Bodybuilders BUSTED - Muscle Mayhem redux
Dec 23rd, 2005 by Mark
*** UPDATE ***
Boston dot com – Bodybuilding Couple Arrested
Ryan was arrested while getting her nails done, while Titus was arrested in the parking lot sitting in the vehicle.
*** END UPDATE **
KLAS-TV is reporting that Bodybuilders Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan have been arrested in Canton Mass. They were wanted on Murder charges in Vegas.
As I stated previously it is believed that a “love triangle” is the cause of the murder.
Titus admitted to having an affair with Melissa James when meeting with Homicide detectives. He also said that he had evicted her for embezzlement. Both told detectives that James had stolen Ryan’s car. Amazingly neither ‘crime’ was ever reported.
So what is the deal here?
Las Vegas police say that Titus killed Melissa James and that Ryan and Gross helped dispose of her body.
Ryan told police that after discovering funds missing from her accounts, she kicked James out of her $470,000 southwest Las Vegas home. The eviction came Dec. 13, a day before James’ body turned up in the remote desert.
Oh that seems a bit too tidy. Guess it didn’t fool the police either.
Maura James said her daughter never mentioned being romantically involved with Titus, who married Ryan in Clark County in June 2000. Melissa James, who was a model and former dance instructor, had lived with the bodybuilders in Southern California several years ago.
Well would you tell your mother that you were the paramour of a married, convicted drug dealer who she would most likely see as a freak?
Titus asked Melissa James to move to Las Vegas about two months ago, and she accepted, her mother said.
In the days before her death, James told her mother that she and Ryan were not getting along. She said she was staying at a hotel.
“I said, ‘Why?’ She said, ‘Well, Kelly is flipping out and acting crazy,’•” Maura James said.
Gee you think?
Titus paid for the room on a credit card from his company. Spent much of the night with James. He also paid for her ticket to go home in that same week.
So how did the police break this case?
On Dec. 16, two days after James’ body was recovered, Amanda Polk, a young bodybuilder who had moved to Las Vegas to train with Ryan, contacted police with a tip. Polk met with investigators the next day and told them that she had received a phone call from Titus on Dec. 15 “saying he was in a bad situation (and) needed to get out of town for a while,” police said.
“Ryan proceeded to tell Polk she had found their roommate, Melissa, dead in her room from an overdose,” police said. “Polk said Ryan told her Melissa had been dead for a few hours and couldn’t describe what she looked like because it would traumatize Polk for life. Polk said Ryan proceeded to tell her” that her life was ruined “because she bought seven bottles of lighter fluid at Wal-Mart with her credit card” at 3:30 a.m.
Investigators say Polk confronted Ryan and asked her why she hadn’t called police when she found the body.
“Ryan responded by saying Craig told her, ‘No body, no crime,’•” police wrote in the report. “Ryan told Polk she just did what Titus told her to do, that she thought Titus got someone to get rid of Melissa and she didn’t kill anyone.”
Rocket Scientists.
Does she thinks this will protect her from prosecution. I have no doubt that “Battered Wife Syndrome” will be used for Ryan. Titus will no doubt be vilified as a steroid crazed control freak who controlled Ryan.
So how does Anthony Gross get into this?
Police obtained cell phone records that showed Titus called Anthony Gross in the early morning of Dec. 14.
Ahh. The dreaded cell phone records.
Gross told investigators that he left his apartment in pajamas, filled up a can with gas and drove west on Blue Diamond Road until he saw flashing headlights from a Jaguar.
He told police that he pulled up beside the Jaguar, rolled down his window and handed Titus a metal gas can. He said he did not know what Titus did with the gas can and, though he gave Titus a lift back into town, the two never discussed what had happened.
What? Does not get dressed. Ask no questions. Then gives him a ride back. Yet, he knows nothing? Well I am convinced!
An autopsy revealed that James had likely died from asphyxiation.
Police used the license plate on the car to trace the vehicle back to Ryan.
“I think they had hoped the fire would completely consume the car so that it would be unidentifiable,” Monahan said.
Titus met with his business partner Gregory Ruiz at a Subway shop on December 17.
“Titus told Ruiz he had to leave the country,” an investigator wrote, adding that Titus had traded in his Dodge Viper truck for a new vehicle and intended to meet a friend in Boston to liquidate his assets.
Guess he went the wrong direction. Brazil by way of Boston? Not the brightest people I suppose. Not like he stands out from a crowd or anything. “Hey honey, let’s drive to France. No one will recognize us.” After all of this, can not say I am shocked by this last FUBAR.
Neighbors say that Titus has been behaving differently lately.
A neighbor who did not want to be identified because Titus remained on the loose, said he had noticed another change in the man: “He’s smoking. Before, he was not smoking.”
Smoking. A good sign of drug use, among other things.
Melissa James mother, Maura celebrated her 51st birthday on Thursday remembering her daughter with friends.
“I find it hard to believe they had anything to do with it because she trusted them as friends,” she said. “I was shocked. I never imagined they’d be capable of doing anything like this.”
Thank God you have never been around druggies and desperate criminals. This is exactly how they behave.
“You know what’s so hard?” James said. “They burned my daughter so that we can’t even see her again before we bury her. She is so sweet. She is so sweet and beautiful. I can’t imagine anybody doing that to her.”
I hope these two get the death penalty. Anything else is a travesty.
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