Ex-Nevada Deputy Attorney General Arrested For 1972 Murder of Teen Girl in Hawaii – IOTW Report

Ex-Nevada Deputy Attorney General Arrested For 1972 Murder of Teen Girl in Hawaii

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A former Nevada deputy attorney general who was tied to the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel has been arrested in the brutal murder of a teenage girl 50 years ago in Hawaii.

Tudor Chirila Jr., 77, was arrested in Reno and has been charged with second-degree murder after DNA evidence linked him to the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Nancy Anderson in 1972.

Anderson — who had moved to the island state after graduating high school in Michigan a year earlier — was stabbed more than 60 times inside her Waikiki apartment on Jan. 7, 1972, police said.

Local police never gave up on finding her killer — even a half-century later.

Investigators reopened the cold case multiple times and investigated several suspects over the years. They questioned door-to-door knife salesmen who knocked on Anderson’s door just hours before her killing as well as her former boyfriends and the property manager of her apartment building.

The salesmen volunteered their fingerprints, which were not matches, and passed polygraph tests. The other suspects proved to be dead ends as well.

Investigators finally got a solid lead this year after receiving a tip in December that Chirila could be a suspect, according to the criminal complaint.

Police were able to confirm him as a prime suspect after obtaining a DNA sample from his son, John Chirila of Newport Beach, California, in March. The sample identified the younger Chirila as the biological child of the person whose DNA was found at the crime scene, the criminal complaint stated.

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9 Comments on Ex-Nevada Deputy Attorney General Arrested For 1972 Murder of Teen Girl in Hawaii

  1. I believe the charges come from Hawaii, which did away w/ capital punishment back in 1957

    it appears Chirila served as deputy DA under Richard Bryan.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bryan

    Bryan went on to become d’rat Senator from Nevada.
    “A 1980 Nevada Supreme Court case reviewed by Law&Crime lists Chirila as the Silver State’s Chief Deputy Attorney General serving under Attorney General Richard H. Bryan. A subsequent 1981 case, however, lists Chirila only as a deputy attorney general.”
    https://lawandcrime.com/crime/former-chief-deputy-attorney-general-and-candidate-for-nevada-state-supreme-court-charged-in-1972-hawaii-cold-case-murder/

    one can only speculate as to Chirila’s party affiliation
    … Bueller? … Bueller?

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  2. Police were able to confirm him as a prime suspect after obtaining a DNA sample from his son

    Some households (yes — specifically including cirrens) just need killen.

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