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Murder Arrest Made in Two Grisly Phoenix Cold Cases, but are There More Victims?

Melanie Bernas (Left) Angelia Brosso (Right) Booking Photo of Bryan Patrick Miller Phoenix, AZ—In 1992/1993 Melanie Berna s, 17 and Angela Brosso , 22 were savagely sliced up nearly a year apart in the same general Sunnyslope vicinity. In November 1992 the Brosso girl went for a bicycle ride and never returned. Her live-in boyfriend reported her missing to police. Brosso was soon found headless and her torso cut in half in a nearby park at 25th Avenue and Cactus. I saw raw and disturbing video of Brosso's naked and bloody body captured by a TV news photographer and it was indeed hideous. That video was heavily edited before it hit the airwaves. Brosso’s severed head was subsequently located in or next to a canal some two miles away. Brosso’s bicycle has never been recovered and no viable suspect has ever been located. Nearly one year later in September of 1993 the Bernas girl’s severed head was found near the Arizona canal and the Black Canyon freeway. Nearby floa...