Bodybuilding Champion Couple Killed Assistant

When Craig Titus and wife Kelly Ryan were identified as murder suspects by the Las Vegas Police Department on December 21st, 2005, a shock wave spread throughout the bodybuilding community. Titus and Ryan were the most famous bodybuilding and fitness couple and their success blinded them to reality. Their ingestion of enhancing and illegal drugs over many years altered their true self-identity. They absorbed their popular status and lived in a glaze of deception to the real world around them.

Craig invited another beautiful female bodybuilder to live with them named, Melissa James, who had fallen on some difficult times. It is believed that the two shared more than a home and drugs and were having an affair, with wife Kelly living in the same home. Melissa and Kelly became arch enemies and Craig in his hazed manipulated behavior was trapped in his own manufactured deceit.

The court heard how one night Melissa was beaten, drugged, stunned with a taser, injected with morphine and strangled before she was burned beyond recognition in the trunk of Ryan's Jaguar. Melissa's head was encased in duct tape with a death mask appearance, but it is unknown if she was still alive when the car was set on fire in the desert.

Kelly Ryan the repeat fitness champion was sentenced to 6 to 26 years and divorced Craig. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 21 to 51 years on May 30th, 2008 to avoid the death penalty.

With many other sports favorites and steroids users like Roger Clements, Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, who are the true heroes for people to emulate, respect and aspire to excellence? Is society "phony" to celebrate stars that have cheated to gain their notoriety.

Who are your heroes? Two of mine are: Billy Graham and Pope John Paul

March 7th, 2010 - B.C. Supreme Court Justice Mark McEwan says 51 year old Parker Matthias may not have intended to cause his mother's death when he doused her with gasoline and held a lighter close to her.

Did I read that right? Good grief! No wonder the public has lost faith in our courts with statements and findings of this ridiculous nature. What is he thinking about? What other conclusion could a "reasonable" person determine? The accused was just playing with fire for fun?

The accused then says, "I never thought a fire would start. The vapours must have caught, and my mother and her dog were almost instantly engulfed in flames." Do you think?

This case is so insulting to the general public and how the justice could entertain other assumptions shows how much the court can be disconnected from the reality and the citizens it should serve.

I sometimes worry about some of my own conclusions in my Crime Newsletter and Genesis Reports, (http://www.gerryleet.com/) I don't think I will worry anymore with these types of rulings and comments.