They literally said because he cried in the interview he was still in love with her & because the car had snow on it? 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[I] havent had a chance to grieve properly, Chris Brown said. The report also revealed that Houks ex-boyfriend had learned he was not the biological father of Houks youngest daughter just two weeks before the murder. You have to be sure enough to charge him, Bongivengo told 20/20., At a time when headlines called Jordan America's littlest monster, he was at an age where he still believed in Santa Claus. Elisco disclosed to WPXI that Brown is attending college at an undisclosed location under another name. I don't think the kid did it and I honestly do think the cops jumped on him and didn't do their homework. A former Lawrence County man is suing a handful of retired state police investigators and officials alleging malicious prosecution after he spent most of his childhood in prison for the shotgun killing of his fathers pregnant fiance before the state Supreme Court overturned his conviction. You dont just win a lawsuit over injustice for no reason.. I was hard pressed to believe it back then & now Im even more convinced they had tunnel vision. Dara's mother, 64-year-old Linda McAllister, was shot dead in 2017, and the Hodges' daughter, 23-year-old Jordan Hodge, was convicted of the two murders, along with her boyfriend, 30-year-old . Kenzie Houk was eight months pregnant when she was shot in the back of the head while she was sleeping in bed in their western Pennsylvania farmhouse. They argue that the particle of gunpowder residue on his shirt and pants could have come from the jacket he had worn to a recent turkey shoot. The boy, who was initially charged as an adult, spent . Two years ago, Howard County State's Attorney Rich Gibson decided not to charge a Woodbine homeowner who shot and killed a drunken man at his door.The stranger had come to the wrong house . A certiorari request for review was made to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which granted an appeal to consider Brown's claims that the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law to sustain the adjudication of the juvenile court, and that its adjudication was against the weight of the evidence. I thought, you know, it was just some guy there doing work or something. I just read about this and came to this subreddit looking to see if anyone posted anything about it. Awful Details About The 11-Year-Old Boy Who Murdered His Fathers Pregnant Fianc And Why His Conviction Was Just Overturned, overturned the conviction of Jordan Brown, found guilty of first-degree murder and homicide of an unborn child, questioned prosecutors reliance on circumstantial evidence, If Casey Anthony Didn't Kill Her Daughter, Who Did? I'm never not going to be your dad. He acknowledged to authorities that he and Houk had argued about money. Feb. Channel 11s Amy Marcinkiewicz reached out to Houks family. Not only did the individual defendants in this case fail all of us, the institution of policing failed us as well, Alec Wright, an attorney with the OBrien Law firm in Pittsburgh who represents Brown, wrote in an emailed statement. And I was in there. The 26-year-old Houk and her unborn baby died Feb. 20, 2009, when she was shot in the New Beaver Borough farmhouse she shared with her daughters, her fianc, Chris Brown, and his son Jordan,. Were ecstatic, we believe professionally and personally in Jordans innocence, Elisco told the station. "The conflict caused police to reinterview Jenessa, who told police that Jordan Brown had a shotgun covered in a blanket Friday morning and she heard a big boom prior to the pair leaving for school. In response, he allegedly confronted Houks parents in a nightclub the night before Houk'sdeath. That decision, he told 20/20, is something that's haunted me.. But because few people seem to agree with him, he said, Krause decided to speak out Wednesday on behalf of Jordan Anthony Brown, 11, who is charged with two counts of murder in the shooting death of his father's pregnant fiancee last week in New Galilee. As for Chris, he still mourns the loss of Houk and their unborn son. She wanted financial support payments for Adalynn but he had refused, saying he first wanted proof that the child was his. Investigators interviewed Houks then 7-year-old daughter, only recording the fourth interview. And that's when we realized that it was a homicide.. O.J. Early in the investigation, a number of people including Chris Brown told police they should look into another person -- Houks ex-boyfriend of six years, Adam Harvey. As for his stepsisters testimony, she was 7, could very well have felt scared they were going to arrest her so she threw Jordan under the bus, not fully understanding what was going on. I just want to be successful. He was 75. Authorities said Harvey cooperated during the investigation and agreed to take a polygraph. Last year, Jordan Brown, now 12, was charged with murdering Kenzie Houk, his father's eight-and-a-half month pregnant fiancee while she was asleep. Please consult your doctor before taking any action. He kept talking about a piece of fuzz, and I got it out of my pocket and I threw it. In my opinion, he was focused on the shotgun shell casing that he threw after he left the residence, McGraw said. The trial lasted three days. Houk, 26 and about eight months pregnant with Jordan's little brother, was