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Snatched in the Dead of Night

By Rachel Plotnick

Early on the morning of January 20, 2008, 19-year-old Brianna Denison, a sophomore at Santa Barbara City College, was literally kidnapped from an apartment in Reno, Nevada, where she slept, while home on winter break. Nearly a month later, following intensive search efforts, Brianna?s body was found in a brushy field not far from a business park. An autopsy determined that she had been strangled, and the police believe that she was the victim of a serial rapist who had now escalated his crimes to that of murder. A pair of black thong-style "Pink Panther" panties was found with the body, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. However, DNA testing concluded that the panties were not Brianna?s. Instead, the DNA found on the panties belonged to an unknown woman, and also contained male DNA that matches that of the suspected serial rapist...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).