According to the 20/20 episode, there was no blood or tissue on the gun, and the police didn't even dust for fingerprints on the door to the house. But authorities transferred him to a juvenile center in March 2009 after his attorneys argued that the adult jail with its three cell blocks couldn't accommodate an 11-year-old boy. And I had no idea where we were going. Wright alleges in the lawsuit that investigators failed to follow protocols for interviewing children when they talked to Houks two young daughters and when they interviewed Jordan. Police say Brown walked into his father's bedroom, shot his future stepmom with a hunting rifle and then boarded a bus for elementary school. It's saying that I have a charge in front of me in juvenile court, and I am finding that you are responsible for that crime, ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams said. That way I know what was trying to be said, and then thats how I read, he said. I think has just ruined us [from] ever having closure and the person who did this, and for the person who actually did this to pay for it.". And that's when we realized that it was a homicide.. [11] After those newspapers decided not to pursue their appeal further, Judge Hodge was directed by another panel of the Superior Court to move swiftly to hold an adjudication hearing. The 20/20 interview also gave me the hunch he was guilty. It was just a bunch of strangers dragging me around.. The discovery of that shell was not significant.. I don't think the kid did it and I honestly do think the cops jumped on him and didn't do their homework. A state police spokesman, Ryan Tarkowski, declined to comment on pending litigation. He was 75. Were ecstatic, we believe professionally and personally in Jordans innocence, Elisco told the station. Submissions should outline a mystery and provide a link to a more detailed review of the case such as a Wiki article or news report. Kenzie Houk was eight months pregnant when she was shot in the back of the head while she was sleeping in bed in their western Pennsylvania farmhouse. Jordan Brown (Shooting of Kenzie Houk) | Did an 11-Year-Old Commit Murder? Obtained by ABC News Police determined that Houk had been shot in the back of the head. WAMPUM, Pa. -- Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was arrested and initially charged as an adult for the murder of his pregnant, soon-to-be stepmother. I don't think the kid did it. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Two years ago, Howard County State's Attorney Rich Gibson decided not to charge a Woodbine homeowner who shot and killed a drunken man at his door.The stranger had come to the wrong house . It cost me my job, and what money that I had coming in went into the gas tank and went into things that he needed, Chris Brown said. We must demand to know how the Pennsylvania State Police could establish policies that would allow this tragedy to occur, and, even more to the point, encourage the occurrence of tragedies like this one.. 20 A pregnant Kenzie Marie Houk, 26, is killed in the New Beaver Borough farmhouse she shared with her daughters Jenessa, 7, and Adalynn, 4 her fianc, Chris Brown, and his son,. Jordan Browns father speaks out after sons murder conviction overturned Jordan Browns father speaks out after sons murder conviction overturned. But Houks family remains convinced that Jordan is guilty, and that he should receive the maximum punishment and be tried as an adult. Inside the family's farmhouse, police had found handguns, rifles, several rounds of ammunition and a child-sized shotgun that belonged to Jordan. Convictions of first-degree murder against a father and stepmother who killed six-year-old Meika Jordan have been upheld by Canada's top court. You know, it's just a truck, he told "20/20." And I was in there. This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. Multiple members of Browns legal team have spoken out about the supreme courts decision. Despite this, prosecutors excluded the ex-boyfriend as a suspect during their initial investigation. I miss her every day, he said. In an exclusive interview with 20/20, she told her own account of what happened that morning of Feb. 20, 2009, and some of it conflicts with the police timeline. Police arrested Jordan Brown based on the information provided by the girl. I agree, the more I think about the more unlikely it seems. He knew there was a 20 gauge shotgun that they have in the house and gets there after everybody leaves, before it snows with no tracks, and gets by the tree cutting guys. Harvey also drove a black truck. It was appalling to me that they seemingly just ignored that fact throughout the case.. The shooting happened at their home in Wampum, Lawrence County. Brown was 11 years old when prosecutors said he shot 26-year-old Kenzie Houk, who was eight months pregnant, in the head and then went to school. A 7 year old will remember that. Jordan Brown, who is attending college and studying computer science, is determined to leave his past behind and prepare for brighter days ahead. You took an 11-year-olds childhood away from him. I feel if we win the lawsuit itll shed a light of (my) innocence on people that they cant really ignore, Brown said, noting that even after he was exonerated, people still expressed mixed feelings about his innocence, which hes maintained since