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California woman strangled to death while on overnight prison visit with quadruple murder convict husband
Fox News ^ | 3/22/25 | Brie Stimson

Posted on 03/22/2025 4:30:32 PM PDT by CFW

A 62-year-old grandmother was killed while having an overnight "conjugal visit" with her convicted murderer husband at a California prison, according to reports.

David Brinson, 54, was found guilty of killing four men in 1993 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole, court records show.

In November, Brinson had an unsupervised visit with wife Stephanie Dowells, 62, at Mule Creek State Prison in Northern California, FOX 40 reported.

Brinson claimed to prison officials she had passed out, but the Amador County Coroner said this week her death was a homicide and determined she had been strangled. No one has been charged in the killing, KCRA-TV reported.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Amador County Sheriff’s Office and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

"How could they just let this happen? I just don't get it," Dowells’ son, Armand Torres, told KCRA-TV. "My mom was just left alone, and she called for help, I'm sure, and there's nothing she could do.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; democrats; mayhem; murder
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Maybe overnight unsupervised visits with convicted murderers isn't such a great idea after all.
1 posted on 03/22/2025 4:30:32 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

They seem to have no clue about who did it.


2 posted on 03/22/2025 4:33:48 PM PDT by webheart (We have to call them what they are: Communists. They are not liberal or progressive. Eed Plebnista. )
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To: webheart

Motive? Choices right.


3 posted on 03/22/2025 4:35:01 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: CFW

In a related story, a Federal District Judge has demanded that the woman be restored to the living and breathing while the case is still ongoing.


4 posted on 03/22/2025 4:36:23 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: webheart

I believe he was breaking up with her, so she strangled herself to cause him more trouble.


5 posted on 03/22/2025 4:36:30 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: CFW

Another reason the death penalty saves lives and money.


6 posted on 03/22/2025 4:37:31 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: CFW

Quintuple sounds cooler.


7 posted on 03/22/2025 4:38:06 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: Yogafist

He found a boyfriend and was told to dump her.


8 posted on 03/22/2025 4:38:19 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: CFW

Make that quintuplet.


9 posted on 03/22/2025 4:38:24 PM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: webheart

It’s very mysterious.


10 posted on 03/22/2025 4:40:04 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: CFW

The frog and the scorpion.


11 posted on 03/22/2025 4:44:02 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: CFW
I will admit, the racist in me expected the victim to be a liberal white woman.

david brinson - Crime Online

12 posted on 03/22/2025 4:46:30 PM PDT by Yogafist
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13 posted on 03/22/2025 4:46:48 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: CFW

Maybe leaving women alone with mass killers isn’t a good idea. Just sayin’.


14 posted on 03/22/2025 4:47:35 PM PDT by Spok (What would Rush say?)
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To: CFW

Probably a little fun erotic asphyxiation, but she forgot the “Stop!” signal or he ignored it.


15 posted on 03/22/2025 4:47:38 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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To: CFW

I have five grandchildren and I am 68 years old but I don’t want to be described as a 68 year old grandfather. I don’t see how this woman being a grandmother has any bearing on the case of her murder. Was she his wife? Did they have kids together? Other than trying to get sympathy for her for having grandchildren, and the fact that they don’t say he killed her, this story is not very useful.


16 posted on 03/22/2025 4:50:24 PM PDT by webheart (We have to call them what they are: Communists. They are not liberal or progressive. Eed Plebnista. )
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To: CFW

😂


17 posted on 03/22/2025 4:51:38 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: Yogafist

In the Netflix version of the story...the killer will be played by Ross from 'Friends'.

18 posted on 03/22/2025 4:52:53 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

😆


19 posted on 03/22/2025 4:55:34 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: webheart

They should give that guy another life sentence


20 posted on 03/22/2025 4:57:55 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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