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Bodybuilder couple arrested near Boston in Las Vegas slaying
By KEN RITTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Professional bodybuilder Craig Titus and his wife, Kelly Ryan, were arrested Friday in Massachusetts as fugitives in the slaying of a woman whose body was found last week in Ryan's burned-out luxury car abandoned off a remote desert highway.

Titus, 40, and Ryan, 33, were arrested by federal agents and local police at a grocery store parking lot in Stoughton, Mass., and were being held in nearby Canton, FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said. The two towns are about 15 miles south of Boston.

An FBI spokesman in Las Vegas said the two are expected to be returned to Las Vegas next week.

Titus and Ryan were being held on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on a warrant issued Dec. 20 in Las Vegas. Titus is wanted on state murder charges, and Ryan was sought as an accessory to murder. Titus and Ryan also are charged with third-degree arson.

Titus, who won a 1996 bodybuilding championship and competed in Mr. Olympia events, had told Las Vegas police that he'd had a secret romance with the dead woman, Melissa James, 28, court records show.

In an interview with police before they disappeared, neither Titus nor Ryan admitted any involvement with James' slaying.

She had worked as a live-in personal assistant to the couple at their Las Vegas home. Her charred body was discovered Dec. 14 in the trunk of Ryan's burned red 2003 Jaguar in a remote spot southwest of Las Vegas.

Titus and Ryan told a friend last week that they planned to go to a country that does not extradite people to the United States, according to a police report submitted to Las Vegas Justice Court. Titus told a business partner that he intended to meet a friend in Boston, liquidate his assets and leave the country, police said.

Details of police interviews with the bodybuilding couple were provided in a document seeking an arrest warrant for Titus, Ryan and Anthony Gross, 23.

Gross was arrested Wednesday in Las Vegas and charged with accessory to murder and third-degree arson. He is scheduled for an initial court appearance Tuesday.

The married bodybuilding couple remained free after telling detectives that James had been fired and evicted Dec. 13 because they believed she had been embezzling from them, and that they suspected James stole Ryan's car.

Titus and Ryan had not previously reported the financial theft nor the missing vehicle, police said.

Titus told a detective that his wife was not aware of his affair with James. He told police he booked a hotel room Dec. 12 for two nights and spent most of one night there with James.

James was last heard from when she spoke with her mother in New Jersey by cell phone shortly before noon Dec. 13.

Four days later, Amanda Polk, a bodybuilder who trained with Ryan, told police that Ryan told her she'd found James dead from a drug overdose and that she thought Titus had someone get rid of the body.

Credit card receipts and security videotapes show that Ryan bought seven half-gallon bottles of charcoal starter fluid and a barbecue tool set at a Wal-Mart store in Las Vegas about 3:30 a.m. Dec. 14. The videotape shows her and a man putting the items in the back seat of a red mid-sized car similar to a Jaguar.

Phone records showed Titus called Gross early Dec. 14, police said. Gross told investigators he met Titus, who drove the red Jaguar while Gross bought a can of gasoline and followed in his pickup to a remote area off state Highway 160.

Gross told police Titus took the gas can, disappeared, and then jumped in the pickup. Gross said he drove back to Las Vegas, but the two never discussed what happened.

Authorities later found James' body in the trunk of the burned Jaguar with white fabric around her neck and duct tape across the face. A suitcase was found in the back seat, along with the charred remains of a barbecue tool set.

The Clark County coroner determined James was probably asphyxiated, police said.

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ALSO www.titusandkelly.com

[AnabolicBoy1981]

looks like he did it to me


just awful

[brewerpi]

These guys are screwed, the pictures of them purchasing a lot of lighter fluid aren't going to play well with a jury.

[SVTMuscle*]

that kinda sucks, although Craig was never one of my favorite's he's still part of the community non-to less

[BIG R]

OK, Lets say Craig was in a fit of rage and slapped her up a bit to the point of killing her! YOUR IN VEGAS DUDE!!! DIG A HOLE somewhere in the miles and miles of desert that are around you. Dont burn YOUR car with the body in the trunk then run like O.J. Man, not to bright at all.

