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Update on Brianna Denison Case

By David Lohr

Earlier this year, I reported that Brianna Denison, 19, had been found raped and strangled to death a month after she disappeared from a friend's house in Reno, Nevada (see Snatched in the Dead of Night). Readers will recall that Brianna's body was found in a vacant field on Reno's southeast side in February 2008. Two pairs of panties that did not belong to her were found nearby. Last week Reno police announced that they had arrested a man for the alleged rape and murder of Brianna Denison, a man that investigators are looking at in a number of additional similar unsolved cases in other states. According to Reno Police Lt. Robert McDonald, an anonymous tipster called in on November 1, 2008 to report that James Michael Biela, 27, had been fingered as a potential suspect in Brianna Denison's rape and murder by Biela's girlfriend and mother of his 4-year-old son...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).