“As a family, we have raised an additional $70,000,” Brown’s father said during the press conference. “This raises the total reward to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Kate and ‘Nell’s murderer. We want to reassure you that when you call the FBI or when you call CrimeStoppers or the Metroparks police to provide a tip, you will remain strictly anonymous. We strongly believe that someone out there has heard or seen something.”
Anyone at the Rocky River Reservation between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. on June 4 (when Sledge and Brown were both found shot in the head on a bench near a parking lot just north of the Lorain Bridge on Valley Parkway), is encouraged to reach out to authorities with any information they have.
At the time of their deaths, Brown was 33 and Sledge was 40.
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This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2020.
Horrible. I live near there and this has bothered me very much. If the FBI is stumped, the killer may not be found for years to come, until he brags about his crime somewhere and someone overhears him. Or until someone learns about it and decides to snitch.
I’ve always believed that a white supremicist or neo-Nazi was driving past, saw an inter-racial couple, and then it became an unplanned crime of opportunity.
Fortunately for the killer there were no nearby witnesses. For the victims, just sheer coincidence and the ultimate in bad luck. These murders may be solved some distant day, or they may not be. But never say never.