he was 11. Houks mother Debbie Houk told 20/20, Jordan's a murderer. At that time, in March 1997, Krause filed a. Finally, it felt like a big weight had been lifted off of me. A subreddit dedicated to the unresolved mysteries of the world. He kept shifting and obviously upset. ". Now, he was losing his son. He kept talking about a piece of fuzz, and I got it out of my pocket and I threw it. In my opinion, he was focused on the shotgun shell casing that he threw after he left the residence, McGraw said. I came across a blog which claims that Kenzie's abusive ex had threatened to kill her or have her killed. Charles . The 5-0 supreme court ruling exonerated Brown of all charges, overturning earlier findings by a Lawrence County Juvenile Court Judge that were upheld by the states appellate court. While awaiting trial, Jordan Brown was housed for three years at the Edmund L. Thomas Adolescent Center, a juvenile detention facility in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Where is any evidence showing abuses by the son towards his stepmom. I just did & dont understand the grounds they dismissed her ex as innocent. She told WKBN that Brown has maintained his innocence from the beginning and expressed hopes for his future. Its been a nightmare for nine-and-a-half years, Chris Brown said. I'm never not going to be your dad. I just did & dont understand the grounds they dismissed her ex as innocent. Authorities said they also tested Harveys hands for the presence of gunshot residue and found none. I also thought it was hilarious how uncomfortable the big bald cop in the middle was. Judging by 20/20s recreations the house was very small. The Mesquite High School student had just left a party . [18], Brown is currently a college junior studying computer science. While the decision did not declare him innocent of the charges, he cannot be retried. 2016) (In re J.B. III), the Superior Court affirmed the juvenile court, and rejected claims that the juvenile court had improperly reassessed the evidence and made new credibility determinations in ruling on Brown's post-dispositional motions. I believe that testimony, further more with: "She told officers she asked Jordan Brown about the source of the sound, but he would not answer. Brown was tried as a juvenile after his lawyers fought a judges original decision to try him as an adult. Arrested when he was just 11 and charged with killing Kenzie Houk, the pregnant fiance of his father . A judge finding a juvenile delinquent is effectively a guilty verdict. [Then] she told me that when she was waiting downstairs for Jordan to come downstairs and go get the school bus like they normally do, she heard a big boom and she identified it as the sound of a gun, added retired Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Bobby McGraw. It was a frigid day in Wampum, a small town in Western Pennsylvania. Though life had taken them in different directions for a while, they reconnected and were getting ready to officially tie the knot, and give birth to a baby boy they had already named Christopher. In 2016, Brown was released from juvenile detention, but he and his defense team continued to argue his innocence. Martin said the autopsy report determined that Houk had been killed with a shotgun and she had a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. Houk, who was eight months pregnant at the time of her death, was found dead by her four-year-old daughter in the familys farmhouse in Pennsylvania. And I just remember looking at him thinking, How can this kid have any more hope?. The farmhouse in Wampum where Chris Brown lived with his fiance Kenzie Houk, his son Jordan Brown and her two daughters, Janessa and Adalynn. -, Press J to jump to the feed. Emma Tustin, 32, was unanimously convicted at Coventry Crown Court on Thursday of murdering Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. But still, that side of it, that suffering from the loss and not having any answers, knowing he was falsely accused and the route the prosecutor and investigators took on this, the inadequate investigation. Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was arrested in the 2009 New Beaver, Pennsylvania, killing of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk and her unborn child. The Pennsylvania Superior Court rejected an appeal by three area newspapers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and New Castle News) to overturn Hodge's ruling and open the hearing to the public. They also found a 20-gauge shotgun that belonged to Jordan Brown. It used to bother me all the time. Alan's death devastated his family. He lost his entire youth being wrongfully convicted of a crime he didnt commit, Wright said. But omg! After Pennsylvania's Superior Court ruled that Judge Motto violated Brown's Fifth Amendment rights, Judge Motto recused himself from the case, and Judge John W. Hodge granted the decertification petition and ruled that Brown should be tried as a juvenile.