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Angela bro's torso was found in a field next to the trail that she had been riding her bike on 21-year-old Angela
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braso had been on a bike ride when she was ambushed and stabbed to death detectives hovered over the body of a
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young woman she had been decapitated Melanie decides to go on a bike ride by around 10:30 when Melanie
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did not return her mother started calling her friends is Melanie there I could tell that it was a puddle
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of red that it was a puddle of blood and all of a sudden as I'm looking at it I noticed that there are some drag marks
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that went along over here toward that tree towards that tree yes and then went around the tree and was drugged back you
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could see the drag marks right here to the canal 17-year-old Melanie bernes a junior in high school school had been
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found dead in the canal not far from where Angela braso was found these murders became widely known as the
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Phoenix Canal murders along with the stabbing and the dismemberment there was another component to these murders
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wasn't there yeah both women were sexually assaulted and that men investigators had a crucial piece of
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evidence DNA investigators collected the same male DNA from both the victims but
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more than two decades passed and the canal murders went cold on until science finally caught up with the calendar in
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2014 Colleen Fitzpatrick and her team identifers International began crunching the data hoping to provide law
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enforcement 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 you check your files and what do you find I think there were
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a total of six Millers that were on what I called my master list and I went down
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through the list got to Brian Patrick Miller 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 cruised The Valley in a decorated car dripping with fake blood the public knew
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this man as the zombie hunter police wanted to get Miller's DNA and see if it was a match to the DNA found on Angela
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braso and Melanie Bern his bodies so detective Clark Schwarz cop came up with an elaborate plan to get his DNA
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investigators began surveilling Miller who worked at an Amazon warehouse I went up and introduced myself to Miller he
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was in his car what did you introduce yourself I introduced myself as a security consultant Schwarz told Miller
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that thieves had been stealing goods from a warehouse across the way I said would you be interested in working for
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me as a security officer watching the building while you're outside did his eyes light up yeah cuz it was a good
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pain J I said look I'll pay you 20 bucks an hour on January 2nd 2015 Schwarz met
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Miller at this Chili's restaurant to 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 he swallows his hamburger in like five bites won't
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take a drink of his water and I'm sitting there going you sure you want something else to drink cuz you just got
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water no no I'm good I'm good I'm good schwarzkoff started to worry this operation would be a bust what does he
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finally do that makes this mission accomplished we finally took a drink from the water
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glass that's when I knew that okay now we least got his DNA