Cold Case Suspect's Widow: SDPD "Pushed Him Over the Edge"

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Source: NBC San Diego

The widow of a suspect in a decades-old homicide defended her husband saying the man she knew did not commit the crime.

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“They just pushed him because he was a quiet gentle nervous person. They just pushed him over the edge,” Rebecca Brown said.

In an interview with NBC 7, Rebecca defended her husband, the man she has known for decades.

“I'm sorry that crime happened 30 years ago. That poor girl . It was horrible. But it had nothing to do with my husband,” Rebecca said grasping my hand firmly as we discussed her husband and Hough's murder.

A year ago police removed many things from their home as evidence, she said.

“They took whatever they wanted, van loads of stuff a year ago and never returned anything,“ she said.

At the time of Hough's murder Brown was a criminalist working in the San Diego Police Crime lab. He retired in April of 2002.

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Read more: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Rebecca-Brown-Suspect-Kevin-Brown-Claire-Hough-Torrey-Pines-Murder-280306312.html

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Got a call this morning from a friend - she knew him at the time and couldn't believe he did it.

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1. A real-life "Dexter", or a real-life innocent person harrassed into suicide?

Either way, it sucks.

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2. Ex-SDPD lab tech suspected of girl’s murder commits suicide

http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/10/23/dead-ex-sdpd-lab-tech-suspected-of-girls-brutal-murder/

Ex-SDPD lab tech suspected of girl’s murder commits suicide
Posted 3:31 PM, October 23, 2014, by Fox 5 Digital Team and Christian De La Rosa,
Updated at 11:17am, October 24, 2014

SAN DIEGO — A one-time San Diego police criminalist who died in an apparent suicide in the East County highlands this week was due to be arrested on suspicion of taking part in the gruesome murder of a teenage girl 30 years ago, authorities reported Thursday.

Kevin Charles Brown, 62, was found dead at Cuyamaca State Park on Tuesday afternoon. Brown evidently had killed himself, SDPD Lt. Paul Rorrison said, declining to disclose what led to that conclusion.

In November 2012, cold-case homicide detectives uncovered DNA evidence that allegedly linked Brown and a second man to the slaying of 14-year-old Claire Hough, who was found dead at Torrey Pines State Beach on Aug. 24, 1984.

The girl, who was visiting and staying with her grandparents at the time, had been beaten, strangled and stabbed, and one of her breasts had been cut off, according to San Diego County Crime Stoppers.

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