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[Music] [Music] I don't think anything bothers investigators as much as an unsolved case and so we were just pounding our heads on the wall and then a letter started coming the Marquis Placid depths beneath the pool caressing Maier the last seven sacred versions contain side by side those less worthy are scattered wide that was the first indication that we did have a serial killer on our hands [Music] right right subway it's probably a remnant of an old Indian burial ground in a mountainous ravine high above Colorado Springs a state trooper follows up on report by a homeless man the transient told me that he was up on rampart Range Road and he found what appeared to be human remains and it turned out to be a human skull dental records prove the skull is the remains of 13 year-old Heather Church we had a good corner who was able to determine from the skull that she died of blunt-force trauma to the head so he definitely had a homicide case for two long years investigators from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office could not solve the mystery of what happened to Heather I don't think anything bothers investigators as much as an unsolved case an unsolved case can destroy a family it's the not knowing what happened to their loved one that really destroys people over time Heather church was a 13 year old girl that lived here in the northeast part of El Paso County in the area known as Black Forest and she disappeared from her home one evening it was a high-profile case and I think most people had seen pictures of missing-persons flyer that had her portrait on it it all begins on a dark autumn night hey ma I see here tonight the check please I guess come on hey Heather stayed home with her five-year-old brother while her mother took the other two boys to their voice Scout meeting [Music] Diane called home about eight o'clock that evening to talk to Heather and see if everything was okay [Music] okay so we're watching TV it's really funny okay let me to an hour and a half later Diane and her boys returned home all right listen once you go to bed deal her youngest son is sound asleep when Diane checks on Heather Heather the bed is empty find it right now well I got a call about 10 o'clock at night Diane said have you heard from Heather and I said no and she says I can't find her and I said what do you mean you can't find her there's gone how can have there be gone you're sure she didn't go someplace it was just not reasonable for Heather not to be there and Diane had panic in her voice be there just a minute all right my husband and I jumped in the truck and ran out to Diane's Diane also calls Heather's father Heather's father immediately started speeding out to their home feeling like this is a really bad thing that's happened here he had immediate feelings it's something really bad had happened to his daughter my husband and I and Diane we were all outside calling her name we probably drove around for 20 minutes through the fields with our lights on doing a search around the property we had no idea that this was going to turn into be a nightmare we figured that it would be solved that Heather would come home safely having been a parent you can't say you you know what they're going through but you can imagine it's worse than anything you could possibly imagine dynamite Church had four children and Heather Church was their oldest daughter about a year after they moved to their new house Diane and Mike separated and Diane stayed in the house with the four children in the early part of the investigation there was a lot of speculation that maybe she was a runaway maybe she was live someplace the morning after Heather disappears the searching rescue teams arrive about dawn and they fan out across the Prairie and then they also start canvassing the neighborhood they find no sign of Heather this causes investigators to suspect she's been forcibly taken from her home [Music] Diane wanted to busy herself she picked up the vacuum cleaner and started vacuuming sheriff's deputy came running out and that was the first Dianne realized that their house was being treated as a crime scene I have to show you something maybe wasn't sure this is how you found the window yeah so I really just saw there screaming I wasn't sure could you get CSI in here the investigators immediately realized that the window screen has been removed from the window and then put back but not seated correctly in the trash this is really the first clue that someone has actually come into the house the prints are submitted to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation database and there are no hits the case affected all of us on a personal level a crime like that had not occurred in this community where a girl was abducted from the safety of her own home hether church was just a very innocent young girl young victim and it was a lot of tragedy at the time for two years detectives question everyone who's ever known Heather Heather's disappearance received a lot of publicity and hundreds of people called with tips claiming to have seen her at the mall at a restaurant on a bus from the beginning investigators pursue every lead but none result in any possible suspect it became just a part of life that this was ongoing it was a mystery that needed to be solved [Music] the discovery of Heather church's skull two years after her mysterious disappearance devastates Heather's mother Diane being told that she was dead set it in stone in such a way that then it really hurt she had spent two years hoping so hard that she never really wanted to consider that that was how it was going to end the finding of Heather's skull confirms she met a violent fate but no new lead surface as far as discovering information that led to the identity of the suspect from the body recovery site was very minimal after two more years on the hunt for her murderer investigators are no closer to catching Heather's killer but now there's a new sheriff in town yes yes and go ahead send them up hey Lou CMC really glad that you could come and join me on this case as the newly elected sheriff one of my goals was to put together the investigation and the team that would solve kidnap murder of Heather Church and I was very fortunate that I was able to convince my former homicide partner loose mitt to come to the sheriff's office and leave the investigation as my captain of