To support himself, he worked as a maintenance man at 4000 Enright Avenue, an area that was marred with crime and frequented by prostitutes and drug users.
Upon interviewing her roommate, police learned that Ford had been frightened by the maintenance man working on the building, whom she knew as Tommy Turner, but in actuality was Brown.
[6] When questioned, Brown claimed that on the night of the murder he had seen a Cuban man quickly leaving the area, but as this statement sounded dubious, he was ordered to undergo a polygraph test which he subsequently failed.
[7] Now considered a suspect, the police questioned his wife, who revealed that Brown had confessed the killing to her, providing intricate details that only the real killer would know—for example, he said that she had been strangled with an electrical cord, which was not mentioned in the media.
[8] On the afternoon of October 24, 1986, Brown was sitting on the front porch when he spotted 9-year-old Janet Perkins, who was on her way home from school, and called her to come visit him.
[9] Brown then wrapped Perkins' body in trash bags and dumped them inside a container in an alley behind his house, where they were subsequently found by a passerby.
[10] Soon after Perkins' body was found, police started combing the area and questioning everybody living in the neighborhood, until a witness came forward and claimed that they had last seen the girl entering Brown's house.
[12] In due time, it was also revealed that Brown had previously been arrested for a similar violent murder just the year prior, leading to the FBI submitting a special report into ViCAP in an attempt to possibly link him to any further crimes.
[13] This further investigation led to Brown being charged with the rape-murder of 9-year-old Kimberly K. Campbell, whose nude and battered body was found in a vacant house in Indianapolis on August 27, 1980.
At said trial, his three stepsons were called in and retold what their stepfather had told them to do on the night of the murder, and not long after, they heard Janet's screams through a bedroom vent.
[21] In the closing arguments, Assistant Attorney Robert L. Garrison urged the jurors to give the death penalty, calling Brown a "destroyer of children" who posed a danger to society.
He was then transported to the execution chamber at Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, where he was subsequently put to death via lethal injection.