Felon claims to be serial killer of 48 – The Denver Post
Felon claims to be serial killer of 48 – The Denver Post.
Colorado Springs –A man serving a life sentence in a Colorado prison claims he has killed up to 48 people, including nine in Colorado – a spree that would make him one of the nation’s most prolific serial killers.
Robert Charles Browne, 53, who pleaded guilty in the 1991 abduction and killing of Heather Dawn Church, told investigators that he killed up to four dozen men and women from 1970 until his arrest in 1995 in the slaying of Heather, who lived in Black Forest.
Investigators have uncovered bodies, police reports and other evidence from seven killings that corroborated Browne’s story, including the 1987 killing of a 15-year-old Colorado Springs mother – the crime Browne pleaded guilty to Thursday.
Browne told police the killings were triggered by his “disgust” with the women’s “lack of morality.”
“Women try to present themselves to be one thing, and then always prove to be something else,” he said in an affidavit. He went on to describe them as “low … unfaithful … cheats … users … not of the highest moral character.”
Browne described his killings as “opportunities,” according to El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa. He said he would go on “ramblings,” where he would get in a car and take a road trip, stopping when he felt like it.
He told investigators that his 48-person killing spree wound through nine states – Colorado, New Mexico, Washington, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas – and even to South Korea.
Browne said he used a variety of methods to kill. He strangled victims with his hands and with ligatures. He used chemicals – chloroform, a compound he found in ant killer, and ether. He shot people and stabbed them.
He dumped his victims in lakes, rivers, ditches and, in one case, over a cliff. He was known to cut up the bodies and dump them in trash receptacles.
Browne claims he had consensual sex with the victims, but when pressed by investigators, he would say: “That’s off the table.”
CASES TIED TO BROWNE GO BACK DECADES
Robert Charles Browne, serving a life sentence in Colorado for the 1991 murder of 13-year-old Heather Dawn Church, told an investigator that he has murdered dozens of other people, men and women. Here are some of the cases linked to him.
Katherine Hayes,15, was reported missing July 4, 1980, in Louisiana. Hayes’ body was found Oct. 16, 1980, in Nantachie Creek. She had been strangled.
Wanda Faye Hudson,21, was found dead on May 28, 1983, in her Coushatta, La., apartment. She had been stabbed multiple times. Coushatta is Browne’s hometown. Browne had done maintenance work on Hudson’s apartment, including changing the lock on her door.
Faye Self,26, was reported missing March 30, 1983, in Louisiana. Browne told authorities that her body was dumped in the Red River. She has never been found.
Melody Bush,22, was found dead on March 30, 1984, in Fayette County, Texas. Her body was found in a drainage ditch and the coroner ruled Bush died of acute acetone poisoning.
Nidia Mendoza,17, was reported missing on Feb. 2, 1984, in Texas. Her body was found on Feb. 6, 1984, in a ditch.
Rocio Sperry,15, was reported missing on Nov. 15, 1987, in El Paso County. Browne, who pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to life in prison in this case, told an investigator that he dumped Sperry’s body in a trash bin after strangling her in his apartment. Sperry has never been found.
Heather Dawn Church,13, was reported missing on Sept. 17, 1991, in El Paso County. Church’s remains were found on Sept. 16, 1993, on Rampart Range Road northwest of Colorado Springs. Browne is serving a life sentence in her death.
Lisa Lowe,21, was reported missing on Nov. 3, 1991, in Arkansas. Lowe’s body was found on Nov. 26, 1991, in the St. Francis River.
KIERAN NICHOLSON
ROBERT CHARLES BROWNE
Age:53
Hometown:Browne grew up in Coushatta, La., a town of fewer than 3,000 people about 50 miles southeast of Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana.
Family:He was one of nine children, including three sets of twins. Browne has a twin sister. His father worked at a dairy farm, and a brother, Donald Browne, was once a trooper for the Louisiana State Police.
Education:Browne dropped out of Coushatta’s high school in 1969 and joined the Army, serving in South Korea as a medic.
First criminal trouble:Browne was jailed in Louisiana for a car theft. He moved to Colorado in 1987, after his parole.
Marriages:Browne has been married six times, including to Diane M. Babbitts after he moved to Colorado. She filed for divorce in 1995 in El Paso County.
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