Las Vegas reporter was working on another expose. Authorities say his target killed him first
The man in the surveillance footage has a duffel bag slung over his shoulder and a straw hat shielding his face as he saunters along a Las Vegas sidewalk. It’s late last Friday morning and he’s heading west toward the home of one of the city’s most renowned investigative journalists.
Hours later, authorities responding to a 911 call found Jeff German — a veteran reporter who covered organized crime and political corruption for the Las Vegas Review-Journal — slumped lifeless outside his home. He’d been stabbed to death.
Police quickly zeroed in on two theories. Perhaps, they thought, it was a burglary gone wrong? Did it have something to do with the maroon SUV spotted on surveillance making multiple stops in the neighborhood soon before German was killed? Or had someone targeted the reporter
