There were two warrants issued. 1. Murder (which the wording on that doesn't concern me, I want to see the probable cause statement). 2. Lying to officials.
Those were both read in court yesterday.
No plea needed for those, that was a reading of the warrants for his arrest not the charges that will be brought against him at a later date).
Now, going out on a limb here and just speaking from the experience of following a lot of crimes trials and such---
IMHO the charges when brought forth will not just be a charge of murder. They will include in those charges what it was he did to her prior to her death. And may even include what he did after her death. And they may even drop the lying charge (I see that to have happened a lot).
What the warrants effectively did was to get him in jail to be held until the investigation is complete. They had to have had at the very least reasonable suspicion that he did this even if only circumstantial (at this time) and they can't just arbitrarily request a warrant without being able to prove at a later time those circumstances. Which sounds awful but it's put in place to protect against the harrassement of false arrest. KWIM?
So right now he was arrested and appeared in court to have the warrants of his arrest read to him. Then at that time the Judge decides if there will be bond or not. No bond in this case.
The investigation is ongoing. IMHO we really can't determine any info from the orginal warrants. They will be worded very briefly and broadly. That is because it is an official doc and submitted into court. Gotta be very careful how things are worded when submitted as an official doc, if worded specifically it can be argued at a later date.
Now my take on the lying warrant. That was issued because at this time it's likely they don't have hard factual evidence to prosecute him (yet, I say yet because the forensics aren't complete). But they probably expect to have it. This may be dropped at a later date and replaces with charges of rape...etc. KWIM?
So my take on this is *at this time* they have strong enough circumstantial evidence to arrest him and hold him. The Judge would have seen the probable cause statement before ruling no bond.
That's why I say they probably at least have preliminary evidence against him. And when charges are brought forth we will have a better idea of where this is going.
Sorry for the ramble just typing out thoughts.
All JMHO at or about this time (joking!)
