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2 Children Found in Bags in Fla. Canal
#41
UPDATE:
This guy is gone
Unless this guys lawyer is Casey Anthonys lawyers twin anyway


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward...full.story

New revelations in case of 2 Delray Beach children found dead in canal
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By Jon Burstein and Peter Franceschina, Sun Sentinel
7:31 p.m. EDT, July 29, 2011
FORT LAUDERDALE—
As the prime suspect in the deaths of two children found floating in a Delray Beach canal goes on trial Monday, new information has revealed that someone in his home did computer searches on life insurance for kids.

Clem Beauchamp, 34, will not be on trial for murder. Rather, he faces federal charges of illegally possessing a handgun and homemade silencer that could put him in prison for up to 30 years. Although the case is unrelated to any homicides, the absence of a murdered woman will loom large over the trial.
Beauchamp's on-and-off girlfriend, Felicia Brown, 25, was the mother of the two dead children, and she would have been a key witness against Beauchamp had she not turned up dead herself at a Palm Beach County trash processing plant in August.

Federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Friday that they can prove Beauchamp killed Brown, if need be. She disappeared just after agreeing to cooperate against Beauchamp in the gun case and to meet with a federal agent, prosecutors wrote. Beauchamp also reportedly confessed to another detainee after his arrest.

"Beauchamp confessed to killing Felicia Brown while in the U.S. Marshals Service cell block awaiting court in West Palm Beach," prosecutors wrote.

The gun case against Beauchamp culminated on March 3, the day after the bodies of Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, were discovered stuffed in luggage that had been tossed into the canal that divides Delray Beach and Boca Raton. The brother and sister had been living with Beauchamp since their mother's disappearance the previous summer.

As Beauchamp was being questioned that afternoon by Delray Beach police, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved swiftly to lodge federal gun charges against Beauchamp for an incident dating to October 2009.

The gun charges have allowed federal authorities to hold Beauchamp without bond, and given Delray Beach police extensive time to investigate the deaths of the two children and their mother. A police spokeswoman said Friday that detectives continue their work in the homicides.

With Beauchamp's gun trial set to begin Monday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, a number of issues between the prosecution and defense were hashed out in a Friday hearing before U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas. Beauchamp was in court, shackled and wearing tan jail scrubs, but his participation was limited to answering a few perfunctory questions from the judge.

Robert Berube, the public defender representing Beauchamp, wanted the judge to block any references during the trial from prosecutors or their witnesses that Brown was dead, let alone murdered, as well as any mention of the dead children.

"He is the prime suspect in all of this," Berube told the judge.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John McMillan said the trial — expected to last three days — would be about the alleged gun offenses, and that he did not plan to put on elements of a murder case. But he said it would hurt the prosecution's chances for a conviction if he were only able to tell jurors that Brown was "unavailable," rather than dead. The judge agreed he could tell jurors that Brown was no longer alive.

"I don't see where the government is going to try a murder case here," Dimitrouleas said.

Jurors will still hear from Brown, in the form of a secretly recorded conversation made by her ex-husband.

As part of the gun case, authorities seized two computers from Beauchamp's home. A forensic examination of the hard drives shows someone searched online topics concerning life and burial insurance for children in December 2009, according to newly public court records. Prosecutors say they don't plan to bring that information up during the gun trial.

The forensic computer evidence is key to the prosecution because it also shows someone at Beauchamp's residence searched the Internet for information on building homemade gun silencers.

The gun charges against Beauchamp arose through happenstance, when Brown's car was repossessed from the driveway of his Delray Beach home in October 2009. A tow-yard employee searching the car found a black bag in the trunk containing a .22-caliber revolver, a homemade silencer, 12 rounds of ammunition, a black knit cap and a cigar tube containing fake pieces ofcrack cocaine.

When Brown went to collect her car, she told one of the employees that the items found in the trunk belonged to her boyfriend, according to the charges against Beauchamp.

