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On the Hunt for the Zombie Hunter

2023/10/31
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Keith Morrison: 本片讲述了发生在亚利桑那州凤凰城运河附近的两起年轻女性谋杀案,案件经过二十多年的沉寂,最终在冷案侦探的努力下,通过法医基因学技术,成功抓获了凶手Brian Patrick Miller。案件的侦破过程充满了曲折和挑战,也展现了科技进步对侦破案件的重要作用。 Angela Brussel的家人:她们永远不会忘记Angela遇害的恐怖经历,并一直担心凶手会再次出现。她们对案件的侦破过程表示关注,并希望能够找到凶手,为Angela讨回公道。 Angela Brussel的朋友:她们对Angela的死感到震惊和悲痛,并积极配合警方的调查。她们也对案件的侦破过程表示关注,并希望能够找到凶手。 Joe Kelly:作为Angela Brussel的男友,他积极配合警方的调查,并最终被DNA证据排除嫌疑。他讲述了Angela Brussel生前的工作和生活情况,以及她对工作的热情和对未来的憧憬。 Little John:作为Angela Brussel的老板,他讲述了Angela Brussel在公司的工作表现和人际关系,以及她遇害后对公司员工的影响。 Kevin Robinson:作为凤凰城警局的发言人,他介绍了案件的背景和警方的调查过程,以及警方在保护公众安全和维护调查完整性之间的平衡。 William Herman:作为一名记者,他亲临案发现场,并描述了案发现场的惨状,以及案件对社会的影响。他积极参与案件的调查,并为案件的侦破提供了线索。 Chuck FitzGerald:作为Angela Brussel的同事,他讲述了Angela Brussel的工作和生活情况,以及她对工作的热情和对未来的憧憬。 Charlotte:她在运河边发现了血迹和拖拽痕迹,为案件的侦破提供了关键线索。 Melanie Bernas的朋友:她们对Melanie Bernas的死感到震惊和悲痛,并积极配合警方的调查。 Roy Human:作为冷案组的负责人,他介绍了冷案组的调查过程,以及他们如何利用新的技术和方法来侦破案件。他强调了团队合作和坚持不懈的重要性。 Colin Fitzpatrick:作为法医基因学家,她介绍了法医基因学技术在案件侦破中的应用,以及她如何利用这项技术来确定嫌疑人的姓氏。 Mike Sizemore:作为Brian Patrick Miller的朋友,他介绍了Brian Patrick Miller的“僵尸猎人”角色的形成过程,以及Brian Patrick Miller的性格特点。 Brian Patrick Miller:他否认参与了谋杀案,并声称自己患有精神疾病。

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In 1992, Phoenix, Arizona was a hub for young professionals like Angela Brussel, who landed her first job at Elect, a company pioneering interactive voice response technology. Angela, known for her composure and intelligence, diligently prepared for four months to teach her first class to customers from across the country.
  • Angela Brussel, a recent graduate, was excited to start her career at Elect.
  • She meticulously prepared for her first customer training session.
  • Angela enjoyed riding her bike along the canal.

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Angel went out for a bike right around dusk. SHE never came back.

We thought I was someone SHE knew at the time.

Is living a .

boyfriend? yeah.

Then details started coming to was surreal.

What did you find out about the zombie hunter .

that really caught our attention?

IT said, zombie hunter on .

the vehicle.

The zombie had your car, the zome handcar in the back. Everything that bars handcuff .

s seventeen year old .

milani was riding her bike. SHE was later found floating in the canal .

the way he was killed. Just traumatizes .

you there has a mad man on the loose.

I thought we would never know who did this.

Everybody wanted define this guy.

Just either of you think that there are more murders that we don't know.

but I do. The FBI profile said killer would not stop the zombie hunter.

IT sounds like a halloween costume, but was this one warned by a killer? I'm later hold, and this is deadline.

Here's kih Morrison with on the hunt for the zombie hunter.

IT was a sunday evening in november, pen ix, arizona, a wash of cool air. Finally, as the sun dropped behind the valleys, maths SHE loved this time alone as SHE peddled the long path by the canal that snake to the city and out along the valley floor, SHE could think on her bike. Prepare, but of course we can really know what he was thinking. Can only imagine all these years later, can only remember .

that is burned to my brain. I'll never ever forget that.

No, not that horror. Or the fear that went with IT. I was really .

scared. I always thought that he was hiding around my apartment like waiting in a bush to to kill me.

IT still gives me good bumps and a pit in my stomach.

What was IT hunting the erazo a canal?

I think it's just evil in deep and more than we know.

But now back up, months before that bike ride by the canal, when life was still Normal, Better than Normal, exciting. IT was one thousand nine hundred and ninety two. Technological innovation was exploding everywhere. finex. Eager to be a leader, I become a magnet for Young, ambitious people ready to make their mark, people like joe Kelly, who worked for a company called elect.

They were one of the first companies to do interactive whistle response, which back then was you call your bank and you wanted to find out your balancing so you'd enter your account number with a telephone and IT would speak the baLance back to you with .

this all kind of new cutting edge stuff at the time.

Yeah, that was when I started working there. I really started booming.

And what to feel like to be working for company on the cup of all new things.

IT was fun and interesting, and most of the people there were Young and smart in .

that talented crowd. The new higher stood out. Her name was Angela brussel. IT was going to be her very first grown up job. What were impressions of Angela when he came on board?

SHE was just very composed and very intelligent and could really portray herself well. What you need to be able to do in front of a classroom full of customers?

Classroom of customers? Yes, companies that bought the technology had to learn how to use, and bright Young Angela was just the person to teach them or so simple. Lect decided SHE .

was brought in to develop a class for a new product, and he worked diligently for four months. And first class, with customers flying in from all around the country.

must have been a very big thing that he was looking forward to.

Oh yeah, yeah. I mean, we were all helping her get ready. And um IT was a big thing.

We should nervous.

I'm sure he was a little nervous yeah.

Sunday evening, the eve of her big day, Angela put on her White sneakers, her walkman and her headphones and left the apartment SHE shared with her boyfriend. He was baking a cake for her birthday, her twenty second. The very next day, SHE needed time alone.

IT was going dark by the time he got on her bike. SHE loved that bike, loved the long ride up and down the canal, loved the solar to with the piece time to think. Maybe the time to settled and nerves the next morning was going to be the most important of her Young professional life.

And he had to be ready. And so he wrote. And then monday morning, november ninth, nineteen and ninety two.

we were waiting for her to come in for this class. To begin, we had customers sitting there. And no.

Angela dead. Little john was Angel's boss.

And SHE didn't show up, didn't show up. Didn't show up. Finally.

one of the other ers stepped into teach Angeles class. But where was SHE sh'd been? So looking forward to this Angel's work station, as IT happened, was right next to jail.

The phone on her desk rang, and I just automatically picked IT up. And IT was her mother, and SHE asked to speak to Angela, and I said she's not here at the moment and her mother just really didn't say much more. But I was, I was chilling so you .

could tell her mother was looking for. And that was pretty freed down yeah. And so I began a decades long mystery, though the first part, where was Angela? Not a mystery for long. No, that was when the horror began.

Are you sure this is happening? It's unbelievable.

Angela Brown s workmates new right away that monday morning in one thousand nine and ninety two. This was no ordinary absence, not a case of nerves, no sudden and announced ed resignation. Something was up and IT couldn't be good.

He never would have, you know, not come in on time on this particular day.

IT was her twenty second birthday, and jill Kelly knew he had worked hard to prepare for her very first class as an instructor. So where was he? Angel's mother? Thousands of miles to the east could only phone, phone.

IT wasn't like Angela not to pick up, and he was really concerned.

really upset. Angel's boyfriend had called her mother the night before, told her Angela left to ride her bike, but didn't come home. He got so worried. He called the police to report her missing.

You got on on a bike ride, which was somewhat routine for her.

Kevin Robinson was the spokesperson for the fee x police back then.

He would always come home at in time enough to watch protect the show on television. So I was so unusual when SHE didn't come back.

Angel's boyfriend joe told police he had stayed home sunday to bake Angela birthday cake. But after an hour or so passed, you went out on his bike to look for her at eight thirty, at nine thirty. And again, just before eleven.

P. M, no sign of her. That is when joe called nine one one, but police noted this after he reported Angela missing, he called another woman who came to the apartment just before midnight. He said he didn't want to be alone.

There were some strange things about IT most definitely, and so obviously had drew the attention of the detectives who may want to just find out a little bit more.

Police learned that Angela and joe had been dating for more than a year and a half. They read an apartment together when he moved to phoenix in june of ninety two. They'd even bought ching twenty speed diamond back to pangea mountain bikes. Angeles was her favorite ite .

color purple. SHE loved life, and he enjoyed riding her bike. And SHE was, you know, twenty two and fearless.

Angela had always been bold. SHE grew up in a small pennsylvania, a town called camp hill, but moved across the country to study at the divi institute technology and los Angeles. And SHE was a good student. Eager, ambitious, dead little john was impressed.

Her genuine dss came through in her interview, and he had a sense of humor you could tell, should always make you laugh or smile.

We kind of got there at the same time.

Chock fitz jailed was a co worker. He and SHE were both assigned to the new interactive voice response system.

He was a new stuff that no one else was ever doing. So he was pretty exciting to be involved in all that, both for me and I think .

for her as well.

And you figured that out? Oh, oh, SHE figured that out. SHE was bright.

No way Angela would miss teaching her first .

class unless SHE couldn't show .

up all that day. They waited and worried, and then late afternoon, detectives showed up at the door. A woman's body had been found by the canal, and they're knew now this was Angeles. SHE had been murdered, sexually assaulted and stabbed to death.

And that was horrific. First she's missing and you don't know where he is. And then you find out that SHE was killed. And I just affected us incredibly for just months and even years. And even now when I think about IT, I feel the same way that I did way back then.

You have a lot of people who work for you that come and go, but when you have something like this, go on IT really kind of cement you in the moment.

Jack was at a sales meeting halfway around the world in thailand when he heard what happened bit by bit.

I remember sharing every one of those conversations we had with the same like CEO, just what that did to the atmosphere of the sales meeting, learning what had happened.

What did that feel like when you heard was just bizarre.

This can be happening. Ani, for early. You just couldn't be .

happening. Oh, but IT was, and IT was about to get worse.

And then details started coming. IT was, IT was surreal a lot.

Detectives who had been on the department for a very long time and seen a lot of things have never seen anything as bad as this.

On the afternoon of that, every night, one thousand nine hundred and ninety two William herman got the assignment. He will never forget herman had been following an unusual career path. A year earlier, he had left his job as a school principal to work for the arizona republic newspaper.

I got ta call that day and they said, we need you to come in early and go out. They told me, wear up by cats road in the ice seventeen. They said, you'll figured out when you .

get there and I did IT was serious. There could be no doubt about that, just based on the area the police had cordoned off. How bad though he couldn't tell, couldn't see the crime scene. So he turned to a friend, a television .

reporter I knew had a long lens on IT, and he let me take a look. And IT was bad, as bad as he gets. What did you see? IT was a woman's naked body shed, shoes and socks on, I believe. But the head was gone. Her, she'd been be headed.

Oh my god.

I tell you, obviously, my blood froze and he was eviscerated. That is burned into my brain. That is burned into my brain.

I'll never ever forget that IT was an extremely orrible c grow sum murder .

for those who new Angela. The news was simply unbelievable.

We, as a group, the whole group of us, got together and went over to where they found her. We couldn't believe that we were all shot and course destroyed. I can't .

imagine what that must felt like.

That leaves you kind of none.

I SAT down in the dirt and wrote my story called IT into my editor, and but I stayed out. They're looking and and trying to get police. Tod talk to me. And they they were under not to talk to the legs of me. I can tell you that.

No one could understand this sheer brutality of IT in something like a state of shock. Reporter harman and joined others in a the cobra and fruitless search.

As I was looking for Angela Brown s head, there was A A feeling of the heart of the thing, and there were other people out there, you know, and someone would pass me at police, firefighter, and and we exchange looks of, and that looks at, good god, this is, this is the worst. no. And and some few murmured words.

Nor did the horror end. For more than a week, police searched for the rest of the Angela Brown l. And finally, on the eleven day, a local drifter called the Fisher cane for his habit, fishing the canal, found her head in the water, said he just came up on IT. But police said that seemed preserved somehow, as if refrigerated, and the whole city seemed to shuit caught hold .

of everyone. IT was in the air.

There was something else in the air to fear.

My god, wait, there is a mad man on the loose. Know there is a bad guy out there. Everybody wanted to find this guy.

This is somebody who identified a victim, attack that victim, killed that victim, and where they capable doing that another time? Or or have they done IT already?

Were there any obvious things like a any clues or any witnesses who may have seen something happen?

No, there wasn't. When you talk about starting the ground zero, that's truly where the detective started.

But why Angela, either he was just an unlucky rana victim or now there's a kind of killing that is sadly more common. The killing that often involves overkill, a huge amount of rage, the domestic kind. And Angeles friends began wondering about the boyfriend joe, who said he was at home baking a cake.

We thought I was someone SHE knew at the .

time he was living .

with a boyfriend. You police .

said that friends and co workers told them the couple may have been on the cusp of breaking up. He could be jealous and her mother didn't approve of him.

You go about talking to people who were close to her, in this case the boyfriend. Most definitely, that is always something that has to be done.

