Las Vega's journalist identifies in a shaken suspicious death | Murders

Mikki Zaferatos says that the breathtaking events played “Like horror movie stuff”.

“I couldn't process what my brain was going through,” said Zaferatos on Friday, two days after she found out on Wednesday that her brother, Matthew Scott Keleman, was found dead at a shop in downtown Las Vegas.

Keleman was a talented and well -known journalist, whose work was presented in several publications for more than two decades. Most recently, he contributed to the Las Vegas Magazine. He was 56.

In a telephone chat from her house in Apopka, Florida, Zaferatos said that the office officials of Clark County Coroner called in her house in her house at around 3 p.m. to inform that her Keleman's body was found in a container in the 100 block of the North 3rd Street near the Fremont Street.

“I received this call from the forensic doctor's office and think:” What's going on in Clark County? “Then they asked me my relationship with Matthew Keleman and I said:” This is my brother. “I thought maybe a car accident or something,” said Zaferatos. “And they said to me:” They found his remains in a box. “That's how I found it out.

As Zaferatos described from her conversations with the Metropolitan Police Department, Keleman's roommate, the 63-year-old Joseph del Rivo, left the box on Monday and said he or someone was back to pick it up in about a week.

On Tuesday, Del Rivo reported a moving company to collect the container. When the box was called up from the storage, the employees discovered a bad smell and contacted the U -Bahn.

The officials noted del Rivo's names when the moving company called him to tell him that the box could not be moved. Del Rivo was immediately a suspect in Keleman's death.

In an unused series of events on Tuesday, the officers of the Utah Highway Patrol followed a car driven by Del Rivo to Utah. Del Rivo was killed when he turned the vehicle.

Zaferatos said that Metro officials announced on Thursday that you used the bounce luggage storage app to save the article. The app can be used in several companies for those who want to drop the luggage while preparing to leave the city, or large items for short -term storage. The container was described as a large box.

“We believe that this may have been one of my brother's amplifier boxes,” said Zaferatos. “Matt played guitar and he had amplifiers and it was a big black box.”

Keleman became single, survived by older brothers Steven and Vincent; And his younger sister Mikki. The family saves the letter from Kelemens from Las Vegas, an extensive work from 2003 to the city.

Zaferatos said that Keleman said to the family last Thursday that he planned to move out of the room that he had leased in a rent that was also occupied by Del Rivo.

Keleman's last conversation with his family with his brother Steve went for his life inspection.

“He had only lived there for about six months, but he kept telling my brother what a strange guy that was,” said Zaferatos. “He said he was really restless when he lived there.” The guy was a disgusting slot, “was his words. Matt said:” Ok, I'll tell him. I'm just worried how he will react. “

The sister said from her conversations with civil servants that the death of her brother was expecting the result of being repelled by a hammer or a blunt object. As she said, “I can't imagine. I can't imagine that he deserves something like that.”

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