Graham Edward Mailes was charged with murder after the naked body of Kim Meredith was found in a car park behind Swift and Macauley streets on March 23, 1996.

The 19-year-old's throat had been cut as she walked between the Terminus Hotel and Sodens.

Her death led to an outpouring of grief in Albury and rallies at QEII Square.

The Albury court precinct was packed when Mailes first appeared on a charge of murder.

After lengthy legal issues, Mailes was ordered to serve a 25-year term in a mental health facility after being found unfit to stand trial.

He was released back into the community in May 2014 before being returned to hospital after absconding, but has been back in the community on conditional release for nearly four years.

The NSW Attorney General sought to extend his status as a forensic patient, which would extend his monitoring in supported accommodation.

A judge has ordered ordered that details of his location and the wider area he is residing in be suppressed.

Ms Meredith's father, Bob, recently told The Border Mail he was concerned Mailes would attack again.

"Our fear is that someone else will have to go through what we went through," he said in March.

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Supreme Court Justice Peter Garling on Monday extended Mailes' status as a forensic patient for two years, which will allow monitoring to continue.

He lives in supported disability accommodation and is allowed to leave for two hours while unsupervised each day.

Mailes is otherwise subject to 24-hour support.

The now 48-year-old had been assessed as a low risk of re-offending, despite concerning historic risk factors including exposure to violence as a child, past alcohol use and antisocial behaviours.

He saw his father murdered at the age of 11, at which point his life was said to have changed and led to behavioural problems.

Before Ms Meredith's murder, he had a prior for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Concerns were raised that Mailes' risk to the community would grow "significantly" if the amount of support he received changed.

Disability Services Australia, which assists Mailes, said it would stop providing him with support if he was no longer a forensic patient.

Mailes had expressed a desire to live in a private accommodation with a dog and undertake work as a cleaner.

The order is set to expire in June 2023.

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