Police made an arrest in connection with the murders of two women from the early 1990s.
Bryan Patrick Miller, 42, was arrested late Tuesday night after DNA linked him to the killings of 22-year-old Angela Brosso and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas.
"Once we got that DNA sample from the suspect, that sample was analyzed by our crime lab and within hours we had a hit from those two murders, scientifically linking him by DNA to those two murders over 20 years ago," said Sergeant Trent Crump from the Phoenix Police Department.
Crump said Miller’s DNA will now be entered into a national database.
"We do not have his DNA in the CODIS databank yet," Crump said. "We did that match in our crime lab and we will enter that in there and we will begin to start looking now at this individual for other crimes here and other states."
Crump said Miller has not confessed to committing the murders. Brosso was killed in November 1992. Her decapitated body was found near 25th Avenue and Cactus Road. Bernas, a high school student, went missing a year later. Her body was found in the Arizona Canal.
