A 28-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Palmiro MacDonald.
The man made no plea when he appeared in the Palmerston North District Court this afternoon.
He was granted name suppression and consented to being remanded in custody to April 5.
MacDonald was the subject of a large, year-long investigation after he went missing on March 23 last year.
His remains were later discovered in the Mangahao Dam area of the Tararua Foothills on October 9.