Robert Charles Browne Serial Killer
Robert Charles Browne born October 31, 1952 is an American murderer serving a double-life sentence in an out of state prison.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Murder of Heather Dawn Church
3 Later confessions
4 References
5 External links
Biography edit
Browne was born in Coushatta, Louisiana. According to a Red River Parrish Sheriff, Browne grew up as one of nine children in a hardscrabble family. He was a high school dropout who joined the United States Army and served from 1969 to 1976, when he was dishonorably discharged for drug abuse. 1
Murder of Heather Dawn Church edit
Browne was arrested on March 28, 1995, on the charge of first-degree murder in the death of Heather Dawn Church, 13, on September 17, 1991. He initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, however, on May 25, 1995, in a plea agreement, changed his plea to guilty so that prosecutors would not seek the death penalty. 2 3
Later confessions edit
On July 27, 2006, in a similar plea agreement, he confessed to the death of Rocio Delpilar Sperry, 15, who was killed on November 10, 1987, at a Colorado Springs apartment complex. 4 Sperry s body has never been recovered. 5
In his confession, authorities say Browne admitted to murdering up to 48 other people in a period spanning from 1970 until his arrest. Browne instigated a new investigation by sending a cryptic letter to the authorities in 2000. The letter read Seven sacred virgins entombed side by side, those less worthy are scattered wide, the score is you 1, the other team 48. The letter included a hand drawn map with outlines of Colorado, Washington, California, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, with the body count written inside each state. 6
References edit
Rocky Mountain News Hometown wonders of multiple slayings
truTV.com- Enigmatic Case of Robert Charles Browne
msnbcmedia.msn.com Rocio Delpilar Affidavit PDF
Denver Post Felon Claims to be Serial Killer
Case File 2033DFCO. doenetwork.org. The Doe Network. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
Browne told investigator Charlie Hess in prison interviews that he killed 49 people 48 in the USA and one, a fellow soldier in Korea and he provided details about 20 of the killings, Maketa said. In the rest of the cases, Browne says he can t remember details, the sheriff said. MSNBC.com Colo. killer details murders
double-life sentence Colorado Department of Corrections.
External links edit
Colorado killer details murders
Colorado man says he committed 48 murders
El Paso County Sheriff s Department statement
Brown, Chip April 29, 2007. The Confessor. The New York Times Magazine.
Reference book: Hello Charlie, Letters From A Serial Killer. Written by: Charlie Hess and Davin Seay Published by Atria Books, Trademark of Simon and Schuster,Inc, 2008
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DENVER AP Robert Charles Browne says he shot some of his victims and strangled others, in one case with a pair of leather shoelaces. He knocked out one woman with ether, then used an ice pick on her. He put a rag soaked in ant killer over another victim s face and stabbed her nearly 30 times with a screwdriver.
If Browne is telling the truth about killing 49 people across the country, his crimes practically constitute a manual on the many ways in which to kill.
In fact, it may have been the variety in his methods that kept authorities from connecting the crimes until Browne sent a taunting letter to prosecutors six years ago.
Sometimes killers do not replicate things from one crime to the next, said criminologist Robert Keppel, a professor at Sam Houston State University and author of the 1997 book Signature Killers. That makes it hard on police.
Colorado authorities announced Thursday that Browne, 53, claimed to have committed scores of killings between 1970 and his arrest in 1995. He has pleaded guilty to two slayings and is serving a life sentence for murdering a Colorado girl in 1991.
Investigators so far have been able to corroborate Browne s claims in six slayings three in Louisiana, two in Texas and one in Arkansas, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said.
In some cases, however, investigators have been unable to confirm some of his claims to have dumped bodies in certain places. And in other cases, he cannot remember enough details for investigators to check out what he is telling them.
Court papers paint a picture of a predator who loathed women and thought he was justified in killing them because they were cheating on their husbands and boyfriends in many cases, with him.
Browne, who has been married six times, said he has been disappointed with women his whole life. Women are unfaithful, they screw around a lot, they cheat and they are not of the highest moral value, he told investigators. They cheat and they are users.
Vicki Woods, a lifelong friend of Browne in his hometown of Coushatta, La., said she was stunned to hear of the allegations. This is not a side of Robert I ever imagined, she said.
Woods said she had complete trust in Browne, who baby-sat her preteen son and daughter in the 1980s. Her children also went to Browne s Easter egg hunts and spent weekends at a trailer he owned near the small rural town in northern Louisiana.
I am so confused. I have no idea what s going on, except that I feel like I have lost a friend, she said.
After one of the killings in Coushatta a killing now linked to Browne he often insisted that women and children in the neighborhood stay indoors after dark, she said.
He was so protective of us, Woods said.
Browne told investigators he rarely if ever planned a killing, choosing his prey at random. He met his victims in everyday settings a motel bar, a convenience store where he worked. In one case, he was familiar with a victim s apartment because he had changed the locks there as a maintenance man.
He said he used different types of guns and sometimes beat his victims. One died after he put a rag soaked in ant killer over her face while she was asleep, he said.
An Army veteran who served in South Korea during the 1970s, Browne described killings committed with unspeakable cruelty. He said he dismembered Rocio Sperry, whose remains have never been found, in a bathtub, just popping her joints and taking the body apart, investigators said. He said he was worried about being spotted carrying the body outside.
The remains of Nidia Mendoza, 17, were found dumped along a Houston interstate, her legs and head cut from the body. Browne told authorities he used a dull butcher knife that was in his motel kitchenette.
He told investigators in prison interviews that he never just went looking for someone. When the opportunity was there, Browne said he took it it was just disgust with the person and some of it just confrontation.
No plan. an investigator asked.
No, Browne replied.
Maketa said Browne probably got away with his crimes because he never spent much time with his victims before killing them and was adept at disposing of their bodies.
If Browne s claims prove true, he would be one of the most prolific killers in U.S. history. Gary Ridgway, Seattle s Green River Killer, became the nation s deadliest convicted serial killer in 2003. He admitted to 48 murders but once said he killed as many as 71 women.
It was Browne who spurred investigators to take another look at his past when he sent a letter in 2000. It read: Seven sacred virgins entombed side by side, those less worthy are scattered wide. The score is you 1, the other team 48.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who was once El Paso County district attorney, said he believes Browne s claim to multiple slayings. He described the killer as intelligent.
The combination of moving around a lot, picking random victims and being pretty clean about it, if he s telling the truth about how he disposed of the bodies that would show some pretty calculated methods to avoid detection, Suthers said.
But Keppel was skeptical of Browne s claim that he killed close to 50 people.
Probably no doubt the guy s murdered a lot of people, but numbers are just for media purposes, Keppel said. This guy has lied, cheated and stolen his whole life and there s no indication he s going to tell you the whole truth about all his victims.
Browne s public defender, Bill Schoewe, did not return calls seeking comment.
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