CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A man from El Salvador is named in a murder indictment handed up this week by the Jefferson County grand jury.
The panel indicted David Antonio Calderon, 46, in connection with last May’s death of Samantha Dailey, 32, of Charles Town.
Investigators allege Calderon, who they say was in the U.S. illegally, killed Dailey in Jefferson County and then burned her body on Golf Course Road in Berkeley County.
Calderon will be arraigned in Jefferson County Circuit Court in the near future.
Dailey had been reported missing from a home confinement program in Jefferson County. Investigators found surveillance of Calderon and his vehicle in the same area as a tracking unit on the missing Dailey.
According to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department, Calderon had previous arrests and convictions in El Salvador that include DUI, Sexual Assault/Murder, Aggravated Robbery, and Narcotics related crimes.
Jefferson County Prosecutor Matt Harvey tells The Panhandle News Network that on Friday, January 17, 2025, Calderon was convicted of Malicious Assault and Unlawful Wounding for separate incidents that occurred in April 2024:
Upon his plea of no contest, Defendant was convicted of Malicious Assault for stabbing a victim at a hotel in Charles Town. The Defendant was also convicted of Unlawful Assault for beating two individuals with a metal baseball bat after pleading no contest to that charge as well.
The Defendant entered the United States illegally and, on the dates that these offenses occurred, the Defendant had been released from federal custody pending a hearing on May 8, 2024.
Sentencing is set for March 17, 2025. The Defendant is facing a maximum possible sentence of not less than three nor more than 15 years in a West Virginia prison.
Story originally published on the Metronews website.
