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[Music] when you think of the Phoenix Desert you definitely aren't thinking of a
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[Music] waterfront the canal system goes right through the center of Phoenix the more people that were moving to the
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area the more that the trails along there were being used for walking running biking there are not many crimes that
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are like this one you had women riding bicycles along the canal on a typical Phoenix
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evening ambushed stabbed multiple times police are looking for whoever killed 22-year-old Angela braso Angela braso
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dismembered decapitated police are looking at this scene and thinking what on Earth
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happened and who did this 10 months later a 17-year-old Junior at ARC hadia High School Melanie
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bernus this is the high school that Steven Spielberg attended Melanie Bern's mother goes out
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to dinner and Melanie decides to go on a bike ride and the following morning a woman
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is riding her bike right here there was just a big puddle it looked different as
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I rode through it and all of a sudden I'm like that is blood so she called the police the
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police saw saw a blood trail and they see Melanie Bernice's body at the bottom of the
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canal my time in my life froze at that very moment the day we found out I made a promise to
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myself I just never stopped talking about her these murders became widely known as
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the Phoenix Canal murders my name is Clark schwarzkoff and I was assigned to the C case unit
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investigating the canal murders I think there was over 600 Persons of Interest I said okay give me the
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list in this mound of information of all these people and all these possible suspects I believed our killer was
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listed eventually detective schwarzkoff found his prime suspect on that list and
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discovered that the alleged Canal killer had a second identity a man who dressed
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up like a comic book superhero and Cruis The Valley in a decorated car dripping with fake blood the public knew this man
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as the zombie hunter what was his life as the zombie hunter like what did he do he would go
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to like parades and festivals and and show off this car and kind of be a part of the excitement if you
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will your assignment was to find this guy and you have found him yeah he is accused of being a killer but here he is
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posing with police officers before they discovered what he'd [Music] done it was almost like a slap in the
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face like I'm here but you don't know it it was like he was hiding and playing sight
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[Music] [Music] it's one of those cases that you just don't forget you can't unsee what happened to those girls you
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just can't long before the Man known as the zombie hunter became the prime suspect in the canal murders Clark
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Schwarz cof was a detective with the Phoenix Police Department's cold Cas Squad his mission was simple but pointed
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find the killer responsible for those vicious murders of two young women from the early
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1990s to this day I'm still not exactly sure about what happened on those bike paths the case began on November 8th
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1992 Angela bro a tech worker who had recently moved to Pho was taking advantage of beautiful
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weather to get in a little exercise says Brianna Whitney the True Crime reporter
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for the CBS affiliate kph in Phoenix each night she would go out for her evening bike ride just at Golden
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hour at Sunset the best time to be riding out here Angela was only hours away from turning 22 years old and like
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a lot of locals she liked to bike on the the paths that ran alongside the city's
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distinctive canals says schwarzkoff a 48 Hours consultant are there places that are
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sort of natural Ambush sites if somebody wants to attack someone yeah they are there's a lot of tunnels that go
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underneath the interstate that November evening in 1992 Angela left her apartment around 7 p.m.
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her boyfriend Joe later told police he said he stayed home to bake Angela a birthday cake and didn't expect her to
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be gone long hours go by and Joe grows concerned Angela hasn't come home and that's not
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like her Joe told police he took his bike out three times that night frantically searching for Angela on the
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canal paths he spoke to her friends even her mother back in pencilvania finally he reported Angela missing to
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police the next morning morning Searchers Came Upon a horrific scene Angela bro's torso was found in a field
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next to the trail that she had been riding her bike on Angela had been stabbed to
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death some 10 days after Angela's headless body was discovered a man fishing along this section of the canal
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spotted her head stuck on a grate and from what we have heard from Witnesses the head was in amazingly good
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condition especially considering this was days after the murder I'm Morgan low and I'll take you Morgan low an
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investigative reporter who also works at kph and is a consultant for 48 hours has
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been working on the canal killer case for more than a decade we've heard that the head looked
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like it had been preserved served like it was a momento for the killer Angela's purple mountain bike was also missing
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there were no solid leads and the case went quiet until September of 1993 some 10 months after Angela's murder when the
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mother of 17-year-old Melanie bernus returned from a dinner date to find her daughter had broken her curfew and was
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not home she then noticed that Melanie's bicycle was missing Melanie decides to go on a bike ride by
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around 10:30 when Melanie did not return her mother started calling her friends is Melanie there well my mom took the
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phone call said that Melanie's mom was frantic and like nervous Rachel Shep maker was one of
