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I’ve written a couple posts and shared them here on the disappearance of Danielle T. Brown and the arrest of the man believed to have been responsible. However, I want to share another one. Leon Co., Fl police have charged Danielle’s alleged killer, Elijah James, with first degree murder but at this time he is fighting to have his arson trial verdict, in the state of Georgia, overturned.
Danielle’s demise happened sometime after 11:30 PM Friday, February 5, 2010 and before 5AM on Saturday, February 6, 2010. Danielle and Elijah had been friends since 2006, and were allegedly once intimately involved. Mr. James has a history of arrest for drugs and other offenses (allegedly including violent crimes) before and since they had become friends.
Elijah’s prior drug arrest doesn’t reflect on the person Danielle was though.
The night of February 5, Danielle was taking Elijah to a residence that belonged to his mother on Kings Post Way located in northeast Leon Co., FL off Miccosukee Road. Come to discover, this residence was allegedly empty and had no working utilities; which begs the question - why did Elijah want her to take him there? Did he know his mother no longer lived at the house and was in fact living in Pavo, GA? Did he really intend residing at that home since she’d advised him he was no longer welcome to stay at her and her mother’s house with them? Or was it a ruse to cause Danielle to disappear? It’s been said dissidence existed between the two on that fateful day. Reportedly, the Leon Co., police did find some things belonging to Danielle scattered in the yard at that house. And too, when her cousin called Danielle at or about 11:40 the night of Feb 5 she stated she could overhear Danielle and Elijah arguing. Allegedly, the phone call was abruptly disconnected; voice mail answered any later calls to Danielle’s cell.
Mr. James was apparently as busy as a bee that early morning of Feb 6, 2010 as his lawyers have been since his arrest for arson, and since his trial and sentencing. During those early morning hours February 5, 2010 he allegedly managed to take Danielle’s life, hide her body and pick up his cousin before driving her car to a store and buying beer. Was it celebration time? It was said that he was pushing stuff around on the back seat and advised his cousin to wait before getting in the car - so, was he covering up the blood later discovered inside the car? From Feb 6 early morning hours and Monday, Feb 8 2010, Mr. James had a grand time visiting family, sleeping and going to the Lowe’s store with family members to purchase, a gas can, a sponge, the carpet cleaner, a bottle of windex cleaner, a new chainsaw, pair of gloves, trash bags and a shovel. The new chainsaw was said to have been needed for his work as a tree doctor.
During this time he had possession of Danielle’s car.
We know that because he’s seen on the store camera video when he and his cousin purchased beer. Oddly at some point in time Monday the 8th, Mr. James was no longer in her car, he was seen walking near the Pavo, GA dump; Danielle’s car was found at the dump burned. How, I ask how did he lose possession of the car Monday? Some unknown person or persons stole it from the family member’s home where he was and took it for a joy ride then drove it to the dump and torched it? I highly doubt that scenario. Forensic evidence during his arson trial in GA showed they discovered blood inside the car trunk and in the interior. Also, a gas nozzle was found in the car inside a sponge. Ut-oh, Mr. James just happened to have needed a sponge and gotten one at Lowe’s along with a gas can! That is evidence of guilt to me.
Although defense tried, the ‘someone else did it because two other people were seen in the car’ strategy, Elijah James was found guilty of theft and arson and sentenced to 20 years in a Georgia prison. However, his court dates are far from over; he has a first degree murder trial to attend. Despite Danielle’s body not having been discovered yet or how the appeals process goes in his bid for a new trial, he will go to trial in Leon Co., Florida for Danielle’s murder.
In Mr. James’s bid for a new trial, in GA., he says the verdict in his arson trial is contrary to evidence and no evidence supports the verdict and sentence that he was given. (Boy do I smile at that piece of astoundingly ridiculous defense news!) I hope Superior Court Judge James E. Hardy will see through the illogical aspect of that claim and deny his motion at the hearing set for June 13, 2011 at the Jail-Justice Center courtroom. If the judge does decide he deserves a new trial then, sadly, they will likely delay the murder trial.
Elijah James really needs to make up his mind about that car. His claim was, (when LE spoke to him during their search for her as a missing person) that Danielle dropped him off at the house off Miccosukee, Rd., in Leon County and left driving her car. He said he then hitchhiked and a white man who only called himself Chuck picked him up on Miccosukee Rd. and gave him a lift to Pavo, GA. I asked myself then and still do ask, if that is a truth then how did he regain possession of Danielle’s Buick LeSabre? He was surely in her car when he picked up his cousin and at that store buying beer. If she was alive and gave him permission, then why was her blood found all inside it? Why was a piece of her driving license, and her cell phone found on the side of the road in GA?