detectives meet you by the time Heather church's skull was found Lou Smith had built quite a reputation regionally and even nationally for his investigative efforts my biggest concern was is the suspect still in our community it was a case that I think all of us wanted to see solved the one very critical piece of physical evidence was the latent fingerprint what thing that so significant is that it had not yet been identified the former investigators had checked the state system in Colorado and did not find a match that's where a lot of people would have stopped but with Lou that's where he started is that how many different automated fingerprint systems are there in existence and between the United States and Canada there were 92 detective Smith's first course of action is to make sure all 92 fingerprint databases in North America are searched for comparisons the answer to this four-year mystery comes ten days later Luke called me early on a Sunday morning about 1:30 2:00 in the morning and woke me up and said John I know who killed Heather and he told me the name that latent fingerprint was in two states systems and it identified the suspect as a Robert brown brown a career criminal has a record for burglary and auto theft in California and Louisiana as we talked about the two states Louisiana in California Colorado Springs was almost been a direct line between the two you have that convicted felon passing through then where was he on the night of the murder to answer their new questions investigators don't have to look very far Robert Brown lives just a half a mile from the churchhouse he was in effect Heather's closest neighbor you could literally stand at Robert Brown's home and see line of sight the church home to include the driveway where the mother's car would have parked we began to watch the house closely determine what car he drove what his patterns were we suspect that he may have weapons in the house we wanted to try to avoid a barricaded hostage situation in ideally we wanted to separate him from the residence where there could be physical evidence so he wouldn't destroy the evidence or arm himself but as we watched the house that morning the suspect ended up leaving the sheriff's investigators follow Robert Ryland to an art supply store in downtown Colorado Springs they wait for him to come out of the store then they stop him and when Robert Brown lied about being at the church residence which we thought he would it was a significant milestone in the investigation we knew that we'd overcome a hurdle he had no reason to be there that was going to be very difficult for him in court to explain why his latent fingerprint was at the scene let alone at the point of entry with a warrant for your arrest so we had a reason for that we have your fingerprints from inside that house it's not possible they have somebody that are similar to mine but you don't have mine we should take mine again and compare them we compared them several times we got your fingerprints from the Louisiana State Police you know I'm telling you they are yours silver bracelet some of the tree looks like oxygen as investigators are questioning Brown at the sheriff's office detectives are searching his trailer they find a lot of guns pornographic videos children's clothing we found a substantial amount of stolen property we later found most of it taken from homes in the Black Forest area the evidence suggests Brown has been burglarizing his neighbor's homes for some time but nothing to imply he had a motive for murder next we began devising our investigative approach to that a court part of that was to look for other indications of bad acts or related acts that we might be able to bring forward in the prosecution investigators suspect there is more to brown than they know a detective from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office heads to casado louisiana to dig into his past Robert Brown was the youngest of nine children his father was a deputy sheriff in casada and his brother was a former Louisiana State Trooper he was married five times did he do it all the time yeah after we got married he's crazy real bad temper all of his wives were terrified of and some after only a short period of time of marriage some of his marriage didn't last but a couple months one he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger scared the crap out of me Bennie asked me to kill him they all described him as not being able to control his temper he would explode at the least little thing because I forgot to put a spoon and a gravy bowl he's the devil's right-hand man that's what he is call me when you throw the switch I want to see him fry detectives learned that brutality surrounds Robert Brown and has for a long long time early in the investigation we felt there was a strong likelihood that this was a very very violent violent man one woman who lived next door to brown disappeared and has never been found she's a 27 year old waitress Tammy dumar another woman who also lived next door to brown and because shadow Louisiana was murdered in her bed Brenda Lin age 21 is stabbed dozens of times with a screwdriver her murder is never solved and it was the first indication that perhaps we did have a serial killer on our hands the chilling details uncovered in Louisiana confirm investigators worst fears Brown is a first class predator detective Lou Smith gives Diane Church the news of his arrest we found a person who murdered your daughter we got about a name of Robert Brown the good news is he's locked up he's not gonna hurt anyone else he's gonna be locked up for a long long time she was such a good girl she didn't deserve that it's not fair what did she do what did she do tell me why did he have the tape Diane was so angry that this man had done this to her daughter and there are still flashes of that anger that come across Diane's face when we get together and we talk about these things as brown sits behind bars awaiting trial investigators can't help wonder if Heather's murder and the grisly slaughter in Louisiana are just the tip of the iceberg and will Browns fingerprints be enough to lock him away for good Lou felt certain that he was a serial killer and there were other bodies you beat the hell out of me because I forgot to put a spoon and a gravy bowl man put a gun to my head pulled the trigger he's the devil's right-hand man I want to see him fry fry based on the reports of robert brown's