FORT PIERCE, Fla. (WFLA) — The sufferer of a 1986 chilly case murder has been positively recognized almost 40 years after happening.
On October 7, 1986, the physique of an unidentified male was found in a grove space southwest of Selvitz Highway on Ralls Highway.
The sufferer was certain and appeared to have been shot a number of instances in an execution-style killing.
In 2019, the investigation was reopened, and in 2020, a courtroom licensed the exhumation of the sufferer’s stays, permitting further organic samples to be collected. Nevertheless, these newly obtained DNA outcomes have been inadequate for forensic genetic family tree till March 2024.
On Jan 8, a possible relative of the sufferer was recognized via a family tree report and after a DNA pattern confirmed a match, the id of the sufferer was revealed to be 39-year-old Blaine Louis Brown, Jr.
Brown was the proprietor of a horse ranch in Ocala, Double B Farms, Inc., and Brown’s Superb Furnishings.
In keeping with the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Workplace, Brown was reported lacking the identical day his physique was found in Fort Pierce.
His household reported that he had not been seen since Sept 26 of that 12 months. Preliminary interviews with relations revealed that he might have been concerned in narcotics smuggling.
If anybody has additional details about this case they need to contact Detective Paul Taylor with the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Workplace Chilly Case Unit at 772-359-4407.
Ideas can be submitted anonymously via Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers by way of their website.
