Samuel Charon is charged with capital murder and tampering with a corpse after Dramiga was killed in September 2024 while walking on a trail.
SAN ANTONIO — The man accused of murdering Stacey Dramiga has been indicted on multiple charges by a Bexar County grand jury.
More than a year after she disappeared while walking on an east-side trail, Bexar County officials were able to identify Samuel Charon as the suspect now accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 63-year-old Dramiga. He was arrested in the fall.
“Definitely a savage, savage crime,” Sheriff Javier Salazar said in October, after Charon was taken into custody. “One of the more heinous that I’ve been associated with.”
The breakthrough came on April 9 of last year, when Charon was booked into the Bexar County jail on a charge of criminal mischief and his DNA taken. It eventually was entered into CODIS, a national database that collects DNA profiles of criminals, and authorities were notified that the DNA sample they had for months finally had a match.
On Jan. 6, a Bexar County grand jury indicted Charon for capital murder and tampering with evidence-human corpse, online records show. He is now awaiting a psychological evaluation, which is currently scheduled for Jan. 30.