OK OK- Walter, 67, & Grace Brown, 63, bound, tortured, beaten to death, @ home, Tulsa, 3 April 2006, *New initiative, DNA*

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May 18, 2023

Murdered in Broad Daylight: The deaths of Walter & Grace Brown

It’s a case that still haunts Tulsa police homicide detective, Jason White to this day, and even more disturbing are the gruesome details of what happened.

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''TULSA, Okla. — It’s a case that still haunts Tulsa police homicide detective, Jason White to this day, and even more disturbing are the gruesome details of what happened.
In 2006 in broad daylight, investigators say a suspect or suspects either walked or forced their way into the home of Walter and Grace Brown and began attacking them.

“'What happened was both Walter who was 67 at the time and his wife, Grace Brown who was 63 at the time, they were both bound and there was just a lot of violence inside of the home. It definitely appeared that the suspects had been in the home for a considerable amount of time basically inflicting a lot of torture and whatever else to these people,” said White.

Although a motive is still unclear, White says he believes it could be a crime of opportunity.''

“I think it was just probably a robbery of some sort. Somebody that was likely walking down the street and may have very well lived in that area or in that neighborhood that saw either one or both of them that were elderly, and may have just saw a crime of opportunity,” said White.

Detectives did a significant amount of work on this case and even had DNA testing done, but so far, nothing.''

 

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4/2006:
The woman police were seeking Tuesday was seen at the Creek Nation casino in south Tulsa about 11:20 p.m. Monday, about 10 miles from the Browns' home. She was in possession of property that belonged to Grace Brown, said detective Sgt. Mike Huff, head of the homicide unit.

Huff described her as a black female in her 30s, about 5 feet 4 inches tall, 140 pounds and wearing a pink outfit.

Television stations were urged by police to air videos of her taken by security cameras at the casino.

Police initially did not believe that anything had been taken from the home.

Larry Ashby Jr. said everyone in the neighborhood loved the Browns. Walter was a retired truck driver and enjoyed hunting and fishing. Grace was a retired telecommunications worker and spent a lot of time at tribal casinos, he said.

They were last seen about 9:30 a.m. working in their yard, said Scott Walton, a police department spokesman.

The elder Ashby said he suspected something was wrong when he saw some of their gardening tools still in the yard Monday night.

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May 18, 2023

Murdered in Broad Daylight: The deaths of Walter & Grace Brown

It’s a case that still haunts Tulsa police homicide detective, Jason White to this day, and even more disturbing are the gruesome details of what happened.

www.kjrh.com

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''TULSA, Okla. — It’s a case that still haunts Tulsa police homicide detective, Jason White to this day, and even more disturbing are the gruesome details of what happened.
In 2006 in broad daylight, investigators say a suspect or suspects either walked or forced their way into the home of Walter and Grace Brown and began attacking them.

“'What happened was both Walter who was 67 at the time and his wife, Grace Brown who was 63 at the time, they were both bound and there was just a lot of violence inside of the home. It definitely appeared that the suspects had been in the home for a considerable amount of time basically inflicting a lot of torture and whatever else to these people,” said White.

Although a motive is still unclear, White says he believes it could be a crime of opportunity.''

“I think it was just probably a robbery of some sort. Somebody that was likely walking down the street and may have very well lived in that area or in that neighborhood that saw either one or both of them that were elderly, and may have just saw a crime of opportunity,” said White.

Detectives did a significant amount of work on this case and even had DNA testing done, but so far, nothing.''

In the video, the detective says that he thinks it might have been a robbery by someone walking down the street...a crime of opportunity.

If it was opportunistic, it wasn't about robbery. What kind of opportunistic robber stays in the home and tortures people? I'm not buying it. And based on their jobs and the look of their home, these people weren't well-off. Of course, they might have lived simply, had no kids, and socked away their moderate savings.

If it wasn't opportunistic then it was someone close who had rage. Did they have close relatives?

All rambling speculation on my part.

(Off topic: they refer to this 'elderly' couple. My spouse and I are equally, if not, older than them. We are active and don't feel old or look old. I wouldn't consider ourselves different than any other couple on the street if we were attacked or they were attacked. Maybe I'm just not accepting that I'm old! )