Angela Brosso, 22, and Melanie Bernas, 17
Bryan Patrick Miller after his arrest
Bryan Patrick Miller’s death row mugshot
Former Everett resident arrested in Arizona murder cold case
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- A man who lived in Everett, Wash., has been arrested in the murders of two young women whose bodies were found in the Arizona Canal 20 years ago.
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Phoenix police on Tuesday night announced the arrest of Bryan Patrick Miller, 42, as the suspect in the slayings of 22-year-old Angela Brosso and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas.
A public records search shows Miller lived in Everett for the past 15 years until at least November 2014.
Industrial lamps illuminated the backyard as police scoured Miller's family home well into the night at Seventh Street and Mountain View Road, several blocks southeast of North Mountain Park.
Authorities said they tied the cases to Miller through DNA, but a police official declined to say how investigators obtained the sample.
Both women, one of them a senior in high school, had gone missing while riding their bikes.
Brosso had failed to return from a bike ride in November 1992 and police were just beginning to search for her when someone discovered the headless body of a woman near 25th Avenue and Cactus Road in Phoenix.
Police would confirm it was Brosso by the end of the week. Her head was found in the Arizona Canal 11 days later.
Brosso's murderer went on to kill again.
The next victim was Bernas, an Arcadia High School student who was also on a bike ride near the Arizona Canal when she was murdered in September 1993. Bernas' corpse was discovered floating in the Arizona Canal near where the canal goes under the Black Canyon Freeway, about a half-mile north of Dunlap Avenue.
A turquoise bodysuit was found nearby.
It took six months for investigators to connect the murders of Brosso and Bernas through forensic evidence — but the killer remained elusive.
In 2012, as the 20th anniversary of Brosso's brutal murder approached, Phoenix police investigators with the Cold Case Homicide Unit tried to renew interest in the case and asked the public for help, hoping someone who lived in the area would recall an odd neighbor with a unique set of characteristics.
Investigators believe, given the brutal nature of the murders and the speed with which the victims were executed, that the killer had specialized training in the military and that he collected "trophies" from the victims.
Neither Brosso's purple, 21-speed Diamondback mountain bike nor Bernas' green SPC Hardrock Sport mountain bike had been found.
On Tuesday night, police were seen carrying an old bicycle from a rusted tin shed in the backyard of the Miller family property. Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman, said it wasn't immediately clear if the bike belonged to either victim.
http://www.king5.com/story/news/crim...case/21757175/
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