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Anthony BROPST
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Robberies
Number of victims: 2
Date of murders: September 7/11, 1986
Date of birth: 1953
Victims profile: Robert
May, 35 / Steven Myllo, 38
Method of murder:
Shooting
Location: Arizona/Colorado, USA
Status: On March 12, 1987, pled guilty in
Arizona, receiving a 40-year prison term, with a minimum of 25 years to
be served before parole. Three weeks later, he pled guilty in Colorado, accepting a consecutive sentence of
40 years to life
On September 7, 1986, 35-year-old
Robert May, a divorced construction worker, left his Phoenix home to
search for work in Houston, Texas. His car was found abandoned near a
school in Bowie, Arizona, on September 8, and two days later, May was
found outside of Bowie, in the desert, shot twice in the face. His I.D.
cards and personal affects were soon discovered by a motel maid,
discarded in a room that had been rented to one "B.R. Mills."
On September 12, the partly-frozen
corpse of Steven Myllo, a 38-year-old traveling salesman from New
Mexico, was found outside of Castle Rock, Colorado. Last seen alive on
September 10, Myllo had been shot at close range, and his van was
missing. Some days later, it was found in Overland, Missouri -- a St.
Louis suburb -- where it had been stripped and burned on private
property.
The owner of the land was closely
questioned, and he finally admitted to participating in the van's
destruction. It had been an act of friendship, he declared, performed on
the behalf of Tony Bropst, a pal from Arizona.
Homicide investigators picked Bropst up
in Phoenix, and the 33-year-old ex-convict soon confessed to killing May
and Myllo. On March 12, 1987, Bropst pled guilty to May's murder in
Arizona, receiving a 40-year prison term, with a minimum of 25 years to
be served before parole. Three weeks later, he pled guilty to Myllo's
slaying in Douglas County, Colorado, accepting a consecutive sentence of
40 years to life.
Despite his willingness to talk about
the crimes, Bropst showed no inclination toward captivity. Returning
from his speedy trial in Castle Rock, he told a jailer, "There's
going to be plenty of shooting if I ever get out of here." On April
5, Bropst joined two cellmates in escaping from the Douglas County jail,
but he was recaptured in Castle Rock the next day, returned to Arizona
under heavy guard to serve his time.
Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial
Killers - Hunting Humans
SEX:M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-felony
MO:
Victims shot for cars.
DISPOSITION: 40 years in Arizona; 40 years to life in Colorado.
