The night of the fatal shooting, Jimmy Shelton, Sean Patrick Foley and Miranda Goddard drank together on a porch, until Foley went inside and overheard the pair’s conversation.
After a man was found dead in just his socks and underwear in a casino stairwell, investigators learned the body belonged to Donald Idiens and eventually traced the crime to Greg Chao.
At the scene, EMS responders found 53-year-old Burt Templet “in a pool of blood” in a bathroom of the home he shared with his son, an assistant district attorney said.
“Whatever the motive was, the evidence is that Melissa James died a horrible death at the hands of Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan," a former Clark County chief deputy district attorney said.
