MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- Phoenix police are seeking charges of first-degree murder and filing a false police report against an El Mirage woman who called a national radio talk show two years ago and bragged that she fatally shot her ex-boyfriend.

On Thursday, police formally presented the Maricopa County Attorney's Office with the investigation of the 2001 death of Torsten Karl Rockwood of Ahwatukee Foothills.

Police reports released Friday show that Megan Suzanne Vice repeatedly told a cold-case detective that she did not kill Rockwood.

Vice, 30, was pregnant at the time of the police interview.

She said Rockwood threatened to kill himself on many occasions during the two or three months he lived in her town house, but that she always calmed him down.

Vice told police that during an argument about their child on March 24, 2001, Rockwood went into another room and shot himself.

An autopsy report showed that Rockwood died of a gunshot wound to the chest and police concluded that the death was a suicide.

The investigation was reopened after a woman called a nationally syndicated radio talk show in November 2006 and said she'd killed her former boyfriend and gotten away with the crime. Detectives tracked the call to Vice.

But when questioned by police three months ago, Vice said several times that she didn't shoot Rockwood.

"I didn't want him to die," Vice told police on May 28. "I'll take a lie detector test. I didn't physically kill him. I didn't shoot him."

Authorities are seeking a charge of filing a false police report as well as the murder charge because Vice reported her cell phone stolen when it wasn't, according to Sgt. Joel Tranter, a Phoenix police spokesman.

Tranter said it could take weeks for the county attorney to decide whether charges will be filed.

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Information from: East Valley Tribune/Scottsdale Tribune, http://www.eastvalleytribune.com

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