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When you think of the Phoenix desert,
you definitely aren't thinking of a waterfront.
The canal system goes right through the center of Phoenix.
The more people that were moving to the area,
the more that the trails along there were being used
for walking, running, biking.
There are not many crimes that are like this one.
You had women riding bicycles along the canal
on a typical Phoenix evening ambushed,
stabbed multiple times.
Police are looking for whoever killed 22-year-old Angela
Brosso.
Angela Brosso dismembered, decapitated.
Police are looking at this scene and thinking, what on Earth
happened, and who did this?
10 months later, a 17-year-old junior at Arcadia High School,
Melanie Bernas--
this is the high school that Steven Spielberg attended.
Melanie Bernas's mother goes out to dinner,
and Melanie decides to go on a bike ride.
And the following morning, a woman is riding her bike.
Right here, there was just a big puddle.
It looked different as I rode through it.
And all of a sudden, I'm like that is blood.
So she called the police.
The police saw a blood trail.
And they see Melanie Bernas's body
at the bottom of the canal.
My time and my life froze at that very moment,
the day we found out.
I made a promise to myself.
I just never stopped talking about her.
These murders became widely known
as the Phoenix canal murders.
My name is Clark Schwartzkopf, and I
was assigned to the cold case unit investigating the canal
murders.
I think there was over 600 persons of interest.
I said, OK, give me the list.
In this mound of information of all these people and all
these possible suspects, I believed our killer was listed.
Eventually, detective Schwartzkopf
found his prime suspect on that list
and discovered that the alleged canal
killer had a second identity, a man who dressed up
like a comic book superhero and cruised
the valley in a decorated car dripping with fake blood.
The public knew this man as the Zombie Hunter.
What was his life as the Zombie Hunter like?
What did he do?
He would go to parades and festivals and show off this car
and kind of be a part of the excitement, if you 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 posing with police officers before they
discovered what he'd done.
It was almost like a slap in the face.
Like I'm here, but you don't know it.
It was like he was hiding in plain sight.
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It's one of those cases that you just don't forget.
You can't unsee what happened to those girls.
You just can't.
Long before the man known as the Zombie Hunter
became the prime suspect in a canal murders,
Clark Schwartzkopf was a detective
with the Phoenix Police Department's cold case squad.
His mission was simple but pointed,
find the killer responsible for those vicious murders
of two young women from the early 1990s.
To this day, I'm still not exactly sure about what
happened on those bike paths.
The case began on November 8, 1992.
Angela Brosso, a tech worker who had recently moved to Phoenix,
was taking advantage of beautiful weather
to get in a little exercise says Briana Whitney,
the true crime reporter for the CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix.
Each night, she would go out for her evening bike ride just
at golden hour, at sunset, the best
time to be riding out here.
Angela was only hours away from turning 22 years old.
And like a lot of locals, she liked to bike
on the paths that ran alongside the city's distinctive canals
says Schwarzkopf, a 48 Hours consultant.
Are there places that are sort of natural ambush sites
if somebody wants to attack someone?
Yeah, they are.
There's a lot of tunnels that go underneath the interstate.
That November evening in 1992, Angela left her apartment
around 7 PM, her boyfriend Joe later told police.
He said he stayed home to bake Angela a birthday cake
and didn't expect her to be gone long.
Hours go by, and Joe grows concerned.
Angela hasn't come home.
And that's not like her.
Joe told police he took his bike out three times that night
frantically searching for Angela on the canal paths.
He spoke to her friends, even her mother
back in Pennsylvania.
Finally, he reported Angela missing to police.
The next morning, searchers came upon a horrific scene.
Angela Brosso's torso was found in a field next to the trail
that she had been riding her bike on.
Angela had been stabbed to death.
Some 10 days after Angela's headless body was discovered,
a man fishing along this section of the canal
spotted her head stuck on a grate.
And from what we have heard from witnesses,
the head was in amazingly good condition,
especially considering this was days after the murder.
I'm Morgan Loew, and I'll take you--
Morgan Loew, an investigative reporter who also works at KPHO
and is a consultant for 48 Hours has
been working on the canal killer case for more than a decade.
We've heard that the head looked like it
had been preserved, like it was a memento for the killer.
Angela's purple mountain bike was also missing.
There were no solid leads, and the case
went quiet until September of 1993, some 10 months
after Angela's murder when the mother of 17-year-old Melanie
Bernas returned from a dinner date to find her daughter
had broken her curfew and was not home.
She then noticed that Melanie's bicycle was missing.
Melanie decides to go on a bike ride.
By around 10:30 when Melanie did not return,
her mother started calling her friends.
Is Melanie there?
Well, my mom took the phone call,
said that Melanie's mom was frantic and like nervous.
Rachel Schepemaker was one of Melanie's close friends
in high school.
So, initially, when you hear that her mother is looking
for her, you're not thinking something terrible
has happened to your friend.
Definitely not.
I thought she was with a friend and just
forgot to communicate with her mom where she was.
Early the next morning, Charlotte Pottle,
a local resident happened to be riding
along the canal with her young daughter in a bicycle seat.
Just as they came out of one of those tunnels that
ran under the Interstate, she spotted a puddle.
There was just a big puddle of something.
I ended up riding right through it
and having it splash over me.
Charlotte says something about the puddle bothered her.
So a few minutes later, she doubled back.
That's when she made that horrible 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 at it,
I notice that there are some drag marks that
went along over here.
Toward that tree?
Towards that tree, yes.
And then went around the tree and was dragged back.
You could see the drag marks right here to the canal.
Charlotte went home and called police.
Later that night, the local news reported that a woman's body
had been found in the canal close
to where Angela Brosso's head had been located.
They found the body in a teal bodysuit.
I was told by some other friends that Melanie did not own that.
It can't be her.
Rachel went to sleep 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 saying it
was Melanie.
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Detectives strongly suspected Melanie
had been targeted and stabbed in the back
by the same person who had killed Angela.
Police believe that somehow the killer got her off of her bike,
whether he knocked her off of her bike
or whether he asked her a question.
Clark says the evidence indicates the killer approached
the women from behind.
Both the knife wounds were the exact same position.
Investigators say the killer dragged Melanie's body
off the canal path, removed her clothes,
and dressed her in that teal bodysuit similar to this one
obtained by police.
Along with the stabbing and the dismemberment,
there was another component to these murders, wasn't there?
Yeah, both women were sexually assaulted.
And that meant investigators had a crucial piece of evidence,
DNA.
When the DNA from Melanie's scene was finally tested later,
it was matched to Angela's scene.
So we knew for sure that we were dealing
with the same perpetrator.
Investigators noted that the initial stab
wounds to the backs of each woman were fatal and so precise
that detectives suspected the killer might be a surgeon.
The details about what happened were the kinds
of things that kept parents from letting their kids out when
the sun went down.
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The murderers of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas
in the early 1990s created fear in Phoenix
that lasted for a generation.
You know there's some guy out there,
and you don't know where he is.
They watch the news and read the newspaper every day,
hoping that police would make an arrest.
And it just kept going on, and nothing, and nothing,
and nothing.
Investigators had collected matching male DNA
from both the victims.
But more than two decades passed,
and the canal murder cases went cold.
Then science finally caught up with the calendar.
It was in 2014.
Phoenix Police detectives are at a DNA conference.
And a forensic genealogist from California
is also at the conference.
Colleen Fitzpatrick, founder of Identifinders International,
was there to meet with law enforcement.
And she goes up to these detectives and says,
hey, I can take Y chromosomes and create these DNA profiles
and try to match them with genealogy
to help solve criminal cases.
Fitzpatrick's company had developed
software that could mine public genealogy databases searching
for matches to crime scene DNA.
The detectives heard her out.
And then several weeks later, they
sent me the Y-DNA profile from the crime scene for the Phoenix
canal murders.
Fitzpatrick's company started crunching the data,
hoping to provide Phoenix detectives with a name.
We entered the numbers from the forensic profile
into our software, and that's where I came up with six
matches to the name Miller.
While the genetic genealogy search
produced the name Miller, it is also
one of the most common last names.
