Robert Charles Browne

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Robert Charles Browne
Browne being booked
Background information
Born:	October 31, 1952
Penalty:	Life
Killings
Number of victims:	confessed to 48
Span of killings:	1970 through 1995
Country:	U.S.
State(s):	Colorado,Washington, California, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi
Date apprehended:	1995

Robert Charles Browne (born October 31, 1952) is a murderer and possible serial killer currently serving a life sentence at Colorado State Penitentiary in Colorado.

Browne was born in Coushatta, Louisiana. He was a high school dropout who joined the Army and served from 1969 to 1976, when he was dishonorably discharged for drug abuse. ^[1]

In his confession, authorities say Browne admitted to murdering up to 49 people in a period spanning from 1970 until he was arrested and put in prison in 1995. Browne instigated the new investigation by sending a cryptic letter to the authorities in 2000. The letter read "Seven sacred virgins entombed side by side, those less worthy are scattered wide, the score is you 1, the other team 48.” The letter included a hand drawn map with outlines of Colorado, Washington, California, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, with the body count written inside each state. ^[2]

Browne claims that he killed his first victim, a soldier serving in South Korea, in 1970. Browne claimed that, in the ensuing decades, he went on to murder seven people in Texas, nine in Colorado, 17 in Louisiana, three in Mississippi, five in Arkansas, two each for California, Oklahoma and New Mexico with a single victim in Washington state. If true, his claims would put him as the most prolific serial killer in United States history, surpassing Gary Leon Ridgway who, in 2003, became the nation's deadliest known serial killer after confessing to 48 murders.

Browne was arrested in 1995 on charges of murdering Heather Dawn Church in 1991. On July 27, 2006, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Rocio Delpilar Sperry, who was killed at the age of 15 on November 10, 1987, at a Colorado Springs apartment complex.