EVE ESKIN BROWN
Eve Eskin Brown, 29, from Plainview Long Island
Missing: 10 July 1999, from Queens
Found: 15 November 2000, in Brooklyn, dismembered, placed in a bag
Her car, Geo Prizm, was found about 6 weeks later in Brooklyn (A thief was interrogated) . Her phone was also traced to a man who claimed he stole it.
She was found on the construction site of Gateway Mall, which was used once as a landfill then left untouched as an undeveloped lot for a period of time.
Eve was 5 months pregnant when she was missing
Using dental records, authorities last week identified decomposed remains inside a plastic bag found at the Brooklyn construction site Nov. 15 as those of Eve Brown.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE STORY
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Detective Edward Reuss, a spokesman for the New York City Police Department, said workers found a human skull and human bones on the ground at 63-54 Belt Parkway at 11:25 a.m. on Nov. 15.
The workers were installing a fence between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Fresh Creek Basin near Starrett City, he said. The remains were taken to the office of the New York City medical examiner. Yesterday, they were identified as Mrs. Brown's through dental X-rays, said Ellen S. Borakove, a spokeswoman for the office.
The remote and weeded area had long been reputed as a Mafia dumping ground – made famous by boasts from Brooklyn gangster Roy DeMeo that he had dumped hundreds of bodies there.
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November 26, 2000 | 5:00am
Investigators yesterday searched for new clues about a the death of a pregnant Long Island woman – scouring the site where her remains were found, where they discovered two new bones, sources said.
It was unclear whether the new findings – an ankle bone and a hip bone, sources said – are part of Eve Brown’s remains.
They were found near where workers building a shopping mall about 30 feet off the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn discovered Brown’s remains on Nov. 15, the sources said. On Friday, police said the remains belonged to Brown, a 29-year-old mom-to-be who vanished without a trace on July 10, 1999.
The lot where Brown was found has long been a reputed dumping ground for mob killings, meaning the new bones could belong to someone else.
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Mrs. Brown, a counselor at a nursing home, was last seen on July 10, 1999, by her husband, Mr. Brown told the police that his wife said she was going to visit a girlfriend in Freeport, but it was later discovered that Mrs. Brown's friend was vacationing in the Caribbean at the time. The pregnant Long Island woman whose remains were discovered at a Brooklyn construction site Nov. 15 was enmeshed in a love triangle when she vanished, sources said yesterday.
Nassau County detectives interviewed Eve Brown's secret lover early in their missing person investigation. Sources said the man, who has no criminal record, readily cooperated with investigators.
Larry Brown, 32, had agreed to several interviews with Nassau detectives shortly after his raven-haired wife vanished. But Carman [Larry's lawyer] said he's ruled out any more interviews with cops for his client. "We've been very cooperative with detectives, made personal documents and computers available to them," Carman said. "My position that he won't be made available for repetitive interrogations is not a lack of cooperation. "Any information they need," he added, "they can get from Larry through me.
Eve Brown's parents lashed out at their son-in-law yesterday, saying he's shunned the family and hasn't cooperated with the investigation. Her mother, Bonnie Eskin, told Channel 11 that Larry Brown refused to talk to a private investigator hired by the family. She also charged that he had failed a lie detector test. Carman told Channel 11 that cops once hooked up his client to a polygraph, but the lawyer doesn't know whether a full test was given. "He distanced himself from the investigation and hasn't been with the family," said Jay Eskin, Eve Brown's father.
" Carman said his client "had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance or death" and is as eager as the Eskin family to uncover the truth. Larry Brown told the Daily News in July 1999 that his was the "perfect marriage" and that the couple had been trying to conceive for more than a year when his wife became pregnant with their first child. She was five months pregnant when she disappeared.
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Bonnie Eskin had last seen her daughter July 10, 1999 at Shea Stadium. She and her husband, Jay, accompanied Eve and her husband, Larry Brown, to a Yankees-Mets game.
Jay Eskin admits he cannot be 100 percent certain there were no other men in Eve's life. He thinks it's extremely unlikely.
During the day she worked as a counselor at the Queens-Nassau Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home for the victims of traumatic head injuries.
At night she ran a marriage guidance service, a business she started in 1997.
But the Eskins cannot help being suspicious of Eve's husband, who hired a lawyer within hours of Eve's disappearance. He denies any involvement in his wife's murder but Bonnie Eskin says she feels, at the very least, that Eve died because Larry did not take proper care of her.
"I blame Larry Brown for not protecting my daughter," says Bonnie. "He let her do things on her own that put her in harms way."
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The family of the pregnant Long Island woman whose remains were found at a Brooklyn construction site this month are sharing their grief with the woman's husband, her sister said yesterday. "He's just as devastated as we are," Shari Eskin, 25, said of Larry Brown, the husband of her deceased sister, Eve Brown.
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The night Eve disappeared, she left Shea early with Larry so she would not get bumped by the crowds. By the time Bonnie and Jay left Shea, Eve was already at home, resting on her bed. Eve told her mother she planned to visit her friend Tessa, a former Queens-Nassau employee.
AT 7 p.m. she left home dressed in black shorts and a black T-shirt. She was carrying a back pack containing a sweater and long pants, in case she decided to sleep over at Tessa's. She was driving her black Geo Prism. It is the next few hours which probably hold the key to what happened to Eve.
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According to her cellular phone records, she made three calls to Tessa as she drove towards the Queens-Nassau center where she planned to pick up messages - they were retrieved at 7:40 p.m.
The puzzle here is that Tessa had no plans to see Eve. In fact Tessa was in the Dominican Republic at her grandmother's funeral. This initially led Suffolk County police to suspect that Eve had arranged a tryst with a lover.
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SCPD implies she was making a lie arrangement with Tessa.
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Cops yesterday [27 Nov 2000] interviewed Brown’s parents, and began to pore through files compiled since she vanished 16 months ago. Sources had no details on Brown’s apparent boyfriend. But Brooklyn detectives plan to reinterview more than 30 people questioned in the original probe of her July 1999 disappearance.
Workers found Eve Brown’s remains, wrapped in a plastic bag, at a construction site near the Belt Parkway Nov. 15, and the medical examiner identified them Friday.
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The remains can not be identified as a pregnant woman because her body was dismembered.
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Police Baffled by Disappearance Of Pregnant Long Island Woman
Published: July 14, 1999
The woman, Eve Brown, 29, was last seen around 7:20 P.M. on Saturday by her husband, Larry, as she backed her black 1994 Chevy Geo out of the driveway of their new home at 100 Jamaica Avenue, in Plainview, N.Y., the police said. Mr. Brown said his wife told him she was going to see a friend in Freeport, about 15 miles away, according to the police.
But the missing woman's friend was not at home, the police said, because she had flown to the Dominican Republic several days earlier. Mrs. Brown's car has not been recovered, and the only clue is a telephone call the police said was made from her cell phone around 7:30 P.M. the day she disappeared. The police did not say who had made the call.
According to her cell-phone records, Eve made a call to her office in Wantagh - retrieving her message at 7:40 p.m. The call to Wantagh was the last made by Eve that night.
Then, it's presumed, she drove toward Tessa's home in Freeport. But Tessa was nowhere near New York - she was in the Dominican Republic at her grandmother's funeral - and some investigators think Eve was using Tessa as a cover for an illicit meeting of some sort.
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She's not going to Freeport (i.e. friend Tessa)
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At 1 a.m.
(July 11), Larry called his wife's cell phone but got no answer. He had plans to leave early the following morning for the next of the three Yankee-Mets games and may have assumed his wife was staying with Tessa. Larry went to sleep but was awake by 6 a.m. At 9 a.m., with still no word from Eve, he called Bonnie Eskin.
"I can still hear his voice, asking if we had heard from Eve," she [Bonnie] says. "Immediately my skin went ice cold. I could sense something was terribly wrong." EVE had never been absent like that before. She had always kept in close contact. Throughout her life, she had never been in any kind of trouble. "I could set my watch by Eve's telephone calls," Larry Brown told police. "When she didn't call that Saturday it was like time had stopped."