found dead in her bed by her 4-year-old daughter on Feb. 20, 2009. That was a shame., He also did not rule out the possibility of filing a civil suit on behalf of Brown, saying, If I find prosecutorial misconduct, we might find our way to the civil courts., RELATED:Who Is Carolyn Bryant Donham? Jordan said he and Houk had a strong relationship, and he even called her Mom., She was really nice. They found Houk in the bedroom, he said, and thought at first that shed had a medical emergency. Meanwhile, officers also went to Mohawk Elementary School to speak to Jenessa and Jordan. She leaned against the Formica island, her sandy blond hair done up in a bulbous, frizzy ball. Kids that age dont just up a kill without there having shown resentment and previous hostility toward their victims. Cinnamon Brown, whose sensational 1985 murder of her stepmother at her father's urging was the subject of two books and a television miniseries, is free after serving seven years in a California . And then, Jordans defense attorneys pointed to the troopers who had said Jordans shotgun smelled as if it had just been fired when they arrived at the house that morning. On weekends Jordan hunted alongside his father, Chris Brown, who purchased the youth-sized 20-gauge shotgun that state police believed was the murder weapon. Houk, 26 and about eight months pregnant with Jordans little brother, was found dead in her bed by her 4-year-old daughter on Feb. 20, 2009. The father (or maybe his lawyer or someone) said theres a murderer walking among us who has been overlooked .any ideas? Kenzie Houk and her family had a protective order against Harvey after she claimed he had left messages threatening to kill her and her family. This is precisely what would have had to have happened, Colafella added. Judge Hodge put Brown on probation in the custody of an uncle who lived in Ohio, just across the border from Lawrence County. I gave him every opportunity. She had cheated him of his money and cheated on him by sleeping with another man. That day, she said she remembered being woken up by the sound of a gunshot. Nearly two years after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court cleared him, Mr. Brown is suing an ex-state police commissioner and former troopers. A man has been jailed for 21 years and his partner for a minimum of 29 years over the torture and killing of his six-year-old son, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Her partner and Arthur's father, 29-year-old Thomas Hughes, was found guilty of. TPD says they have arrested 21-year-old Jordan Brown for first degree murder. I used to hate it. Emma Tustin, 32, was unanimously convicted at Coventry Crown Court on Thursday of murdering Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. A week has passed since Roy Oliver, a Balch Springs police officer, shot his rifle through the window of a car and killed 15-year-old Jordan. It's so insane to me how these cops and detectives handled the case. WAMPUM, Pa. -- Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was arrested and initially charged as an adult for the murder of his pregnant, soon-to-be stepmother. As the years passed, Jordan Brown said he spent much of his time absorbed in the books his father brought him, reading with a dictionary next to him. [13] He was to remain on juvenile court probation until he turned 21. You know, [he] maintained his innocence throughout from day one, he added. Speakman said Brown's family lives out of state, so when he heard Jordan was murdered, he reached out to the family on Facebook. I mean, Mary Bell was only 11 when she killed two young kids. Yes kids will add to their story but that is because of their recollection process but adults do too. And he told me everything was going to be all right, and I just sat there and cried.. Pregnant Mother's Murder Leads Police to Arrest Her Step-Son Chris Brown and Kenzie Houk had been friends since they were teenagers. Martin said the autopsy report determined that Houk had been killed with a shotgun and she had a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. The farmhouse in Wampum where Chris Brown lived with his fiance Kenzie Houk, his son Jordan Brown and her two daughters, Janessa and Adalynn. I feel if we win the lawsuit itll shed a light of (my) innocence on people that they cant really ignore, Brown said, noting that even after he was exonerated, people still expressed mixed feelings about his innocence, which hes maintained since he was 11. He has repeatedly stated in interviews that while he suffers from PTSD, he is committed to turning his life around. They never said he wasnt guilty. Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan serves his father, James, a slice of birthday cake as his mother, Doloris, watches during a party for Jordan's 26th birthday in Chicago, on Feb. 17, 1989. Bongivengo said police found a spent shotgun shell in the yard. Still, a juvenile court judge found Jordan Brown, then 14, delinquent in the case. It was a frigid day in Wampum, a small town in Western Pennsylvania. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://people.com/crime/jordan-brown-case-murder-kenzie-houk-interview-after-prison/. It's such a small window and such an unlikely set of circumstances that one, he found out where she lived. 