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In a case that bounced among homicide detectives for years, a Cedar Crest man is behind bars in the fatal shooting of another man at an sa国际传媒官网网页入口 motel.

Dylan Wolfe, 26, was charged June 14 with an open count of murder, robbery and tampering with evidence in the April 9, 2021, killing of 35-year-old Edward Purvis.

Wolfe was arrested on Friday and booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center. It is unclear if Wolfe has an attorney.

The case was initially left incomplete by a now-retired homicide detective before being sent to the cold case division, according to court records. It was taken on, and left unfinished, by two other detectives before being handed to another detective in March, who wrapped it up in months.

Purvis鈥� body was discovered three days after he was killed.

Officers responded around 8 a.m. to check on Purvis at his room at the Ramada hotel, near Interstate 40 and Eubank, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Purvis鈥� relative called police and told them she hadn鈥檛 heard from Purvis for several days.

Officers smelled 鈥渁 foul odor鈥� coming from the room and found Purvis dead inside from multiple gunshot wounds. Police found pillows pockmarked with bullet holes and fentanyl pills in the room.

Police said a food stamp card belonging to Wolfe was found on Purvis and phone records showed text messages between the two were the last Purvis made. The messages, sent in the early morning hours of April 9, showed Wolfe asked to meet with Purvis.

Purvis didn鈥檛 respond to any calls or messages afterward.

A man who had been in Purvis鈥� room hours earlier told police there was another man flashing a gun and 鈥渁cting sketchy,鈥� according to the complaint. A friend of Purvis鈥� told police Wolfe later bragged about killing him to a mutual acquaintance, saying he wasn鈥檛 worried about being caught 鈥渂ecause too much time had passed.鈥�

Police said Wolfe鈥檚 phone records showed he was in the area of the homicide in the hours detectives believe it occurred. A search of Wolfe鈥檚 Google account, showed that the day before Purvis鈥� death Wolfe Googled 鈥渃an a pillow muffle a 9mm,鈥� 鈥渉ow loud is a gunshot in a hotel?,鈥� 鈥渨hat percentage of murders go unsolved?鈥� and 鈥渨hat chance does a murder of a gang member solved?鈥�

On April 20, almost two weeks after the homicide, Wolfe Googled 鈥淚 need a new food stamp card,鈥� according to the complaint.