Detective Schwartzkopf started 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 my master list.
And I went down through the list,
got to Bryan Patrick Miller.
But who was Bryan Patrick Miller?
Records show he was 42 years old with a Phoenix address.
That name was just one of more than 600 persons of interest
who had lived in those case files for years.
Police at the time seemingly never pursued Miller.
We discovered his file downstairs.
Police learned Bryan Miller had a record dating back to
before the canal murders.
In May of 1989 when he was just 16 years old,
Miller crossed paths with Celeste Bentley.
I was 24, and I was going to work.
I had just noticed a young boy on the bus.
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 thought he had just hit me.
I just yelled at him.
I was like, why did you do that?
And then I reached back and touched my back
and realized that it was blood.
I had been stabbed.
With a single knife wound to her upper back,
Celeste screamed and managed to make it to the store
where she worked.
A co-worker called for help.
About 30 minutes later when Celeste was
in the back of an ambulance--
The police came and said they found him.
And they wanted to bring him to the ambulance
to show him to me.
Celeste identified her assailant.
Bryan Miller was charged with aggravated assault.
They said that if he had held the blade the other way,
he would have gone straight through my ribs,
and I could have died.
Miller pleaded guilty and was sentenced to juvenile detention
until he turned 18.
It was a far cry from where Miller's life had begun.
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He was living in Hawaii for a while
as a kid with his mom and his dad,
but his dad died early on in a motorcycle accident.
Years later, Miller and his mother Ellen moved to Phoenix.
So for most of his life and early years,
it was Bryan Miller and his mom.
While Miller was in juvie, his mother
made a disturbing discovery.
Bryan Miller's mom was looking through his stuff,
and she found a note that he wrote.
The pages detailed a sinister plan, kidnap the girl,
tie her up in the truck, and cut her clothes off.
This note spelled out how he wanted
to find, abduct, rape, murder, and dismember a young woman.
And Bryan's mom was so disturbed by this piece of paper
that she took it to Phoenix Police.
It was Miller's 18th birthday, and he had just
been released as an adult.
She flat out told police at the time
that she was really scared for her safety
and that she was not going to allow him to come home.
So after his release, Miller ended up
at this Phoenix halfway house.
When Schwartzkopf read that note in 2014,
he was struck by something.
There was a lot of things in there
that were close or similar to what happened specifically
to Angela.
Including a description of decapitating a victim
and preserving the head.
Phoenix Police wanted to locate Miller.
Luckily, he was very easy to find.
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In December 2014, Phoenix Police continued digging
into potential suspect Bryan Miller, who they discovered
was actually a local celebrity.
Everybody at the time in the Phoenix area
knew Bryan Patrick Miller as this character
called the Zombie Hunter.
The Zombie Hunter, like a comic book character?
Yeah, like a comic book character,
like a good guy fighting the bad guys.
Miller's alter ego was a costumed figure
who participated in parades and festivals around town.
Thousands of zombies taking over the streets
of downtown Phoenix.
He wore this long trench coat with these goggles and helmet
and had this large Gatling gun.
And if you're going to hunt zombies,
you need a way to get around.
He bought an old police car, and tricked it out,
wrote the Zombie Hunter on it.
And it had a full-size zombie mannequin in the back and blood
on the side.
Friend Eric Braverman says Miller's Zombie Hunter persona
attracted a big fan base, including law enforcement
officers who lined up to pose with him.
Collected pictures of himself with the cops like trophies.
They're all smiling big with him, leaning on the car.
Eric says Miller's superhero character
was the opposite of what Bryan was
like when he wasn't in costume.
He seemed like a harmless marshmallow
that was immersed in this goofy lifestyle.
He's just that unassuming guy.
But could Miller be the canal killer?
The only way to find out was to get his DNA.
Investigators began to surveil Miller who
worked at an Amazon warehouse.
Every day when he got there, Miller
parked the zombie mobile in the same spot.
He would come out for his 15-minute break,
blast his music really loud.
Lunchtime, came out to the car, same thing,
blast this god-awful music.
Schwartzkopf came up with an elaborate plan to get his DNA.