Brown's role also will be central to other aspects of the prosecution case, including the secretly recorded conversation. "She is inextricably intertwined with the facts of this case," prosecutors wrote in court documents.

Beauchamp's public defender wanted the secret recording excluded, but the judge ruled Friday that prosecutors can play the conversation for jurors.

"It is a profoundly damaging conversation," Berube told the judge. "It is possibly the most damaging piece of evidence the government has."

A transcript of the conversation filed in court shows Brown admitting she bought the gun for Beauchamp and saying the silencer originated with him.

In April of last year, ATF agent Dan Dooley contacted Brown's ex-husband, Peter Brown, to find out who her current boyfriend was, and learned it was Beauchamp. Later that day, Peter Brown took it upon himself to go to Beauchamp's house, where he secretly recorded his ex-wife while they were sitting in a car.

Peter Brown handed his ex-wife Dooley's business card and urged her to call Dooley, but Felicia Brown was afraid she would get in trouble herself because she was the one who bought the gun for Beauchamp.

"Just call the man and tell the man where you got the gun and you should, you should be free," Peter Brown told her.

Felicia Brown was not so sure.

"Then what do I do? Now I already admitted that this is my gun. So he got to put it on somebody. If he can't put it on this person it's gonna come back to me. Because it was in my car," Brown replied, according to the transcript. "I already said it was my gun. I did purchase it from this dude so then it's all gonna come back on me. That's what I'm saying. The, the, silencer, the gun. Everything."

She was particularly concerned about the silencer.

"And so the thing is they know somebody took a lot of time and effort, spent a lot of time and effort on doing that. You feel me?" Brown asked.

Peter Brown told his ex-wife that Beauchamp had been nothing but trouble for her.

"You got bad luck, man," he said. "You just, since you been f------ with this dude, just bad luck. Bad luck."

"I know," Felicia Brown whispered, with a sigh. "I don't know what to do."

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#42
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/b...0692.story


By Peter Franceschina, Sun Sentinel

7:13 p.m. EDT, August 1, 2011
FORT LAUDERDALE—
The No. 1 suspect in the deaths of a young brother and sister found in a Delray Beach canal pleaded guilty on Monday to an unrelated charge of possessing an illegal handgun silencer and now faces up to 10 years in prison.

The surprise guilty plea by Clem Beauchamp, 34, came just as he was set to go to trial in federal court. In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors will dismiss two other gun charges against Beauchamp.

Beauchamp is not only the prime suspect in the murder of the two children, but their mother as well, according to Delray Beach police and federal prosecutors.


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Beauchamp's public defender, Robert Berube, said Beauchamp felt the plea deal was in his best interest.

"The problem with this entire case is potentially what might happen in Palm Beach County," Berube said. "He never confessed to killing anyone."

Sentencing is set for October. Sentencing guidelines, which are not binding on the judge, call for between 2.75 years and 3.4 years in prison, Berube said.

Beauchamp has been held in federal custody since March 3, the day after the bodies of Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, were discovered stuffed in luggage that had been tossed into the canal that divides Delray Beach and Boca Raton. The brother and sister had been living with Beauchamp since their mother's disappearance the previous summer.

Beauchamp's on-and-off girlfriend, Felicia Brown, 25, was the mother of the dead children, and she would have been a key witness against Beauchamp had she not turned up dead herself at a Palm Beach County trash processing plant last August.

The gun charges have allowed federal authorities to hold Beauchamp without bond, and given Delray Beach police extensive time to investigate the deaths of the two children and their mother. A police spokeswoman said that detectives continue their work in the homicides.

Federal prosecutors said in court documents last week that they could prove Beauchamp killed Brown, and they have suggested the motive was to eliminate Brown as a witness in the gun case.

Monday's guilty plea came after a judge ruled last week that prosecutors would still be able to present evidence against Beauchamp from Brown, in the form of a secretly recorded conversation made by her ex-husband.