I await a date being set for this murder trial and Justice for Danielle T. Brown.
The previous posts can be located here:
http://tigresspenssurmisals.blogspot.com/2010/03/disappearance-of-danielle-t-brown.html
http://tigresspenssurmisals.blogspot.com/2010/08/danielle-t-brown-may-have-justice-after.html
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Danielle T. Brown May Have Justice After All
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Back on Feb 5 of 2010 Danielle Brown left her home on Springhill Road around 8:30 p.m. and that was, allegedly, the last known time anyone, other than her passenger, has seen her. Danielle’s passenger was Elijah James, III and she was headed to take him to his mother’s house on King’s Post Way. We know she was still with Elijah later the same night because around 11:35 p.m. she spoke with a friend on her cell phone and told the friend that she was going to Apalachee Parkway to meet a friend after she took Elijah to his mother’s house. According to reports Elijah and Danielle were in a heated argument during that call and Danielle’s phone went dead. Subsequent calls were unanswered.
The police discovered several items belonging to Danielle on the grounds of his mother’s house so can assume Elijah James was there that Friday night or early Saturday morning. Whether Danielle was with Elijah at the time the items came to be there is unknown. What we know is that Mr. James was seen in possession of Danielle’s Buick in Wacissa and Waukeenah of Jefferson Co. between 1:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. on February 6. Also around 5:30 a.m. that Saturday morning Elijah and another man were at a Circle K store and Elijah was driving Danielle’s car. She wasn’t seen by anyone and wasn’t seen on the security camera video inside the car or store. The men purchased a case of beer. (I so want to say something caustic here, but will refrain) Elijah also made a trip to his sister’s home the morning of Feb 6 around 8:45 a.m. and allegedly stayed there until 11:30 p.m.. He allegedly slept. (I guess his alleged actions of Feb 5 and the wee morning hours of Feb 6 was very tiring for him.)
On Feb 7, the day Danielle’s family reported her missing, Elijah spent several hours at another sister’s home in Pavo, GA. The second sister’s home, according to LE records, is the address on police files in reference to his criminal background. Also of importance is that Elijah was seen on Feb 7, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Monticello, and was later seen walking away from the city dump in Pavo, Thomas County, GA where Danielle’s car was discovered burned. They arrested Elijah for auto theft and later Thomas County GA police charged him with torching her car. He sits in the jail there awaiting the trial scheduled for September 27, 2010.
Leon County, Florida police and Sheriff Larry Campbell were determined in their efforts to find Danielle, and, with the help of other police departments, searched for her in Florida and Georgia for several weeks. However, sadly she wasn’t found. They later changed their investigative efforts from a search for a missing person to a homicide investigation. During the investigations her cell phone was found on the side of a road, as was two pieces of her driver’s license.
The good thing is due to the Leon County Florida police department, and Sheriff Larry Campbell plus the DA’s office dogged determination with their evidence gathering a grand jury was convened this month. The grand jury heard all the relevant evidence and testimony from numerous witnesses and brought back a true bill.
They charged Elijah James with robbery and first degree murder of Danielle T. Brown.
I am so thankful to Leon County Florida police, Thomas County, GA police and all the other police departments that assisted in the searches and investigation of Danielle’s case. Due to all their incredible efforts justice may happen for her.
To read more on Danielle’s case check out my other post and the files below.
http://tigresspenssurmisals.blogspot.com/2010/03/disappearance-of-danielle-t-brown.html
http://www.tallahassee.com/assets/pdf/CD151827212.PDF
http://www.leoncountyso.com/news.asp
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Back on Feb 5 of 2010 Danielle Brown left her home on Springhill Road around 8:30 p.m. and that was, allegedly, the last known time anyone, other than her passenger, has seen her. Danielle’s passenger was Elijah James, III and she was headed to take him to his mother’s house on King’s Post Way. We know she was still with Elijah later the same night because around 11:35 p.m. she spoke with a friend on her cell phone and told the friend that she was going to Apalachee Parkway to meet a friend after she took Elijah to his mother’s house. According to reports Elijah and Danielle were in a heated argument during that call and Danielle’s phone went dead. Subsequent calls were unanswered.
