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The Brooklyn Butcher Kwauhuru Govan

Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 4 p.m.

On February 11th 2004 the body of a young female was discovered in two laundry bags in an alley in Brooklyn just off Palmetto ST. The body was naked and had been dismembered. Investigators later identified the body as 17-year-old Bushwick resident Sharabia Thomas.

Then in  On February 18, 2005 a body was discovered in two trash bags in the tracks by the Nostrand Avenue train station in Brooklyn. This body unfortunately would not have its head. The body was found by a MTA transit worker. Through finger prints the body was identified as 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell. Unfortunately there are no specifics as to how Rashawn was killed.


Both cases would go cold until the NYPD cold case unit ran the DNA evidence through the FBI Database over 10 years later. In this episode we discuss how the NYPD found the killer and how they were able to get a conviction for one of the murders.