Couple Sought in Las Vegas Slaying

Husband-and-wife bodybuilders Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan were being sought Thursday in the slaying of a woman whose body was found last week in the trunk of a burned Jaguar sedan, authorities said.

Las Vegas police have not identified a motive. Investigators think the victim was a 28-year-old woman who had lived with Titus and Kelly in southwest Las Vegas but were awaiting DNA results before releasing her name.

The charred remains were found Dec. 14 in a 2003 Jaguar off state Route 160 southwest of the city.

Titus, 40, and Ryan, 33, face warrant charges of murder and third-degree arson, police said.

A third suspect, Anthony Gross, 23, remained Thursday at Clark County Jail after his arrest Wednesday in Las Vegas on charges of accessory to murder and third-degree arson. He is to appear Tuesday in a Las Vegas court.

Titus won titles at the June 1996 National Physique Committee USA Championships and competed in Mr. Olympia events.

He pleaded guilty in Louisiana in April 1995 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute the party drug ecstasy, and served two years in jail for steroid-related offenses from 1997 to 1999.

Ryan is a past Fitness America and Fitness International winner and Fitness Olympia runner-up who worked as a loan officer for Silver State Mortgage in Las Vegas.

They married in June 2000, according to Clark County records.