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 PLOTA 79-year-old Colorado man has been arrested in the 1981 strangulation death of a woman in Grapevine, Texas.(Terrant County Jail)According 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.The apartment contained evidence that Bruneau had struggled with her attacker, according to the affidavit.The Tarrant County medical examiner determined that Bruneau had been strangled during the midmorning.Brown came to investigators’ attention on the day of the killing when detectives went to speak with his wife, who was Bruneau’s best friend and former roommate.
Both women worked as Braniff flight attendants and jointly owned a house in Dallas, according to the outlet.TEENS SUSPECTED OF MURDERING CONGRESSIONAL INTERN LINKED BY DNA ON SHELL CASINGS, PROSECUTORS SAYBrown’s wife was working an international flight when detectives arrived so Brown instead spoke with the investigators.One detective described Brown as evasive and noted that he repeatedly gave similar answers.Detectives also documented a fresh injury beneath Brown’s right thumbnail, where the top la...