Four Letter Murder

Small Town Murder Express, episode 588, tells the 1981 murder of Stephen Brown in Falkner, Mississippi, a village of 514 people in the north of the state, about an hour and twenty from Memphis. Median household income is about $55,000 and the median home price $125,400. The hosts say Falkner grew up around a depot on the Ripley railroad, called Faulkner Station after the company president, Colonel W. C. Faulkner. It was incorporated in 1892 (as James says it), the incorporation was abolished to avoid paying towards Highway 15, and the town reincorporated in 1962.

In 1981 Steve Brown was a 15-year-old sophomore, a tall, popular boy who sang in the church choir and played sports. His father, Dwight, taught vocational agriculture at Faulkner High School. Steve had been dating Tammy Glisson, a year older, a cheerleader and basketball player, since 1979. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it About four o'clock he collected Steve, who had his .22 Mossberg rifle, from the high school steps. this part of the story is covered for now The fire siren sounded, townspeople searched from about eleven, and the search went on around the clock for two weeks. details of the account remain covered until revealed He also said he collected a paycheck and fetched stashed beer near the county line. Many thought Steve had run away.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it A polygraph in Jackson was, according to the examiner, inconclusive, and the case stalled.

The Browns received odd calls and tips. Highway Patrol investigator Kenny Dickerson said in August 1981 there were no new leads, and Faulkner men drove to Florida to look at a boy who resembled Steve, but it was not him. In April 1982 authorities planned to drain a 70-acre private lake. On 22 December 1982 Danny Ross, hunting with his father and brother behind Blackwell church in Benton County, found a Mossberg rifle in a hollow tree and, two feet away, a skull with holes behind the left ear and in the forehead, plus a jawbone with braces. The orthodontist identified the remains as Steve's, and the rifle was the one Dwight had bought for him. this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it A defence witness, Tim Hopper, said he saw Steve at the FFA meeting that night, but another student said Hopper was unsure. this part of the story is covered for now His father, Wayne, protested his innocence, and townspeople presented a petition of 1,300 names to the governor.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The retrial began in June 1987 in Benton County. Steve's father testified that Steve's music teacher, Pete Doles, had once warned him that Steve would not come home, and that students drank beer and watched adult films at his house. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The defence attorney said it took a lot of literary licence, and Tammy's sister Tommie said it made her family look poor and wrongly showed their father, Thomas Glisson, as a mean drunk.