If You Really Loved Me (33 page)

Another police surveillance photograph taken two weeks later when David and Patti (left) visited Cinnamon. This conversation was also taped.

David Brown, age thirty-five, at the time of his questioning about the murder of his wife Linda.

Patti Bailey, age twenty, was also taken into custody and interrogated. Police suspected that both she and David were somehow implicated in the crime.

Left to right: Detective Fred McLean of the Garden Grove police, Orange County Deputy District Attorney Jeoffrey Robinson, and Orange County District Attorney's Senior Investigator Jay Newell. These three men worked overtime to unravel the baffling mystery of Linda Brown's murder.
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Cinnamon Brown, now twenty, on the witness stand.
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At a tense moment in her testimony, Cinnamon broke down as she answered questions about Linda Brown's murder. Sandra Wingerd, court reporter, is in the foreground.
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Patti Bailey, now twenty-two
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gave nervous and at times almost inaudible testimony on the witness stand.
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David Brown, escorted into the courtroom by Bailiff "Mitch" Miller, May 1990.
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David conferred constantly with defense attorney Gary Pohlson, and offered his own legal strategies.
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When Patti's memory faltered, both Gary Pohlson (left) and Jeoffrey Robinson (center) pointed out inconsistencies in a transcript of her earlier testimony.
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As she testified about her sister's murder, Patti wiped away sudden tears.
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David Brown, in the courtroom, turned to look at media cameras. He did not testify.
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During a dramatic moment in the spring 1990 trial, Gary Pohlson (foreground), the defense attorney, questioned Cinnamon Brown (on the witness stand), while Judge Donald McCartin listened. Sandra Wingerd, court reporter, is in front of Cinnamon.
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