Kevin Charles Brown suicide: Police official hangs himself before being arrested

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Examiner

Kevin Charles Brown suicide: Police official hangs himself before being arrested
October 30, 2014
8:13 PM MST

Kevin Charles Brown, a veteran crime lab worker for the San Diego Police Department and the prime suspect in the horrific murder of a 14-year-old girl, committed suicide before police were able to take him into custody, People reported on Oct. 30.

The body of Kevin Charles Brown, 62, was found last week at Cuyacama Ranch State Park and police say he hung himself. Brown was under investigation for the murder of a teen girl three decades ago. Police had been working with the county district attorney's office and were planning to arrest Brown.

The Associated Press wrote that in November 2012, cold-case detectives used DNA evidence to link Brown and another man to the brutal murder of Claire Hough in August 1984, police said. She had been beaten and strangled, sand was stuffed in her mouth and one of her breasts had been cut off.

Thirty years ago, the mutilated body of Claire Hough was found on a beach in San Diego. Since then, police have never stopped their investigation into her death and recently, thanks to the examination of DNA, the two men responsible for the brutal murder have been identified. But they will never pay for what they did because they are both dead.


Read more: http://www.examiner.com/article/kevin-charles-brown-suicide-police-official-hangs-himself-before-being-arrested

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Ronald Clyde Tatro, left, Kevin Charles Brown.

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[7962]

1. Good riddance.

[kairos12]

9. My exact thoughts. He got off easy compared to his victim.

[SoCalMusicLover]

2. PIG

Typical, things haven't changed.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. dead sociopathic eyes.....eyes like sharks...

[Demeter]

4. that poor girl's family, how they must feel

We need a better way of choosing police....Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

a Latin phrase traditionally attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal from his Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–8), which is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Also sometimes rendered as "Who watches the watchmen?", the phrase has other idiomatic translations and adaptations such as "Who will watch the watch-guards?" In modern usage, it is frequently associated with the political philosophy of Plato and the problem of political corruption.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. I suppose he figured working there would keep him safe.

[BrotherIvan]

6. Hanged not hung

And I hope he fully realized how evil he was with his last breath.

[FarPoint]

10. It's just not necessary to play witer-cop.

Please clean your post up...its just rude. With tablets and phones having auto correct function, one can find that the tool can be a bit annoying more than helpful.

Respect fellow DU'ers.

[WilliamPitt]

16. Um...

BrotherIvan was referring to the incorrect use of the word *in the article.*

No DUer was corrected.

[BrotherIvan]

19. Thanks for the lecture

And yes, I was correcting the article, not a fellow DUer.

[FarPoint]

21. Please note...you did not clarify that to the OP.

Kindness with clarity goes far

[BrotherIvan]

23. I think the OP and I have enough reading comprehension to know

that I was not critiquing her writing as she posted the article without comment.

[FarPoint]

24. Just be nice and respectful.

[nichomachus]

20. Either is correct

Much to the chagrin of grammar nazis everywhere

[BrotherIvan]

22. People are hanged not hung

And to all those worried about grammar nazism, never fear, the language is corrupted daily. It was an article, written by a journalist, perpetuating a common mistake that with common usage will become ingrained. Anyone reading will internalize this mistake and use it in their own writing, as well as thinking that either is correct.

[tabasco]

25. That sure would be terrible.

Get a life.

[bravenak]

26. I hung the drapes.

The man i hanged.

[BrotherIvan]

27. Thank you

I guess I should get a life now...

[bravenak]

28. As should I, I suppose.

I saw it too. Reminded me of a scene in asoiaf.

[BrotherIvan]

29. I have not read that, is it good?

My reading list is so long, I can never catch up. But I always like finding new books. And yes, I guess people who appreciate language should all just go get a life. You must be a nerd too. I'm surprised this hasn't ignited the grammar nazi wars in GD. A rather innocuous comment has pissed off quite a few people I see. I guess you never know.

[bravenak]

30. It is the best series I have ever read.

Even better than lord of the rings, in my opinion. It's not done yet, two more books to go. I am impatiently waiting to read the rest, but scared of it ending at the same time. They based that show game of thrones on it. The books are better, slightly.

