Moments after she was crowned at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday, Connecticut accountant Erin Brady said all she could think about was letting her bosses know she won’t be coming in Wednesday, or ever again.
As her family and fiancee looked on, Brady beat out other beauties from every US state and Washington DC to take the title, accepting the crown from outgoing queen Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether.
In the pageant’s final minutes, she answered without hesitation a question about the US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold widespread DNA tests.
“If someone is being prosecuted and committed a crime, it should happen. There are so many crimes that if that’s one step closer to stopping them, then we should be able to do so,” she said.