Las Vegas Official Stabs and Kills Reporter Who Was Investigating His Misconduct

Murder Files Unsealed · Nov 30, 2025 · 24m · transcript

The source chronicles the horrific 2022 assassination of investigative journalist Jeff German, who was murdered just months after exposing the alleged workplace abuses and ethical misconduct of a powerful local politician. The killer was identified as Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, the very official whose office German had aggressively covered for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Motivated by German’s reporting, which cost him his re-election, Telles allegedly stalked and fatally stabbed the reporter outside his home. Authorities quickly gathered overwhelming physical evidence…