Zombie Hunter killer who murdered two women moans death row cells are 'too cold'
The man dubbed the 'Zombie Hunter' for killing two women has moaned that life on death row is "isolated" and "not great".
Bryan Patrick Miller is on Arizona's death row and is languishing at the Special Management Unit (SMU) at the Eyman Prison Complex in Florence in the US. In an email, Miller told CBS that his new life - he was sentenced to death in June this year - is "far safer" than what he would be subjected to in a more regular part of the jail.
"It is better than county jail, but it is obvious that isolation has taken its toll on many people here," he said. "From what I saw of people in county jail compared to here, the majority of the people here are by far not what I would consider the worst of the worst. It is by far safer than anywhere else in prison even though they have nothing really to lose anymore."
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Angela Brosso went missing a day before turning 22 (PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT)
Schoolgirl Melanie Bernas was found dead in similar circumstances (PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT)He continued: "It is far from great, as I am even more isolated from those I care about and also my legal team, the food is still not great and the cells are getting very cold now that temps are falling."
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In 1992, Angela Brosso went missing the day before she turning 22 during an evening bike ride on her own, she did not come home to her boyfriend who was baking her a cake for her birthday. Her body was found a day later in a field next to her apartment.
It was a brutal killing and her body was found decapitated. There were also signs of sexual assault and she had been stabbed in the back.
Some in Phoenix knew Miller as the 'Zombie Hunter' based on a comic-book character (Maricopa County Court)Later that month, the missing head was found floating in the Arizona Canal and police believed it had been stored in a refrigerator before being dumped, due to the lack of decomposition.
In September 1993, schoolgirl Melanie Bernas was found dead in similar circumstances. She had been stabbed in the back and sexually assaulted and both the bodies turned up matching DNA.
Miller maintains his innocence and says his DNA being on both victims is the "million-dollar question." He also says he is against the sentence he was given, which is being automatically appealed according to Arizona law.
"I have always been against the death penalty and the more I see what death row is and who is here and how they got here, I am even more against it," he said.
Police used Miller's DNA captured from a mug during a sting (Maricopa County Court)In 2011, the cold case for the 'Canal Murders' began to change as Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf worked through a list of persons of interest. In 2014, a foresnic genealogist used software to match the surname Miller, drawing siz matches on Schwartzkopf's list.
One of those names was Bryan Patrick Miller, who had a juvenile record against him for stabbing a woman named Celeste Bently in May 1989.
A subsequent sting led to a DNA match in 2015, but Miller's trial did not begin until 2022.
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