Inside Las Vegas reporters' mission to trace down their colleague's killer

A group of journalists who labored collectively to seek out the suspect within the homicide of their co-worker Jeff German, an acclaimed investigative journalist for the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal who was stabbed to loss of life exterior his dwelling on Saturday, did so primarily utilizing social media and Google Maps.

The 5 colleagues of German additionally took data they'd gathered from police to seek out the suspected killer and located that Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles had a automotive in his driveway that matched the outline that police had, in response to the Each day Beast. Telles was arrested by police Wednesday evening.

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“We’re simply appearing on intuition proper now, aggressively looking for out what occurred,” stated Briana Erickson, a colleague of German. “We’ve lastly been in a position to breathe.”

The Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal cited German's loss of life over an unspecified “altercation,” Erickson stated. Shortly after, nonetheless, her editor noticed a press launch concerning a murder on the similar tackle as German's dwelling.

Because the outlet started to seek for who could possibly be a suspect, they discovered offended social media messages directed at German from Telles, who had lately misplaced reelection for his place as public administrator. Telles's loss got here after German had written a number of investigative articles on him earlier than the election, together with one through which German accused the general public administrator, who's married and a father to 3, of getting an inappropriate relationship with a workers member.

The police's description of the suspect in German's loss of life described a person wearing a straw hat, gloves, and an orange shirt, together with a 2007 to 2017 pink or maroon GMC Yukon Denali with chrome handles and a sunroof. German's co-workers then used Google Maps to go looking Telles's tackle and located a photograph of the car that matched the police description in his driveway.

“We’re right here to interrupt information, get it proper, as a result of that’s what Jeff would need us to do,” stated Michael Scott Davidson, one other member of the crew.

Telles's car was towed by midday on Wednesday, with Telles arrested by police within the night. He has been ordered to be held with out bail on a homicide rely and is barred from Clark County amenities, in response to the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal.