Bryan Patrick Miller says he didn't viciously murder two young women in Phoenix over 30 years ago. At trial, his attorneys blamed being abused as a child for his violent behavior.
The murders of two young women, killed months apart while riding their bikes along a canal in Phoenix, Arizona, went unsolved for more than two decades and would become known as the Phoenix canal murders.Investigators got a break 21 years after the murders thanks to DNA and genetic genealogy. They zeroed in on Bryan Patrick Miller, 42, a divorced father raising his teenage daughter. Investigators soon discovered Miller had an alter ego.
You didn't kill anybody?BRYAN MILLER: No.Investigators got a search warrant for Miller's house, the home he shared with his teenage daughter and just about everything he'd ever collected in his life. Clark Schwartzkopf: I can remember like it was yesterday walking up to the front door and everybody going, 'you can't get in that way' … 'It's full of crap.'Morgan Loew: Bryan Miller's house was like it came from the show 'Hoarders.
Did you ever say anything to him about wanting it to stop because it was scary?AMY MILLER: No. Did he ask permission prior to tying you up?AMY MILLER: No. The defendant broke my heart … took all hope and light from me and my family. The hole in my heart is so big and empty.Melanie's older sister Jill Bernas also spoke remotely about how painful it was that Melanie's life ended violently at the age of 17.JILL BERNAS CANETTA: For 30 years now, we've had to live without Melanie because the defendant murdered her … Words cannot even begin to describe the level of excruciating pain we experienced with the news of her horrific death.
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