From Chelsea Phua:
Plumas County authorities filed a murder charge Wednesday against a 43-year-old woman, alleging that she killed her ex-husband.
Authorities believe Nazira Maria Cross, who has several aliases, may have fled the area or the country.
According to a sheriff's department news release, Nazira Cross returned to the Reno area at end of July 2008, after having divorced Michael Lindsay Cross, 45, in January 2008. They had been married about 8 years.
In the early morning hours of July 31, 2008, neighbors reported that Nazira Cross, who was at her ex-husband's property in the Plumas County community of Chilcoot, called them to help her put Michael Cross into a vehicle. Nazira Cross told neighbors that Michael Cross was having a medical problem and she was going to drive him to a Reno hospital.
Reno police investigators checked area hospitals and learned Michael Cross was never admitted or treated at any of the hospitals.
Nazira Cross initially gave Reno police several accounts of her ex-husband's whereabouts, but in later interviews by homicide detectives she admitted that Michael Cross had died and she had buried him, but did not report his death.
On Aug. 1, 2008, detectives from Reno Police Department and Plumas and Pershing County sheriff departments visited Michael Cross' home in Lovelock, Nev., where Nazira Cross said she had buried him. Authorities found his body in a grave on the property and exhumed his remains.
After months of investigation and waiting for the autopsy results, investigators submitted the case to the Plumas County District Attorney's office, which filed the murder charge against Nazira Cross. The office also alleged a special circumstance, that the murder was carried out for financial gain.
A $1 million arrest warrant was issued for Nazira Cross.
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