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Gruesome Las Vegas Torture Slaying Nets Guilty Verdict

By David Lohr

During the summer of 2006, police in Florida found the diary of 23-year-old Cassandra Thomas of Las Vegas inside a stolen car.  After investigators in the Sunshine State read it, the written words of this young woman led to a homicide investigation in Sin City nearly 2,000 miles away.  The victim was 42-year-old Michael McClain of Las Vegas, cousin of a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sergeant.  McClain went missing in early June 2006, but his body would not be found until two months later. The events that led police to believe that a murder had been committed in Las Vegas began on June 26, 2006 when police in Jacksonville Beach, located due east of Jacksonville off of Highway 228 and right on the beach just as its name implies, found Thomas and one of her cohorts in crime, Corey Pearce, 29, inside a stolen car next to a beachfront condominium...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).