2023byTango Publishing Corporation All Rights Reserved. Jordan denied to "20/20" doing anything with his guns that morning, saying I never touched them.. I just watched the 20/20 episode. [They] put me in the back of the car and they took me to the police barracks. [18], Brown is currently a college junior studying computer science. In fact, the prosecutions forensics expert had testified that these particles can be transferred. When we interview someone, you expect them to give their account, wait a little while, we interview them again, and they should give the same account. A never-ending shadow of shock and grief embarked upon the Brown family in February of 2009, after the lady of the house, Kenzie Marie Houk, was shot dead and their 11-year-old son, Jordan Brown, was held accountable for the murder. Only family members were allowed to attend the trial due to. This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. It was one of a half dozen incorrect characterizations in the summary that were not in the transcript, Wright said. It's almost inconceivable that you could suggest that a shotgun was fired at close range wouldn't deposit any tissue, any blood on the barrel of the gun or on his clothing, which he wore to school, Elisco said. And I'll say it. Why would the police ignore it? Inside the family's farmhouse, police had found handguns, rifles, several rounds of ammunition and a child-sized shotgun that belonged to Jordan. Wright described 11-year-old Brown sitting on a bench waiting to be placed in a jail cell with the sleeves and legs of his adult prison jumpsuit rolled up at the ankles and wrists to fit, swinging his feet because they didnt touch the ground. In their decision, justices questioned prosecutors reliance on circumstantial evidence, including a questionable conclusion that a shotgun found in Browns bedroom was the murder weapon. The 20/20 interview also gave me the hunch he was guilty. Wonder what the other children think of it all. I still love her. Jordan Brown was sitting with his stepsister Jenessa in a room adjacent to the room where the victim was sleeping, run upstairs, grab a shotgun, load it with a shotgun shell, walk over to the bed, place that shotgun up against her head, pull that trigger, kill her, somehow manage to wipe whatever-- bodily fluid or blood might have been contained on the end of that gun, take it upstairs, replace it along the wall, remove the shell, run downstairs while her sister presumably was waiting for him in this very small house All without leaving a single clue., All they really arrested him on, largely, was the statement of Jenessa, Elisco said. Brown could have faced a life sentence without parole if he had been tried and convicted for murder as an adult, but he faced custody in a secure juvenile detention center until he reached the age of 21 because he was only 11 when the crime occurred. I remember when this all happened and just read up on everything that has happened since (I had an idea that he was out of prison, but had NO idea that his conviction was overturned based on insufficient evidence). Davis's death helped inspire the Black Lives Matter Movement and contributed to the national debate Read MoreJordan Russell Davis (1995-2012) Love is the desire to see unneces You can customize your WPXI News App to receive breaking news alerts. Brown, who initially was charged as an . I think the ex boyfriend did it. The rounds struck a victim's vehicle and an unoccupied apartment building. When he was just 11, Brown was charged with the murder of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk, who was eight months pregnant at the time. A judge finding a juvenile delinquent is effectively a guilty verdict. Later that night, as Chris and Jordan Brown were finally starting to nod off around 3:30 a.m., they were startled by a pounding on the door. I can remember just looking at Jordan and feeling like we had failed him. By then, Bongivengo had been replaced by a different prosecutor. Brown was 11 years old when prosecutors said he shot 26-year-old Kenzie Houk, who was eight months pregnant, in the head and then went to school. And the first person that comes to mind was Adam Harvey. I believe, I always have, that the attorney generals office and state police rushed to judgment, said Elisco. The bed was all ready diapers were where they were supposed to be and everything, yeah she was ready.. The blow back argument is hard, but he may have shot her from an angel and spot (door entrance) that may have hid it. "Jordan Brown was a fifth-grader in February 2009 when Pennsylvania police arrived to take him away as the sole suspect in the shotgun slaying of his dad's pregnant fiance, Kenzie Houk. If I would read something and come across a word I didnt know, [I would] look it up. It was the police. Brown was tried as a juvenile after his lawyers fought a judges original decision to try him as an adult. It used to bother me all the time. Chris Brown said he drove every day, 230 miles round trip, to see his son in detention. But he added that Jordan's hands were never checked for gunpowder residue. "It was Adam Harvey, after all, who had been engaged in a bitter paternity and child-support battle with Kenzie and who, after paying for the support of Kenzies youngest daughter Adalynn for years, discovered through DNA testing that Adalynn is not his daughter afteralland that Kenzie had not been honest with him in more ways than one. In 1985, David Arnold Brown masterminded a twisted plot to have his 14-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, kill his