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.