This week I sat in a hush courtroom in Las Vegas and I watched along with the jury footage from a doorbell camera showing a man in a wide-brim straw hat and orange clothing

Walk towards the end of a cul-de-sac into the yard of a house and disappear through a side gate.

Minutes later, that same doorbell camera footage

shows the garage door of the same house open

and the

Homeowner, a well-known investigative journalist for the Las Vegas Review Journal,

a man named Jeff Gereman,

walks outside directly to where the man in orange laid in weight.

From behind the gate, the man in orange appears again and an

apparent struggle ensues. The attack lasts minutes.

German clearly fought for his life and the DNA left under his fingernails will be another crime story he tells after death.

A Las Vegas investigative reporter is brutally stabbed to death outside of his home.

The man accused of the heinous

slain is a politician who is at the center of his reports. Jeff Gereman was a local

legend in the Las Vegas area, known for his reports on infamous mobsters, murderers, and crooked politicians.

According to his coworkers, German wrote about terrible people who have done awful things for over

40 years. So when German was discovered lying outside of his home

with multiple stab wounds, four of which were to the neck, there was a list of

people investigators looked at who they thought could have been connected to the killing.

But what name seemingly stood out in the bunch,

and that was Clark County Public Administrator Robert Tellis,

who Gereman had written a number of articles about.

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