Later, joe spoke phone to N A fillide kx and phoenix.

They went through my whole apartment. They found this knife in my kitchen sink that had this punish red material on IT. And he's like, can you explain this? And oh my, yes, for vertical ted. And that .

icing three times. The interview joe three times, he swore he didn't do IT. And then less than five months after Angela was killed, the DNA found on her body ruled out.

Joe altogether, though, didn't feel like IT to him in the media's are in the public's eyes. There are probably people that swore I did IT, but there was someone else in Angel's life who caught the attention of detectives. One of Angels professors are divine. Police believe he had a crush on hurt. Could he be angry that he didn't return his feelings, that traveled out to divine in california to speak to him?

You're going to look at people closest to the victim to make sure there wasn't something, something the failure, something going and on there that you're unaware of.

The professor told police he had seen Angela in L. A. Just days before he was murdered. They had drinks, he said, and then he flew back home to phoenix.

Investigators were also chasing down a lead about Angeles purple diamond back to pack a mountain bike, a clerk at a circle. K, new Angeles apartment. I tried to sell bike that looks similar.

Was either killer or did the killer kick the bike discarded somewhere? There was a changed, at least, that the bike might lead them to the killer. So they distributed a photograph. Crime reporter William herman kept a copy of IT in his pocket to .

show up to people, you know, the police thought of maybe that I had been abandoned somewhere. Oh, I saw bike just like that. That would have been invaluable to the police.

Did IT seem like the police. We're working as hard as they should have been at .

this to solve the case. Oh yeah, we talk to them several times. They came to work and course, interviewed everybody at work.

but all their efforts produced no break at all. Though there were still persons of interest, the professor, the Fisher king, who found Angeles head. They both insisted they were innocent. And then ten months after the killing of Angela Brown, a woman named sharley took a ride on the bike path beside we can.

Now all the I noticed there were dragged, ks and IT went right around here, and my feet were right on the edge of this canal here. And I saw nothing but just drag Marks of blood going into the canal.

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IT was early when they climbed on their bikes that september of morning, almost a year after Angel was killed. As usual, charliet photo or sister and their kids took the canal path, racing along wind in their hair or a local playground near the.

So that particular day, we came up here pretty fast. And right as I got up here, there is a big puddle.

Odd, not the sort of thing you're expect to see on the past. On a hot september morning.

the reflection was hard to tell what color IT was. And so I just assumed that was the pudding of water or something right here. And SHE .

shoot IT off. No big deal on. They went. But as he pushed her daughter on the swing, SHE wondered about that pudding. What was IT?

I was very uneasy. And so we hurried back on our bikes and started heading back home this way. So once the sun was to my back, I could see right where the bottle was right up here that I had a red tip to IT.

And that was pretty big. And so I stopped, and I had my sister hold the bike, and I got down and looked at really close to see, is that what I really think this is? But still, in my mind, logically trying to make excuses for IT. Like, this isn't blood.

This isn't. Well, you wouldn't think you could .

be right, but I all the time I noticed there were dragged ks, and I went right around here. And so I followed over to the drag Marks, walked around the tree, and then IT let me back right here. And then I noticed the drag Marks went off right here. You just have this, your feeling about you like.

yeah.

you need to get out, need to get out of here. And so we quickly hopped on our bikes and struggled with the thought that was a big mall at the time. And we had to use payphones, and I really struggled with, do I stop and call nine one one at a payphone, or do I just turn, get home and decide from there? And still, all the way home, trying to rationalize, did I really see what I saw? Is that what else could I be and should I call the police?

SHE did that before long. Investigators were following those drag Marks to Young woman's body floating in the canal.

Oh, my heart just sung, just that sick feeling.

Crime reporter William herman heard about IT on a police scanner and made his way back to the canal and found a contact with phoenix's police.

and he said, we found the body of a Young woman in the canal. Profound injuries to her, just and I said, was SHE ride a bike and he said, you get the buddy and the bike gone and I just, you know, my heart sort of sanka I said, jesus, god, the heroes again, he said, i'm not saying that we are not saying yet that this is our guy.

but of course I had to be again, there were signs of sexual aspect. Again, he used a knife, and again, seemed to know very well how to use IT. One particular .

wound was delivered that may have incapacitated or killed the right then towards back. So there was a thought, maybe this person really understood that type of thing. What could incapacity someone immediately? With one type of .

blow he carved letters into our skin, is of sending some kind of sickening message. And then police discovered his victim was a teenager, just seventeen years old, a high school kid. The melani burner I believe .

I found out at school.

Rachel shaped ker was your close .

friend just hell, you know, they let her friends come together, just kind of brief together um they brought councilors in for whoever wanted to talk and I think my mom just picked me up and took me home but I remember I wanted to be with mellon ese friend to all love her closely. But IT was horrible. Was that due to you?

When a friend who is that closed? You just suddenly has killed that way.

The way he was killed just traumatized you. It's not like SHE, you know, not like something innocent happened to her and SHE kw SHE died in asleep. SHE was brutally attacked and murdered.

Some information was withheld, of course, things only the killer would know, while police started from scratch again. For one thing, piece together, melon is last hours, starting with the night before, when he went out for an evening by crime and didn't come home.

her mom had called our house frantically at eleven pm, trying to find her. And my mom just said, no, she's not. She's not here. Rachel s, and bed sleeping .

thing was, melanie had planned to go riding with a friend, but then her friend had to work late, so melanie climbed on her bike and struck out on her own. They found her body more than ten miles from home.

And the first thought that came in my head was how to acted.

SHE get all the way out there that ne Marcus was a neighbor back then. SHE could be shy at first in a bit quiet, but once you had an opportunity to get to nowhere and get, you know, in kind of her inner circle, that's when he opened up quite a bit more. And he was energetic and happy. And I had just started her junior year at arcadia high school.

SHE wasn't a party animal and distracted by the social thing. He had a close circle of friends, and SHE just took her school seriously.

William herman, a former principal, remember, happened to know one of melanie's teachers and spoke with him.

So we're not allowing any media on the campus. Meet me, any named to sandwich's p by our Kitty high school. So I went out and my friend was in tears.

He said, we loved her. We loved her. And ever all the students love melani.

What was IT about this path and bicycles that the killer was horribly delayed was just all too depressingly obvious, but was a serial killer playing closed? Police officers wandered up and down these pass in as decoys for months, but looking for what they didn't exactly know, even as regular people increasingly stayed away. The man that struck twice, might he do so again?

You just couldn't believe that that could happen to another person, like there .

was a monster out there somewhere.

Absolutely, absolutely a monster .

who knew how to use a knife. Well, at least the relief knew that I might be a way to find him.

Phoenix wasn't the same after the murders of vanilla Brown l and melanie ness IT just .

changes the way you live.