I went up and introduced myself to Miller.
He was in his car.
What did you introduce yourself as?
I introduced myself as a security consultant.
Schwartzkopf told Miller that thieves
had been stealing goods from a warehouse across the way.
I said, would you be interested in working for me as a security
officer watching the building while you're outside?
Did his eyes light up?
Yeah, because it was a good paying job.
I said, look, I'll pay you $20 an hour.
On January 2, 2015, Schwartzkopf met
Miller at this Chili's restaurant
to fill out a job application.
The cold case unit was behind the scenes
ready to bag 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 everybody else in a part of the restaurant
where nobody else is at.
Miller arrived with a surprise guest, his 15-year-old daughter
Sarah.
Miller was a divorced single dad.
He was very gentle and caring about his daughter.
He often brought his daughter where he would be going.
The trio sat down and ordered hamburgers.
When the food arrived, he swallows his hamburger
in like five bites, won't take a drink of his water.
And I'm sitting there going, are you
sure you don't want something else to drink because you just
got water?
No, no, I'm good.
I'm good.
Schwartzkopf started to worry this operation would be a bust.
What does he finally do that makes
this mission accomplished?
Well, he finally took a drink from the water glass.
And that's when I knew that, OK, now we've at least got his DNA.
Despite knowing about Miller's juvenile record,
as their meal ended, the veteran detective's gut
told 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 that would do to these women.
Miller gave Schwartzkopf a quick tour
of his Zombie Hunter mobile.
And the two parted ways with the detective saying he'd
be in touch.
The cold case unit sent 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 we're like, what is this all about?
And in this meeting, these Phoenix detectives
say, as a joke, oh, they must have solved the canal murders.
But detective Schwartzkopf says it was no joke when
the head of the lab arrived.
She leans down to me.
She goes, it's him.
I go, what?
She goes, Bryan Miller, it's him.
Well, the blood rushed from my head.
I kind of sat back, and I went you've got to be kidding.
Bryan Miller's DNA from that water glass
matched the DNA recovered from Angela Brosso and Melanie
Bernas more than 20 years before.
Miller was arrested within hours.
During a police interview shortly after, Miller
was told why he'd been taken into custody in connection
with the canal murders.
We have DNA that links you to those two ladies.
I don't see how that's 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 you get it off your chest
if you did something like that.
I didn't kill anyone.
You didn't kill anybody?
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.
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.
Bryan Miller's House was like it came from the show Hoarders.
There was a little path where you
could get to a bathroom in the kitchen and where the TV was,
and that's it.
Everything else is just stacked to the roof with garbage.
Did you look around and go, this is madness?
Not only madness, I go, this is a nightmare.
Schwartzkopf and his investigators
would have to sift through all of it,
looking for other possible evidence.
Detective Schwartzkopf also focused
on a new source, someone Miller himself had ominously
singled out in his interview.
It's the one person on the face of the Earth I could probably
honestly say I hate.
Miller's ex-wife Amy, who would end up
revealing gruesome details from Miller's violent past.
He had told her about the murder of a young girl who'd
come to his door accidentally.
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What do you think motivated Bryan Miller to dress up
as the Zombie Hunter?
See more of the case on Facebook at 48 Hours.
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In January 2015, more than 21 years after the canal murders,
Bryan Miller was charged with first degree
murder in both Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas's deaths.
Melanie's friend Rachel Schepemaker
says she felt a wave of relief.
A very joyous moment of, oh my gosh,
this is what we've been waiting for for decades upon decades.
Detective Schwartzkopf wanted to talk
to the one person who probably knew
Miller best, his ex-wife Amy.
They had been married for eight years.
There was a divorce.
Amy told Schwartzkopf that she was just 19 when
she met Miller in 1996.
They married less than a year later
and moved to Everett, Washington.
Amy had a shocking revelation for the detective.
She told Schwartzkopf Miller had revealed a gruesome secret
to her that he had killed a young girl in Phoenix years
earlier before he'd ever met Amy.
Schwartzkopf says Amy never reported it to police before
for a number of reasons.
She didn't know if it was true.
She was afraid of Miller.
