Elected Official Linked to Las Vegas Reporter’s Murder Through DNA, Shoes and Straw Hat: Police – By Meghann Cuniff (Law & Crime) / Sept 8, 2022
Police say the elected official accused of murdering a Las Vegas investigative reporter was linked to the crime through DNA, as well as shoes and a straw hat that were allegedly altered in an attempt to destroy evidence.
In a press conference Thursday morning, Capt. Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Robert Telles, 45, was upset about articles Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German had written “that exposed potential wrongdoing.”
“Telles had publicly expressed his issues with that reporting, and then ultimately Telles was also upset, from what we found out later, that there was additional reporting that was pending,” said Koren, calling German “a well-known investigative reporter.” Telles, a Democratic official, recently lost his re-election bid — and German chronicled that failed campaign extensively.