One of these friends, Rachel and definite IT.

changed me instantly. I stopped walk in the canal. I stopped.

Um I would not exercise alone. I won't pretty much. I ouldn't walk anywhere alone or email, do anything. Always looking to be your shoulder.

I think during that time, you, for most of us, you know Young women, you are more self aware of everything, everybody that was around you, because you never know what could happen.

People very quickly realize that there was someone out there who is now responsible for the death of two women, two women who are on the canal. So now everything starts back up again. If I had died down a little bit from the first incident, IT definitely heighten back up right away.

Kevin Robinson, finex police spokesperson at the time, said the department had a walk of fine line between warning the public about the potential serial killer while not jeopardizing the investigation.

You're going to release a little bit more information than what you Normally would so that someone might identify or remember seeing something.

The finex police went public with a piece of evidence they hoped might actually produce a breakthrough. The killer has thrown Melody closed in a nearby trash bin, but had dressed her in an ill fitting like your body suit post modern. Might anybody recognize IT think .

the assumption was that he put that on her after whoever killed .

her most have done that that that a layer of something isn't that?

yeah.

So what do you wonder about?

You have to turn your brain off at some point and not keep on thinking like was SHE thinking how SHE feeling um my my prayers that SHE blacked out right away and doesn't know that he was mentally motioned saved a little bit from all the trauma that he put her through.

Whoever killed miloni began as assault with a single, carefully place trust of a very sharp knife, just as he done to Angela. So police thought maybe the geller had specialized training, maybe military. Remember, Angela's professor from devi, who police had interviews turned out have been a major and army special forces. So police kept him on their list and kept looking literally everywhere .

they were, looking all over the world for similar crimes.

How much concern was that this guy would strike again?

There was plenty of concern.

but no evidence to tie ni of their persons of interest to the murder. Pressure had to be just an enormous, yes.

that's in the back of your mind. You've done IT twice, at least twice. And are they capable of offending again? The odds will tell you. yes. Experts will tell you that a lot of these cases, the only thing that stops these folks is either getting arrested and going to prison or they die. They don't just stop called turkey.

in most cases, disturbing.

extremely disturbing. But you have to realize that we have people like that, that are out there, people who are capable of acting on those types of instincts. And IT was incomer upon the homicide detectives to identify anybody who could be responsible for these crimes and to get them apprehended and convicted as quickly .

as possible. And yet I didn't lead anywhere. I mean, that case went cold.

Unfortunately, I did.

What more could they do? And years went by, but there were no more similar murder along the canal. And gradually the assumption harden that the killer was gone, maybe less town, maybe was dead. That's what the police told the families and friends of Angela and melani.

I was disappointed that they had found anybody to make them pay for what they did. I thought we would never know who did this. I gave up. I thought we will never know .

until this guy came along. I remember .

reading word for word, and I was traumatized by what I read. IT was almost as if I was reading about something truly .

evil somewhere in all this. There was an answer just had to be. All he had to do was finit. IT became .

kind of a obsession to keep researching. Is what? What is this?

Anniversary came and went, anniversary of the killings by the canal. Those who loved and missed Angela and meli were left to wonder if they would ever know who killed the and why did IT seem like the police? We're investig all a while or like that. Maybe give up, I think up.

sure. I think they tried their hardest for so many years and leads were ending. And so they have to move on to the next case.

And then reporters looking for stories and anniversary dates would write a story, and they tell IT over again in and the place are glad for that in the hopes of waking IT up.

But nothing did until twenty eleven, when a sergeant named roy human, who headed up the collocation after to take on the ultimate chAllenge. Almost twenty years after the murder, he would try to give the families some answers.

We didn't want to give him false hope. We didn't want to say, hey, we're definitely going to prove this and find our killer, but we're going to give IT one heck of a shot.

William shira and dominic roston berg had joined the unit. First thing first pulled out the old case .

file IT was a room for the files. We had probably eight hundred people that had been interviewed that .

have been questions. Eight hundred people at least. Wow, a lot of change since early nineties. For one thing DNA, the science is certainly advanced, even those case through code. One thing the DNA could confirm was what they had long suspected.

The DNA sample of matched both the girls, so we know is the same person.

one man, two murders. The killer's DNA profile was uploaded to o the national DNA database back in two thousand, but no matches, meaning the killer's DNA was not in the system. Of course, phoenix police had received hundreds of tips after the murder, and some let them to person's of interest to had provided blood samples, but many, and there were many.

had not just seeing the amount of people that were contacted along the canal banks and how many dangerous predators IT was a lot of people.

So where to begin? IT happened. That hill man was an account first, and then a cop. So we approached the case like an audit line by line.

We cast a wide net, make sure that we we get everything because there could be just that, that more soul in there. So getting organized was priority one.

First, they came up with a long list of people the original detectives had looked into, but from whom they had not collected DNA.

There are a host of names that we saw and were intrigued by and and needed to rule out.

And how do you go about doing that?

We put two detectives on a plane, basically get their blood samples so that we could do, do DNA comparison.

just tracking them all down, and must have been rather difficult.

yeah. We traveled all over the country.

but human decided he needed to go beyond traditional methods. So we sought out the the doc society in philadelphia, sic experts and the destigmatize volunteer to review difficult cases.

They call themselves the modern day .

show like homes. The the dark society gave human characteristics of the killer, a man still living in the area who had committed earlier crimes, perhaps set fires or acted out fantasies. They agreed with that earlier theory that the killer likely had a military background, but added, they were looking for a sexual sadist motivated by people's pain.

One of the biggest nugget gets they taught us was that kept saying, in a case like this, he's in your files, ninety five percent chance he's in your files.

So human. And the detectives took another look at man who had attracted suspicion early on, including the professor who police heard that a crash on Angela.

we'd received an onyx ous tip that every time somebody mentioned Angela, he would go into a history o in an emotional rage and he just made some really a kind of odd statements that we ve found in the fact that he was a major in the special forces. We said, we need to go talk to this guy and we need to get his DNA.

After they went to maryland to knock on his door and collect his DNA.

I think every time that we would get excited, we get the DNA.

we'd wait. But once the results came in, he was ruled out.

IT was like a punch in the stomach.

You get frustrated and you get upset about IT for a minute, and then you just got ta get back on .

the they went back to that theory that the killer might have been trained for combat and track down former U. S. Air force pilots station at nearby luke air force based back in the early nineties.

It's not too far from the crime scenes, so we thought maybe he's hiding in plain sight.

These are people who would be based there for a little while that might be based somewhere else. They could be around the world.

really, absolutely around.

Detectives even contacted authorities in europe when they heard of a similar crime there.

two Young women that were killed in the early nineties in a similar fashion, one was in amsterdam and one was in germany.

but no connection.

