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A grand jury on Friday indicted Dr. Dipak Desai and two nurse anesthetists on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Rodolfo Meana, a victim of Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s investigation into Nathan Burkett, accused of multiple strangulations in Las Vegas, has opened eyes in Mississippi and may have caught the attention of the FBI, the Las Vegas Review-Journal learned Thursday. Las Vegas police accuse the 65-year-old Burkett of slaying two valley women, the first in 1978.
Two nurse anesthetists charged with Dr. Dipak Desai in the hepatitis C criminal case on Thursday rejected plea deals offered by prosecutors. Defense attorneys said prosecutors indicated they would present murder evidence against Keith Mathahs, 76, and Ronald Lakeman, 65, to a grand jury if plea agreements weren’t struck this week.