The police discovered several items belonging to Danielle on the grounds of his mother’s house so can assume Elijah James was there that Friday night or early Saturday morning. Whether Danielle was with Elijah at the time the items came to be there is unknown. What we know is that Mr. James was seen in possession of Danielle’s Buick in Wacissa and Waukeenah of Jefferson Co. between 1:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. on February 6. Also around 5:30 a.m. that Saturday morning Elijah and another man were at a Circle K store and Elijah was driving Danielle’s car. She wasn’t seen by anyone and wasn’t seen on the security camera video inside the car or store. The men purchased a case of beer. (I so want to say something caustic here, but will refrain) Elijah also made a trip to his sister’s home the morning of Feb 6 around 8:45 a.m. and allegedly stayed there until 11:30 p.m.. He allegedly slept. (I guess his alleged actions of Feb 5 and the wee morning hours of Feb 6 was very tiring for him.)
On Feb 7, the day Danielle’s family reported her missing, Elijah spent several hours at another sister’s home in Pavo, GA. The second sister’s home, according to LE records, is the address on police files in reference to his criminal background. Also of importance is that Elijah was seen on Feb 7, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Monticello, and was later seen walking away from the city dump in Pavo, Thomas County, GA where Danielle’s car was discovered burned. They arrested Elijah for auto theft and later Thomas County GA police charged him with torching her car. He sits in the jail there awaiting the trial scheduled for September 27, 2010.
Leon County, Florida police and Sheriff Larry Campbell were determined in their efforts to find Danielle, and, with the help of other police departments, searched for her in Florida and Georgia for several weeks. However, sadly she wasn’t found. They later changed their investigative efforts from a search for a missing person to a homicide investigation. During the investigations her cell phone was found on the side of a road, as was two pieces of her driver’s license.
The good thing is due to the Leon County Florida police department, and Sheriff Larry Campbell plus the DA’s office dogged determination with their evidence gathering a grand jury was convened this month. The grand jury heard all the relevant evidence and testimony from numerous witnesses and brought back a true bill.
They charged Elijah James with robbery and first degree murder of Danielle T. Brown.
I am so thankful to Leon County Florida police, Thomas County, GA police and all the other police departments that assisted in the searches and investigation of Danielle’s case. Due to all their incredible efforts justice may happen for her.
To read more on Danielle’s case check out my other post and the files below.
http://tigresspenssurmisals.blogspot.com/2010/03/disappearance-of-danielle-t-brown.html
http://www.tallahassee.com/assets/pdf/CD151827212.PDF
http://www.leoncountyso.com/news.asp
Saturday, March 6, 2010
The Disappearance of Danielle T. Brown
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Sheriff Larry Campbell is obviously being very careful with what he reports to the public concerning the searches and the ongoing investigation. So please understand if this piece reads scattered.
When Danielle T. Brown, age 21, was first reported missing (and for several weeks thereafter), they said she left her home on Springfield Rd. in Leon, Co., FL with her ex-boyfriend Elijah James around 8:30 p.m. on Friday, February 5, 2010. Danielle was allegedly taking Mr. James to his mother’s home on King Post Way located in northeast Leon Co., FL off Miccosukee Rd. The drive to that residence from her home would’ve taken approximately an hour depending on traffic flow and red light stops. To travel from King Post Way to Pavo, Ga dump site would take about another 20 minutes.
Katherine Poole, a long time friend of Danielle, stated that Danielle and Elijah James, age 35, had been friends since Danielle was around 16-years-old and they had lived together in the past. (Allegedly, and according to court documents, they lived together in 2007 on Sundown Road for six months. The police stopped Mr. James for running a stop sign and they discovered cocaine in his possession. He spent 15 months in jail. ) Miss Poole said he seemed such a nice guy (aren’t they all?) and she was shocked to learn of his arrest. Katherine stated James had been staying with Danielle and her mom but they were not presently romantically involved. Danielle was just trying to help Mr. James get back on his feet after they had released him from jail. They had arrested James for probation violation stemming from a drug charge. The probation violation charge was from back June of 09 when he lived with his sister on King Post Way near their mother, and they released him in November of 09.
Since Danielle disappeared, searches have spanned two states, two refuse dumps and several counties but she has not been found.
