(Hood River, OR)  --  Police have a Bend man in custody after accusing him of killing a Portland woman who was hiking on a trail in the Columbia River Gorge in 2009.  Forty-year-old Stephen Wagner Nichols was arrested at the San Francisco Airport, and is accused in the death of his girlfriend, 23-year-old Rhonda Kristen Casto.  The "Hood River News" reports that a secret indictment for murder was filed against Nichols in April 2014, ten months before his arrest.  His next appearance in Hood River County court is set for March 3rd.