Almost 30 years after two young women were brutally murdered in Phoenix, the man charged with the killings could be sentenced to death. Bryan Patrick Miller, who is now 49, was not arrested until 2015 when new genealogy data led to a breakthrough in the cold case and is now going to trial. He is accused of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and two counts of attempted sexual assault.

Gary Lee Triano was a millionaire real estate developer from Tucson, Arizona who was killed in Catalina Foothills by a pipe bomb explosion in his Lincoln Town Car on November 1, 1996. His former wife, Pamela Anne Phillips, a one-time model, real estate agent and socialite, was charged with orchestrating her ex-husband's death. In a sensational trial nearly 18 years after Triano's murder, Phillips was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Phillips, who is now incarcerated at the Arizona State Prison Complex – Perryville, claims that Triano's death was a mob revenge killing.

On the night of October 24/25, 1996, Doris Carlson drove John McReaken and Scott Smith, roomers in her house, to the nursing home where Doris Carlson's elderly mother-in-law, Lynne Carlson, resided. Smith served as lookout while McReaken entered the building. McReaken repeatedly stabbed Lynne in a bungled attempt to kill her. Lynne suffered greatly, but did not succumb to her fatal injuries for some 6 months.