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48 Hours

Unveiling the Zombie Hunter

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How police connected the murders of two young women to a man known as a zombie-fighting comic book hero. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. This episode last aired on 10/22/2023.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you think of the Phoenix Desert, you're definitely aren't thinking of a waterfront.

0:20.0

The canal you're definitely aren't thinking of a waterfront.

0:28.6

The canal system goes right through the center of Phoenix.

0:33.6

The more people that were moving to the area, the more that the trails along there were being used for walking, running, biking.

0:42.3

There are not many crimes that are like this one.

0:51.5

You had women riding bicycles along the canal

0:55.0

on a typical Phoenix evening,

0:59.0

ambushed,

1:02.0

stabbed multiple times.

1:05.0

Police are looking for whoever killed 22-year-old Angela Brasso.

1:10.0

Angela Brasso dismembered, decapitated.

1:14.6

Police are looking at the scene and thinking, what on earth happened and who did this?

1:24.6

Ten months later, a 17-year-old junior at Arcadia High School, Melanie Bernice, this is the

1:33.0

high school that Steven Spielberg attended. Melanie Bernice's mother goes out to dinner, and Melanie

1:40.4

decides to go on a bike ride.

1:44.1

And the following morning, a woman is riding her bike.

1:47.0

Right here, there was just a big puddle.

1:50.0

It looked different as I rode through it.

1:53.0

And all of a sudden, I'm like, that is blood.

1:57.0

So she called the police.

1:59.0

The police saw a blood trail, and they see Melanie Bernice's body at the bottom of the canal.

2:06.6

My time and my life froze at that very moment the day we found out.

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