Dem Vegas politician stumped when confronted with surprise three-word text message in murder trial

The whereabouts of a former Las Vegas Democratic politician around the time a veteran investigative journalist was brutally stabbed to death remains a key question in the ex-official’s murder trial – and a newly unearthed text message shrouds mystery to the defendants alibi as he continues to plead his innocence and contest DNA evidence linking him to the crime.

Robert Telles, 47, is on trial for killing journalist Jeff German, who had penned critical stories about the official, and the...