BR

[SVTMuscle*]

OK, Lets say Craig was in a fit of rage and slapped her up a bit to the point of killing her! YOUR IN VEGAS DUDE!!! DIG A HOLE somewhere in the miles and miles of desert that are around you. Dont burn YOUR car with the body in the trunk then run like O.J. Man, not to bright at all.

BR

haha i know right, lets leave a car burning on a highway.... never to mind your own car

[BIG R]

Wait up............there is more. The security cams at the Walmart have Kelly buying lighter fluid at 3:30 am with the credit card reciepts and a BBQ boxed set that was also found in the trunk with the body. Kelly Ryan told a training partner the whole story then she ratted her out to the police. Can you say F-U-C-K-E-D!!!

[SVTMuscle*]

ahh haha what a dumbass, can you say "life!" for Craig....and for Kelly, probaly "alot of life"!"

[prealdeal]

Wait up............there is more. The security cams at the Walmart have Kelly buying lighter fluid at 3:30 am with the credit card reciepts and a BBQ boxed set that was also found in the trunk with the body. Kelly Ryan told a training partner the whole story then she ratted her out to the police. Can you say F-U-C-K-E-D!!!

dude who's ruining this crew bozo the clown

[J.S.N.]

why would anyone be supporting them? he's a murderer and they're both idiots.

[decadbal]

whose proper phucked now

[copenhagen]

so what, kelly ryan prolly caught wind of titus jammin this chick and she gave him two options kill her or else.....seriously i would have chosen "or else" does any one else have any thoeries of why this went down.

[WEBB]

some of the other theories are that they got really caught up in the recreational drug scene, got all messed up and something bad happened, now this is only a rumor so take it for what it sworth. Bob Chicerello had an interview because he is the athlete rep and he said titus looked like crap and had lost close to 30pounds and was pretty much retired from the bb circuit and was getting in deep with some really bad habits. that is all i heard.

[SVTMuscle*]

yeah when this all went down, Craig titus was nothing more than a junkie.

Hes gonna roasted like a KFC chicken on the chair in AZ!!

[WEBB]

from all the info i have read they reallly dont have much on him most of the evidence is pointed at Kelly. she bought the liter fluid on her card at wl mrt, and that other guy said all he did was drop titus of at the spot but never seen him do anything. this should be fairly interesting, anyone know when the trial starts.

[copenhagen]

im not sure, i don't evan think they have been booked in the clarke county jail yet. kelly will prolly rat him out as some kind of plea bargin. hopefully for titus' case he kept his mouth shut about what really happend. but they will both be going down hard because this was a thought out plan.

[steve0]

fugging titis looked sick what happen to him ?? he looked more like a normal NPC BB'r than an IFBB

[Mike Dura]

She told a training partner who ratted her out? How do you know that? I didn't see that at the freecraigtitus.com site.

Wait up............there is more. The security cams at the Walmart have Kelly buying lighter fluid at 3:30 am with the credit card reciepts and a BBQ boxed set that was also found in the trunk with the body. Kelly Ryan told a training partner the whole story then she ratted her out to the police. Can you say F-U-C-K-E-D!!!

[WEBB]

i heard there is a porn ou tthere involving all three of them and the rumour has it that it was going to be leaked out to the net and she lost it and we all know the rest.

[Dally]

i heard there is a porn ou tthere involving all three of them and the rumour has it that it was going to be leaked out to the net and she lost it and we all know the rest.

ahhh yesss...the ol porn leading to murder story...


how common place.

[KhrisiGirl]

She told a training partner who ratted her out? How do you know that? I didn't see that at the freecraigtitus.com site.

It is on the getbig website. There is also a copy of the police report and a ton of other news, facts, speculation and gossip.

[wuboy25]

Kelly Ryan in court yesterday. Look what a terrible recreational drug habbit has done...