LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Las Vegas police charged a convicted serial killer for a 2004 cold case that happened in Las Vegas.
In a press conference Thursday, Lt. Jason Johannson said DNA testing confirmed that Norman Flowers murdered Keysha Brown.
On October 19, 2004, police said Brown's boyfriend found her body covered up in a bathtub at an apartment complex near Flamingo and University Center Drive.
The Clark County Coroner's Office said she was stabbed, beaten, and strangled to death.
At the time, witnesses spotted a man who arrived in a red sedan, went into her apartment, and left with a duffle back.
Police reviewed the case in August 2022 and that's when a homicide detective recognized similar details to several murders from 2005.
Investigators sent evidence from Brown's case to a DNA lab for testing which identified Flowers as the suspect.
Flowers has already been convicted for the murders of Marilee Coote, Sheila Quarles, Rena Gonzalez.
The three were strangled and at least two were sexually assaulted.
Investigators believe Brown was the first victim and the other three women were murdered in the spring of 2005.
Police said Flowers has been in custody since 2005.
Earlier this month, Metro police announced a break in two decades-old cold case murders. A suspect in those cases was identified through advanced DNA testing at Othram, a private laboratory in Texas.
Scientists there combine advanced DNA technology with genealogy to narrow down the identities of victims and suspects. They can test even the smallest amount of DNA in cases dating back decades, Dr. Kristen Mittelman told Channel 13's Joe Moeller in a previous interview.
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