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Melanie's close friends in high school so initially when you hear that her mother's looking for her you're not
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thinking something terrible has happened to your friend definitely not I thought
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she was with a friend and just forgot to communicate with her mom where she was early the next morning Charlotte
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pole a local resident happened to be riding along the canal with her young daughter in a bicycle seat just as they
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came out of one of those tunnels that ran under the interstate she spotted a puddle there was just a big puddle of of
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something ended up riding right through it and having it Splash over me Charlotte says something about the
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puddle bothered her so a few minutes later she doubled back that's when she made that horrible
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realization I could tell that it was a puddle of red that it was a puddle of blood and all of a sudden as I'm looking
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at it I notice that there are some drag marks that went along over here toward that tree towards that tree yes and then
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went around the tree and was drugged back you could see the drag marks right here to the canal
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Charlotte went home and called police later that night the local news reported that a woman's body had been found in
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the Canal close to where Angela bro's head had been located they found the body in a teal
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bodysuit I was told by um some other friends that Melanie did not own that it can't be her Rachel went to sleep
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convinced the body in the canal was not Melanie but the next day I'm at school my friends just come up to me crying and
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saying it was [Music] Melanie detective strongly suspected Melanie had been targeted and stabbed in
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the back by the same person who had killed Angela police believe that somehow the
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killer got her off of her bike whether he knocked her off of her bike or whether he asked her a question Clark
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says the evidence indicates the killer approached the women from behind both the KN BS were the exact same
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position investigators say the killer dragged Melanie's body off the canal path removed her clothes and dressed her
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in that teal bodysuit similar to this one obtained by police along with the stabbing and the
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dismemberment there was another component to these murders wasn't there yeah both women were sexually
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assaulted and that meant investigators had a crucial piece of evidence DNA when the DNA from melan scene was
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finally tested later it matched to Angela scene so we knew for sure that we were dealing with the same perpetrator
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investigators noted that the initial stab wounds to the backs of each woman were fatal and so precise that
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detectives suspected the killer might be a surgeon the details about what happened were the kinds of things that
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kept parents from letting their kids out when the sun went [Music] down the murders of Angela braso and Melanie
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bernes in the early 1990s created fear in Phoenix that lasted for a generation you know there's some guy out there and
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you don't know where he is they watched the news and read the newspaper every day hoping that police
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would make an arrest and it just kept going on and nothing and nothing nothing and
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nothing investigators had collected matching male DNA from both the victims but more than two decades passed
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and the canal murder cases went cold then science finally caught up with the calendar it's in 2014 Phoenix police
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detectives are at a DNA conference and a forensic genealogist from California is
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also at the conference Carling Fitzpatrick founder of identif finders International was there to meet with law
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enforcement and she goes up to these detectives and says hey I can take Y chromosomes and create these DNA
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profiles and try to match with genealogy to help solve criminal cases Fitzpatrick's company had developed
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software that could mine public genealogy databases searching for matches to Crime Scene DNA the
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detectives heard her out and then several weeks later they sent me the y d profile from the crime scene for the
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Phoenix Canal murders Fitzpatrick's company started crunching the data hoping to provide Phoenix detectives
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with a name we entered the numbers from the forensic profile into our software and
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that's where I came up with six matches to the name Miller while the genetic genealogy search produced the name
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Miller it is also one of the most common last names detective schwarzkoff started
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digging you check your files and what do you find I think there were a total of six Millers that were on what I called
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my master list and I went down through the list got to Brian Patrick Miller but who was Brian Patrick Miller
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records show he was 42 years old with a Phoenix address that name was just one of more than 600 Persons of Interest Who
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had lived in those C case files for years police at the time seemingly never pursued
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Miller we discovered his file downstairs police learned Brian Miller had a record dating Back to Before the
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canal murders in May of 1989 when he was just 16 years old Miller crossed paths with Celeste
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Bentley I was 24 and I was going to work I had just noticed a young boy on the us
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Celeste says she and the boy got off at the same stop moments later she felt something in her back he had ran by me I
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thought he had just hit me I just yelled at him I was like why'd you do that you
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know and then I reached back and touched my back and realized that it was blood I
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had been stabbed with a single knife wound to her upper back Celeste screamed and managed to make it to the store
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where she worked a coworker called for help about 30 minutes later when Celeste was in the back of an ambulance the
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police came and said they found him and they wanted to bring him to the ambulance to show him to me Celeste