My wife kind of test that. I truthfully became obsessed by this case. I desperately wanted to figure this out.

and maybe that's why hilman agreed to meet with a woman from california who had been pitching an idea that sounds IT crazy. It's new technology.

It's unproven. There's a little bit of fear .

behind IT fear resistance and a big gamble and a world changing resolved.

Sergeant roy, human, that is, cold case detectives have been dealing with the up and downs of their investigation into the erazo a canal murders for three long frustrating.

I always describe IT IT as as a roller coaster ride.

Their most promising leads have been ruled out by DNA, and there were no closer to an arrest than they were when the murders happened more than twenty years ago. And that's when one of his detectives left him a voice male.

and he said, hey, boss, she's like, I got this strange phone call from a woman that says she's a forensic geneology. Would you take a listen?

But why not? They tried everything else, which is how choy human and found himself on the phone with this woman calling fitzPatrick doctor Colin fitzPatrick, k. SHE is a forensic geneology st.

Which means he told the detective that he uses a person's DNA profile. That unique sequence, we all have to figure out not exactly who they are, but who they're related to. As a similar process, people used to find distant relatives on ancestry, DNA or twenty three.

and me and IT became very common for an adapt to test with one of those companies and find their birth parents.

Doctor pitch Patrick s. Said he'd figured out out a way to reverse the process and use geneology database to work her way toward the owner that unknown male DNA or y DNA police had collected from the crime scenes.

I could get DNA from coal cases Y, D, A, and comare them to the genetic geneology DNA databases, and may be come up with the last name for killers.

It's not that you can say IT was individual a or individual b, but that IT was this family, which includes A, B, C, N, D. And so looking into those guys.

and you might like, was even simply than that, I supplied a name, the last name for their killer.

Remember, this was back in twenty fourteen. IT was four years before the arrest of the golden state killer, the mystery surrounding an infamous killing spray that can founded investigators for decades. That case, widely celebrated for using a very similar technique, but no one knew about that when doctor is patric travel phoenix and told that detect is what he thought he could do.

was quiet in the room among the the team members, and we were trying to absorb what he was talking about.

Course, they were eager to try anything, but this was, brand knew nothing police had ever used before. And they'd have to share the killer's DNA profile with someone outside the investigation. Doctor pitch patric plus IT wasn't cheap, which became the next chAllenge.

IT was about three months on trying to push the upper chini command to approve this because they they thought they had fears of IT endangering our investigation. My team and I tried to say there's no downside risk. We spend more money traveling across the country looking for DNA than we do on this. So this is is worth a shot. I think at one point, we almost took up a collection and just kind of went rogue .

and did IT by ourselves. How would .

eventually get paid for? No, I eventually, uh, a chief decided to sign IT.

What you do? How did you work?

We didn't provide or really any details about the investigation other than we provided her with some type of DNA sequence.

Doctor pitch, patric went to work. Weeks went by. Nobody heard a word.

So was IT a waste of money? Another dead end? No, IT was not SHE had a result. I came up with the .

name Miller turned IT into the police. I remember .

getting the call, and I was with extended family. And he said, hate roy. I think his surname is Miller.

Do that make any sense you that somebody would come .

up with a name at this point in the investigation is made enough sense for me to want to a rush out and go files?

So one of his detectives went to the basement and pull files with the last name.

Miller and he, from him on my desk. I shut the door. I start looking through the Millers. And when I got to a certain file, I was interested, and IT sent chills up my spine.

The name on the file, brian Patrick Miller.

was about half inch thick file, and on the top of IT IT said anonymous .

tip IT was an old tip decades old IT had to do with the turcos body suit melanie bernis was wearing when he was found.

Anonymous person called in and said a roommate bryans had seen that same body suit that was .

found on melani the tip was looked at and based on brians age, the circumstances that they felt at the time um he was too Young have been the one that had done this and there .

was more back in one thousand, nine hundred and ninety, a few years before Angela and melani were killed, mill's mother told the believe he was afraid of her teenage son. SHE gave them something he had written something goolies awful. He had called IT the plan. And there IT was still in the old file. IT .

described step by step what the author intended to do to this woman. IT was, IT was early, similar to what happened to our victims.

IT was in the file.

IT was in the file and .

had been all along. wow.

IT had been along, yes.

make you wonder why that was not a big hunter.

lier to a degree.

Yes, what million rode in the plane was certainly disturbing. I didn't prove anything, mind you. Certainly not that he had committed actual murders, but there was another name in the other file, too, and another hair raising story I wouldn't doub .

that's what he was trying to do or at least getting there.

IT was the spring of one thousand and eighty nine. Angela sa was graduating from high school. Melani bernis was a career free kid in middle school. IT was three years before the terrors on the canal.

I felt very safe. I I wrote the bus all the time.

so less bally was twenty four years old. Then I lived in phoenix all her life. And to her IT easy routine to ride the bus, the five miles from home to a job at a store near the paradise valley. More.

the drive to paradise valley was very short. IT was a straight shot to the mall.

Good morning. The morning of may seventeen th, one thousand nine hundred and eighty nine, SHE wore her favorite lime Green shirt with White pants. SHE noticed that he got on the bus, a Young man sitting near .

her kind of a bm looking kid. I just acknowledged, and I kind of realized there was someone there.

you know, and then SHE SAT back and thought about nothing in particular. That is, the bus rumbles along .

and they drop us off in the front of the mall.

IT was when he was walking across the parking move, that SHE sensor, someone behind her.

I had gotten about a half way across, and I realized that he was walking behind me. And I had just planted ed over my shoulder. And I saw that you, he was still walking behind me, but IT was a way back.

That nerdy kid must have gotten off the bus too. SHE figured I was walk.

I just felt something hit me in the back. And he ran by me. He ran fast right by me. I kind of turned and yelled that I am grabbing back.

And I was like, what the heck did you know? What the heck do hit me for? And he just kept running. And then I pulled my hand in front of me and realized that there was blood on my hand. And so I started panicking.

I felt like you ve been hit.

Yeah, I felt like i'd been punched in the back.

What was that like? Was that confusion? Was a terror? Was that what?

I was very afraid? I was, I couldn't believe IT. Why would he punch me in the back? And then when I saw the blood, I couldn't believe that I knew that he had stabbed me or something. And I started running to my work, and I had to go through that parking lot, and I got to my work and started ring .

the buzz to get in.

The manager came in, open the door and let me in, and I was like, screaming, oh my god, i've been stabbed. I've been stabbed and everybody was kind of like all in a panic. And they were calling nine one one and took me back to the break room. And we are waiting for the police and fire to come.

Once inside the ambiance, SHE began to learn more about her injury.

IT was about an inch ina half long. And then they said IT had gone in. I believe IT was like an international half to two inches in.

Well, yeah, SHE gave the police a description of the person who would detect her. And IT didn't take long. They tracked them down at a nearby apartment complex, and then they brought him to the ambuLance. Is this him? They asked.

