A married couple accused of murdering their teenage housemate, Amber Haigh, in regional New South Wales more than two decades ago, have been committed to stand trial.
Robert Samuel Geeves and Anne Margaret Geeves, both 62, pleaded not guilty to murder in the Young Local Court on Tuesday.
Mr Geeves was previously also charged with aggravated sexual assault on a victim with serious intellectual disability, but that charge has been withdrawn.
Police allege the couple murdered Ms Haigh, a 19-year-old mother, when she was living with them in their home in Kingsvale, near Young.
Ms Haigh has not been seen since June 2002.
In a previous court appearance, police said they had obtained telephone intercepts of the couple discussing how to hide the body and had evidence that Mr Geeves purchased a chainsaw shortly after the alleged murder.
The Geeves couple were the first to ring the alarm bell about Ms Haigh's disappearance, reporting her as missing on June 19, 2002, after she failed to return from a trip to Sydney.
At the time, the pair told police they dropped Ms Haigh at a Campbelltown train station in Sydney earlier that month.
Police reviewed the case and arrested both Robert and Anne Geeves at a property at Harden, in Central West NSW, in May 2022.
The pair will appear before the Supreme Court in Sydney on July 7.
