Covert DNA sample from Colorado man's trash revives 44-year-old Texas murder case: report
A 79-year-old Colorado man has been indicted in the 1981 strangulation death of a Texas flight attendant after investigators compared DNA recovered from his trash with blood found on the victim’s clothing.Larry Dean Brown was arrested June 8 in Colorado and indicted June 29 by a Tarrant County grand jury on a murder charge. He was later extradited to North Texas and booked into the Tarrant County Jail.Brown is accused of killing Beverly "Casey" Bruneau, a 35-year-old Braniff Airlines flight attendant who was found dead in her Grapevine apartment on Feb.
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A 79-year-old Colorado man has been indicted in the 1981 strangulation death of a Texas flight attendant after investigators compared DNA recovered from his trash with blood found on the victim’s clothing.Larry Dean Brown was arrested June 8 in Colorado and indicted June 29 by a Tarrant County grand jury on a murder charge. He was later extradited to North Texas and booked into the Tarrant County Jail.Brown is accused of killing Beverly "Casey" Bruneau, a 35-year-old Braniff Airlines flight attendant who was found dead in her Grapevine apartment on Feb. 13, 1981.WOMAN FOUND IN SHALLOW GRAVE ID’D AFTER 44 YEARS AS MILLIONAIRE TIED TO ESTATE MURDER PLOTAccording to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bruneau’s boyfriend found her on the living room floor at about 3 p.m. after she failed to answer his telephone calls.An electrical cord was wrapped around her neck, and blood was visible on her face and nightgown, the newspaper reported.
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- A 79-year-old Colorado man has been indicted in the 1981 strangulation death of a Texas flight attendant after investigators compared DNA recovered from his trash with blood found on the victim’s clothing.Larry Dean Brown was arrested June 8 in Colorado and indicted June 29 by a Tarrant County grand jury on a murder charge. He was later extradited to North Texas and booked into the Tarrant County Jail.Brown is accused of killing Beverly "Casey" Bruneau, a 35-year-old Braniff Airlines flight attendant who was found dead in her Grapevine apartment on Feb.
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