They had the doors open. They had him standing right at the doors.

What feeling went to that?

I just was in shock and couldn't believe that this person had stabbed me.

And did he look sorry?

No, he looked to blank. He likes a very blank and very just strange, like not even .

caring as weird. Yeah.

I was. I was weird.

IT was the kid from the bus, sixteen years old. He had used a stake knife to stab her in the back.

The doctors at the hospital had said that had he held the blade flat, horizontal instead of vertical, IT would have gone straights through and puckered organs, but he had held IT vertical. And I hit my ribs and slit around inside instead of going through the ribs.

Wow, the small things that make a big difference. yeah. I mean, if you definitely.

yes.

And the name of this person who'd almost killed her, brian Patrick Miller, more than two decades later, are destroy human. Read the police report about the less attack the original investigator had written. I asked bryan if he did IT to see what IT felt like. Bryant, yes. I guess that's why I did IT when the .

officers asked him, hey brian, this make you feel and he said, IT sent chills .

up the spine.

At that point, I was even more hook.

line and sinker.

This is our guy, this guy looking good.

Miller eventually created guilty to attempt to murder, but as a juvenile, he served only a year in detention. Grandpa, he was released in one nine hundred and ninety when he was seventeen. Hello camera, for a while that seemed to have turned his life around.

Real show.

He worked for a religious charitable organization. And here is in a whole movie with family in one thousand nine hundred and ninety two. This was just months before the first murder.

They can now. By nineteen ninety nine, he got married, had a daughter and moved away he and a Young family to the seattle area where Miller got in trouble again. He was arrested in two thousand two for stabbing a woman he claimed with self defense and was found not guilty by a jury. So late twenty teen, was he easy? Fine was around.

yeah. He was definitely not hiding.

Miller and his wife eventually moved back to where arizona they divorce, but their daughter had with her dad with brian in this simple home. Now he was the focus of the coca unit.

IT was like a behind of activity where everybody was researching brian patrol ler. And we began to really unlock brian Miller.

He seemed to be living a Normal life, worked at an amazon warehouse. But at night, at night, there was something else entirely.

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my cold cases tecate ves investigating the deaths of two Young women along the canal. We're looking into one brian Patrick Miller, whose life appeared unremarkable, single dad living in a central phenix neighborhood. He worked at an amazon distribution warehouse, a typical guy with a typical life, that is, until you saw what he drove to work. The one hundred car.

the hundred car, yeah, with the dummy in the back.

dummy in the back, dummy in the back. You take a left turn in a slides that they are right. You take a right turn of slides back behind him. That dummy was actually a lifesize ed zombie doll. The car was part of a fantasy persona Miller took on golf the zombie his friend, keen as ara, would cruise around in the decked out car with props, including the dummy in the back seat. His daily driver wasn't .

IT was he had everything that bars.

handcuffs my, my IT was a real police car that Miller modified. And instead of red and blue L, E, D. Lights, the zome hunter mobile flashed Green fake blood, splashed the doors, letters on the trunk, red zombie hunter, what was IT all about? Well, that would go back more than a decade to a meeting of the arizona steam punk society.

Similar to this gathering in the U. K. It's where keen and Miller steam punk is a science fiction subculture that shares a love for costumes and homemade gadgets inspired by a fusion of one eighteen century of Victorian period and futuristic technology. Who is an za zome hunter? Arizona society members dressed up and sometimes showed off their creations and steam punk fashion shows like this one.

Thank you for keeping.

Here is Miller on the catwalk.

I think it's it's it's a funny yet kind of ironic subculture celebrating one of the most innovative times in the world. And just not soap tics. It's fun. And you meet some good people in .

IT people like mike size t, who told us steam punk appeal to his creative side.

This is police. He hosted .

costume gadgets workshops in his dining room.

I bring all the the stuff and teach you how to paint a gun, or make a pair of goggles, or, you know, whatever IT is for your costume.

Miller and his daughter were frequent visitors.

The first time I ever saw he was with his daughter, thinks he was about ten at the time.

Mike said. Miller developed this character gradually. How did he developed this zombie hundred persona?

IT started with the gun.

That was a bit of fakery that mike made, and that became the centerpiece of Miller's costume. How do you make IT? What do the components made? Cardboard, wood? You are creative guy.

So he got this gun, and he's like, well, i've got this gun now. I need to build something around this. So I helped him with some ideas, and then he found this trench coat at thrift store, and he found this mask that he, I think that was one of those painful masks OK. And then, like a hard hat, that he glued the mass into the heart hat, the transformation .

from warehouse worker to midnight cruiser was complete, but the car stole the online that events like the phoenix comic con annual zome walk and so on million even posed with phoenix police officers.

It's like, oh, that things really cool. You know, this car is like, actually look like he ran down some zombies. Really awesome.

How did he react? This attention?

He loved IT, but he was under a mask. He is a shy individual until he was able to put that mask on. And then he could be a little bit more out in the open.

Friends, keen and mike could not help but notice the zombie unter and brian Miller seemed like two different people, very shy, you know, wasn't the guy who would make IT easy to approach a seemingly shy single data warehouse worker. And the zombies e hunter sargeant human, when he picked up the Miller file, had never heard of steam punk. What did you find out about the zombie hundred business?

So that really caught our attention for the fact that brian lived in this fantasy world.

Did you get the impression that somehow his behaviors were. At least existing side by side with other darker fantasy may have had. And maybe part of that fantasy.

absolutely, I think he was enjoying IT hill.

Ben added this zombie hundred business to a growing list of curious things connected to brand Miller. But is IT enough? No, they needed concrete proof, like DNA, but how to get IT. And then detectives decided to put on a little play of their own. Would Miller take debate?

The photo x police department cold case unit tried to rain in their excitement. IT was early in january twenty fifteen, and after more than three years, Chris crossing the U. S. For a killer, they found a convincing lead in the most unlikely place.

I didn't know anything about these genres of zombie hunters.

Brian Miller had been putting on the show as phoenix s is very zombie hazard for years. Reporter William herman was one of many spectators ors.

I've seen him for years driving around town.

There was more to Brown Patrick Miller, than met the eye who was IT really behind that mask. Could he be the brutal killer? Wod slaughtered Angela Brown o and melani burns all those years ago.

The detectors needed is DNA. And so the zone be, hunter became hunted. Obviously.

we had volume from his home to work. Then he'd be at work for several hours, and we would sit there and watch and see if maybe he would come out on a break or once break and you know, have a big goal or something and throat out the window where we will be able to collect that and get some DNA. But he never did. He just continued to sit in his car and would go back after break and then come back.

No big bulbs. And the parenting Miller didn't smoke. In fact, though they trailed them everywhere, I was always on him.

