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Murderer Says He Isn’t Guilty Because He “Can’t Even Dissect a Frog.”
Then he whispered, “You know I love you,” to his victim’s mother in court.
When the body parts of missing 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell were discovered scattered around Brooklyn, New York City in February 2005, police knew they had a killer on the loose. Multiple garbage bags were found containing the teen’s remains. He had met with a terrible fate.
Rashawn had disappeared from his Bushwick neighborhood home on the 14th of February. He had a scheduled meeting with his accountant and planned to have Valentine’s Day lunch with his mother. But before his day could officially start, an unidentified male arrived at Rashawn’s apartment complex and when he rang the exterior doorbell, Rashawn came downstairs to meet him.
Eyewitnesses saw the two men enter the subway station at Gates Avenue and exit together at Nostrand Avenue. This was the last time the young man was ever seen alive.
Three days later, on the 17th, transit workers came across a blood-soaked trash bag in the subway tunnel. What they found inside would horrify them.
One shoulder, one arm, and the lower legs of an unknown male.
