December 24, 2005

Bodybuilders arrested in woman's slaying near Boston


Two champion Las Vegas bodybuilders charged in the slaying of their personal assistant were apprehended Friday near Boston, bringing a quick end to a nationally publicized manhunt.
Craig Titus, 40, and Kelly Ryan, 33, were taken into custody by a team of federal agents and local officers in the parking lot of a shopping center anchored by a Shaw's supermarket, roughly 15 miles outside of Boston on state Route 138, said FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz.

When officers swarmed the couple, Titus was inside his truck, a MUG root beer at his side. Ryan was inside a nail salon at the shopping center, Canton, Mass., Police Chief Kenneth Berkowitz said at a Friday night news conference, according to the Boston Herald.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Dec-24-Sat-2005/news/5045342.html
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/24/fugitives_in_nev_slaying_held_in_mass/
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December 23, 2005

Fugitive Bodybuilders Nabbed In Stoughton For Vegas Murder

(CBS4) CANTON Professional bodybuilder Craig Titus and his wife, Kelly Ryan, were arrested Friday in Stoughton as fugitives in the slaying of a woman whose body was found last week in Ryan's burned-out luxury car abandoned off a remote desert highway.
Titus, 40, and Ryan, 33, were arrested by federal agents and local police at the Shaw's Plaza in Stoughton and were being held in nearby Canton, FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said. The two towns are about 15 miles south of Boston.
Members of the FBI stormed into a Stoughton nail salon Friday afternoon -- where Ryan had planned to get her pedicure -- and arrested Titus and Ryan, who looked vastly different from the way they normally appear.
http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_357170204.html
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Bodybuilder Craig Titus admits to affair with victim

A week before Craig Titus and his wife, Kelly Ryan, became fugitives, the professional bodybuilders met with Las Vegas homicide detectives about the dead woman who was found in Ryan's burned 2003 Jaguar.
Titus, 40, admitted to secretly having an affair with 28-year-old Melissa James, whose body was found in the trunk of the car. Titus and Ryan, 33, said James was their live-in personal assistant. They said that they had recently evicted her for embezzling from them, but that they had not filed a police complaint.
Titus and Ryan were set free after their interrogation because of a lack of evidence, and authorities presume the two have since fled, possibly to Greece.
Titus and Ryan have since been charged with murder and third-degree arson.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Dec-23-Fri-2005/news/5034653.html