He never did discard anything on which he may have left his D. N. A. Almost an unusual day that he was of what the kind of behavior that you didn't make you.

So yeah, he was just very, very careful individual.

So what to do?

I got the call from one of my detectives and he was frustrated and he said, hate, here's my plan. What do you think? And I said, Green light.

I like IT the plan, if nowhere could play a role. So good they.

the detective that called me and said, hey, what about I introduce myself to brian, obviously sits in the parking lot a lot. We what we know bottom is he kind of interested in security. Why don't I pretend like I made a building manager and there's a lot of theft in that parking lad, and i'm going to hire him to basically watch for me?

Miller took the bate, so the detective set up a job interview and very intentionally chose a restaurant. The management of this is agreed to CoOperate. The idea was the detective would buy me as lunch, hoping he just might leave his DNA on a dish or on a glass or a draw.

This, this is the chilly. This is where we entered.

By then, the cold case unit had prepared the place ahead of time. And very carefully.

I know we had briefly discussed me dressing up as a waiter, but then we decide no one how clumsy I was that i'd probably drop they're drinks .

in their soup instead, before Miller arrived, detective rustenburg carefully cleaned anything Miller might touch.

I specialized in the place, the cups, the the civil war that they would be using at the table. I actually ran approve of the dish wash itself that's .

being careful.

We felt we only have one chance to get right, and we just didn't want anything to go wrong.

They took their places and waited.

I think all of our hearts were racing.

He arrived in his zombie hunter car surprise. He wasn't alone.

We were taken a back, though, that he brought his fifteen year old daughter with him to the interview.

Goods is daughters there you think this is onna mess up the whole idea we thought.

hey, is is the under us?

They try to act natural lunch in the fake job interview lasted no more than an hour, Miller ata sandwich, but barely shift his drink. And then he and his daughter left the restaurant.

I think he only drank a couple times. And so I wondered he is.

we're going to be DNA on there. How do you get to destroy the end?

Well, I wish I had some fancy way. I probably should have drill the water. I just dumped the water out of the side that I believe he is. Mouth probably hadn't touch.

I mean, it's quite possible.

but you just messed up.

absolutely. Detective ruston very sent the mug and drank from to the lab, and they all waited and waited. Almost two weeks passed, and then one day the unit happened to be gathering for one of its regular meetings.

We are all kind of go over some boring administrative staff, and the door burst open, and it's Kelly and our whole team of DNA analyst.

unheard of. Why not just phone? This news needed to be delivered in person by the full squad, with the boss Kelly leading the way.

The fact that a whole team of scientists would come over and up abruptly opened the door. We just again, learn shock. And the first thing Kelly said is you did IT. He's your guy.

You could hear a pin drop in the room. I was in shock, after all these years.

is very emotional. I still, this day we had poor our heart and soul in the three and a half years, chasing, hunting down this, the sky, and hear that and for the families, just to hear that we got him, and we can give that to the families.

Detective shira, who wrote a vehicle on the canal in one thousand nine hundred and ninety two to assist in the investigation, I just, i've work when he found out and he needed convincing.

One of the other detectives on the squad called me on the phone and told me, as i'm driving home, i'm like, I don't feel like playing games today. I'm a good mood. So.

but he turned his car around and return to the station.

It's a twenty mile ride by the time I got there. Still go. This isn't true.

but IT certainly was large and human called forensic geneology. st. Colin fits Patrick with the good news.

And I, I know, oh my god, they got him. I didn't expect the call. I didn't expect, you know, I hope that would work. But h, you know, oh my god, IT worked.

This was a DNA breakthrough that would eventually change the way cold cases were solved. Hours later, a swat team arrested brian Patrick k. Millerite work and delivered him to an interview room where detective shira was ready. And what happened next? All that was a surprise.

Can you stay of?

IT was as brutal as .

IT was perplexing. Two Young women, twenty two year old Angela Brown o and seventeen year old melanie nus, found dead, their bodies mutilated.

Finally, after more than twenty years and arrest, Angela friend jill Kelly got the news of her knees. Who your chance worked in the same warehouse is brian Miller.

SHE just happened to tell me, oh my god, this guy where I work was just arrested for murder.

When you thought about that, the first time that hit you, that he has been in close proximately to the very person you've been afraid of for years and years, I was .

terrifying to think of that.

And now so less eventually understood what could have happened there. I couldn't .

believe that I was in shock just to put that together, that he was the person that had stabbed me all those years ago, and now he's the person they are looking at for killing .

these women was so horribly yeah, I mean, he was practicing. I knew.

apparently I would believe that yeah.

And brian's friends.

and that was IT, was a good punched, to say the least. You know, I was just like how what they can have a right guy, or sure .

origin hill man at his cold case unit were sure one's Miller was in custody. Detective russian burg search Miller's home for evidence and got another surprise.

IT was probably only a twelve hundred square foot house, but IT was a water house that i've never seen in my twenty five year career. I remember one of our switching members coming to me and say, hey, we can't clear the house because we can't even .

make entry roston burgin others spent more than five days working their way through at all, collected more than six thousand items, among them a haxo absurd. And this was worrisome, women's credit cards and driver's licenses. And here in the house where he raised his daughter, where magazines, images, videos that russian were wishes he could somehow wait from his memory.

women know, having their heads cut off, stabbed, beat and stranger there was, remember, leaving that place every night, I would take a shower, and I just had such a difficult time sleeping. Just trying to get those images in, those pictures out of my head.

One graphic image hanging in Miller's kitchen stood out from the rest.

Not only did he have a large separate head on the front of his refrigerator door, but many these videos, these photographs, arguably the worst photos i've ever seen.

but no evidence in the house seemed to connect directly to the murders. And meanwhile, after questioning by detective cara Miller claimed he had no idea why he might be in trouble.

What's going on? You tell me your name came up. And so and slowly .

and carefully shera brought up the location of the murder, the bike path along the canal.

those by past they have around. Yeah, I know, always scared me. That's why I didn't take. But had you taken, I may have taken on once, and I did.

detective started to press Miller a little.

every, every sex with any women out on the bike trails now. So there's no no reason that your DNA should be anywhere around out there. That we had sex or any women, anything like that.

Then down the cases.

remember the name of brother, what? Well, SHE was killed around the bike bus in one thousand hundred and ninety two. And then in one thousand nine and ninety three there's a girl by the melon burning who .

was also killed around the bike.

you know, the canals and the bike path over there. And there are some D, N, A. And and said, kind of links you to those girls there. Any way you can explain that table? I don't know those names.

Argent hill and watched the end of you in real time from a nearby room. What were your impressions of him? As he said.

they're answering questions. It's very stoic, really kind of no.

even when the detective pressed him again and again.

how can you explain to me? 那 就是这样 那个 事 and I don't know, I didn't tell anyone. So you sure you don't want to you know how your chance kind of come and tell me the reason something like that happen.

