Black Predator Arrested After White Woman’s Body Parts Found Strewn Across Railway Track

Blog.PE
May 23, 2014

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Jamie Lea Harmer was killed and chopped into pieces, then strewn across a railway track. The prime suspect is Black.

Riverside police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with the killing of a Minnesota woman, whose dismembered remains were found scattered inside plastic bags alongside railroad tracks on April 27.

On Tuesday, Riverside resident Christopher Marcus Brown was arrested in connection with the slaying of Jamie Lea Harmer, 32, a transient, Riverside Police Department Sgt. David Amador wrote in a press release.

Harmer’s last permanent address was in Thief River Falls, Minn. She had been in Riverside since early March.

Police had said last month they believed Harmer had fallen victim to foul play and asked for the public’s help, but they did not provide details about how she was found — scattered on a set of railroad tracks, just off Panorama Road near Highway 91 — until Wednesday. A resident had called police about what he thought was a body or dead animal near the tracks.

On Tuesday, detectives served a search warrant at Brown’s apartment, in the 5300 block of Olivewood Avenue, which is near Panorama Road and near the tracks where Harmer was found. Detectives and forensic technicians spent 18 hours combing the apartment, and found physical evidence related to the crime, the release said.

Brown was arrested at the apartment on an unrelated felony arrest warrant, officials said, before being taken to the police department and being questioned.

The Riverside Police Department asks anyone with information about the case to call Detective Jim Simons, at 951-353-7138, or Detective Jim Brandt, at 951-353-7137.

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Christopher Marcus Brown has been arrested for the crime.