A few miles southwest of the Strip, where the megawatt glare of the casinos meets a lonely stretch of desert, three young women were forced to walk into the night. Only one crawled out alive.
Prosecutors say it began in the chilly, early morning hours of March 5, 2003, when Kim Choy, her younger sister, Sophear, and friend Priscella Van Dine went to retrieve their belongings from a spacious home in the suburbs.
Now a Las Vegas man, Alfonso "Slinkey" Blake, is scheduled to be tried later this month for two counts of murder. The AP has the chilling details here via CNN.com.