ex-wives the mysterious death of his neighbors and his fingerprints at 13 year old murder victims Heather church's house detectives are certain they've got a monster in custody clearly the most critical piece of physical evidence against Brown was the fingerprint it clearly helped that he was a twice-convicted felon that he lived in such a close proximity to the victim the night of the murder and we really felt the case was worthy of a death penalty before investigators question Brown about any additional murders he may have committed they want to secure a conviction in the Heather Church case the defense attorney came forward with the offer of a plea agreement [Music] you're gonna take the death penalty off the table yes that would be too quick my client will plead guilty to the murder of Heather dawn Church if you take the death penalty off the table that agreed that's right I don't believe in the death penalty but I want him to rot I'm gonna pay for what he did to my baby girl Heather's parents were not in favor of a death penalty so having that offer in hand with the parents strongly encouraging us to accept it we decided to do that can you make that happen boo our best so we agreed thank you thank you both Brown was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the family when something like that happens that's when the healing can begin there's a degree of closure but a terrible tragedy like this never goes away Heather's remains are laid to rest but for Sheriff John Anderson the case is far from resolved without the death penalty Robert Brown could one day walk free talked several times about how important it would be to get a second murder conviction on brown in case there was an appeal and we somehow lost the first case so that we knew that this violent killer would never get on the street again the sheriff forms a cold-case squad to look more closely into the life and death surrounding Brown the members of Genesis cup ok squad are Scott who is a recently retired newspaper publisher Lou Smith who is the recently retired homicide investigator who saw the Heather Church case and Charlie Hess who's had several careers but most notably as an FBI agent and as a CIA agent Scott asked Lou if any of the cases that you worked on did you think a have more serial killers and Lou responded immediately he said of course he said Robert Charles Brown the decision to go after Brown is twofold to bring closure to the families of unsolved murders and to make sure Robert Brown never walks free again meeting regularly at a Colorado Springs cafe the investigators review Browns file and find he's written some cryptic letters to the DEA hinting about other victims Brown's first letter to the district attorney reads to whom it may concern and the murky placid depths beneath the cool caressing Meyer has seven golden opportunities missed opportunities and then of all things he signs it lovingly Robert run investigators are desperate to find out what they can about Brown's so-called golden opportunities Charlie wrote a letter to brown and he responded I'm not too sure and it was believed he would seven sacred versions and tuned side-by-side those less worthy are scattered wide the score is you won the other team 48 he also encloses with this letter a crudely drawn map of several states in which he's written numbers although police refused to release Browns map it is known to include numbers that imply a body count of 48 victims across nine states Browns claiming that he had murdered 48 people that was shocking and way beyond what we had considered a possibility in this case but of course it had intrigued us if Brown is telling the truth the cold-case investigators believe he could be one of the most prolific serial killers in US history from his jail cell convicted murderer Robert Brown sends cryptic letters to Colorado's El Paso County District Attorney in them he hints at having murdered four dozen people the investigators didn't know whether Brown was just playing with them whether he really had information to divulge when the letters started coming from Brown it it was a period of excitement Brown writes a letter to cold-case investigators inviting them on a hypothetical death tour in the case of one woman he says only the name of a town he says Latonia icepick and ether sure enough there's been a woman killed and dumped outside of flat tomia he tells them in another case a body in pieces near Houston they find out yes a woman who had been cut up and pieces of her body about brown eventually confesses to killing his neighbor I'm standing her to death in Louisiana his hometown and he claims to kill a young teenager one of the haunting things and he claims he strangled her many of the bodies we could not tied to him but probably 25 26 27 he gave us some detail on and at least nine we were sure in her own mind he did do none of the cases have the physical evidence needed to convict Brown for the crimes [Music] even though he's locked up for life for Heather church's murder the cold-case investigators want concrete evidence to tie Brown to another this way he will never be freed Charlie knew how to get into someone's mind make them relax and think of them as a long-lost friend he's exceptional at doing that they find their opportunity in one of his many andyc Matic letters if you were to drive to the end zone and a white Grand Am the score could be nine to forty eight that would complete your home court sphere sincerely Robert Brown yes December or January 1987 or 1988 like Grand Am Colorado Springs the grand-am is a specific lead the investigators can follow it was a Colorado Springs case in the city could not produce anything from their files and so we were just pounding our heads in the wall he nicknamed the one in Colorado Springs the Grand Am lady Scott Lou and I were discussing we need to put this together so we can really identify who the lady is because Robert never discussed names solving an unknown cold case in Colorado Springs involving a so called Grand Am lady proves nearly impossible after Charlie said what I call a come-to-jesus letter to him saying put up or shut up we got a response back at Brown said that young soldier's wife is missing and he added one thing to the bottom the sanitation department is very efficient he would in bits and pieces really small clues Charlie Hess is desperate to come around face to face it's nice to miss it these are the people come in