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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Erin Keller

A bottle of BBQ sauce just led police to a suspect, 79, in the 1981 murder of a flight attendant

Larry Dean Brown, 79, was arrested in Colorado and charged in the 1981 strangulation death of Braniff flight attendant Beverly Bruneau, who was found dead in her Grapevine apartment - (Tarrant County Corrections Center)

A 79-year-old Colorado man has been arrested in a decades-old Texas cold case after investigators matched DNA from barbecue sauce and soda bottles in his trash to evidence collected from the murder scene.

Larry Dean Brown was arrested in Colorado on June 8 and later booked into the Tarrant County Jail on a murder charge, the Grapevine Police Department annouced in a news release Thursday. He is accused of killing 35-year-old Braniff Airlines flight attendant Beverly Bruneau, who was found strangled in her Grapevine apartment on Feb. 13, 1981, after a financial dispute.

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