And she said she wanted to be a good wife.
You support your man no matter what.
Detective Schwartzkopf says Amy told him what Miller had said.
That a young girl had come to his door.
That he had grabbed this young female, pulled her in,
killed her immediately.
Amy said Miller told her he dismembered
the girl and disposed of her remains
in trash left on the curb.
Although Amy claimed Miller never
told her the child's name, investigators
used the information Amy provided
to piece together who Miller may have been talking about.
13-year-old Brandy Myers was a little girl collecting money
for a school book-a-thon in her North Phoenix neighborhood,
going door to door.
I was a tomboy, and she was a girly girl.
Brandy's sister, Kristin Dennis.
So she would try to learn how to climb trees or jump
fences because she wanted to play with me.
She was my best friend.
It was May 26, 1992, six months prior
to the murder of Angela Brosso.
Miller was living in the halfway house following
his time in juvenile detention for the aggravated assault
of Celeste Bentley.
This is one block from our school, his home.
And then three blocks is our house.
So every single day, we'd walk right by here.
Kristin says Brandy left home alone that evening
never to return.
She was last seen two doors down from Bryan's, walking
in the direction of his house.
Despite an extensive search, Brandy's body was never found.
Schwartzkopf says even though Amy couldn't provide a name,
the clues in her account add up to just one conclusion.
I believe that person is, in fact, Brandy Myers.
Her sister believes that as well.
Brandy went to the landfill like some thing of no importance.
Even with Amy's account, investigators
did not have enough evidence to charge Miller
in Brandy's disappearance.
So the fact that she was disposed of there's
just nothing physical, nothing forensically to grab on to.
48 Hours contacted Miller who said
he had no involvement in Brandy's disappearance
and never confessed to Amy that he had killed a young girl.
But there is another case in Miller's past.
In 2002, a woman named Melissa Ruiz-Ramirez is walking down
the street in Everett at night.
Somebody pulls over.
It was Bryan Miller.
Melissa would later tell police she'd
seen him before talking to a friend of hers.
Melissa said she got in Miller's car
and told him she needed to make a call.
And he drove her to his workplace
so she could use the phone.
She tells police she's on the phone.
And from out of the clear blue, Bryan Miller
comes running out with a 12-inch serrated kitchen knife
and stabs her in the back.
They fight over the weapon.
Melissa said she escaped and contacted police.
They picked up Miller shortly after.
He didn't deny stabbing Melissa but claimed
it was self-defense.
He said he was at work when Melissa
walked in off the street and asked to make a call.
He said, she goes to use the phone.
And then all of a sudden now the clear blue,
she tries to rob him with a knife.
Miller was arrested and charged with first degree assault
with a deadly weapon.
He was jailed from May 2002 until his December trial.
The jury just didn't buy Melissa's story.
It was a he said, she said.
And they acquitted him of the charge.
Amy says a chilling change followed Miller's return home.
She said it began with the letters
she'd received from her jailed husband while he awaited trial.
They first started out as professing his innocence.
And then it would turn into sexual deviance.
Like, here's what I'm going to do when I get out to you.
Amy told Schwartzkopf that Miller followed up his words
with action.
She said he came back with an unbelievable ugly, dark
sexual deviant side that she'd never seen before.
There were times where there was sex between them where
he held a knife to her throat.
Amy told Schwartzkopf that Miller
claimed something happened to him as a child, something that
would become the cornerstone of his defense
for murdering Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas.
His unique defense?
Call the first witness.
His mother had created a monster.
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At the start of Bryan Miller's trial
for the murders of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas,
in October 2022, his attorneys opened
with a startling defense.
They admitted their client was the canal killer.
They had to concede right off the bat
that he is the actual killer but that he was not
guilty by reason of insanity.
His defense attorneys say Miller was tortured by his mother
Ellen as a child and that led to his violent sexual behavior.
She died in 2010.
If you imagine the making of a monster,
this is kind of the household that story begins in.
Miller told investigators after his arrest
that the beatings began when he was just five years old.
She was a detention officer.
Discipline in their house was mental as well as physical.
She used her security belt, so it was like a law enforcement
belt. And, usually, I got hit by the buckle.
The defense opted for a bench trial, which
meant there would be no jury.
His lawyers told Judge Suzanne Cohen
that Miller's mother also exposed her young son
to violent sexual content.
He was exposed to her interests in pornography
and extremely violent films.
Miller's lawyer said his mother's abuse
caused Miller to develop severe mental health problems.
He feels like there are different TVs playing
in his head.
Psychologist Bethany Brand testified
that Miller developed a condition known
as dissociative amnesia, an inability
to remember some traumatic events.
Morgan Loew summed up the defense argument.
There were two Bryans.
There's the one you see over there
at the defense table who's a fairly normal person, who
has friends, who had a job, who was a dad, who was a husband.
And then there's the killer.
There's bad Bryan.
And Miller claimed his attorneys had no memory, none of the two
murders he was charged with.
Prosecutors undermine the defense claim that Miller
has no memory of the killings.
They point out that he does remember details
related to other stabbings.
Remember, Miller admitted stabbing Celeste Bentley
when he was 16 years old.
And in 2002, he had also testified
about the stabbing of Melissa Ruiz-Ramirez in Washington.
To show Miller's deviant side, prosecutors
called the only person in the world Miller said he despised,
his ex-wife Amy.
The judge did not allow cameras to record her face.
Under questioning by prosecutor Elizabeth Reamer,
Amy testified that later in their marriage,
Miller grew increasingly violent during sex.
Did you ever say anything to him about wanting it
to stop because it was scary?
No.
Why not?
I was avoiding any confrontation with him at all at that point
and wanted to be as compliant as possible so that I would say,
will he loved me enough not to kill me?
Did he ask permission prior to using needles on you?
No.
Did he ask permission prior to tying you up?
No.
What percentage of your sex life after he got out
of jail in Washington included bondage,
the pins or other things that were not
the normal sex you'd been having early in your marriage?
Probably at least 95%.
The trial continued.
And after six months and 36 witnesses,
the judge delivered her verdict.
As to count one, first-degree murder Angela Brosso as
follows, guilty.
As to count two, first-degree murder victim Melanie Bernas as
follows, guilty.
How did Bryan Miller react to the guilty verdict?
He didn't react.
He didn't give any real emotion.
But Angela's mother who addressed the court remotely
was emotional.
The defendant broke my heart, took all hope and light
from me and my family.
The hole in my heart is so big and deep.
Melanie's older sister Jill also spoke
remotely about how painful it was that Melanie's life ended
violently at the age of 17.
For 30 years now, we have 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.
Miller who didn't take the stand during his trial
was allowed to give a statement before he was sentenced.
I am not looking for sympathy today.
This time is for the family and the friends of the victims.
I cannot imagine what pain they have endured for all these
years.
I know I am different.
I thought I had to do what my mother did to me.
Defense counsel RJ Parker urged Judge Cohen to show mercy
before she delivered her judgment on Miller's sentence,
life in prison or death.
You do not have to kill Bryan in order to see justice done.
Judge Cohen agreed with the centerpiece
of the defense case.
The defendant's abuse as a child was proven.
But eight months after the trial began,
Miller's abuse at the hands of his mother
did not dissuade Judge Cohen from handing down
the ultimate sentence.
There is no question that what the defendant did
deserves the death penalty.
Mr. Miller, anything you wish to say to the court?
I guess thanks for listening to everything that was said
and giving us at least the opportunity to try and convince
you otherwise.
Justice was carried out in this case.
Detective Schwartzkopf hopes family and friends
of Angela and Melanie might finally find some peace.
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People like Rachel Schepemaker.
Just knowing that justice was served,
it doesn't make anything easier.
How do you want your good friend be remembered?
She's the All-American good kid.
I want her family to know that we haven't forgotten her.
She changed us all for the better.
She was a gift.
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A knock at the door by a clown, an evil clown.
The evil clowns you see in the movies, well, it came to life.
Who comes calling with balloons, flowers, and a gun.
I heard bang.
I saw her fall.
This was an assassination.
Who isn't afraid of a killer clown?
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