03-04-2011, 04:56 PM
Palm Beach Post
DELRAY BEACH — West Palm Beach Police are looking into the possibility that a woman's body found in several months ago in a trash bin in West Palm Beach is linked to the deaths of two children found in bags in a Delray Beach canal on Wednesday.
A police spokesman didn't release the name of the woman. But the mother of two children linked to the Delray Beach case has been missing, police have said.
Felecia Brown is the mother of two children who were living with Clem Beauchamp at his home in Delray Beach. She and Beauchamp were romantically involved for years but broke up months ago.
Also today, the Florida Department of Children & Families persuaded a judge to remove two children from the custody of Michelle Dent, Beauchamp's current girlfriend. During the hearing, a DCF investigator told the judge that Dent was "a person of interest" in a double and possibly a triple homicide.
Delray Beach Police have scheduled a second news conference about the case for 6 p.m. today.
Police began questioning Beauchamp Thursday night. He was formally charged Thursday in U.S. District Court with possession of a silenced firearm, according to a complaint filed by an agent with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In laying out the federal allegations, which is a separate investigation from the dead children, the ATF agent described finding in the trunk of Brown's repossessed car a .22-caliber handgun fitted with a homemade silencer and a black bag filled with a green Halloween mask, ammunition, a black knit cap and a tube of crack.
Brown, Dent, sketch of homicide victim:
DELRAY BEACH — West Palm Beach Police are looking into the possibility that a woman's body found in several months ago in a trash bin in West Palm Beach is linked to the deaths of two children found in bags in a Delray Beach canal on Wednesday.
A police spokesman didn't release the name of the woman. But the mother of two children linked to the Delray Beach case has been missing, police have said.
Felecia Brown is the mother of two children who were living with Clem Beauchamp at his home in Delray Beach. She and Beauchamp were romantically involved for years but broke up months ago.
Also today, the Florida Department of Children & Families persuaded a judge to remove two children from the custody of Michelle Dent, Beauchamp's current girlfriend. During the hearing, a DCF investigator told the judge that Dent was "a person of interest" in a double and possibly a triple homicide.
Delray Beach Police have scheduled a second news conference about the case for 6 p.m. today.
Police began questioning Beauchamp Thursday night. He was formally charged Thursday in U.S. District Court with possession of a silenced firearm, according to a complaint filed by an agent with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In laying out the federal allegations, which is a separate investigation from the dead children, the ATF agent described finding in the trunk of Brown's repossessed car a .22-caliber handgun fitted with a homemade silencer and a black bag filled with a green Halloween mask, ammunition, a black knit cap and a tube of crack.
Brown, Dent, sketch of homicide victim: