A coroner has ruled that a woman died by strangulation during an overnight visit to Mule Creek State Prison in November, and she was alone with her convicted murderer husband at the time.
62-year-old Stephanie Diane Brinson, known to family as Stephanie Dowells, was known to family members as a kind soul who had been encouraging her inmate husband, 54-year-old David Brinson to “be a better person.”
Dowells’s son, Armand Torres, tells KCRA, that his mother and Brinson would “read the Bible together,” and he expressed outrage that prison officials would leave his mother alone with a man with such a violent past. “How could they just let this happen? I just don’t get it,” he said…