Giovanni Ruiz had faced the death penalty and was set to go to trial later this month in the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Paula Davis.
Sex Crimes
By Doug Kari Special to the / RJ
Suspect Troy Driver sent his girlfriend a letter from jail last year that described a “terrible darkness” inside him. He killed himself earlier this month.
Dawed Mekonene, 30, was found unconscious in a cell on Feb. 19.
Las Vegas police linked a dead man to a second cold case killing, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Raymond Spencer said in a video posted to the department’s YouTube channel on Monday.
Las Vegas police announced on Monday that they have solved the 1979 abduction, rape and killing of a 16-year-old girl by using advances in DNA technology.
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