In that conversation, Brown admitted she bought the .22-caliber revolver for Beauchamp from a man in West Palm Beach. She told her ex-husband that Beauchamp was the one who built the homemade silencer for the gun. In court, Berube called it the most damaging evidence against Beauchamp in the gun case, and he tried to get the judge to exclude the recording from the trial.

As Beauchamp was being questioned in the deaths of the children, a federal ATF agent lodged the gun charge against Beauchamp.

The gun case dates to October 2009, when Brown's car was repossessed from the driveway of Beauchamp's Delray Beach home. A tow-yard employee searching the car found a black bag in the trunk containing the revolver, the homemade silencer, 12 rounds of ammunition, a black knit cap and a cigar tube containing fake pieces of crack cocaine.

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#43
Law Dudes been making sure to have all their shit together before nailing the coffin shut on this one, I hope.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-be...7404.story
Beauchamp charged with murder of two children found in Delray Beach canal

By Peter Franceschina, Wayne K. Roustan and Jerome Burdi, Sun Sentinel

8:06 p.m. EDT, September 22, 2011
The prime suspect in the deaths of two children whose bodies were found floating inside luggage in a canal in March was charged Thursday with their premeditated murders.

Clem Beauchamp, 34, also was charged with first-degree murder in the death of the children's mother, whose body was found in August 2010 at a trash-processing facility. The homicide charges — handed up by a grand jury — were announced Thursday afternoon by Palm Beach County prosecutors, who said they would seek the death penalty for Beauchamp.

Beauchamp has been the target of the homicide investigations since March 3, the day after the bodies of Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, were found in the canal that divides Delray Beach and Boca Raton.
Beauchamp has been held in federal custody since that day. He was arrested on an unrelated federal charge of possessing an illegal handgun silencer, after he spent hours talking to Delray Beach police homicide detectives.

Jermaine and Ju'Tyra had been living with Beauchamp since the disappearance of their mother, Felicia Brown, some seven months earlier. Brown, 25, was Beauchamp's on-and-off girlfriend.

Her body, partially decomposed, went unidentified until the deaths of her children. Brown had the names of the children tattooed on her leg, leading to her identification.

Beauchamp killed Brown by an "unspecified means"; Jermaine was killed by blunt force trauma; and Ju'Tyra was asphyxiated, according to the grand jury indictment.

The indictment came after a six-month coordinated investigation by Delray Beach police, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, West Palm Beach police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.

"There is a sense of satisfaction that we were able to do this," Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe said.

Authorities did not reveal any of the evidence they have gathered against Beauchamp, and the indictment provided no specifics other than the three homicide charges.

The news of the homicide charges against Beauchamp brought mixed emotions for Rodney Napper, a suburban Chicago school teacher who was Jermaine's foster father between 2006 and 2007.

"I'm glad that he got caught and he's going to pay for the crime. However, I'm still saddened because I had so many things for Jermaine that I'll never have the opportunity to do with him. Never," Napper said. "Why? Why would he take lives, especially children's lives, like that? It baffles me."

In court documents, federal prosecutors said months ago that they could prove Beauchamp murdered Brown, saying she likely was eliminated because she was a key witness against him in the gun case. They alleged Beauchamp admitted to Brown's murder to another jail inmate, and that a forensic analysis of his seized computers showed someone in his home had searched the Internet concerning life insurance for children.

Robert Berube, Beauchamp's federal public defender, said he was provided no evidence in the gun case that related to the murder investigations.

"I'm in the dark on the state court stuff," he said. "I don't believe he did it. There is a lot going on in these cases that has not been revealed to me."

The gun charge against Beauchamp arose through pure chance, when Brown's car was repossessed from the driveway of his Delray Beach home in October 2009. A tow-yard employee searching the car found a black bag in the trunk containing a .22-caliber revolver, a homemade silencer, 12 rounds of ammunition, a black knit cap and a cigar tube containing fake pieces of crack cocaine.

When Brown went to collect her car, she told one of the employees that the items found in the trunk belonged to her boyfriend, according to the charges against Beauchamp.

