If You Really Loved Me (32 page)

Cinnamon Brown, age fourteen, a bubbly, quickwitted teenager, often shuttled back and forth between her mother, Brenda, and her father, David.

The green stucco house on Ocean Breeze Drive where Linda Brown was shot to death on March 19, 1985. When investigators arrived at the scene, Cinnamon was missing.

Linda died in the ornate iron bed she shared with David. The murder weapon was dropped on the floor of their bedroom.

David's dresser in the early morning after Linda we shot. He owned expensive jewelry, took many prescription drugs for his myriad ailments, and prided himself on being a wonderful father.

In David's dresser drawer, the holster that had held the murder weapon was laid on top of a picture of Patti Bailey.

Patti's room on Ocean Breeze Drive. She had everything a teenager could want, thanks to David's generosity.

Cinnamon slept in this small travel trailer parked in back of the house.

On the morning after the murder, Garden Grove Detective Fred McLean finally found Cinnamon shivering and sick in a doghouse in the backyard of the Ocean Breeze Drive home.

Cinnamon was taken to Garden Grove police headquarters to answer questions that might identify Linda's killer. Suffering from a massive drug overdose, she collapsed shortly after this picture was taken and was rushed to a hospital. Later a confession was extracted from her, hut that was not the end of the story.

David spared no expense in finding the perfect spot for Linda's ashes. Her remains were placed in the base of a perpetual fountain, marked by this plaque composed by David.

David Brown paid cash for this lavish mansion in the Anaheim Hills, and moved in six months after Linda's murder.

The backyard of David Brown's home on Chantilly Street, where he lived in luxury with his daughter Krystal, Patti Bailey, and her newborn child.

A police surveillance picture of a visit David Brown made to the California Youth Authority school in Ventura. As Cinnamon, back to camera, talked with her father, their conversation was taped surreptitiously.