Steven Olsen
The victim’s intentions were to reconnect with an 18-year-old man she’d met online — and later in person — earlier this year, so she invited him over for breakfast at her apartment.
But before Steven Olsen got on a bus the morning of July 9 to head to her home near Vegas and Torrey Pines drives, he had planned something nefarious and packed a Bowie knife and latex gloves in a backpack.
“Olsen instead planned on robbing and killing Lizzette (Schley),” detectives wrote in the suspect’s arrest report.
Soon after arriving to the 1700 block of Rockcrest Drive, “Olsen excused himself to the bathroom, where he put on his additional clothing and latex gloves. Olsen opened the bathroom door partially and called Lizzette over,” he told detectives.
That’s when the vicious attack unfolded, police said. Olsen swung the door open and attacked Schley, 45, with a knife, stabbing her in the stomach, head and face, while additionally slashing at her legs.
Only a knock at the door about five minutes later stopped Olsen, he told police. He grabbed his belongings and fled the scene.
The person who knocked is presumably the same person who dialed 911 when he heard a woman’s screams inside the apartment.
Officers arrived about 9 a.m. and found Schley’s body, police said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how detectives linked Olsen to the slaying.
During his interview with police, Olsen said he and the victim met early this year and had a brief affair but that he wasn’t interested in dating her, “due to the large age gap between them.”
When Schley invited him over a few days before her death, Olsen said he had agreed to it but only to kill her and take her cellphone and cash, according to the report.
Olsen was arrested on Thursday and is being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center.