Just as he was set to go to trial on the gun charge last month, Beauchamp pleaded guilty to possessing the silencer and now faces up to 10 years in prison on that charge at his October sentencing. Beauchamp has been held since the spring in the Broward Main Jail.

The guilty plea came after a Fort Lauderdale federal judge overseeing the gun case ruled that prosecutors would still be able to present evidence against Beauchamp from Brown, in the form of a secretly recorded conversation made by her ex-husband, Peter Brown.

In that conversation, Felicia Brown admitted she bought the .22-caliber revolver for Beauchamp from a man in West Palm Beach, according to a transcript filed in court documents.

She told Peter Brown that Beauchamp was the one who built the homemade silencer for the gun. Her ex-husband encouraged her to cooperate with the federal agent investigating the case, and told her she had had nothing but bad luck since beginning her relationship with Beauchamp.

"You got bad luck, man," Peter Brown told her. "You just, since you been f------ with this dude, just bad luck. Bad luck."

"I know," Felicia Brown whispered, with a sigh. "I don't know what to do."
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#44
thanks for update Six! Smiley_emoticons_smile

















































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#45
What a sad story. Poor kids. Glad Beuchamp is off the street. Anyone that can kill a lover and then later kill her two children is capable of anything. Menace to society. Hope he ends up a lifer with a bunch of other hard core thugs. Hard core thugs who deplore child killers.
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#46
Yea I am glad this scumbag is off the streets, problem is this place breeds them like roaches. Seriously makes me want to move to Wyoming
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#47
My Tax Dollars at work, glad thios POS is getting such good representation, got to be sure his rights are not impinged apon.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-be...9906.story
Suspect in children's deaths appeals 10-year gun sentence
By Peter Franceschina, Sun Sentinel

6:43 p.m. EST, November 26, 2011
Even though he faces three potential death sentences if convicted of murdering two children found in a Delray Beach canal and their mother, Clem Beauchamp is appealing a 10-year prison term he received for possessing an illegal handgun silencer.

Beauchamp, 34, has been held in federal custody since the day after the bodies of the children were found in March, stuffed into luggage. He pleaded guilty in August to possessing the illegal silencer, and now is being held in a federal penitentiary in southwest Virginia.

He is not appealing the firearms conviction, just the 10-year sentence, which was the maximum possible that could be imposed by U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas.

Dimitrouleas relied on evidence presented by prosecutors at the October sentencing that Beauchamp's federal public defender says should not have been considered by the judge.
Robert Berube, Beauchamp's attorney, said his client should have been given about three years in prison under sentencing guidelines, not three times that. "We don't think it was a proper sentence, that's all," he said.

Three weeks before the sentencing, a Palm Beach County grand jury charged Beauchamp with three counts of first-degree murder in the homicides of Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, who had been living with Beauchamp in his Delray Beach home since the disappearance of their mother, Felicia Brown.

Beauchamp also is charged with the murder of Brown, 25, his on-and-off girlfriend whose body was found at a trash-processing facility in August 2010 and went unidentified until the deaths of her children.

Federal prosecutors alleged Beauchamp may have been motivated to eliminate Brown because she was a key witness against him the gun case.

The firearms charge against Beauchamp arose when Brown's car was repossessed from his Delray Beach home in October 2009. A tow-yard employee searching the car found a black bag in the trunk, containing a .22-caliber revolver, a homemade silencer, 12 rounds of ammunition, a black knit cap and a cigar tube containing pieces of fake crack cocaine.

Prosecutors introduced evidence from a secret recording Brown's ex-husband made, using his cellphone, of a conversation he had with her. Peter Brown urged his ex-wife to cooperate with the federal agent investigating the gun case.

Peter Brown testified at Beauchamp's sentencing that after his cellphone quit recording the conversation, his ex-wife told him that Beauchamp wanted the gun to kill another girlfriend, Michelle Dent.

The judge determined that since the gun was going to be used in a murder conspiracy, Beauchamp deserved the maximum punishment.

