09-22-2011, 09:23 PM
Law Dudes been making sure to have all their shit together before nailing the coffin shut on this one, I hope.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-be...7404.story
Beauchamp charged with murder of two children found in Delray Beach canal
By Peter Franceschina, Wayne K. Roustan and Jerome Burdi, Sun Sentinel
8:06 p.m. EDT, September 22, 2011
The prime suspect in the deaths of two children whose bodies were found floating inside luggage in a canal in March was charged Thursday with their premeditated murders.
Clem Beauchamp, 34, also was charged with first-degree murder in the death of the children's mother, whose body was found in August 2010 at a trash-processing facility. The homicide charges — handed up by a grand jury — were announced Thursday afternoon by Palm Beach County prosecutors, who said they would seek the death penalty for Beauchamp.
Beauchamp has been the target of the homicide investigations since March 3, the day after the bodies of Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, were found in the canal that divides Delray Beach and Boca Raton.
Beauchamp has been held in federal custody since that day. He was arrested on an unrelated federal charge of possessing an illegal handgun silencer, after he spent hours talking to Delray Beach police homicide detectives.
Jermaine and Ju'Tyra had been living with Beauchamp since the disappearance of their mother, Felicia Brown, some seven months earlier. Brown, 25, was Beauchamp's on-and-off girlfriend.
Her body, partially decomposed, went unidentified until the deaths of her children. Brown had the names of the children tattooed on her leg, leading to her identification.
Beauchamp killed Brown by an "unspecified means"; Jermaine was killed by blunt force trauma; and Ju'Tyra was asphyxiated, according to the grand jury indictment.
The indictment came after a six-month coordinated investigation by Delray Beach police, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, West Palm Beach police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
"There is a sense of satisfaction that we were able to do this," Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe said.
Authorities did not reveal any of the evidence they have gathered against Beauchamp, and the indictment provided no specifics other than the three homicide charges.
The news of the homicide charges against Beauchamp brought mixed emotions for Rodney Napper, a suburban Chicago school teacher who was Jermaine's foster father between 2006 and 2007.
"I'm glad that he got caught and he's going to pay for the crime. However, I'm still saddened because I had so many things for Jermaine that I'll never have the opportunity to do with him. Never," Napper said. "Why? Why would he take lives, especially children's lives, like that? It baffles me."
In court documents, federal prosecutors said months ago that they could prove Beauchamp murdered Brown, saying she likely was eliminated because she was a key witness against him in the gun case. They alleged Beauchamp admitted to Brown's murder to another jail inmate, and that a forensic analysis of his seized computers showed someone in his home had searched the Internet concerning life insurance for children.
Robert Berube, Beauchamp's federal public defender, said he was provided no evidence in the gun case that related to the murder investigations.
"I'm in the dark on the state court stuff," he said. "I don't believe he did it. There is a lot going on in these cases that has not been revealed to me."
The gun charge against Beauchamp arose through pure chance, when Brown's car was repossessed from the driveway of his Delray Beach home in October 2009. A tow-yard employee searching the car found a black bag in the trunk containing a .22-caliber revolver, a homemade silencer, 12 rounds of ammunition, a black knit cap and a cigar tube containing fake pieces of crack cocaine.
When Brown went to collect her car, she told one of the employees that the items found in the trunk belonged to her boyfriend, according to the charges against Beauchamp.
Just as he was set to go to trial on the gun charge last month, Beauchamp pleaded guilty to possessing the silencer and now faces up to 10 years in prison on that charge at his October sentencing. Beauchamp has been held since the spring in the Broward Main Jail.
The guilty plea came after a Fort Lauderdale federal judge overseeing the gun case ruled that prosecutors would still be able to present evidence against Beauchamp from Brown, in the form of a secretly recorded conversation made by her ex-husband, Peter Brown.
In that conversation, Felicia Brown admitted she bought the .22-caliber revolver for Beauchamp from a man in West Palm Beach, according to a transcript filed in court documents.
She told Peter Brown that Beauchamp was the one who built the homemade silencer for the gun. Her ex-husband encouraged her to cooperate with the federal agent investigating the case, and told her she had had nothing but bad luck since beginning her relationship with Beauchamp.
"You got bad luck, man," Peter Brown told her. "You just, since you been f------ with this dude, just bad luck. Bad luck."