I am pretty nerdy, but I use bad grammar many times, have been grammar nazi'd myself. Funny how things get folks riled up, seemingly for no reason.

[BrotherIvan]

31. If it's even close to LOTR, I will have to check it out

Thanks for the recommendation.

[TorchTheWitch]

33. asoiaf = A Song of Ice and Fire?

If that's what series you mean I'm totally addicted. I've read and re-read the first five books so many times I've lost count. Reading them all over again right now (I'm about half way through the third one at the moment).

I wish Martin would stop doing all these damn interviews and finish the 6th book already! If he dies before the series is finished I may have to slit my wrists and light myself on fire.

[bravenak]

34. YES!!!!!!

I have gotten so bad with it I started reading fanfiction.
I worry all the time about his health... I was planning to jump off of a roof myself if he never finishes.

[TorchTheWitch]

35. ha! I've already told myself that if he has the gall to die

before he finishes the series I'll dig him up and kill him again myself!

I admit I've also succumbed to the fan stuff. They really are such great books though and the soap opera story is better than anything I've ever read.

[msanthrope]

32. No....people are hanged, pictures are hung. nt

[jwirr]

7. There is one benefit from being a Christian. You said they would never pay for what they did. Hell.

[DreamGypsy]

8. We can endlessly revile the probable perpetrators, but how do we mourn ...

...the unquestionable victims?

Claire Hough, 14, (left) Barbara Nantais, 15, (right) were murdered at Torrey Pines State Beach,
in 1978 and 1984. The crimes were strikingly similar.

These young lives were snuffed out years ago in incomprehensible acts of violence and desecration.

[Iamthetruth]

11. Think of all the money we would save

If all murderers would follow his lead.

[Farmbrook]

12. I am shocked and not shocked

that this person went on to be a police officer. This is the type of person the police force attracts. I believe that this guys work record on the force should be reviewed immediately because anyone that commits such heinous crime cannot be an isolated case. I am not surprised that we have polices officers executing innocent black men for little or no reason. They are sociopaths and criminals. And they still managed to secure a job as a police officer. Sad. Sad.

[Faux pas]

13. Why not kill yourself

BEFORE you harm another living thing?

[bananas]

15. Cold Case Suspect's Widow: SDPD "Pushed Him Over the Edge"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014927354

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by defacto7

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 03:37 PM

bananas (23,859 posts)

Cold Case Suspect's Widow: SDPD "Pushed Him Over the Edge"

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by defacto7 (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum). If you believe this was done in error, please contact defacto7 to appeal.
Source: NBC San Diego

The widow of a suspect in a decades-old homicide defended her husband saying the man she knew did not commit the crime.

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“They just pushed him because he was a quiet gentle nervous person. They just pushed him over the edge,” Rebecca Brown said.

In an interview with NBC 7, Rebecca defended her husband, the man she has known for decades.

“I'm sorry that crime happened 30 years ago. That poor girl . It was horrible. But it had nothing to do with my husband,” Rebecca said grasping my hand firmly as we discussed her husband and Hough's murder.

A year ago police removed many things from their home as evidence, she said.

“They took whatever they wanted, van loads of stuff a year ago and never returned anything,“ she said.

At the time of Hough's murder Brown was a criminalist working in the San Diego Police Crime lab. He retired in April of 2002.

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Read more: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Rebecca-Brown-Suspect-Kevin-Brown-Claire-Hough-Torrey-Pines-Murder-280306312.html

That NBC article is timestamped "Friday, Oct 24, 2014 Updated at 8:25 AM PDT"
I posted it at 3:37 PM, about 7 hours later, but it was locked for being over the 12 hour limit.
A week later, it's considered breaking news.

3. Locking

News is over 12 hour limit. Local news is not in the LBN SOP.

Please redirect to General Discussion or California group.

[cstanleytech]

18. Rather than derail the thread I would suggest you ask the person who locked it that question.

[Brickbat]

36. Examiner.com is LBN?

Mleh.