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Maj. Howard Smith said Karl Michael Roush was interviewed on Thanksgiving, after he turned himself in to the King George County Sheriff's Office.
Authorities had been looking for Roush after filing search warrants to draw blood and hair samples from him. Those search warrants expired before Roush turned himself in, and Smith would not say whether police took samples from him in jail.
Roush, a 43-year-old self-employed painter, used to live down the street from the Silvas in Spotsylvania's Oak Grove Terrace subdivision. He has a lengthy criminal record that includes theft and felony driving convictions.
The affidavits explaining what police believe is Roush's connection to Sofia's slaying have been sealed by court order.
Sofia's body was found lying in a King George creek on Oct. 14, about a month after the 16-year-old disappeared from the front step of her family's home.
After he turned himself in last week, Roush was sent to the Rappahannock Regional Jail on two warrants, one for failing to appear in Fredericksburg Circuit Court on a probation violation and another for failing to appear in Spotsylvania General District Court on a shoplifting charge.
He was still in the jail this morning and being held without bond.
