Remember Tiffani Ann Bruce?

[inquisiti...@yahoo.com]

She was a UT freshman who was murdered back in 1991? Did they ever find the killer?

[SlowwHand]

inquisiti...@yahoo.com wrote:
> She was a UT freshman who was murdered back in 1991? Did they ever
> find the killer?

Google shows nothing on her name readily.
If the murderer was caught, he may be listed and her name notated.
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm

[Quadrajet1]

All I found was a May 13th, 2000 Obit for her grandfather.

[God Bless Texas]

<inquisiti...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> She was a UT freshman who was murdered back in 1991? Did they ever find
the killer?

IIRC, it was a boyfriend who broke in through a sliding glass door.

[e.r.l...@gmail.com]

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-03/local/me-3259_1_west-hollywood-hotel

the suspected killer committed suicide two weeks later in L.A.

[medica...@gmail.com]

Yes they did shortly after. Very bizarre I met her in her hometown a few months before. I felt awful when I called her home and found out she had been murdered. See link below. Killers fled to California.

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-03/local/me-3259_1_west-hollywood-hotel

[aim...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, October 5, 2003 1:39:52 AM UTC-5, inquisiti...@yahoo.com wrote:
> She was a UT freshman who was murdered back in 1991? Did they ever find the killer?

I went to elementary school with her and she was a friend. The murderer and his friend committed suicide. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-03/local/me-3259_1_west-hollywood-hotel

[tpho...@gmail.com]

Tiffani and i dated in high school and remained close friends after she left for UT. i still of her and remember the day i found she had been murdered. i was going through some of pics and such and came across a letter and envelope from her dated Sept 1990. less then a month later she was murdered. its been years and finally i wanted to learn more because at the time everything seem soo foggy. i remember speaking to an investigator about her murder. i am still sadden when i read the story of her death.....a reminder of how vile and disgusting people can be. All this because of she refused his romantic advancements. She probably befriended him because thats the typeof person she was. Open and caring. to be honest i do not even know why i am writing this........

[wsmit...@gmail.com]

Hey, stv (whoever you are), please get in touch with me. My name is Bo Smith, and I am working on a book inspired by Tiffani. I knew Tiffani in Houston at Chili's on Highway 6 before she went to school at UT. One of my fondest memories of her is watching Twin Peaks with her and chatting with her at work. Your guidance on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bo Smith

On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 8:21:51 PM UTC-7, stv...@gmail.com wrote:

> On Sunday, October 5, 2003 at 1:39:50 AM UTC-5, inquisiti...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > She was a UT freshman who was murdered back in 1991? Did they ever find the killer?
>

> I was her first real boyfriend in high school, and she was my first real girlfriend. We broke up while I was in my 1st year of college (my stupid mistake) but got back together the moment she moved to Austin, a few years later, where I was a student at UT. Feeling something was wrong, I was the one who called the police after not hearing from her for a few days, drove to her house, not far from where I lived at the time, and met the police on her front porch. The inspector asked me to wait outside because he had already found her murdered, shot to death, in the bathroom and didn't want me to see her and remember her like that. I collapsed on the front lawn when I was told that she was dead. It affected me for years, and I often think of her. I almost dropped out of school, but managed to get through. Now I'm a professor. The two monsters that stole her away from me and her family and loving friends were strangers. Some of you have the wrong information. The only thing we can figure is that one of them met her while canvassing door-to-door a week before and he had became obsessed with her and wanted to force her to go with him and his friend out of town. She even told me about this strange guy that knocked on her door just a few days before the murder. -- Tiffani was extremely attractive, charming, and talkative to strangers, which may have given this person the wrong impression. We'll never know the truth because the cowards jumped from a hotel room in LA a few days after fleeing Austin. LAPD was tipped off by APD and they stormed the room where the men were staying. Years later, I lived in LA myself, and would think about this while driving down Sunset Blvd. in East Hollywood, where the hotel is. It haunts me still to this day, 27 years later. She put up a fight, that was clear in the medical report. Tiffani was my true love and deserved to become all that she dreamt of in her young life. I will never forgive those two men who took her away.

[fossilg...@gmail.com]

Was thinking about Tiffani today and came back here.
S., I think about you and hope you've found some peace. Forever remembering that mixed tape you made her and how I thought that Beatles song ruined it but now that's all I think of when I hear it. She and I had a falling out that was taking so long to heal.
Not sure about how a book would play out. She wouldn't have wanted anyone else to write her story.

"And you were so beautiful, you were so very special,
I wish I was with you now, I wish I could save you somehow."

Always
W.