"I was never involved in a murder plot. I never murdered anybody," Beauchamp told Dimitrouleas.

Beauchamp's attorney contends Peter Brown's version of events was "unreliable."

It likely will take the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in Atlanta a year to decide the case, Berube said, and several more years to bring Beauchamp to trial on the murder charges.
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#48
This fucking guy really pisses me off
Prosecutors release details in homicides of two children found in Delray Beach canal
Clem Beauchamp (April 25, 2012)
Delray Beach By Peter Franceschina, Sun Sentinel

8:03 p.m. EDT, April 25, 2012
After hours of interrogation the day after the bodies of two children were found floating in luggage in a canal, Delray Beach police detectives went after suspect Clem Beauchamp one more time – hard.

In the interrogation room the detectives made Beauchamp look at photographs of the dead children, who Beauchamp had been caring for since the disappearance of their mother eight months earlier.

"That's what you did to those… them. Yes! Take a look at 'em. Come here. Look… look… There you go," a detective told Beauchamp. "Now they're with their mom! 'Cause you know what you did to the mother, too. You told 'em they're going to see their mother. That's exactly what they did. You killed them!"

"No," Beauchamp replied.

It was March 3, 2011, and for hours Beauchamp maintained he did not know what happened to Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, whose decomposing bodies were found in the canal that divides Delray Beach and Boca Raton.

Details of the interrogation are part of more than 1,000 pages of evidence released Wednesday by prosecutors, who are seeking the death penalty for Beauchamp in the murders of the children and their mother, Felicia Brown, 25. Her body was found in August 2010 at a trash facility in West Palm Beach and remained unidentified until the deaths of her children. Beauchamp's murder trial is not likely to get underway until next year.

In response to the detectives' questions, Beauchamp repeatedly said he walked the children to their school bus stop on Feb. 22, and that they were going to be picked up after school by Brown's fiance. He did not see them after that morning, he told detectives.

After viewing the photographs, Beauchamp broke down sobbing.

"I wouldn't do nothin' like that," Beauchamp said. "I wouldn't help nobody do nothing like that."

At the time, Beauchamp was living with his girlfriend, Michelle Dent, their three children and Brown's two children, in a three-bedroom house. He was out of work, collecting a monthly $400 welfare check that was supposed to go to Brown, the court records show.

Money was tight, and he was stressed out. He and Dent were fighting over Brown's children – Dent wanted them out of the house because of the financial burden. Beauchamp insisted he loved the children as if they were his own.

"Ju'Tyra calls me 'Dad,'" he said. "Jermaine… He's like a son."

He said he taught Ju'Tyra how to swim and ride a bike, and played football with Jermaine. He said the children did not want to return to their mother. He said Jermaine had talked to his mother several times in recent months – detectives did not reveal that they knew Felicia Brown was dead until the interrogation was nearing its end, when Beauchamp finally insisted he wanted an attorney.

"You know I love them, but it's… it's different, it's like… It was straining and draining," Beauchamp said, adding he struggled to buy gifts for Christmas but that for the first time the family could afford a tree to put the presents under.

Beauchamp was already under federal investigation for possessing an illegal handgun silencer, and he was arrested on that unrelated gun charge while still in police custody – giving detectives time to build their murder case. He pleaded guilty to the gun charge and was given a 10-year prison sentence.

Then, after a breakthrough in the deaths of Ju'Tyra and Jermaine in September, prosecutors won a grand jury indictment against Beauchamp, 35, on three first-degree murder charges. Ju'Tyra died of asphyxiation – her face was wrapped in tape. Jermaine died of blunt trauma to his head.

That breakthrough came when detectives again interviewed Beauchamp's son, who was 15 when the children disappeared.

He initially told detectives he did not know what happened to the children, but in September admitted he had helped his father throw two pieces of dark, heavy luggage in the canal, court records show.

Beauchamp returned home in the early morning hours of Feb. 23, and his shirt was torn, and appeared to have bloodstains.