The known information on her was that she was in her Buick La Sabre, registered to her dad, when she left her home with Elijah James in the passenger seat. Around 11:35/40 she received a call from a friend (or her cousin) and the two were overheard having a heated argument. Danielle’s phone went dead during that call and any subsequent calls went to voice mail. Three days later the car was found with the license plate missing and one VIN number scratched off, in Pavo, GA at the dump. The interior of the car had been severely burned. Massive searches since have failed to bring her home.
Detectives located Elijah James and on Tuesday, February 9, questioned him about his last known hours with Danielle. He told them Danielle had brought him to his mother’s home and the last time he saw her she was in possession of her car and keys. When asked how he got to Pavo, GA (where he was seen walking near the dump) he stated he’d started walking and was picked up on Miccosukee Road by a white male that only identified himself as ‘Chuck.’
Danielle’s father decided to pursue charges against Mr. James on February 10 since he did not have permission to drive the car and signed approval for LE to search the car. They charged Mr. James with grand theft auto and first degree arson. Mr. James still presumably resides in the Leon Co. jail.
Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell reported during a media update, Feb 25, that Mr. James was seen in possession of Danielle’s Buick in Wacissa and Waukeenah of Jefferson Co. between 1:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. on February 6. ( He also stated she and Mr. James left Danielle’s residence at 11:30 p.m. Feb 5, 2010 - confusing the earlier reports by his spokesman, Sgt. Tony Drzewiecki, and media of the 8:30 p.m. time slot..) Mr. James picked up a friend on Thomasville Road and stopped at a convenience store about 5:45 a.m. and purchased a case of beer. No one saw Danielle Brown with the two men. But her car was seen again in Pavo, Ga., at 8:45 a.m. at James’s sister's house and remained there until 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 6. James also went to another sister’s house on the 2000 block of North Roberts Street in Pavo and spent the night. On Sunday, February 7, James was seen between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Monticello, and was later seen walking away from the city dump in Pavo where Danielle’s car was discovered burned. How Mr. James got back to Leon Co., Fl. and his mother’s home is at this time unknown.
Besides searching two dumps looking for evidence of Danielle’s whereabouts, over a hundred law enforcement officers and firefighters of all these counties searched numerous areas in Jefferson Co., Thomas Co. and Leon Co., FL. Her cell phone was found, as was a piece of her driver’s license, in Beachton, Ga. on a roadside. Beachton, Ga. is south of Thomasville. The rest of the DL has not been found. Evidence has also been found at family residence in Pavo and at Mr. James mother’s home, they discovered items belonging to Danielle in the yard. They also removed evidence from the car. And allegedly found possible evidence at one or both the dumps. Also allegedly, at one dump they were searching for a paper or papers and her purse. They did find a purse but it was determined not to belong to Danielle.
I am not saying Mr. James killed Danielle Brown that night or any other night. I am saying I have read of nothing that tells me she would willingly destroy her own DL, discard her cell phone, and leave without her car. And Mr. James is high on my suspect list of assisting in or causing her death and/or disappearance. Mr. James’s friend has on a light-colored sweat in the video picture of him with Elijah James at the Circle K, and it appears either to be very dirty or to have shadows created by lighting. He, the friend, could’ve been completely unaware of Danielle’s demise or whereabouts when he was with Mr. James- The friend hasn’t been charged with any illegal activity in connection with her disappearance or death. But then, neither has Elijah James been charged. I do have my own surmises but at this time, am not going to highlight them.
http://www.tallahassee.com/assets/pdf/CD151827212.PDF
http://www.leoncountyso.com/missing.htm
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100226/NEWS0102/2260327/
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100218/NEWS0102/2180315/1010/news01/Missing-woman-s-friend-James-a-great-guy
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Sheriff Larry Campbell is obviously being very careful with what he reports to the public concerning the searches and the ongoing investigation. So please understand if this piece reads scattered.
When Danielle T. Brown, age 21, was first reported missing (and for several weeks thereafter), they said she left her home on Springfield Rd. in Leon, Co., FL with her ex-boyfriend Elijah James around 8:30 p.m. on Friday, February 5, 2010. Danielle was allegedly taking Mr. James to his mother’s home on King Post Way located in northeast Leon Co., FL off Miccosukee Rd. The drive to that residence from her home would’ve taken approximately an hour depending on traffic flow and red light stops. To travel from King Post Way to Pavo, Ga dump site would take about another 20 minutes.
