DEBRA DENISE BROWN | On Death Row Since June 6, 1986 (37 yrs) | Mid-Western Crime Spree By Alton Coleman And Ms. Brown That Included Up To 8 Murders, 7 Rapes, 3 Kidnappings And 14 Armed Robberies | ALS

Debra Brown. Autographed Letter, Signed. Handwritten, Commercial #10 (4.125 × 9.5 envelope). Phoenix, AZ. December 19, 2006. Content unknown. SEALED.

• Classification: Serial killer

• Characteristics: Kidnappings – Rapes – Armed robberies – Partner-in-crime of Alton Coleman

• Number of victims: 8

• Date of murders: May-July 1984

• Date of arrest: July 20, 1984

• Date of birth: November 11, 1962 | age 61

• Victims profile: Vernita Wheat, 9 / Tamika Turks, 7 / Donna Williams, 25 / Virginia Temple and her daughter Rachelle, 9 / Tonnie Storey, 15 / Marlene Walters, 44 / A 77-year-old man

• Method of murder: Strangulation

• Location: Indiana/Ohio/Illinois, USA

• Status: Sentenced to death in Indiana on June 23, 1986

• Update: December 2018, the Lake County prosecutor and the Indiana Attorney General’s Office signed an agreement withdrawing a demand for the execution of Debra Denise Brown because of mental disability.

• Mitigating Circumstances: borderline mental retardation, substantial domination by Coleman; dependent personality, general lack of aggressiveness, head trauma as a child, 21 years old at time of murderⁱ

Seven-year-old Tamika and her 9-year-old niece, Annie, were walking back from the candy store to their home when they were confronted by Debra Brown and Alton Coleman. Brown and Coleman convinced them to walk into the woods to play a game. Once there, they removed Tamika's shirt and tore it into small strips which they used to bind and gag the children. When Tamika began to cry, Brown held her nose and mouth while Coleman stomped on her chest. After carrying Tamika a short distance away, Annie was forced to perform oral sex on both Brown and Coleman, then Coleman raped her. Brown and Coleman then choked her until she was unconscious. When she awoke, they were gone. Tamika was found dead in the bushes nearby, strangled with an elastic strip of bedsheet. The same fabric was later found in the apartment shared by Coleman and Brown. Annie received cuts so deep that her intestines were protruding into her vagina. Evidence of a remarkably similar murder in Ohio was admitted at trial. These acts proved to be part of a mid-western crime spree by Coleman and Brown that included up to 8 murders, 7 rapes, 3 kidnappings, and 14 armed robberies.ⁱⁱ

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