Jeremiah Miller, 22, was killed after traveling to Las Vegas to buy ephedrine for methamphetamine production. He arrived in the city with $12,000 and met a drug associate at the La Concha motel on the Las Vegas Strip on April 18, 2002. That meeting ended when the associate, Scott Dozier, murdered Miller, likely by shooting, then dismembered the body and put the torso and other remains into a suitcase.

A maintenance worker at an apartment complex in west Las Vegas found the suitcase with Miller’s mutilated remains about a week after the killing; his head, hands, and feet were never recovered. Authorities tied Dozier to the crime after he spent the $12,000 and claimed he had won it at a casino. Dozier was arrested in Phoenix on June 25, 2002, and later tried and convicted for Miller’s murder.