[6]. The next day, state police arrested Brown, who was a fifth-grader at the time. I wasn't with anybody. Directed by Kyle Saylors, the true crime story is based on 20 years of research by Simpson's former business associate and friend, Norman Pardo. Jordan Brown was just 11 years old when he was taken into custody in 2009 by Pennsylvania police for allegedly fatally shooting 26-year-old Kenzie Houk, who was expecting Jordan's younger. Please consult your doctor before taking any action. When we interview someone, you expect them to give their account, wait a little while, we interview them again, and they should give the same account. And if you go by Adalynns account, this means it all, including the murders, happened long after Jordan and Jenessa had left the house and were on their way to school. He spent over three years in a juvenile facility in Pennsylvania. Feb. And he told me everything was going to be all right, and I just sat there and cried.. I guess the big question is whether the residue on the child speaks to being in the room, or if it speaks to pulling the trigger. Lawrence County Judge John Hodge found the now-14-year-old Jordan Brown delinquent, the juvenile . According to The Associated Press, Kenzie Houks ex-boyfriend had a history of threatening her, and Houk and multiple members of her family had restraining orders against him. Adrian Jones's short, tortured life was spent isolated from outsiders, confined in filthy, mice-infested houses where he was "home-schooled" by the parents who ultimately killed him, according. Kids that age dont just up a kill without there having shown resentment and previous hostility toward their victims. It was one of a half dozen incorrect characterizations in the summary that were not in the transcript, Wright said. They are also not smart enough to leave no traces. I just want to be successful. Officials say it has been determined that a physical altercation occurred between the victim and Dequan Blount, who . They told me that her and the baby were gone, and I remember collapsing in the yard, Brown said. No way. 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And again a third appeal was taken to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. When asked what message he had for the police troopers who'd arrested his son, Chris Brown said, Shame on you, is probably the most polite way to put it.. "She was yelling, 'You killed my father! "It was Adam Harvey, after all, who had been engaged in a bitter paternity and child-support battle with Kenzie and who, after paying for the support of Kenzies youngest daughter Adalynn for years, discovered through DNA testing that Adalynn is not his daughter afteralland that Kenzie had not been honest with him in more ways than one. And I went outside, and I had asked the tree men that were cutting down trees, Do you guys know my grandmas number? And they were like, No. she said. Now I can see an adult sticking with their story for a long period of time, but a young kid? Thats blood-boiling, seeing-red motive. Later that night, as Chris and Jordan Brown were finally starting to nod off around 3:30 a.m., they were startled by a pounding on the door. Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were only 10 when they killed that poor toddler. [I] havent had a chance to grieve properly, Chris Brown said. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Thanks! Boy who killed dad's pregnant fiancee to get juvenile review. Im 100 percent, you know, a whole, clean slate. The blended family seemed to be bonding. I'd, like, lose myself in the book. Even with the relationship they had, Adam was still in love with Kenzie. The tree trimmers saw Adalynn sometime after 9 a.m. that morning. In April 2017, when Roy Oliver, a 37-year-old white police officer in Balch Springs, a suburb east of Dallas, shot and killed an unarmed 15-year-old black teenager named Jordan Edwards as he. It's such a small window and such an unlikely set of circumstances that one, he found out where she lived. In Season Two of Guilt Ryan travels to Waiuku New Zealand in an attempt to . You know, if something happened, tell me. She stood by her confession and . As the years passed, Jordan Brown said he spent much of his time absorbed in the books his father brought him, reading with a dictionary next to him. Justices said in their 2018 decision that prosecutors presented largely circumstantial and insufficient evidence, saying among other things in trial testimony that a 20-gauge shotgun in Browns bedroom was the murder weapon actually supported an equally reasonable conclusion that it was not used in the murder. Following three days of testimony and legal argument, Judge Hodge issued his ruling on April 13, 2012, that Brown was responsible for first degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk and of homicide in the death of her unborn male child. 21-year-old Jordan Brown talks for the first time about going to jail as a boy for a crime he says he didn't commit in an interview with ABC News' Juju Chang. The ruling in particular objected to the assumption, made by the juvenile court, that no one else but Jordan could have shot Houk. A former Lawrence County man is suing a handful of retired state police investigators and officials alleging malicious prosecution after he spent most of his childhood in prison for the shotgun killing of his fathers pregnant fiance before the state Supreme Court overturned his conviction. Just 18 hours before, Chris Brown had lost his fiance and unborn child. Jordan freely admitted he knew how to handle a gun, and the gun powder was only found on his sweatshirt, which hed worn on a duck hunt just a couple days before. Now 21, Brown, who spent more than seven . Though Mr. Houk fully believes that Brown is the murderer, another possible suspect has been considered. But it would take another three and a half years before his appeal was heard by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Especially grief-sticken was the younger . I didn't know where I was at, what was going on or anything, he said. I also signed up to comment. In another allegation, the lawsuit provides a transcript of an interview with a former girlfriend of Browns father, a woman who said at least twice that she was absolutely not afraid of Jordan Brown. In a later interview, after investigators told her grandparents they believed Brown killed Houk, the girl said she saw him with guns that morning and heard a bang. Wright says more than that, the evidence investigators gave to prosecutors was improperly gathered, mischaracterized or fabricated to support a theory that the then 11-year-old had committed the murder something he would have had to do and clean up without missing anything in the space of about 120 seconds. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://people.com/crime/jordan-brown-case-murder-kenzie-houk-interview-after-prison/. He has someone that says that he's at home and from the trooper that interviewed him, who said the truck didn't look like it had been driven and we took photos of the truck, Martin said. A man has been jailed for 21 years and his partner for a minimum of 29 years over the torture and killing of his six-year-old son, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. And on 20/20 Adalynn said she woke up from a loud noise..she answers her moms phone goes to wake her up..she doesnt wake up..she goes outside & the tree trimmers help.. which would have been around 9am.. the other girl per the police reports said it was an ordinary morning. WAMPUM, Pa. -- Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was arrested and initially charged as an adult for the murder of his pregnant, soon-to-be stepmother. The trial lasted three days. Jordan Brown was sitting with his stepsister Jenessa in a room adjacent to the room where the victim was sleeping, run upstairs, grab a shotgun, load it with a shotgun shell, walk over to the bed, place that shotgun up against her head, pull that trigger, kill her, somehow manage to wipe whatever-- bodily fluid or blood might have been contained on the end of that gun, take it upstairs, replace it along the wall, remove the shell, run downstairs while her sister presumably was waiting for him in this very small house All without leaving a single clue., All they really arrested him on, largely, was the statement of Jenessa, Elisco said. >>PREVIOUS STORY: Jordan Browns father speaks out after sons murder conviction overturned. The coroner determined Lily had died at least two hours before her stepmother . 2023 Cox Media Group. She said the person on the other end of the line asked to talk to her mother so she went into the downstairs bedroom to get her. Her mom said she doesnt care what Browns next step is; she believes he killed her daughter. And her face was facing me, Adalynn said. Police had tried to speak with Adalynn when they arrived at the house, but reported that she was in a state of shock, and could not provide coherent answers. I was happy. That day, she said she remembered being woken up by the sound of a gunshot. Adalynn Houk is seen here in the undated family photo. 5 Theories Explain HowCayleeAnthony Really Died, pointed out the lack of an eyewitness or credible forensic evidence, Who Is Carolyn Bryant Donham? Presiding Judge Dominick Motto of the Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, Common Pleas Court initially denied decertification and transfer to juvenile court because Jordan would not admit his involvement in the crime. Bongivengo said police found a spent shotgun shell in the yard. Emma Tustin, 32, murdered the boy by . Authorities said Harvey cooperated during the investigation and agreed to take a polygraph. I am a step dad to twin 12 year old girls, a 7 year old and a 4 year old for the past 3 years. Jordan Brown, 11, is pictured following his arrest in the Feb. 20, 2009, shotgun slaying of his father's pregnant fiancee, Kenzie Marie Houk. And her phone rang.. On weekends Jordan hunted alongside his father, Chris Brown, who purchased the youth-sized 20-gauge shotgun that state police believed was the murder weapon. Throughout Jordan Browns stay in detention in Erie, his father continued to ask him whether he'd killed Houk. Dara's mother, 64-year-old Linda McAllister, was shot dead in 2017, and the Hodges' daughter, 23-year-old Jordan Hodge, was convicted of the two murders, along with her boyfriend, 30-year-old . Medical examiners determined early that both people probably had been killed with an ax or a hatchet. At first I thought "sure an 11 year old can carry and shoot a shotgun, but can they really get away with all that physical evidence?" Both lawyers also discussed key details about Browns whereabouts. This is a really interesting case. Accidents happen, buddy. It was a whole different world. It's the totality of the circumstances. Season Two 21st June 2004, Jim Donnelly goes to work as usual at the Glenbrook Steel Mill, places his lunch on the bench, gets changed into his work clothes - and is never seen again. Brown, who has lived with his uncle since being put on probation in 2016, was not in police custody and had met all of his treatment goals, Burdick told The Associated Press. Still, a juvenile court judge found Jordan Brown, then 14, delinquent in the case. The rest of their story: https://people.com/crime/jordan-brown-case-murder-kenzie-houk-interview-after-prison/. Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was arrested in the 2009 killing of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk and her unborn child in New Beaver. It's three feet long., Inside the Browns' farmhouse, police found a collection of handguns, rifles and several rounds of ammunition. This is precisely what would have had to have happened, Colafella added. After the arrest, prosecutor John Bongivengo told reporters he was confident in his case against Jordan Brown. He acknowledged to authorities that he and Houk had argued about money. Houk, 26 and about eight months pregnant with Jordan's little brother, was found dead in her bed by her 4-year-old daughter on Feb. 20, 2009. She was interviewed four times in 14 hours after her mothers death, according to the lawsuit. I remember when this all happened and just read up on everything that has happened since (I had an idea that he was out of prison, but had NO idea that his conviction was overturned based on insufficient evidence). Judge Hodge adjudicated the now-15-year-old Jordan Brown to be delinquent (the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty verdict). He was almost 21 when Pennsylvanias highest court said prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to support a conviction. They were saying there wasnt enough evidence. [4] A petition signed by nearly 4,000 people protested what it termed as denial of Brown's fifth and sixth amendment rights. - The mother of 16-year-old George Almaraz Jr., who was killed, allegedly after suffering abuse from his stepmother, spoke about her son's brutal death. WAMPUM, Pa. -- Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was arrested and initially charged as an adult for the murder of his pregnant, soon-to-be stepmother. But now Im kind of, like, I go back and forth sometimes, I think, he said. What happened to me is so horrible, even though when I was young I would say I didnt understand what was happening I look back and see all the blatant injustices, and that angers me, he said. A young Jordan Brown is seen here in this undated family photo. Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was arrested in the 2009 New Beaver, Pennsylvania, killing of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk and her unborn child. The Jordan Brown case. PROVO A Provo man who police say "groomed" a 13-year-old girl for sex has been charged with multiple counts of rape. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, was murdered at her Los Angeles home on June 12, 1994, along with friend Ronald Goldman. The police didn't collect all of the potential evidence and didn't so enough investigating into other suspects. They noted there was no eyewitness, no DNA or fingerprint evidence and no blood or biological material on Browns clothing. Shes bawling and crying, Mr. Houk said. Lawsuit claims evidence fabricated in case of man exonerated in pregnant stepmothers murder Lawsuit claims evidence fabricated in case of man exonerated in pregnant stepmothers murder. I was standing right at the edge of the doorway, and I remember the coroner saying, as he started to touch the body, We have a problem, Martin said. On May 8, 2013, the Superior Court vacated the finding of delinquency, citing "palpable abuse of discretion" and sent the case back to juvenile court. I have been on the fence after seeing the 20/20 (originally thought he was innocent). I gave him every opportunity. I guess you could speculate that. [1] Justice Debra Todd wrote the Court's opinion and noted, "The Commonwealths evidence was, therefore, insufficient as a matter of law to overcome Appellants presumption of innocence, and the juvenile courts adjudication of his delinquency for these serious crimes must be reversed. "Jordan Brown was a fifth-grader in February 2009 when Pennsylvania police arrived to take him away as the sole suspect in the shotgun slaying of his dads pregnant fiance, Kenzie Houk. On June 13, 2016, more than seven years after his arrest, Jordan Brown was released from juvenile custody, two months before his 19th birthday. Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was arrested in the 2009 killing of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk and her unborn child in New Beaver. And none of us wanted to put handcuffs on an 11-year-old. [I'm] happy that this part of it is over with Jordan, you know, being wrongfully accused. The Jordan Brown case involves Jordan Brown (born August 12, 1997), who was initially charged at 11 as an adult in the fatal shooting of his father's fiance, Kenzie Marie Houk, 26, in New Beaver, Pennsylvania, which occurred on the morning of February 20, 2009. His attorneys say police were never able to prove Jordan Browns shotgun was the murder weapon. Two years later that resulted in the July 18, 2018 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling. It wasnt until the coroner arrived and started taking photos, Martin said, that they realized this was something else. 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