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In 2002, Miller was charged but later acquitted in stabbing a woman in Washington state, according to the Seattle Times. He was later exonerated and not required to submit to a DNA test. In 1990, when Miller was still in high school, he was arrested for randomly stabbing a woman at a mall and served time until he was 18 years old.

Miller was already on their radar, as he’d been charged in two previous stabbings, according to the Seattle Times. Phoenix police enlisted the help of cold case experts from The Vidocq Society, who reexamined the case and created a forensic profile, leading their attention back to an early suspect, Bryan Patrick Miller. The high school student’s body was found floating in the water.īoth Brosso and Bernas were stabbed to death, according to Fox 10.ĭNA evidence collected at the crime scenes connected the two murders, leading authorities to deduce that the same man committed them. In September of 1993, Melanie Bernas, 17, was also on a bicycle ride along the edge of the Arizona Canal when she was murdered. Her decapitated body was discovered just as police began to conduct a search for her.īrosso’s head was found 11 days later in the Arizona Canal. Miller stands accused of killing Angela Brosso, 22, who never returned from a bicycle ride in November of 1992, according to AZ Central. The vehicle appeared to be an old police car with lights on top, making him well known around the community. Miller, known by some neighbors as 'Zombie Hunter' because of a bumper sticker on his car, was arrested in 2015, according to AZ Central.

This is just yet another in a long line of delaying tactics.” “He has been seen by multiple defense experts who have never even raised the possibility of insanity. “This defendant has been in custody for six years,” said Imbordino, according to Fox 10.

Prosecutor Vince Imbordino claims the new request is another stall tactic.

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In June, Miller’s trial was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to AZ Central.

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Now, his defense team is trying a new defense strategy, after a series of postponements over the years, claiming Miller isn’t fit to stand trial. The lawyer of a man accused of killing two women in the early 1990s, and who was known to some by the moniker 'Zombie Hunter,' has filed a request for a mental evaluation, according to court records.īryan Patrick Miller, 49, previously pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, kidnapping, and attempted sexual assault, according to Fox 10 Phoenix.

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