A Chilean college security guard has been arrested in the murder of an American graduate and ordered held in jail, an appeals court unanimously ruled on Wednesday. Erica Faith Hagan, 22, from Kentucky, had been in the southern Chilean city of Temuco on an exchange program after graduating from Georgetown College. She was working as a teaching assistant in English and religious education at the Colegio Bautista school, where her lifeless body was found in her dormitory bathtub on September 6. In custody: Domingo Cofre, 44 (left), a former security guard at the Colegio Bautista in Chile, has been arrested in connection to the murder of US graduate Erica Faith Hagan (right)
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Domingo Cofre, 44, is being held in the September 6 killing of Erica Faith Hagan
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Hagan, 22, was a psychology graduate from Kentucky
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She was found in bathtub in her Temuco, Chile, campus apartment with three wounds to the head
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Chilean police said they have found no sign of forced entry in Hagan's home, suggesting she knew the killer
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She had only arrived in July and was due to return to US in December
Clues: DNA evidence linked @placeholder to the crime scene, where the 22-year-old American psychology graduate was found bludgeoned to death with a metal rod September 6