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identified her as salent Brian Miller was charged with aggravated assault they said that if he had held the blade the
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other way he would have gone straight through my ribs and I could have died Miller pleaded guilty and was sentenced
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to juvenile detention until he turned 18 it was a far cry from where Miller's life had
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[Music] begun he was living in Hawaii for a while as a kid with his mom and his dad
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but his dad died early on in a motorcycle accident years later Miller and his mother Ellen moved to Phoenix so for
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most of his life and early years it was Brian Miller and his mom while Miller was inun juvie his mother made a
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disturbing Discovery Brian Miller's mom was looking through his stuff and she found a note that he wrote the pages
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detailed a Sinister plan kidnap the girl tie her up in the truck and cut her clothes off this note spelled out how he
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wanted to find abduct rape murder and dismember a young woman and Brian's mom was so disturbed by this piece of paper
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that she took it to Phoenix police it was Miller's 18th birthday and he had just been released as an adult Chief
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Fred out told police at the time that she was really scared for her safety and that she was not going to allow him to
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come home so after his release Miller ended up at this Phoenix halfway house when schwarzkoff read that note in 2014
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he was struck by something there was a lot of things in there that were close or similar to what
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happened specifically to Angela including a description of decapitating a victim and preserving the
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head Phoenix police wanted to locate Miller luckily he was very easy to [Music] find
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[Music] in December 2014 Phoenix police continued digging into potential suspect
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Brian Miller who they discovered was actually a local celebrity everybody at the time in the Phoenix area knew Brian
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Patrick Miller as this character called the zombie hunter the zombie hunter like
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a comic book character yeah like a comic book character like a good guy fighting
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the bad guys Miller's Alter Ego was a costume figure who participated in parades and festivals around town
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thousands of zombies taking over the streets of Downtown Phoenix he wore this long trench coat with these goggles and
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helmet and had this large Gatling gun and if you're going to hunt zombies you need a way to get
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around he bought an old police car and tricked it out wrote The Zombie Hunter on it and it had a full-size zombie
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mannequin in the back and blood on the side friend Eric Braverman says Miller's zombie hunter Persona attracted a big
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fan base including law enforcement officers who lined up to pose with him collected pictures of himself with the
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cops like trophies they're all smiling big with him leaning on the car Eric says Miller's superhero
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character was the opposite of what Brian was like when he wasn't in costume he seemed like a harmless marshmallow that
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was immersed in this goofy lifestyle he's just that unassuming guy but could Miller be the canal
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killer the only way to find out was to get his DNA investigators began to surveil Miller who worked at an Amazon
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warehouse every day when he got there Miller parked the zombie Mobile in the same spot he would come out for his
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15-minute break blast his music really loud lunchtime came out to the car same thing blast this God awful music Schwarz
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cof came up with an elaborate plan to get his DNA I went up and introduced myself to Miller was in his car why did
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you introduce yourself I introduce myself as a security consultant schwarzkoff told Miller that thieves had
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been stealing goods from a warehouse across the way I said would you be interested in working for me as a
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security officer watching the building while you're outside did his eyes light up yeah cuz it was a good paying job I
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said look I I'll pay you 20 bucks an hour on January 2nd 2015 Schwarz coff met Miller at this Chile's restaurant to
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fill out a job application the Cold Case unit was behind the scenes ready to bag
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anything that had Miller's DNA on it such as utensils or a glass they set a table for me and Mr Miller away from
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everybody else in a part of the restaurant where nobody else is at Miller arrived with a surprised guest
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his 15-year-old daughter Sarah Miller was a divorced single dad it was very gentle and caring in about his daughter
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he often brought his daughter where he would be going the trio sat down and ordered hamburgers when the food arrived
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he swallows his hamburger in like five bites won't take a drink of his water and I'm sitting there going you sure you
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want something else to drinkz it's just got water no no I'm good I'm good I'm good Schwarz started to worry this
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operation would be a bust what does he finally do that makes this mission accomplished we finally
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took a drink from the water glass that's when I knew that okay now we've at least
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got his DNA despite knowing about Miller's juvenile record as their meal ended the veteran detectives gut told
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him Miller was not their man seeing him with his daughter I just don't see this guy as being the monster in 1992 and 93
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that would do this to these women Miller gave Schwarz coff a quick tour of his Zombie Hunter mobile and the
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two parted ways with a detective saying he'd be in touch the Cold Case unit sent
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Miller's water glass off to the crime lab 11 days later we got a call from the lab and we're sitting there and like
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what is this all about and in this meeting these Phoenix detectives say as a joke huh they must have solved the
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canal murders but detective schwarzkoff says it was no joke when the head of the
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lab arrived she leans down to me she goes it's him and I go what she goes Brian Miller it's