[patrick...@gmail.com]

It is interesting that there is this Blog on Tiffani and her murder and the capture of the killers (their deaths to be more accurate) I was one of the LAPD Sergeant's that stormed the hotel room that night, along with another LAPD Sergeant. I was a LAPD Hollywood Division field sergeant who sitting in for the watch commander while he took a break. I took a call from Austin PD who claimed to have information on murder suspects in our area. It was about 0300 hours and was told the killers were in a hotel room in West Hollywood and they needed us to go out there and take them down. It turned out that one of Austin's patrol officers was sitting with the sister of one of the killers, who was on the phone with her killer brother. The suspect did not know the officer was relaying information to his watch commander, who was relaying it to me. After hearing the horrible details of what they had done, I jumped into my car and headed to the location which was the Mondrian Hotel, 8484 West Sunset Blvd, and I called for backup. Upon arrival I met with the night manager what was up. He looked up the names, and sure enough, the idiots had checked in using their real name. He gave us a pass key to the room on the 12th floor and we headed up, now having been joined by two of my patrol officers. We had been told that the suspects had made it known that they would not be taken alive, so we were ready for a gunfight and looking forward to it after being apprised of what they had done. I listened at the door and could hear them talking so we knew they were inside. Due to the inexperience of the two patrol officers, I made the decision that the other sergeant would be on the entry team with me and the two others would backup after us.

I used the key card and the locked clicked but the door was still locked. Turns out they had double locked the door and the manager had not given us the key for that. He had apparently realized his mistake as he came up to the 12th floor with it. We had heard movement in the room and I used the second key to open the door. The room is a two room suite that is separated with a closing door. I recall a cigarette was still burning in the ash tray and the bedroom door was closed. We cleared the living room and deployed on the bedroom door. We made entry to that room and saw no one and noted the bathroom door was closed. We cleared the bedroom and were sure they were in the bathroom. I remember being amped up knowing a shooting in such a tight space would be bad, but we made entry. Like in the movies, the shower curtain was pulled shut. We ripped it back and no one was there.

We could not figure it out - the outside window was open but there is no balcony. After scratching our heads thinking this is impossible, the other sergeant looked out the window and then looked down. They were both splattered in the street. What was odd is that the window only opened half way, so they had to jump one at a time - so the second guy got to watch the first blasting down to his death.

I remember making notifications to Austin PD and the sergeant thanking me. He was convinced that we had threw the two suspects out of the window and I could not convince him otherwise. I still recall him saying, "You LAPD boys really know how to take care of business."

[patrick...@gmail.com]

Take a look at what I posted regarding what happened that night with the killers.

[wendy...@gmail.com]

On Monday, April 8, 2019 at 11:14:01 AM UTC-5, patrick...@gmail.com wrote:
> Take a look at what I posted regarding what happened that night with the killers.

Patrick, can I contact you for an interview on a podcast?

[John Jones]

Hi Sergeant,
I was looking for information on this case when I ran across this post.

I was one of the Homicide investigators on her murder...the cases was made with three pieces of evidence. (but, I wasn't with either of the two APD Detectives that traveled to LA the day after yawl tried to arrest them)
- a palm print on a smooth leather chair in her home
- recovery of two .22 caliber bullets from a Teddy Bear that the bad guys used to practice shooting with a homemade silencer (made out of a coke can filled with insulation) in their garage. (I still remember the look on the X-Ray techs face when told what we needed! ....alas, we needed the x-ray to know where to perform the "surgery." ...and yes, the crime lab linked the recovered slugs back to the the slugs from the victim.
- she still had paperwork where she signed a local petition for "clean action water" with one of the suspects.

......as murders go, it wasn't as gruesome as some although rigor had come and gone so there was the smell. The story itself was big news because of the neighborhood and comparisons to to the Hyde Park serial rapist case....but there was no connection that we ever found.

thank you for your time!
---John Jones
Retired Austin Police Department Homicide Sergeant.....

[Dellbren Edwardsto]

On Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 1:24:46 PM UTC-5, Dellbren Edwardsto wrote:
> On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 2:25:55 PM UTC-6, wsmit...@gmail.com wrote:

[dalee perkins]

Wendy,
I worked with Matt and my boyfriend was the one who called the police.

[Pat's Adventures]

Just saw your post responding to mine. I remember being told by Austin PD that it was gruesome, but that is one person's opinion....In my 35 years at LAPD, I saw some gruesome stuff, especially in Hollywood Division, where years later I came back as the Captain. I also recall calling Austin PD in the morning to tell them what happened - the guys jumped out of the window. As I said before, I could not convince him that we did not throw them out the window. I laughed about that for years - and no, we did not throw them out but it was great looking 12 stories down and seeing them splattered 100' in every direction as the sun was coming up. I still remember seeing one of the local stray dogs coming up licking up the blood before we could get the fire department out for a wash down. Don't know why this one stuck with me with all the other ones I had seen....

[Doreen McIntosh]

I went down this rabbit hole/found this thread tonight because of a mix of nostalgia and sidestepping an additional search for answers on the death of another woman in Hyde Park this winter. This is incredibly sad. All of it.
Tiffany was introduced to me once through her boyfriend S. Mostly I remember him in the months that followed, and am not surprised to see that it still sits heavily in his heart so many years later. S, you did not get the unconditional support from everyone that should have provided it to you. You needed to have the enormity of your pain recognized and supported without question you so that you could mourn freely. You deserved so much more in that time than what you were given.
She had right to a good and long life. She was vivacious and beautiful and should never have died for being both of those things.