Curtis Don Brown

Curtis Don Brown (born August 2, 1958) is an American serial killer and rapist who raped and murdered three women around Arlington and Fort Worth, Texas, between 1985 and 1986, though he is suspected of up to 18 murders. Convicted of one murder in 1987, in 2009 he was convicted of the two additional murders from 1985, based on results of DNA profiling.

Life Brown was born on August 2, 1958. At 13-years of age, Brown narrowly escaped a house fire that killed his two younger siblings, and injured his mother. Afterwards, he began to act out on worrying behavior. In the early 1980s, he moved to Texas to live close to his mother.

On May 28, 1986, Brown was arrested for, and later charged with, the murder of 51-year-old Jewel Woods. Woods, a former Fort Worth nurse, was raped and bludgeoned to death just outside of her Fort Worth home. Investigators hypothesize that Brown had been responsible for 18 other murders that started back in 1984. No new charges have been filed.