Las Vegas cold case murder solved 20 years after man strangled with phone cord inside his home

TL;DR

Daniel Zeisler was found murdered in his Las Vegas home on December 29, 2005, having been strangled with a phone cord.
His car was stolen and later found abandoned in Memphis, Tennessee.
A DNA profile recovered from the car did not initially yield a match in forensic databases.
In September 2024, advanced DNA analysis traced the profile to a relative of the suspect.
The suspect, who died in 2020, is believed to have used Zeisler's car and bank card shortly after the murder.
Las Vegas police detective Tate Sanborn pushed to revive the investigation, highlighting the potential of DNA technology for cold cases.

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