![]() They revisited the case hundreds of times, amassing so much evidence that an entire file cabinet was turned over to that case alone. The Phoenix PD Cold Case Homicide Unit didn't sit around eating doughnuts for twenty years, however. Police interviewed hundreds of potential suspects, and possible witnesses, but drew a blank when it came to the killer's identity.īack in 1993, Bryan Patrick Miller was just one name among hundreds, which police received in tips. In the early 90's, the level of science used to work with DNA had not been developed enough to help in the right way. And, there is no doubt it's the smoking gun that led to an arrest in 2015. Police are pretty cagey about the forensic evidence in the case, worried they might taint a future jury pool, but it's a pretty good bet that DNA, reportedly found on both bodies, was what originally tied the two murders together. The night Leo Speliopoulos received that call, police carried rusted bikes from the suspect's backyard storage shed. They would remain missing for years afterward. ![]() They also noted that both Brosso's purple 21-speed Diamnondback mountain bike and Bernas' green SPC Hardrock Sport mountain bike remained missing. Six months after her body was found, using forensic evidence, police connected her murder to Brosso's. ![]() Her death prevented her from completing slated visits to both Berkley and Pepperdine. She had been stabbed and sexually assaulted.įriends described her as a high-achiever who planned to become a doctor. Her corpse was found, bobbing, near where the canal passes beneath I-17 a little north of Dunlap Avenue. (There are some very nice bike paths along the top of the bank.) ![]() Her decapitated body was found near 25th avenue and Cactus road in Phoenix a short time later.Įleven days after that, somebody spotted her head, stuck in a grate, in the Arizona Canal.Ībout ten months later, in September of 1993, Melanie Bernas, a 17-year-old Arcadia High School student, disappeared on a bike ride along the Arizona Canal. Sadly, one November evening, that year, not long after moving to Phoenix, miss Brosso went for a bike ride. And it's true, you know? She really did." In an interview, later, her mother, Linda, described Angela as "A force," adding, ".her father said she changed the nature of a room when she entered it. She took a job with Phoenix electronics firm Syntellect and moved in with her boyfriend. In 1992, 22-year-old Angela Brosso (left) had graduated from college in Los Angeles.
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