wife, Linda, to collect almost a million dollars in life insurance. Police said what really turned the case for them were additional interviews they conducted with Jenessa and Jordan the night of the murders. Wright says in the lawsuit that state police investigators failed to include any exculpatory evidence that indicated someone else could have committed the murders in their affidavit to charge Brown although he said plenty existed. Police also confirmed he had been at work during the shooting, so they quickly eliminated him as a suspect. On November 20, 2010, Renee King, 29, of Macomb County, Michigan, called 911 to say her stepdaughter, two-year-old Lily Furneaux, was unconscious. They investigated for eight hours then charged an 11-year-old as an adult. Brown said his fiance Kenzie Houk, who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant at the time, had asked him to stay home with her that day, but he decided to go to work. After Pennsylvania's Superior Court ruled that Judge Motto violated Brown's Fifth Amendment rights, Judge Motto recused himself from the case, and Judge John W. Hodge granted the decertification petition and ruled that Brown should be tried as a juvenile.[6]. And on 20/20 Adalynn said she woke up from a loud noise..she answers her moms phone goes to wake her up..she doesnt wake up..she goes outside & the tree trimmers help.. which would have been around 9am.. the other girl per the police reports said it was an ordinary morning. Brown was found guilty of first-degree murder and homicide of an unborn child in connection with the death of his fathers fiance Kenzie Houk. Double jeopardy has attached under the Fifth Amendment, and Brown, now 21, cannot be retried. They also pointed out the lack of an eyewitness or credible forensic evidence as reasons for the decision. Where are phys reports showing this childs jealousy and hatred for his step mom. Wright alleges in the lawsuit that investigators failed to follow protocols for interviewing children when they talked to Houks two young daughters and when they interviewed Jordan. Judge Hodge ruled that Jordan would not be released pending that hearing. He also claimed he didnt know where Houk lived. [17], Another possible suspect is Adam Harvey, an ex-boyfriend of Houk. Jordan Brown, now 14, was found delinquent by Lawrence County Judge John Hodge - the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty verdict. Judge Hodge issued a juvenile court opinion on April 19, 2015, again finding that Jordan was the individual who killed Kenzie Houk and her unborn child on the morning of February 20, 2009. Attorney Katherine Burdick, another member of Browns defense team, discussed her reaction to the decision with local CBS station WKBN. I have been on the fence after seeing the 20/20 (originally thought he was innocent). The ruling in particular objected to the assumption, made by the juvenile court, that no one else but Jordan could have shot Houk. The human-rights organization Amnesty International opposed the effort to try Jordan as an adult, citing the mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole penalty as a violation of international law. Not long after 11:00 A.M. Lizzie found her father's body and called Bridget for help. Another issue Jordans attorneys raised was that there was no blood or tissue found on the gun or Jordan Browns clothing that day. That way I know what was trying to be said, and then thats how I read, he said. Im 100 percent, you know, a whole, clean slate. On July 18, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction in a 50 decision. I did not know what the sound was, said Adalynn, who was 4 years old at the time and is now 13. >>PREVIOUS STORY: Jordan Browns father speaks out after sons murder conviction overturned. Youve, you know, ruined his name in essence. My sister Jenessa woke me up, said Jordan Brown. As for whether or not an 11 year old could commit this crime, I absolutely believe it is more than possible. As the conversation petered out, she hugged mea stronger one than usual. The work on this case like so many unsolved cases was shoddy. I came across a blog which claims that Kenzie's abusive ex had threatened to kill her or have her killed. It just seems like at some point during the investigation he would've broken if he'd been guilty. People will believe what they want to believe, but Jordan was innocent. NEW CASTLE - Jordan Brown, charged at age 11 with killing his father's pregnant fiancee, is now fighting back against the legal system that jailed him. This is final piece of the puzzle really providing him of his true feeling of innocent, closure put this behind me, Wright said. While awaiting trial, Jordan Brown was housed for three years at the Edmund L. Thomas Adolescent Center, a juvenile detention facility in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Jordan Brown, 11, is pictured following his arrest in the Feb. 20, 2009, shotgun slaying of his father's pregnant fiancee, Kenzie Marie Houk. Under Pennsylvania law, an adjudicated juvenile offender cannot be held in custody past his 21st birthday. He was almost 21 when Pennsylvanias highest court said prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to support a conviction. The lawsuit claims the only evidence against Brown was a coerced and fabricated statement of his soon-to-be stepsister, who was 7-years-old at the time. 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