The body of a man who was found in St. Lucie County nearly 40 years ago has finally been identified, the sheriff’s office announced Monday.
The agency’s cold case unit positively identified the victim of a 1986 cold case homicide as Blaine Louis Brown Jr., who was 39 years old at the time of his death.
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Brown, who was nicknamed “Bunny,” was discovered on Oct. 7, 1986, “bound and shot multiple times in an execution style” killing in a grove area about a quarter mile southwest of Selvitz Road on Ralls Road.
Investigators said at the time of the killing, robbery was ruled out as a motive, since the victim was found with a large sum of cash in his pockets and wearing expensive clothing, including Jordache jeans, a Hennessy signature button-down shirt and Nocona cowboy boots. …