Colorado Springs – Louisiana authorities have arrived in Colorado Springs to interview Robert Charles Browne, who confessed to as many as 49 murders dating back to the 1970s, including three in the Coushatta area.
Red River Parish Sheriff Johnny Ray Norman, accompanied by two Louisiana State Police officials, was scheduled Thursday to interview Browne, who is serving two life terms for murder in Colorado.
Joe Breister of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Browne agreed to the interview.
“Robert provided us a letter that basically said, ‘I’ll talk to whoever I want to, whenever I want to,”‘ Breister said.
Authorities in Arkansas and Texas also are interested in meeting with Browne, he said.
Colorado authorities said in July that Browne, 53, claimed to have committed scores of killings ranging from California to Arkansas as well as South Korea between 1970 and his arrest in 1995.
In Louisiana, investigators are looking into Browne’s activities in connection with three slayings: Wanda F. Hudson, 20, Coushatta, believed to have been killed in May 1983; Faye Self, 26, Coushatta, who was reported missing in March 1983, but her body was never found; and Katherine Jean “Fuzzy” Hayes, 15, Coushatta, whose body was found Oct. 16, 1980.
Browne pleaded guilty in 1995 to the kidnap-murder of 13-year-old Heather Dawn Church, who disappeared in 1991 in the Colorado Springs area and was found dead two years later. He also pleaded guilty to strangling Rocio Sperry, 15, in Colorado Springs in November 1987.
