ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A longtime Alaska resident charged in the 1985 slayings of an elderly Washington state couple declined Wednesday to waive extradition proceedings.

“Not at this time,” Ricky Riffe told a judge in Anchorage during a hearing in a jailhouse courtroom. The bespectacled Riffe, who has silver hair and a long gray beard, wore yellow prison garb.

The 53-year-old Riffe is charged in Washington with first-degree murder, kidnapping and other counts in the deaths of 81-year-old Edward Maurin and his 83-year-old wife, Wilhelmina Maurin. The couple died from shotgun blasts. Their bodies were found at the end of a road in Chehalis, Wash., five days after their family reported them missing.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s office says Riffe, of King Salmon, Alaska, and his brother, John Riffe, were the primary suspects all along, but probable cause for their arrest was not developed until much later when additional evidence was uncovered and witnesses came forward.