Man killed in orange grove 39 years ago identified as missing dad, FL cops say

A man was found tied up and shot “execution-style” in a Florida orange grove in 1986, but his identity posed a decades-long mystery, authorities said.

Now, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office has identified that man as Blaine Lewis Brown Jr., who would have been 39 at the time he was found dead in Fort Pierce.

Brown, a horse farmer from Ocala, told his wife and two young sons that he was driving to Miami for horse-related business on Sept. 26, 1986, investigators said at a news conference broadcast April 28…

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