they found a brutal murder scene.

Davis’ body was wrapped in a sheet after he was struck several times with a blunt object, possibly a hatchet.

The sheriff’s office filed warrants against Demello for the crimes against the woman as well as a murder warrant for Davis’s death and larceny of a motor vehicle.

In the assault against the woman Demello faces charges of first-degree kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon.

Davis died from repeated blunt force trauma to his upper torso.

Demello has a long list of past convictions, including breaking and entering, aggravated rape, assault and battery, kidnapping and larceny.