Katherine Poole, a long time friend of Danielle, stated that Danielle and Elijah James, age 35, had been friends since Danielle was around 16-years-old and they had lived together in the past. (Allegedly, and according to court documents, they lived together in 2007 on Sundown Road for six months. The police stopped Mr. James for running a stop sign and they discovered cocaine in his possession. He spent 15 months in jail. ) Miss Poole said he seemed such a nice guy (aren’t they all?) and she was shocked to learn of his arrest. Katherine stated James had been staying with Danielle and her mom but they were not presently romantically involved. Danielle was just trying to help Mr. James get back on his feet after they had released him from jail. They had arrested James for probation violation stemming from a drug charge. The probation violation charge was from back June of 09 when he lived with his sister on King Post Way near their mother, and they released him in November of 09.
Since Danielle disappeared, searches have spanned two states, two refuse dumps and several counties but she has not been found.
The known information on her was that she was in her Buick La Sabre, registered to her dad, when she left her home with Elijah James in the passenger seat. Around 11:35/40 she received a call from a friend (or her cousin) and the two were overheard having a heated argument. Danielle’s phone went dead during that call and any subsequent calls went to voice mail. Three days later the car was found with the license plate missing and one VIN number scratched off, in Pavo, GA at the dump. The interior of the car had been severely burned. Massive searches since have failed to bring her home.
Detectives located Elijah James and on Tuesday, February 9, questioned him about his last known hours with Danielle. He told them Danielle had brought him to his mother’s home and the last time he saw her she was in possession of her car and keys. When asked how he got to Pavo, GA (where he was seen walking near the dump) he stated he’d started walking and was picked up on Miccosukee Road by a white male that only identified himself as ‘Chuck.’
Danielle’s father decided to pursue charges against Mr. James on February 10 since he did not have permission to drive the car and signed approval for LE to search the car. They charged Mr. James with grand theft auto and first degree arson. Mr. James still presumably resides in the Leon Co. jail.
Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell reported during a media update, Feb 25, that Mr. James was seen in possession of Danielle’s Buick in Wacissa and Waukeenah of Jefferson Co. between 1:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. on February 6. ( He also stated she and Mr. James left Danielle’s residence at 11:30 p.m. Feb 5, 2010 - confusing the earlier reports by his spokesman, Sgt. Tony Drzewiecki, and media of the 8:30 p.m. time slot..) Mr. James picked up a friend on Thomasville Road and stopped at a convenience store about 5:45 a.m. and purchased a case of beer. No one saw Danielle Brown with the two men. But her car was seen again in Pavo, Ga., at 8:45 a.m. at James’s sister's house and remained there until 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 6. James also went to another sister’s house on the 2000 block of North Roberts Street in Pavo and spent the night. On Sunday, February 7, James was seen between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Monticello, and was later seen walking away from the city dump in Pavo where Danielle’s car was discovered burned. How Mr. James got back to Leon Co., Fl. and his mother’s home is at this time unknown.
Besides searching two dumps looking for evidence of Danielle’s whereabouts, over a hundred law enforcement officers and firefighters of all these counties searched numerous areas in Jefferson Co., Thomas Co. and Leon Co., FL. Her cell phone was found, as was a piece of her driver’s license, in Beachton, Ga. on a roadside. Beachton, Ga. is south of Thomasville. The rest of the DL has not been found. Evidence has also been found at family residence in Pavo and at Mr. James mother’s home, they discovered items belonging to Danielle in the yard. They also removed evidence from the car. And allegedly found possible evidence at one or both the dumps. Also allegedly, at one dump they were searching for a paper or papers and her purse. They did find a purse but it was determined not to belong to Danielle.
I am not saying Mr. James killed Danielle Brown that night or any other night. I am saying I have read of nothing that tells me she would willingly destroy her own DL, discard her cell phone, and leave without her car. And Mr. James is high on my suspect list of assisting in or causing her death and/or disappearance. Mr. James’s friend has on a light-colored sweat in the video picture of him with Elijah James at the Circle K, and it appears either to be very dirty or to have shadows created by lighting. He, the friend, could’ve been completely unaware of Danielle’s demise or whereabouts when he was with Mr. James- The friend hasn’t been charged with any illegal activity in connection with her disappearance or death. But then, neither has Elijah James been charged. I do have my own surmises but at this time, am not going to highlight them.
http://www.tallahassee.com/assets/pdf/CD151827212.PDF
http://www.leoncountyso.com/missing.htm
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100226/NEWS0102/2260327/
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100218/NEWS0102/2180315/1010/news01/Missing-woman-s-friend-James-a-great-guy
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