Cold case detective Clarke Schwartzcoff had been working in a dual murder case since the early 1990s and arranged to meet a man of interest in a Chile’s restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. This idea was to achieve possible suspect’s DNA so that forensic investigators could determine whether it matches the male DNA found on the bodies of two female victims. Angela Bosso and Melanie Burnus,
Those unresolved murders were known as canal murders as the two women were attacked while riding a bike with specific canal roads in the city.
It was January 2, 2015, and Shwartzcoff Bryan was meeting with a person named Patrick Miller. The spy had learned that Miller was some of a local celebrity. He preferred to participate in the popular zombie walk and other festivals in Phoenix, which was worn as a character Zombie Hunter, And fans and police officers posed with him.
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When he was in the character, Miller wore a homemade dress with goggles and a manging mask and took a fake gatling gun. He also removed an old Crown Victoria police car and tricked it, printed it with fake blood and put Zombie Hunter backwards. He often puts a disgusting effigy on the back seat of bars.
The day he met for dinner, Miller took his specific car to Chile. This certainly attracted the attention of Schwartcoff, but the detective still did not believe that Brian Miller was a canal killer. One reason he was a potentially suspected because a genetic genealist had matched the crime site DNA called Miller.
But Schwartzcoff suspected that this 42 -year -old divorced father could be a killer who lifts a teenage daughter alone and working in an Amazon warehouse.
Schwartzkopf told “48 hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant that he essentially wanted to cross this Miller from his list. “I was really more about getting his DNA,” Schwartzcoff said, “Clean it and move forward because my conversation with him, he was the last person who I ever thought would be responsible for it. He was light-hearted.”
The van saint reported the case in “Anamasking” to Zombie Hunter.
The suspicion of espionage was reinforced as he saw the way Brian Miller treated his teenage daughter, which he brought for food in Chile. “He had a good synergy with his daughter.”
Van saint asked, “Was he imposing physically? He looked like a person who could dominate people?”
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The Canal Killer ambushed the brosso and the burns, while they were out of each other on the ride of the night bicycle. Somehow, the killer stopped them, and then stabbed and sexually assaulted them. The murders were particularly vicious and the head of Bosso was beheaded.
“He is a big boy, but he is more soft,” said the detective. “Quite large where he can definitely control women, but there is no person you really fear on the road.”
Schwartzkopf made arrangements to sit in a quiet section in Chile. The undercover detectives noticed that the workers drove the silver utensils and plates out of the dishwasher and then the detectives placed them on the table to ensure that they would not be contaminated, Schwartzcoff told them to “48 hours”.
Miller ordered a burger and a glass of water. “He swallows his hamburger, eg, five bite, shwartzkof.” Will not take your water drinks. And I am going there, ‘Are you sure you … don’t want to drink something else? You just got water. “No, no, I’m good, I’m good, I’m good.”
But then for the relief of Schwartcoff, Miller finally sipped a sip of water: “When I knew, okay, we have at least we have got his DNA.”
As soon as Miller went out, the undercover detectives used Glass Miller. Miller then gave a quick tour of his zombie Hunter car before leaving Schwartzkopf.
Eleven days later, the detective received a trip from the head of the forensic lab. Schwartzkopf told the van saint what happened. “She lies to me, she goes, ‘This is that.” I go ‘what?’ She goes, ‘Brian Miller, this is that.’ … Okay, blood went away from my head.
Miller was immediately arrested and denied that he had killed someone. The case took almost eight years Get to testBut Miller was convicted Boss and Bernus murdered and Death sentence In June 2023.
Under the Arizona Act, Miller will get an automatic appeal.