Concerns are raised after two gay Phoenix men were murdered in tortuous ways less than two years apart.
A former MMA fighter from Scottsdale is now at the center of an international sex trafficking investigation, accused of sexually assaulting and exploiting at least eight girls in Latin America.
The infamous “Doomsday Mom” Lori Vallow arrived Wednesday morning, months after Gov. Katie Hobbs asked for her to be extradited from Idaho to face murder charges.
Mercedes Vega, 22, was last seen on Sunday, April 16. Her body was found the next morning in a burning car near I-10 a few miles west of Tonopah.
Gilbert police say that around 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 22, officers were dispatched to a welfare check at a home on Aspen Way, near Guadalupe and Recker roads. When they arrived, they found a man, later identified as 49-year-old Stefan Koleva, dead inside. In arresting paperwork, officers said they found Koleva with signs of decomposition after being found wrapped in plastic and concealed under a bed.
A 1995 sexual assault is one of the high-profile cases they've solved.