here I won't even you know a lot of people think I'm crazy for coming into talking to you but I think you're pretty interesting and I know what you want would you mind if I ask you some questions about some of the things you mentioned in your letters on this visit Brown does not answer Charlie's questions [Music] after period of time of my visiting Robert one of the detectives was checking out all of the stolen cars he noticed that one VIN number enjoyed with the normal sequence we can figure out about this Grand Am who it belongs to it holds the pieces of its puzzle we got anybody you can call let's get the VIN he can call somebody netbeans going to come back to something yep finally they tracked it down to the owner in Florida and they called him and they said did you ever have a white Grand Am he said yes I said was this white Grand Am ever stolen he said yes they said did you ever have a wife or a girlfriend who went missing and he began to cry he said yes my wife got a victim and they knew they had found who they were looking for with a new murder charge for the slaying of the Grand Am lady investigators hope to keep Robert Brown behind bars for keeps we were very excited about it because it looked to us like this was a murder that no one even knew about [Music] then grand-am lady was a young mother she was only 15 years old a very pretty Latina girl she was married to a soldier who was stationed at Fort Carson and he had taken their baby to his parents home out of state and they were going to end up getting a divorce the husband took the child and flew to Miami never knowing that that would be the last time he would see his wife [Music] he called her once and was able to speak to her he was heading back for a reconciliation but would never see her again [Music] she was supposed to pick him up at the airport and didn't show when he got back to their apartment the victims husbands discovered that she was nowhere to be seen but all of her clothing was there you found the apartment in some disarray the television set missing went to his car to drive around and try to find her car was missing he called the police to report her missing they initially looked at him as a possible suspect in her disappearance his life really was destroyed by this Charlie has since Scott Fisher meet with convicted killer Robert Brown to tell him they've learned the identity of the Grand Am lady you want to tell me what would you like to tell me about that Brown could put a shiver down your back he was a very intimidating person I know about this lady's husband talk to him so you got anything to add to this Grand Am girl yeah Brown agrees to tell them how he kills her doctor husband huh all right she came by the store flirting with me she told him that she and her husband were going to be divorced that he had left town indicated more or less that she was interested in brown I tell you what come back in 15 20 minutes I'll be wrapped up and we can go have some fun yes she was going to bring the new Grand Am and pick Robert up and they went to a movie see you it's a decision the young lady won't live to regret the 1991 murder of Heather Church has put Colorado cold-case investigators on the trail of Robert Brown possibly America's worst serial killer to prevent Brown from ever getting out of prison authorities need to nail him for a second murder charge the slaying of the so-called Grand Am lady we now have a victim we have a name and Charlie is able to finally present to Brown that we pretty much solved the case with the exception of the missing body I remember her husband was out of town for talking tours so I talked her into going out on a date we went to see a movie after the movie they had a bite to eat after that Robert took her to his apartment and they had sex [Music] after some relations I strangled her she was in his apartment dead all night that first night and he went to bed just like it was an ordinary evening so next morning I dragged her to the bathtub cut her up put her in some little bags carried her out to the dumpster and that's sanitation departments pretty dependable he knew that the garbage truck was coming the next day to empty the dumpster obviously she ended up in a dump somewhere after Robert had killed her he continued to use that grand-am for several days himself I knew when he'd be back subject and car around a couple days so I parked the car where I knew he'd find it the husband sees his grand-am he goes to the convenience store where Robert Brown is working to use the pay phone to call the police to report that he's found his stolen car the grand-am is a white Grand Am is right around the corner from the apartment building little does he know that the man who murdered his wife is standing behind the counter I heard him call you guys all hysterical talking about he found the car what else happened after that is it Robert Brown was providing details that only a killer would know he couldn't possibly be making up the details regarding our victim in Colorado Springs so yes we were convinced that he was telling the truth and it was terrifying now investigators have enough to ensure Brown will never get out of prison when Brown looked Charlie and I and said let me out of prison I'll probably kill somebody within two weeks I think he's still capable of it can I had no doubt he'd do it on July 27 2006 Robert Brown pleads guilty to the murder of the grand-am lady outside the courthouse the zipped UM's husband reunites with his daughter [Music] for 18 years the daughter had believes that her father murdered her mother [Music] that was a very emotional time because I was too made the four or five years who invested in this case very worthwhile Brown had done so many evils to so many families that I was just glad that Heather's case could be the last and that he wasn't going to be free anymore Robert Brown never showed any feelings about the murder she at committee is there more that you can tell me about it he provided ultimately information about 22 or 23 murders and that was before we stopped communications that's all he would give many of the murder cases reported by Robert Brown are still open and under investigation seven sacred versions entombed side-by-side those less worthy

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Length: 43min 33sec (2613 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 01 2016

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