For the next 10 days, it was as if Eve had been abducted by aliens. There were no sightings and she made no contact. Then, on July 31, came the telephone call.
"The phone rang and on my caller ID I saw Eve's cell-phone number," says Jay. "I felt like my heart jumped from my mouth and bounced against the walls."
Jay answered the call and a male voice said "hello," and then hung up. The phone rang three more times with similar results.
Eve's father knew his daughter might have been hurt by somebody the moment she went missing, but those calls left him staring at the bleak reality she might be dead.
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They also jogged his memory about a strange incident two days before the baseball game. "Eve told us on Thursday she had fallen out with somebody at work," Jay says.
"She told us she was afraid of going back. That was strange because my daughter was hardly ever afraid of anything."
POLICE have asked the Eskins not to identify the person Eve had a spat with.
But Bo Dietl Associates, a prominent private-investigation firm the family has hired, says the workplace argument angle seems to be a dead end. Eve went to work on Friday as planned and later told her family she had no problems with any of her co-workers that day.
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Police in the 67th Precinct, with assistance from the NYPD Technical Assistance Resource Unit, traced the mysterious calls
to a man who told them Eve's phone had been stolen from a U-Haul truck.
The next day, Eve's car was found in a chop shop a few yards from the U-Haul.
With it was trace evidence that at last brought the Eskins some hope of closure.
"There was no sign of anything belonging to Eve but
there was blood on the steering column," says Bonnie. "I thought we might quickly find her body or a suspect."
Instead they found a small-time car thief. He had watched Eve's unlocked Prism sit on Church Avenue between Bedford and Rogers in Brooklyn for a week - where it got two parking tickets even though there was an all-points bulletin on the car.
ON JULY 20, the thief pounced. Finding the keys on the floor he drove it to an alleyway where he removed the mirrors
before cutting himself trying to pry out the airbag. The car thief was questioned and released. He offered no information about the whereabouts of Eve Eskin. And that is all there has been by way of tangible clues.
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Detectives are continuing to press for leads in the cold murder case of a pregnant Long Island woman whose dismembered body was found stuffed into a plastic bag in a vacant Brooklyn lot, police said yesterday.
Police thought they had a break when they determined that Brown made a call from her cell phone the night of her disappearance. Investigators were able to determine the call had been made from within a few blocks of the
Valley Stream home of one of her co-workers, Patrick Kingland.
Detectives searched Kingland’s house in February, took a DNA sample and brought him to Brooklyn for questioning – but the case remains open.
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Her husband reported Eve missing the next day. Nearly six weeks after Brown disappeared, her stripped-down car, a black 1994 Geo Prizm, turned up in an alley in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The license plates, an air bag and other parts had been stolen, but investigators
reportedly found no signs of violence.
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TWO MORE BODIES WERE FOUND ON THE SAME LOT
The construction of a shopping mall in East New York, designed to bring upscale shopping to the beleaguered neighborhood, has turned up two grim reminders of the area’s violent past. A digging crew at a landfill off the Belt Parkway in eastern Brooklyn – site of the new Gateway Center mall – found a decomposing human body in a plastic bag Wednesday, cops said.
On Thursday, they found another one.
Work was halted Wednesday so police could remove the body of a female, whose legs were bound. The victim appeared to be a black woman in her 20s, dead less than two years, cops estimated. When digging began again on Thursday, another body surfaced from amid the rubble, the skeleton of a male of undetermined age and race – with an apparent bullet hole in his head, police said. Police believe he’s been dead for more than two years.
Remains Unearthed in Brooklyn Are Those of a Missing Woman (Published 2000)
Police Baffled by Disappearance Of Pregnant Long Island Woman (Published 1999)
PREGNANT WOMAN’S ‘99 SLAY REOPENED
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/slain-woman-affair-article-1.938394
PREGNANT VICTIM’S ‘DOUBLE LIFE’
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/remains-id-woman-article-1.883029
BONES FOUND NEAR REMAINS OF L.I. WOMAN
GRISLY GRAVES UNEARTHED – B’KLYN MALL DIG FINDS 2 BODIES
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/widower-in-laws-grieving-article-1.891809