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him well the blood rushed from my head I kind of sat back and I went you've got to be kidding Brian Miller's DNA from
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that water glass matched the DNA recovered from Angela braso and Melanie bernes more than 20 years
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before Miller was arrested within hours during a police interview shortly after Miller was told why he'd been taken into
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custody in connection with the canal murders we have DNA that links you to those two ladies I don't see how that's
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possible he just kind of went through it in his Dopey kind of I don't know what you're kind of talking about would help
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you get it off your chest you did something like that I didn't kill anyone you didn't kill anybody no investigators
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got a search warrant for Miller's house the home he shared with his teenage daughter and just about everything he'd
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ever collected in his life I can remember like it was yesterday walking up to the front door and everybody going
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you can't get in that way it's full of crap Brian Miller's house was like it came from the show hoarders there was a
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little path where you could get to a bathroom in the kitchen and where the TV was and that's it everything else is
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just stacked to the roof with garbage did you look around and go this is madness not only manad it's go this is a
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nightmare Schwarz and his investigators would have to sift through all of it looking for other possible evidence
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detective schwarzkoff also focused on a new source someone Miller himself had ominously singled out in his interview
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it's the one person on face of the earth I could probably honestly say I hate Miller's ex-wife Amy who would end
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up revealing gruesome details from Miller's violent past he had told her about the murder of a young girl who'
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come to his door [Music] accidentally what do you think motivated Brian Miller to dress up as the zombie
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hunter see more of the case on Facebook at 48 hours in January 2015 more than 21 years after
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the canal murders Brian Miller was charged with first-degree murder in both Angela braso and Melanie Bernice's
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deaths Melanie's friend Rachel Shep maker says she felt a wave of relief a very joyous moment of oh my gosh this is
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what we've been waiting for for decades upon decades detective schwarzkoff wanted to
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talk to the one person who probably knew Miller best his ex-wife Amy they had been married for eight years there was a
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divorce Amy told schwarzkoff that she was just 19 when she met Miller in 1996 they married less than a year later
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and moved to Everett Washington Amy had a shocking Revelation for the detective she told Schwarz cof
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Miller had revealed a gruesome secret to her that he had killed a young girl in Phoenix years earlier before he'd ever
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met Amy schwarzkoff Says Amy never reported it to police before for a number of reasons she didn't know if it
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was true she was afraid of Miller and she said she wanted to be a good wife you support your man no matter what
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detective schwarzkoff says Amy told him what Miller had said that a young girl had come to his
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door that he had grabbed this young female pulled her in killed her immediately Amy said Miller told her he
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dismembered the girl and disposed of her remains in trash left on the curb although Amy claimed Miller never
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told her the child's name investigators used the information Amy provided to piece together who Miller May have been
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talking about 13-year-old Brandy Meyers was a little girl collecting money for a
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school book ofon in her North Phoenix neighborhood going door too I was a tomboy and she was a girly
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girl Brandy's sister Christen Dennis so she would try to learn how to climb trees or jump fences because she wanted
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to play with me she was my best friend it was May 26th 1992 6 months prior to the M of Angela
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braso Miller was living in the halfway house following his time in juvenile detention for the aggravated assault of
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Celeste Bentley this is one block from our school his home and then three blocks is
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our house so every single day we walked right by here Kristen says Brandy left home alone that evening never to return
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she was last seing two doors down from Brian's walking in the direction of his house despite an extensive search
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Brandy's body was never found schwarzkoff says even though Amy couldn't provide a name the clues in her
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account add up to just one conclusion I believe that person is in fact Brandy Myers her sister believes that as well
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Brandy went to the landfill like some thing of no importance even with Amy's account
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investigators did not have enough evidence to charge Miller in bry's disappearance so the fact that she was
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disposed of there's just nothing physical nothing forensically to grab on to 48 Hours contacted Miller who said he
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had no involvement in bry's disappearance and never confessed to Amy that he had killed a young girl but
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there is another case in Miller's past in 2002 a woman named Melissa Ruiz Ramirez is walking down the street in
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Everett at night somebody pulls over it was Brian Miller Melissa would later tell police she'd seen him before
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talking to a friend of hers Melissa said she got in Miller's car and told him she
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needed to make a call and he drove her to his workplace so she could used the phone she tells police she's on the
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phone and from out of the clear blue Brian Miller comes running out with a 12in serrated kitchen knife and stabs
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her in the back they fight over the weapon Melissa said she escaped and contacted police they picked up Miller
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shortly after he didn't deny stabbing Melissa but claimed it was self-defense he said he was at work when
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Melissa walked in off the street and asked to make a call he said she goes to use a phone and
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then all of a sudden now the clear blue she tries to rob him with a knife Miller
