But few knew the reality behind the leafy screen that surrounded Seven Cedars, Scott’s woodland dream home a tree house equipped with every luxury. With their stunning good looks, whip sharp minds, athletic bodies and no lack of women who adored them none of them seemed slated for disaster. A complex and often dangerous investigation suggested a horrifying scenario: was the seemingly bland David Brown really a stone cold killer who convinced his own daughter to prove her love by killing for him? A man who turned young women into his own personal slaves, who collected nearly $1 million in insurance money, and married his dead wife’s teenage sister, David Brown was a sociopath who would stop at nothing…Ī deadly charmer who almost got away with everything.ĪS SEEN ON 48 HOURS AN EXPLOSIVE ACCOUNT OF LETHAL GREED AND TWISTED DESIRE, FROM THE FILES OF AMERICA’S 1 TRUE CRIME WRITER, ANN RULE They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of Washington state: Kevin, the artist Steve, the sculptor Scott, the nature lover and unabashed ladies’ man and Mark, the musician and poet. But in the wake of Cinnamon’s murder conviction, thanks in part to two determined lawmen, the twisted private world of David Brown himself unfolded with astonishing clarity revealing a trail of perverse love, twisted secrets, and evil mind games. The California courts sentenced her harshly: twenty four years to life. When his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept, Brown’s fourteen year old daughter, Cinnamon, confessed to killing her stepmother. David Brown was the consummate entrepreneur: a computer wizard and millionaire by age thirty two. Ann Rule’s 1 bestselling true crime masterpiece features compelling updates to the shattering case brilliantly chronicled in If You Really Loved Me.

THERE WAS ONLY ONE WAY TO PLEASE HER FATHER: MURDER HIS WIFE…

Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley