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Written by CBS4 - Boston
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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 |
A married bodybuilder couple wanted for murder in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of being fugitves. A Stoughton District Court judge ordered 40-year-old Craig Titus and 33-year-old Kelly Ryan held without bail Tuesday afternoon.
They're wanted in Nevada for the murder of their personal assistant, 28-year-old Melissa James. Her body was found earlier this month in the trunk of Ryan's burned-out Jaguar. They were arrested in Stoughton last week, after agents stormed into a nail salon where Ryan had planned to get a pedicure.
In an interview with police before they disappeared, neither Titus nor Ryan admitted any involvement with James' murder.
They told detectives that they fired James and evicted her December 13 because they believed she had been embezzling from them, and that they suspected James stole Ryan's car.
A married bodybuilder couple wanted for murder in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of being fugitves.
A Stoughton District Court judge ordered 40-year-old Craig Titus and 33-year-old Kelly Ryan held without bail Tuesday afternoon.
They're wanted in Nevada for the murder of their personal assistant, 28-year-old Melissa James. Her body was found earlier this month in the trunk of Ryan's burned-out Jaguar.
They were arrested in Stoughton last week, after agents stormed into a nail salon where Ryan had planned to get a pedicure.
In an interview with police before they disappeared, neither Titus nor Ryan admitted any involvement with James' murder.
They told detectives that they fired James and evicted her December 13 because they believed she had been embezzling from them, and that they suspected James stole Ryan's car.
According to court records, Titus told Las Vegas police that he'd had a secret romance with her.
James had worked as a live-in personal assistant to the couple at their Las Vegas home. Her charred body was found December 14 in the trunk of Ryan's burned red 2003 Jaguar in a remote spot southwest of Las Vegas.
Police say Titus and Ryan planned to run off to a country that does not extradite people to the United States.
Titus allegedly told a business partner that he intended to meet a friend in Boston, liquidate his assets and leave the country.
In court Tuesday, the couple claimed they did not know there was a warrant out for their arrest.
The next hearing is set for January 12.
In Las Vegas today, bail was set at $13,000 for Anthony Gross, who is accused of being an accessory to the murder.
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