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- ‘I STILL HAD HOPE SHE WAS LOST’
For years, Karrie Bateman pictured her missing mother’s face when she spotted petite, blond women in grocery stores. “I’d be disappointed when they...

- Footage from ’95 Browne probe released
A videotaped segment of Robert Charles Browne’s 1995 interrogation concerning the murder of Heather Dawn Church was released Monday. Browne, 53,...

- Broadcast news? Not this woman
Got a secret? You can trust Carol Erickson. She kept a lid on the Robert Charles Browne case for four years. During that time, the El Paso County...


- Families: Slaying probes bungled
Family members of two women whom serial killer Robert Charles Browne says he killed in his hometown in 1983 say the cases were botched by authorities. “If he had been stopped then, there’d be a whole lot more people alive today,” said Kathy Cole, sister of Faye Aline Self, 26, whom Browne said he poisoned with chloroform in her apartment. Documents have been lost, crime scenes not secured....

- Browne links to missing children sought
A missing children’s group wants to see if confessed serial killer Robert Charles Browne could be linked to any of the missing children in its national...


- MARRIED TO A MURDERER
COUSHATTA, La. - Robert Browne, says one of the people who knew him best, liked letting his young wife know what he could do to her. “‘I could just kill you, and nobody would do anything about it down here,’” Rita Morgan says her ex-husband would scream in rage, a stranger who had replaced the doting suitor she knew until the first week of their marriage. Before, he held the car door open...

- Devil-possessed? Hometown faces questions
COUSHATTA, La. - This humid little triangle of a town still keeps its doors unlocked. Its white, clapboard churches post messages like: “If your knees...

- Choice of victims made Browne especially dangerous
Robert Charles Browne fit the profile of a serial killer, but his choice of victims, females and males, isn’t common. Browne, 53, has told El Paso...


- Painstaking and personal
Sometimes, it was like walking on glass. Other times, it was like, well, walking on glass. Charlie Hess spent four years gingerly picking his way through Robert Charles Browne’s memory, clouded by longtime drug and alcohol use, to reveal details that led investigators to say this week they had corroborated Browne’s involvement in at least 20 slayings dating back decades. With silver hair...

- Calls start to pour in
Authorities in Texas have named Robert Charles Browne as a suspect in a 1984 homicide, and officials in Louisiana plan to come to Colorado soon to interview...


- ‘He’s nothing but a coward’
The amount of pain and sorrow Mike Church has experienced in his life has only grown since Sept. 17, 1991. That’s the day his 13-year-old daughter, Heather Dawn Church, was kidnapped from their home in Black Forest and later murdered by serial killer Robert Charles Browne. For two years, he didn’t know whether Heather was dead or alive. He hoped every phone call, every knock at the door would...

- Breathing new life into old cases
Three volunteers — law enforcement retirees with a century’s worth of experience between them — finished cataloging El Paso County’s 17 unsolved slaying...

- ‘Detail-oriented’ cop finds justice for family
When a young military wife disappeared in Colorado Springs in 1987, Jeff Nohr was a Manitou Springs police officer. He doesn’t remember hearing about...


- A LIFE OF KILLING
The man who murdered a Black Forest teen in 1991 was unveiled Thursday as a serial killer who claims 48 victims in nine states and South Korea. While El Paso County officials have linked him to 20 killings and believe he likely has more victims, authorities elsewhere refused to name Robert Charles Browne as a suspect in their unsolved cases. Browne said he killed people in Washington state,...

- Browne pleads guilty to woman's killing
Rocio Sperry’s husband, Joe Sperry, glared intensely at the man who had just admitted killing his wife. Robert Charles Browne, 53, did not look away....

- Louisiana mom, hometown grapple with bolt from West
COUSHATTA, La. - To the mother who keeps her daughter’s prom picture propped against the wall in her nursing home room, the news was a blow delivered with...

- ‘I wish he was on death row’
Prosecutors who brokered the plea agreement that sent Robert Charles Browne to prison for life for killing Heather Dawn Church said they always suspected...


- Family followed torturous paths after ’87 killing
The daughter and husband of a Colorado Springs woman slain by serial killer Robert Charles Browne have been tormented separately for nearly 20 years. Rocio Sperry, only 15, was strangled and dismembered by Browne in November 1987 while her husband, Joseph, and 3-month-old daughter, Amie, were visiting relatives in Florida. When Rocio didn’t meet him at the Denver airport Nov. 14, Joseph’s...

- Robert Browne Arrest Affidavit
EDITOR’S NOTE: This document, which describes evidence collected by law enforcement and which led Robert Charles Browne to plead guilty Thursday...
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