Daniel Lee Munoz of Fallon and Reno pleaded not guilty to Open Murder on May 3, 2025, in Reno’s Second Judicial District Court before Judge David Hardy, upon which the court set a jury trial for August 3, 2026.
The case began on Nov. 20, 2024, when the Reno Police Department (RPD) and Churchill County Sheriff’s Office both received calls regarding a missing 40-year-old woman last seen alive between Nov. 8 and 9, 2024.
RPD initiated a joint investigation with Churchill County, which led to the discovery of the body of Xiaoxia Zhang, the wife of Daniel Munoz, the following day. Zhang was buried under the trampoline in the yard of the couple’s Del Rio Drive home in Fallon and was believed to have been killed in their residence in the 6100 block of Pleasant Oak Trail in Reno…