NV - Annie Miller, 30s, & Elvia McGuire, 24, Las Vegas, May 1998 & Oct 1999 *Arrest*

Brandon McGuire, 42, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center in May on a felony charge of battery constituting a domestic violence strangulation.

A DNA sample was taken from McGuire, as it is from everyone arrested on a felony charge. Cold case investigators with the Metropolitan Police Department have since tied McGuire’s DNA to a 2004 sexual assault case and a homicide in 1998...

And McGuire has always been the top suspect in the 1999 death of his wife, according to a police affidavit.

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The tip to police came from a pay phone at a convenience store on Blue Diamond Road, but when officers arrived 10 minutes later, the caller was gone.

Police quickly found the murder scene and the victim, an unknown female, splayed out under a Joshua tree 50 feet from the asphalt of State Route 159 near Oliver Ranch.

"It appeared there was an extensive struggle," said Dean O'Kelley, a homicide investigator. "She was naked from the waist down. She did have a skirt that was pulled up around her abdomen, her t-shirt was in place but she was obviously bludgeoned to death. There were signs of major head trauma. There was blood in different locations"...

The original investigators figured out the dead woman was Annie Miller, whose identity card hinted she'd been homeless.

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Brandon McGuire, 42, was booked Oct. 12 on counts of sexual assault and kidnapping in a case in which a woman was raped at knifepoint at Mount Charleston...

McGuire has also since been linked and booked in the 1999 death of his wife, Elvia McGuire...

“This case serves as an example of the success of the cold case project, and we expect similar results in the future,” Metro said at the time. Lawmakers in 2015 allocated $3.68 million in grant money to test about 7,500 sexual assault evidence kits that sat in vaults throughout the state dating back 30 years...

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