Layla South
08-30-2008, 10:19 AM
Phoenix police on Thursday formally presented the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office with the investigation into the death seven years ago of an Ahwatukee Foothills man whose girlfriend, they believe, called a national talk radio show and bragged that she got away with murder.
Phoenix police Sgt. Joel Tranter also officially named the girlfriend, Megan Suzanne Vice of El Mirage, as the suspect in the case. He said while police won’t arrest the 30-year-old Vice, they are seeking charges of first-degree murder and obstructing a criminal investigation for filing a false police report.
Two years ago, a woman claiming to be the dead man’s girlfriend said on a national radio talk show that she killed him but had convinced police it was a suicide.
Detectives continued to work on the case that drew attention on Nov. 3, 2006, when nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Tom Leykis took a call on his live show from a woman claiming she got away with murder. Police have linked the call to the March 2001 death of Tortsen Rockwood.
In May, Phoenix police filed a “reasonable cause statement” showing that they believe Vice shot and killed Rockwood, her live-in boyfriend, in March 2001. Their 2-year-old son reportedly was in another room. The court record shows that Vice told police the couple argued about Rockwood hitting the boy and that she thought Rockwood shot himself.
Vice could not be reached for comment.
http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=e5648631-9554-44dc-9e04-e279d1112e51
Phoenix police Sgt. Joel Tranter also officially named the girlfriend, Megan Suzanne Vice of El Mirage, as the suspect in the case. He said while police won’t arrest the 30-year-old Vice, they are seeking charges of first-degree murder and obstructing a criminal investigation for filing a false police report.
Two years ago, a woman claiming to be the dead man’s girlfriend said on a national radio talk show that she killed him but had convinced police it was a suicide.
Detectives continued to work on the case that drew attention on Nov. 3, 2006, when nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Tom Leykis took a call on his live show from a woman claiming she got away with murder. Police have linked the call to the March 2001 death of Tortsen Rockwood.
In May, Phoenix police filed a “reasonable cause statement” showing that they believe Vice shot and killed Rockwood, her live-in boyfriend, in March 2001. Their 2-year-old son reportedly was in another room. The court record shows that Vice told police the couple argued about Rockwood hitting the boy and that she thought Rockwood shot himself.
Vice could not be reached for comment.
http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=e5648631-9554-44dc-9e04-e279d1112e51