Monroe County, TN (WOKI) The case against a Monroe County murder suspect at the center of a nationwide manhunt last year has been bound over to a grand jury.

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett appeared in court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing where an arraignment in criminal court was scheduled for September 15.

Hamlett is accused of killing 34-year-old Steven Douglas Lloyd last October in Tellico Plains. Police determined Hamlett planted the stolen ID of one Brandon Kristopher Andrade on Lloyd’s body after placing a 911 call posing as an injured hiker by that name as part of an elaborate plan to evade police capture.

Police found Lloyd’s body near the Charles Hall Bridge on the Cherohala Skyway.

A manhunt ensued for nearly a month before Hamlett was taken into custody in Columbia, South Carolina in early November.