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was arrested and charged with first-degree assault with a deadly weapon he was jailed from May 2002 until
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his December trial the jury just didn't buy Melissa's story it was a he said she said and they
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acquitted him of the charge Amy Says a chilling change followed Miller's return home she said it began with the letters
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she'd received from her jailed husband while he awaited trial they first started out as
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professing his innocence and then it would turn into sexual deviant like here's what I'm going to do when I get
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out to you Amy told Schwarz cof that Miller followed up his words with action she said he came back with an
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unbelievable ugly dark sexual deviant side that she'd never seen before there were times where there was
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sex between him where he held a knife to her throat Amy told schwarzkoff that Miller
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claimed something happened to him as a child something that would become the Cornerstone of his defense for murdering
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Angela braso and melany bernes his unique defense call her first witness his mother had created a
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[Music] monster at the start of Brian Miller's trial for the murders of Angela braso
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and Melanie bernes in October 2022 his attorneys opened with a startling defense they admitted their
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client was the canal killer they had to concede right off the bat that he is the
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actual killer but that he was not guilty by reason of insanity his defense attorneys say Miller was tortured by his
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mother Ellen as a child and that led to his violent sexual behavior she died in 2010 if you imagine the making of a
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monster this is kind of the household that Story begins in Miller told investigators after his arrest that the
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beatings began when he was just 5 years old she was a detention officer discipline in their house
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was mental as well as physical she used her security belt so it was like a law enforcement belt and usually I hit got
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hit by the Buckle the defense opted for a bench trial which meant there would be
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no jury his lawyers told judge Suzanne Cohen that Miller's mother also exposed her young son to violent sexual
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content he was exposed to her interests in pornography and extremely violent films Miller's lawyer said his mother's
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abuse caused Miller to develop severe mental health problems he feels like there are different team TS playing in
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his head psychologist Bethany bran testified that Miller developed a condition known as dissociative Amnesia
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an inability to remember some traumatic events Morgan low summed up the defense argument there were two Brians there's
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the one you see over there at the defense table who's a fairly normal person who has friends who had a job who
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was a dad who was a a husband and then there's the killer there's bad Brian and Miller claimed his attorneys had no
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memory none of the two murders he was charged with prosecutors undermine the defense claim that Miller has no memory
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of the killings they point out that he does remember details related to other stabbings remember Miller admitted
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stabbing Celeste Bentley when he was 16 years old and in 2002 he had ALS also testified about the stabbing of Melissa
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Ruiz Ramirez in Washington to show Miller's devian side prosecutors called the only person in
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the world Miller said he despised his ex-wife Amy the judge did not allow cameras to record her
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face under questioning by prosecutor Elizabeth reamer Amy testified that later in their marriage Miller grew
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incre recently violent during sex did you ever say anything to him about wanting it to stop because it was
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scary no why not I was avoiding any confrontation with him at all at that point and
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wanted to be as compliant as possible so that I would stay will he love me enough not to kill me
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did he ask permission prior to using needles on you no did he ask permission prior to tying you up no what percentage
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of your sex life after he got out of jail in Washington included bondage the king
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or other uh things that were not the normal sex you'd been having early in your marriage probably at least
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95% the trial continued and after 6 months and 36 Witnesses the judge delivered her verdict as to count one
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first-degree murder Angela braso as follows guilty as to count to first-degree murder victim Melanie
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bernes as follows guilty how did Brian Miller react to the guilty verdict he didn't react he didn't
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give any real emotion but Angela's mother who addressed the court remotely was emotional the defendant broke my heart
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took all hope and light from me and my family the hole in my heart is so big and
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empty Melanie's older sister Jill also spoke remotely about how painful it was that Melanie's life ended violently at
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the age of 17 for 30 years now we've had to live without Melanie because the defendant
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murdered her words cannot even begin to describe the level of excruciating pain we experienced with the news of her
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horrific death Miller who didn't take the stand during his trial was allowed to give a
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statement before he was sentenced I'm not looking for sympathy today this time is for the family and the friends of the
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victims I cannot imagine what pain they have endured for all these years I know I am different I thought I
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had to do with what my mother did to me defense counsel RJ Parker urged judge Cohen to show Mercy before she delivered
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her judgment on Miller's sentence life in prison or death you do not have to kill Brian in order to see Justice Done
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judge Cohen agreed with the centerpiece of the defense case the defendant's abuse as a child was
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proven but 8 months after the trial began Miller's abuse at the hands of his mother did not dissuade judge
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