'Canal Killer' Convicted Of Killing PA Native On Her 22nd Birthday: Reports

PENNSYLVANIA — The man accused of decapitating a Pennsylvania woman 31 years ago after she moved to Arizona has been found guilty of murdering her and fatally stabbing a teenager, authorities said.

Angela Brosso, who was murdered in November 1992, grew up in central Pennsylvania, according to reporting from Pennlive and the Arizona Republic. Officials sought her killer for years after she disappeared while riding her bicycle on her 22nd birthday, in November 1992. Her body was later found, naked and decapitated, near the Arizona Canal bike trail according to officials.

A judge in Maricopa County, Ariz. found 50-year-old Bryan Patrick Miller guilty of Brosso's murder and the murder of 17-year-old Melanie Bernas on Tuesday, the county attorney there said. The judge also found Miller guilty of two counts of kidnapping and two counts of attempted sexual assault.

Officials arrested in in January 2015; genealogy evidence linked Miller to Brosso and Bernas' murders, according to the Associated Press.

The county attorney's office filed an intent to seek the death penalty with the court in May 2015, said County Attorney Rachel Mitchell.

“This verdict in the murders of Angela Brosso and Melanie Burnas took decades of work by law enforcement and prosecutors,” Mitchell said. “After more than two decades of anguish, the families of these women now have someone held accountable for their heinous murders.”