A grand jury Thursday indicted Terrance Black for the capital murder of Wichita Falls native Susan Miller Loper.
Life has gone quickly downhill for Black since he dived off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon while evading arrest by park rangers for the murder of the former Wichitan in April.
His fight to avoid extradition back to face Texas justice abruptly ended earlier this week when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the necessary paperwork to release him from a Flagstaff,Ariziona jail into the waiting arms of Texas law enforcement officers.
Instead of returning Black to his plush $200,000 plush Frisco home, Texas Rangers escorted him to a Collin County, Texas jail cell, not that far from Wichita Falls, Texas, where Susan Miller Loper was raised.
A Collin County magistrate read Black his rights during a brief arraignment proceeding Wednesday morning and reportedly wished him luck.
The grand jury then acted at warp speed in handing down an indictment for capital murder against the Grand Canyon leaper the next day....Wednesday of this week.
Capital murder carries the possibility of the death penalty in Texas which leads the nation in executions.
The video arraignment which occurred around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday reportedly showed Black identifying himself. The video lasted less than a minute.
Black will have to come up with several wheelbarrows full of cash to bond out of jail as his bail was set at one million dollars.
Black was still adorned with the medical halo he was worn to all his court proceedings since he dived off the rim of America's favorite canyon.
Fortunate to fall only 25 feet to a ledge below, he survived the jump but still evidently didn't escape unscathed.
Susan Miller Loper was living a successful life which included a career in off-Broadway plays in New York City after she graduated from Wichita Falls Rider High School.
She had a popular son and was finishing up a 16-year stint as a fitness instructor at the Gleneagles Country Club in Frisco, Texas when she went missing.
Ms. Loper was on the verge of realizing a lifelong dream of starting her own business the very next week when her body was found in a wooded area near the Dalls North Tollway.
Her parents and best friend Marla Malone still reside in Wichita Falls, Texas.
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