Las Vegas journalist Jeff German, who was stabbed last month, likely died quickly from stab wounds to his neck and torso, according to a medical review of his autopsy.

German died with four sharp injuries to the neck, including one in the carotid artery.

dr Dale Carrison, reviewing part of the coroner’s report for the Las Vegas Journal-Review, said carotid artery injury results in quick death.

“That would be a fatal injury. He’d be dead within minutes,” said Carrison, a former emergency medicine graduate at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a former FBI agent.

Carrison added that the investigator’s report on German’s murder said “rigor mortis was over,” meaning the journalist must have been dead at least 24 hours before he was found, because that’s the minimum time the one Corpse needs to end the rigor mortis stage.

“It’s usually present for 24 hours and then disappears,” he said. “He definitely should have been out there for a considerable amount of time.”

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers found journalist Jeff German, 69, dead of stab wounds around 10:30 a.m. Saturday, September 3, after authorities received an 911 call

Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who was arrested in connection with the murder of German, appears at a recent court hearing in Las Vegas

The suspect in the gruesome murder of Las Vegas journalist Jeff German is wearing a bright orange jacket, straw hat and sneakers – the hat and sneakers were found at the home of former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles.

Nike sneakers worn by the suspect were discovered at Telles’ home on Peccole Ranch

A torn straw hat matching that of the murder suspect was also found in Telles’ garage

Telles’ Peccole Ranch home where the suspect’s sneakers and hat were found

Telles was arrested in connection with the murder

Jeff German, 69, was found dead around 10:30 am September 3 outside his home off North Tenaya Way in Las Vegas with seven stab wounds to his neck and torso.

He was pronounced dead at 12:55pm on September 3 after a neighbor spotted him lying behind the bushes in his side garden.

Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was arrested in connection with the death after police discovered DNA on Telle’s clothing matched DNA evidence under German’s fingernails.

Detectives have since matched a straw hat and sneakers worn by the suspect with a torn hat and shoes found at Telles’ home at Peccole Ranch.

The shoes were found behind a couch in the living room, the torn hat in the garage.

Las Vegas police officers and prosecutors said Telles was “lying on the lookout” when he attacked German outside his suburban home.

German had previously written stories criticizing Telles’ handling of his public office.

In September, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said video of the stabbing had been recovered, but the tape needed to be cleared because it was “distorted.”

It was sent to the FBI in hopes it could be improved, and Lombardo said they planned to release its contents, though it wasn’t clear on Friday when.

Telles is currently being held in protective custody at the Clark County Detention Center due to the high profile crime he was arrested for.

Vegas police have yet to find a murder weapon used in the grizzly sting.

Metro Captain Dori Koren and Sheriff Lombardo told the Review journal, for which German worked up until the time of his assassination, that they are not investigating any other suspects at this time.

Deutsch (left) and Telles (right) speak at Telles’ Vegas office on May 11, 2022

German was found with stab wounds outside his home off North Tenaya Way in Las Vegas

German was known for his stories of government misconduct and political scandals, and his coverage of the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival that killed 60 and injured 400.

He has a master’s degree from Marquette University and was the author of the 2001 true crime book Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss, which tells the story of the death of Ted Binion, heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune, tells .

Cathy Scott, a former colleague, recalled that she and German published the story of the 1997 killing of Las Vegas mob associate Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein.

German specializing in organized crime stories. He hosted one season of the Review Journal’s true crime podcast, “Mobbed Up: The Fight for Vegas.”

The podcast has been described as a sketch of the secret mafia crime families welded across more than a third of the Strip’s casinos, and the tremendous task federal and state agents have to rout them.

He also brought stories of government corruption and violations of campaign finance in Nevada.

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The Ukrainian military has retaken 2,400 square kilometers of territory in the Kherson region in the south of the country “since the start of the all-out war,” a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the President’s Office, said that six settlements in the Kherson district and 61 in the Beryslav district had been liberated.

Tymoshenko said the evacuation of civilians continued amid massive destruction of critical infrastructure in towns like Archanhelske, Vysokopillia and Osokorivka, all of which saw weeks of intense fighting and indirect fire. Demining is underway, he added.

Ukrainian forces have made steady progress in Kherson since launching an offensive late last month, and their achievements have drawn rare criticism of Moscow’s war effort from pro-Russian figures.

On Thursday, Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-appointed deputy leader of occupied Kherson, blamed “incompetent commanders” for “gaps” on the battlefield in the Kherson region.

“In fact, many say that the Secretary of Defense [Sergei Shoigu], who allowed this situation, could shoot himself as an officer. But you know, the word officer is an unfamiliar word for many,” Stremousov said in a video posted to Telegram.

Stremousov’s comments come as Kyiv successfully advances its campaign to recapture parts of southern and eastern Ukraine that Russia seized in the first weeks of the war.

