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借助现代DNA检测技术，当局终于侦破了拉斯维加斯一名男子被电话线勒死的悬案，该案发生至今已逾20年。
案件可追溯至2005年12月29日，当时一名公寓经理报案称拉斯维加斯一处房产内传出恶臭。据拉斯维加斯大都会警察局消息，急救人员在其中一间公寓内发现了丹尼尔·蔡斯勒的遗体，当时尸体已出现中度腐烂。
侦探认定蔡斯勒死于电话线勒杀，他的1997款道奇霓虹轿车以及家门钥匙均已失踪。尽管次年1月，警方在田纳西州孟菲斯市找到了被遗弃的车辆，但当时缺乏足够证据锁定潜在嫌疑人。
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拉斯维加斯警方表示，警方在找到车辆并对其进行证据勘查后，提取到了可能与凶手有关的DNA样本。但最终促成该案突破的实验室Othram Inc.称，当时该样本在法医数据库中未匹配到结果。
转机出现在2024年9月，调查人员将该DNA样本提交至该实验室进行分析。实验室成功将样本溯源至凶手的一名亲属，警方同时认为，案发后不久的监控录像中出现过该嫌疑人，此人曾驾驶蔡斯勒的车辆前往一家商店，并用蔡斯勒的银行卡在店内消费。
Othram称，这名未被公开姓名的潜在谋杀嫌疑人已于2020年去世。尽管无法实施逮捕，但该实验室仍将确认嫌疑人身份称为“这起悬案告破20余年来的重大突破，证明了利用最新DNA技术侦破陈年凶杀案的重要意义”。
协助重启蔡斯勒谋杀案调查的拉斯维加斯警探泰特·桑伯恩在2024年的一档播客节目中表示，他曾推动侦探们继续追查此案。
“这起案件在过去约20年里一直未被侦破或过问，这有点不同寻常，”桑伯恩说道，“我最初查看该案时，看到了现有的证据，便认为该案需要重新启动，而且很可能有人掌握着有助于破案的线索。”
Las Vegas cold case murder solved 20 years after man strangled with phone cord
June 24, 2026 11:46 AM EDT / CBS News
By Emily Mae Czachor News Editor
Emily Mae Czachor is a reporter and news editor at CBSNews.com. She typically covers breaking news, extreme weather and climate. Emily Mae previously wrote for outlets like the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed and Newsweek.
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Authorities have finally solved the murder of a Las Vegas man who was strangled to death with a telephone cord more than 20 years ago, thanks to modern DNA testing.
The case dates back to Dec. 29, 2005, when an apartment manager reported a foul smell emanating from a Las Vegas property. First responders discovered the body of Daniel Zeisler inside one of the apartments, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. At the time, the body was already moderately decomposed.
Detectives determined that Zeisler had died from strangulation with a phone cord, and that his 1997 Dodge Neon was missing along with the keys to his home. Although the car was found abandoned the following January in Memphis, Tennessee, there wasn’t enough evidence to point definitively to a potential suspect.
Daniel Zeisler Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Once they found the vehicle and processed it for evidence, detectives recovered a DNA profile that may have been linked to the person responsible for Zeisler’s murder, Las Vegas police said. But their discovery didn’t produce a match when the sample was run through a forensic database, said Othram, Inc., the laboratory that ultimately performed the tests that led to a breakthrough in this case.
That came in September 2024, when investigators submitted the DNA profile to the lab for an analysis. The lab was able to trace that sample to a relative of the suspect in Zeisler’s murder, who detectives also believe was seen in surveillance footage shortly after the killing, having used Zeisler’s car to drive to a store and his bank card to make a purchase there.
The potential murder suspect, who was not publicly named, died in 2020, said Othram. Though an arrest was not possible, the lab still characterized the person’s identification as “a significant breakthrough in a case that remained unsolved for more than 20 years, demonstrating the impact of leveraging the latest DNA technology for resolving cold case homicides.”
Las Vegas police detective Tate Sanborn, who helped revive the investigation into Zeisler’s murder, said in a 2024 podcast that he pushed for detectives to continue pursuing it.
“The fact that it hasn’t been solved or looked at in the last approximately 20 years, that’s a little unique,” said Sanborn. “When I looked at it initially and saw the evidence that we had, I felt like the case needed to be fired back up. And that there’s great potential for somebody out there to have information that will help solve this case.”
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