Help you get that up your test if you did something like that. Everyone, as far as I know, everyone that i've ever had, sexy is still alive. You never killed anybody, nobody.

The only victim Miller was willing to talk about was himself. He claimed he'd been abused .

as a child with me, my mom horble made.

Good use. There would be no confession from milla in that room, but that's not to say the interview was a total loss.

There were a couple of points in that interview that turned out to be helpful since in .

borneo is the deputy county eternity on the case. And those helpful moments.

interesting in enough. One of them, or two of them, were when nobody was in the room. But the defender, and he is talking, understand the stay of blood. He knows he's being recorded, will keep working in my hand.

Now.

these were not just rambling thought in burdino they were a glimpse into brian millar's defense and he was worried IT just might work.

Finally, the long delayed reckoning IT was october twenty twenty two, almost eight years since the arrest of brian Patrick mueller, eight years of hearings and legal wrangling, and covered here he would face two counts of kidnapping, attempted sexual assault and first degree murder. The case against stem, anchored by the unmistakable signature of his own DNA on both his mutilated victims. But Miller pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, the prosecutor at a feeding this was possible after watching Millers police said to you.

Sleep work, in my end, I believe for us that he was saying things to try to make IT appear that he had mental health issues.

Oh, I didn't just appear that defense eternity. rj. Parker Miller, he said, suffered from a long list of disorders, autism, depression, harding, ptsd and associated disorder. Illness is so severe that Parker Miller brain simply won't let him recall anything about killing Angela and eli. He didn't remember killing these women.

It's not a process as simple as he didn't remember. It's a more complicated process that involves not having access to very, very deep experiences that fundamentally conflict with .

his own humanity. So that was the like. IT would be the issue.

Both sides agreed to a trial by judge alone, SHE would determine culpability, and if he found him guilty, SHE judge Susann cohen would decide the punishment. Life behind bars or death. Prosecutors in borneo began with the plan. The one million route as a teen, which describe her, imagined a killing so gruesome his mother took the note to the police.

The plan basically outlined what he did to Angel and meli.

Prosecutors said Miller's attacks were methodical and precise. He approached both Angela and many, disabled them with a fatal stab wound in the back, and then dragged them to a secluded area where he brutalised them. There were more than twenty witnesses. Angel's boyfriend, joe, I was backing .

hurricane that night. That was the reason I didn't go on the background.

child d. Potter, who discovered the second murder, ene.

I often would stand up more moments and and then ended up writing through pottle of blood.

There was no doubt who committed the two murders, said the forensic scientist. The probability of selecting an unrelated individual at .

random having a DNA profile matching the DNA profile from this item is at least one in four hundred and sixty. Quentin.

no argument, said the offence. Miller did IT, but is so overcome by these disorders they argued he should be treated from mental illness, not thrown in prison or executed. Brian was treated like a dog literally made to walk on all force and eat out of a dog hole. Defense attorney told the judge that Miller's mother, Allen, who has since died, routinely beaten and tortured her son. And that was in all the .

abuse he endured, crossed many different lines that included sexual.

Parker said Miller's mother walked around the house half of naked and gave her son playboy magazines one. He was only seven IT result so damaging that Parker, that milers mine created two states of consciousness, a Normal state and the trauma state.

The trauma state was able to harbor rage, anger, resentment, humiliation, a desire for event.

And Miller was in that trauma state when the argument, when he killed Angela a mile.

as part of this associated to process not having access to those experiences or that information means is fundamentally not a part of his world. It's not something that he can engage with.

But he did do those.

He did his DNA .

is all over them. But he wouldn't made in court that he did these things.

The case was never about whether brian could or could not admit to offences. IT was about what recognition within himself he could have about those experiences.

A forensic psychologist appointed by the court at an opinion about the trauma state claim, essentially baloney. These were sex crimes, pure and simple.

I think they were planned and they were carefully executed. He, he waited detection and arrest for a long time.

That was the background. Was he insane? Did he remember doing IT?

After six months of testimony, IT was up to the judge now at last and answer as to count one first degree murder, Angela Brown, as follows, guilty as to count to first gree murder victim melani bernis, his followers guilty, guilty on all counts. Angela and milanese families had watched the trial on a video call set up for them, and now they address sed the judge jail cannet a is melon. These big sister honors cannot even be begin to describe the level of extra pain we experienced with the news of her horrific death in drusen Angels mother, the defendant stole her future, her innocence, her life. Judge cohen had won more big decision before her should Miller get the death the lawyers faced off for the last time, one trying to save mill's life.

Where would bryan be now, if you had a mother who nurtured him, who gave him huggs and showed him affection, who kissed him with love in her heart?

The prosecutor on the other side did not means words.

This will sound harsh, i'm sure. Angela and melanie didn't get to choose when they died. Um they didn't get to choose the day, the hour, the moment.

This definite deserves to know the day a hour. Of his death for what he did. It's clear that .

you took this case pretty personally too. But you get to know somebody and you want to represent a moil.

correct? I can still get emotional about IT, as you can probably tell right now.

Judge coin, get ready to read her decision. The question the court must answer is if the totality of the mitigation is sufficiently substantial to call for minion cy.

And there was a pause. I don't know whether he paused on purpose, but during the pause I was assure what he was going to say yes or no.

The answer is no.

Brian Miller was sentenced to death, but I feel .

like I don't know that I can put into words how he feels to sit next to brian after all these years and hear the judge sense in the death is in overwhelmed experience that Carries its own trauma. If you saw the horrendous things that brian Miller did to those women, death penalty was was suitable at that point. We can't bring those girls back, but we can give them some form of closure. And seeing brian Patrick Miller remove from society.

Miller is now on a izon e's death row where he has access to email. He wrote to date line that he is always denied being involved with the murders, and he did not agree with the office and the opinion of experts. Miller has appealed the conviction, but is the investigating over? No, IT is not just either of you think that that there are more murders out there that we don't know.

but I do. I'm hoping, praying that I can talk to him and hopefully clear some more cases and get some more relief for some of the other families because I do think he did other murders.

Thirty years ago, two bright Young women, each set out for bike rides along the center, and neither came home. Justice has finally been done, but the loss is forever.

while SHE probably be .

a mother and have a few .

children .

and some dogs and some cats and some rabbits and some animals around her, SHE would be a personal love. SHE really would.

I think of what SHE would have been like, what kind of mom SHE would have been, what kind of career SHE would have chosen in our year book, SHE signed IT, saying, I hope we are friends for the rest of our lives. I think we truly would have been friends forever.

That's all for this edition of dateline. We'll see you again thursday at ten, nine central. And of course, i'll see you each week night for nbc nightlight news. I'm less to hold for all of us, said nbc news. Good night.

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