Murder of Debbie Flores-Narvaez

Deborah “Debbie” Flores-Narvaez, 31, disappeared in Las Vegas on December 12, 2010. She worked as a dancer in a Las Vegas Strip production and had been in an intermittent relationship with fellow performer Jason “Blu” Griffith. Reporting by the Las Vegas Review-Journal identified Griffith as the last person known to have seen her, when she visited his North Las Vegas home on the night she disappeared. Her abandoned car was found during the ensuing search.

Nearly a month later, detectives traced a rented U-Haul to a vacant downtown Las Vegas house. On January 7, 2011, they found Flores-Narvaez's dismembered remains inside cement-filled containers at the property. Police arrested Griffith that night on a murder charge. The Review-Journal reported that financial records showed he had bought cement and rented the vehicle after Flores-Narvaez disappeared; location information from the rental vehicle helped detectives identify the house.

At trial in Clark County District Court in May 2014, Griffith acknowledged causing Flores-Narvaez's death but testified that he acted in self-defense. Prosecutors sought a first-degree murder verdict. After nine days of testimony and argument, the jury instead found Griffith guilty of second-degree murder on May 22. The verdict rejected his claim that the killing was legally justified while not finding the premeditation required for the greater charge.

On July 23, 2014, District Judge Kathleen Delaney sentenced Griffith to a term of ten years to life in prison. The Review-Journal described that as the maximum available sentence for the second-degree murder conviction. A later federal court order records that Griffith continued to challenge the conviction through post-conviction proceedings; in 2025, the federal court stayed his habeas case while he pursued unexhausted claims in Nevada state court. The discovery, conviction, and sentence are supported by contemporaneous reporting and court records. Coordinates identify Las Vegas generally, not the vacant house where the remains were recovered. Because accounts use both Deborah and Debbie and vary in whether the surnames are hyphenated, the title follows the victim's commonly reported name while the alternate-name field preserves the formal variant.