"I know," Felicia Brown whispered, with a sigh. "I don't know what to do."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-be...7404.story
Beauchamp charged with murder of two children found in Delray Beach canal
By Peter Franceschina, Wayne K. Roustan and Jerome Burdi, Sun Sentinel
8:06 p.m. EDT, September 22, 2011
The prime suspect in the deaths of two children whose bodies were found floating inside luggage in a canal in March was charged Thursday with their premeditated murders.
Clem Beauchamp, 34, also was charged with first-degree murder in the death of the children's mother, whose body was found in August 2010 at a trash-processing facility. The homicide charges — handed up by a grand jury — were announced Thursday afternoon by Palm Beach County prosecutors, who said they would seek the death penalty for Beauchamp.
Beauchamp has been the target of the homicide investigations since March 3, the day after the bodies of Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, were found in the canal that divides Delray Beach and Boca Raton.
Beauchamp has been held in federal custody since that day. He was arrested on an unrelated federal charge of possessing an illegal handgun silencer, after he spent hours talking to Delray Beach police homicide detectives.
Jermaine and Ju'Tyra had been living with Beauchamp since the disappearance of their mother, Felicia Brown, some seven months earlier. Brown, 25, was Beauchamp's on-and-off girlfriend.
Her body, partially decomposed, went unidentified until the deaths of her children. Brown had the names of the children tattooed on her leg, leading to her identification.
Beauchamp killed Brown by an "unspecified means"; Jermaine was killed by blunt force trauma; and Ju'Tyra was asphyxiated, according to the grand jury indictment.
The indictment came after a six-month coordinated investigation by Delray Beach police, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, West Palm Beach police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
"There is a sense of satisfaction that we were able to do this," Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe said.
Authorities did not reveal any of the evidence they have gathered against Beauchamp, and the indictment provided no specifics other than the three homicide charges.
The news of the homicide charges against Beauchamp brought mixed emotions for Rodney Napper, a suburban Chicago school teacher who was Jermaine's foster father between 2006 and 2007.
"I'm glad that he got caught and he's going to pay for the crime. However, I'm still saddened because I had so many things for Jermaine that I'll never have the opportunity to do with him. Never," Napper said. "Why? Why would he take lives, especially children's lives, like that? It baffles me."
In court documents, federal prosecutors said months ago that they could prove Beauchamp murdered Brown, saying she likely was eliminated because she was a key witness against him in the gun case. They alleged Beauchamp admitted to Brown's murder to another jail inmate, and that a forensic analysis of his seized computers showed someone in his home had searched the Internet concerning life insurance for children.
Robert Berube, Beauchamp's federal public defender, said he was provided no evidence in the gun case that related to the murder investigations.
"I'm in the dark on the state court stuff," he said. "I don't believe he did it. There is a lot going on in these cases that has not been revealed to me."
The gun charge against Beauchamp arose through pure chance, when Brown's car was repossessed from the driveway of his Delray Beach home in October 2009. A tow-yard employee searching the car found a black bag in the trunk containing a .22-caliber revolver, a homemade silencer, 12 rounds of ammunition, a black knit cap and a cigar tube containing fake pieces of crack cocaine.
When Brown went to collect her car, she told one of the employees that the items found in the trunk belonged to her boyfriend, according to the charges against Beauchamp.
Just as he was set to go to trial on the gun charge last month, Beauchamp pleaded guilty to possessing the silencer and now faces up to 10 years in prison on that charge at his October sentencing. Beauchamp has been held since the spring in the Broward Main Jail.
The guilty plea came after a Fort Lauderdale federal judge overseeing the gun case ruled that prosecutors would still be able to present evidence against Beauchamp from Brown, in the form of a secretly recorded conversation made by her ex-husband, Peter Brown.
In that conversation, Felicia Brown admitted she bought the .22-caliber revolver for Beauchamp from a man in West Palm Beach, according to a transcript filed in court documents.
She told Peter Brown that Beauchamp was the one who built the homemade silencer for the gun. Her ex-husband encouraged her to cooperate with the federal agent investigating the case, and told her she had had nothing but bad luck since beginning her relationship with Beauchamp.
"You got bad luck, man," Peter Brown told her. "You just, since you been f------ with this dude, just bad luck. Bad luck."
"I know," Felicia Brown whispered, with a sigh. "I don't know what to do."