Pro-Russian propagandists and military analysts have blamed the string of casualties on mistakes by the Russian military, but few Russian-installed officials on Ukrainian soil have so publicly skewered Moscow’s struggling war effort.

Members of Russia’s parliament and regional officials have begun to level similar criticisms of the country’s military, claiming that insufficient troops were deployed to hold the parts of eastern and southern Ukraine that Moscow’s forces held in the first weeks of the conflict had conquered.

Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov, the chairman of Russia’s State Duma Defense Committee, said Thursday officials must “stop lying” about developments on the ground.

“People know. Our people are not stupid,” Kartapolov said in an interview with a Russian journalist.

In his evening address on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised his armed forces’ counteroffensive.

“The Ukrainian army is advancing fairly quickly and forcefully to the south of our country as part of the ongoing defense operation,” Zelenskyy said in his evening address.

“Our warriors don’t stop. And it’s only a matter of time before we drive the occupiers out of our entire country.”

Five hundred square kilometers. This is the area that, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was taken by the Ukrainian army in the south of the country in less than a week. The big goal is in sight: Kherson, the regional capital of an oblast theoretically annexed by Moscow. Russian troops seized the city in the first days of the war, distributed Russian passports to local residents, organized a “referendum” and reconnected them with Crimea.

“It is the largest city that was captured earlier in the war,” emphasizes Philippe Migault, director of the European Center for Strategic Analysis, in an interview with 20 minutes. The expulsion of the Russian army, which had been stationed for eight months, was undoubtedly “an important symbolic success,” he explains, while despite the strong counterattack, “neither Sieverodonetsk, nor Lysychansk, nor any other major city was recaptured.”

Time is ticking against Ukraine

Carole Grimaud, a geopolitical analyst and specialist on Russia, estimates that “herson will be resumed sooner or later.” It’s “a matter of weeks,” she told 20 minutes. “The Ukrainians will want to recapture Kherson before winter,” she says, because the fight “will be much more difficult this winter.” The famous winter in Eastern Europe decided the fate of many wars and this one is perhaps no exception.

But at what cost? “Retaking villages is pretty easy, but an easily defendable city is more complicated,” warns Philippe Migault less optimistically. “The Ukrainians would have to fire at their own city with ‘a lot of firepower,'” he explains. The other large cities occupied by Russia, such as Mariupol or Slowjansk, were also “driven to ruin,” he recalls. “Instead of the Russians, I would flee to the city,” analyzes the former war correspondent, emphasizing that the Russian army is “completely illogical” in this conflict.

A nuclear response if the city is captured?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is probably heading for first place as an attacker. With possibly “four Himars and ammunition from the United States,” Carole Grimaud recalls. “The bridges were blown up, the Ukrainians pushed on and pushed the front back,” she added. But the strategic advantage is not fully acquired. “Kherson is still more than two kilometers from the front lines” and “there are still thousands of Russian soldiers in the region,” claims Philippe Migault. Because the city had a port, it could be “easily supplied” and the mobilized Russians were called upon to defend it. In short, Russia can “cause serious damage to the Ukrainian army” and will not let go of Kherson so easily.

“These are the first achievements of the Russian army, a defeat would be terrible for them,” Carole Grimaud recalls. Vladimir Putin, already criticized by his most militaristic supporters, says they cannot afford to lose Kherson. Because the city opens the way to Crimea, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014 and which brought the Kremlin master a moment of great popularity. “There is a risk of a real stiffening of Russia with a much stronger reaction,” warns Philippe Migault. Enough to make the “nuclear threat” more sensitive and “dangerous,” warns Carole Grimaud.

“Should Greece attack, Turkey will respond by arriving at night.” “I have nothing to say, their policy is based entirely on lies, they are dishonest.” The words of Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan at the end of the press conference of the European Political Community Summit caused some moments of tension. Erdogan added at the end of his speech, without naming Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis: “Someone left” the summit table “while I was speaking”. A fact that – writes Ansa – European sources do not confirm.

Then, responding to a question from a Greek journalist who reminded him of how Erdogan had said last month – regarding the dispute over the Aegean Islands – Turkey could have arrived in the middle of the night, the Turkish President repeated: “Not only Greece, but no matter what country attacks us, our answer is always ‘suddenly, we can arrive any day. You should know.”

But Erdogan also spoke about Ukraine. “Even the worst peace is better than war. Turkey speaks to all parties and has their trust, unfortunately some European countries prefer provocation and escalation.” The Turkish president also said he would hear from Vladimir Putin tomorrow, stressing that he was “the only leader” holding talks with the Russian President and Volodymyr Zelenskyy could lead. Referring to the European political community, the Turkish President then added: “The political community is not an alternative to the EU enlargement policy, Turkey will never accept a break in its accession talks”.