A man who was with Beauchamp in a holding cell after his federal arrest told detectives Beauchamp admitted to all three murders, in some detail. The inmate recalled Beauchamp said Brown deserved to be killed: "But the kids, he said, 'I don't know why I did that to the kids.'"

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#49
much more on case at link, with photos.

PALM BEACH POST — The bags were dark and heavy as the boy and his father hauled them from the family's blue Oldsmobile Cutlass. Together, they grunted and strained - "a good workout," his father had called it - until the pair had muscled the bags up and into the canal.

Demetrius Beauchamp, then 15, never questioned the strange chore he did with his father, Clem Beauchamp, the boy said later in a statement to investigators. Nor did he suspect it was connected to the disappearance of his stepbrother and stepsister in February 2011.

Days later, the bodies of Demetrius' playmates, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, bobbed to the surface of the C-15 canal between Delray Beach and Boca Raton, shrouded in oversized luggage and loaded down with 35-pound barbell weights.


the case, the photos:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/...25551.html

















































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#50
I don't understand why the children were living with this alleged criminal after their mother's disappearance/death. Doesn't sound like he was their father? Maybe they had nobody else? Sad story, but I'm glad he's in custody.
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#51
After he dumped mom at the dump he moved in with the other hog and took the kids with him, then the current hog got tired of feeding them. I have a hard time believing she had nothing to do with it, where the hell did she think they went?
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#52
This asshole again..
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-b...story.html

rial for a Delray Beach felon accused of three murders, including the deaths of two children, is coming this fall.

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge John Kastrenakes on Friday scheduled a Sept. 22 court date to determine precisely when to begin jury selection in the high-profile case against Clem Beauchamp, 38.

The State Attorney's Office is seeking the death penalty against Beauchamp for the killings of Jermaine McNeil, 10, Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, and their mother, Felicia Brown, 25.

"I expect everybody ready to go," Kastrenakes told prosecutors and defense attorneys, as Beauchamp sat nearby in the courtroom. "We'll be in trial most of the month of October on this case."

Prosecutors Terri Skiles and Reid Scott estimate it will take about five weeks, if the jury convicts Beauchamp and then considers whether to recommend death or sentences of life in prison.

The last time Beauchamp appeared in court before Friday was Dec. 16, when he pleaded guilty to two unrelated drug crimes from April 2010 and received a three-year prison sentence.

Represented by attorneys Ronald Chapman and Michael Maher, the defendant continues to serve a 10-year federal prison term he received in 2011 for possessing an illegal handgun silencer.

Also in 2011, a Palm Beach County grand jury indicted Beauchamp with three counts of first-degree murder.

Archive: Delray police link woman found dead in trash dump to dead children in canal
The body of Brown, who was Beauchamp's on-and-off girlfriend, was found at a West Palm Beach trash-processing facility in August 2010 and went unidentified until the deaths of her children. Brown had their names tattooed on her leg, leading to her identification.

In March 2011, the decomposing bodies of Jermaine and Ju'Tyra were found, stuffed into luggage, in the canal that divides Delray Beach and Boca Raton. The kids had been living with Beauchamp in his Delray Beach home after Brown's disappearance the previous summer.

During an interrogation by Delray Beach police detectives, Beauchamp insisted he loved the boy and girl as if they were his own kids, according to court records.

"I wouldn't do nothin' like that," Beauchamp said, after he was shown photographs of the children.

Read the indictment against Clem Beauchamp

Records show Ju'Tyra died of asphyxiation; her face was wrapped in tape. Jermaine died of blunt trauma to his head. According to the indictment, Beauchamp killed Brown by "unspecified means."

Federal prosecutors have alleged Beauchamp may have been motivated to kill Brown because she was a key witness against him in the gun case.

The firearms charge against Beauchamp arose when Brown's car was repossessed from his Delray Beach home in 2009. A tow-yard employee found a black bag containing a .22-caliber revolver and a homemade silencer, and 12 rounds of ammunition.


Brown later told a tow-yard employee the bag was her boyfriend's, according to prosecutors.
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