A Medford, Oregon man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a woman found deceased on the side of the road in Bullhead City.
On Thursday morning, Bullhead City Police identified the female homicide victim after fingerprint analysis results returned to a Megan Rae Jean Hannah, 27 of Medford, Oregon. Ms. Hannah’s body was found by a passing motorist on Sunday, January 2, on Arroyo Vista Drive with multiple gunshot wounds.
Bullhead City Police working with several other law enforcement agencies learned that Ms. Hannah was last seen with her boyfriend Ryan Lynn Clark, age 37. Clark has an extensive violent criminal history.
Detectives quickly learned that Clark had checked in at a hotel room in nearby Laughlin, Nevada after the murder and had traveled to the Bullhead City area from Oregon in a rental car. The rental car was seen on surveillance video leaving the crime scene area, off Arroyo Vista Drive, in the early morning hours on Sunday.
Bullhead City Police issued a felony homicide arrest warrant for Clark. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department assisted in a traffic stop on Casino Drive in Laughlin when Clark left his hotel room. Las Vegas Metro arrested Clark without incident on the felony warrant for homicide.
Inside his rental car, police located several items belonging to Ms. Hannah. A search warrant was conducted on his hotel room where detectives located more of the victim’s belongings, the weapon believed to be used in the homicide, and bullets consistent with the ammunition found at the crime scene.