
Over three years, Miller developed a relationship with her family. Cold case investigator Dan Long said it was his partner, Terri Miller, who first dusted off Stephanie’s file. The department then started talking about which case to select for the test. Looking to help the community, Woo asked the lab to specifically process a cold case from the Metropolitan Police Department. It only heated up again last year when local entrepreneur and philanthropist Justin Woo made a $5,000 donation to Othram lab in Texas. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) a record Cold case Detective Terri Miller and other Metropolitan Police Department personnel gather for a news conference at department headquarters in Las Vegas with a photo of Stephanie Isaacson, 14, on July 21, 2021. He told them to play her favorite song: Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings.” She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.Īfter the coroner left the lot, Isaacson went home and called the local radio station. When Isaacson called Eldorado High School, he learned that she had never made it to class.īy 11 p.m., a Las Vegas police canine unit had found Stephanie bludgeoned in the brush near the residential area of Stewart Avenue and Linn Lane.

It was June 1, 1989, and his 14-year-old hadn’t come home from school. Stephanie Isaacson (Metropolitan Police Department) His friend Gary Braley had spotted the scene. Her dad identified them while searching for her near the desert lot just a half-mile from her home. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) first sign that Stephanie Isaacson had been murdered was the sight of her schoolbooks.

Cold case detective Dan Long, center, joins forensics director Kim Murga, front, cold case detective Terri Miller, left, and others during a news conference about Stephanie Issacson on July 21, 2021.
