Re: 'Broke black narcissist' convicted of killing his wigger friend and business partner' then burying her body in shallow grave

[Biden Voters]

A 34-year-old man in Pennsylvania man will spend the rest of his
days behind bars for killing his 43-year-old “friend and business
partner” before burying her body in a “shallow grave.” A Montgomery
County jury on Wednesday found Blair Watts guilty of first-degree
murder in the death of Jennifer Brown, authorities announced.

According to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office,
following the jury’s verdict, County Judge William R. Carpenter
“immediately” ordered Blair to serve a mandatory sentence of life in
a state correctional facility.

Watts did not testify during the six-day trial or address the court
during the sentencing phase of the hearing. However, as he was being
led out of the courtroom by sheriff’s deputies, he briefly addressed
a gaggle of reporters, saying, “I didn’t kill Jennifer Brown,” local
news website The Mercury reported.

First Assistant District Attorney Edward F. McCann Jr. responded to
Watts’ exiting comments.

“He’s been saying that from the beginning but we just spent five
days proving that he did and I think we proved it beyond any doubt.
Frankly, I don’t really think reasonable doubt was even an issue. I
think the case was very strong,” McCann reportedly said. “Clearly,
the jury considered this thoroughly. Clearly, the evidence that he
did it was overwhelming.”

Per The Mercury, McCann and Deputy District Attorney Kelly S. Lloyd
repeatedly referred to Watts as a “broke narcissist” throughout the
trial, arguing he killed Brown because she was going to expose his
illicit use of funds she had invested with Watts for a proposed
restaurant venture.

“In court, I characterized him as a manipulator who lied and he was
trying to hide on the surface who he was underneath, a broke
narcissist who was always concerned about himself and his own
image,” Lloyd reportedly said. “I think that came out through the
testimony and through all the evidence we showed in this case.”

The investigation into Brown’s disappearance began when Watts
himself reported her missing on Jan. 4, 2023. Prosecutors said that
Watts was Brown’s “supposed friend and business partner” in the
planned reopening of a restaurant called “Birdie’s Kitchen.”

Watts told police that Brown’s 8-year-old special-needs son had
spent the previous evening at his house for a planned sleepover with
his three kids in order to “give Brown a break,” but Brown failed to
pick up her son from the school bus the following afternoon.

At the time, authorities noted it was strange that Brown, who others
described as an “attentive and loving mother,” had failed to provide
Watts with her son’s “necessary daily medications” or new clothes
for the boy to wear to school after the sleepover.

An initial search of Brown’s home showed “no obvious signs of a
struggle,” and the only significant personal item missing was her
cellphone, police said. But a K-9 unit cadaver dog trained to detect
the presence of human remains was brought into the residence and
“indicated in the kitchen area of Brown’s residence as well as by a
trash dumpster outside of Brown’s townhouse,” prosecutors said.

When investigators searched the specific area inside the home where
the cadaver dog first indicated, they found “several black-and-
white, marble-patterned plastic pieces embedded within the high-pile
carpet” that were later determined to be pieces of a hair clip found
buried in the shallow grave with Brown’s body.

The same dog later indicated that human remains had been in two cars
driven by Watts, police said.

The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office on Jan. 19 conducted an
autopsy on Brown’s body and a toxicology analysis, determining that
her cause of death was a homicide by “unspecified means,”
prosecutors said. The autopsy report also noted that Brown had
suffered three broken ribs prior to her death.

Investigators say they soon learned that in the late afternoon of
Jan. 3, Watts picked up Brown’s son from the bus stop and told the
boy that his mother was at the grocery store and that and he would
be sleeping over at Watts’ house that evening.

The two then drove to Brown’s home and Watts went inside while
Brown’s son waited in the car, police said. But when Watts returned
to the car, the child allegedly told police he noticed that Watts
was holding his mother’s cellphone — which he recognized because the
phone’s lock screen was the child’s own school photo.

Additionally, authorities say that cellphone data showed Brown and
Watts’ phones “traveling in tandem” away from Brown’s home at around
that time before returning a short while later, and again the next
morning in the area of North Lewis Road and West Ridge Pike at
approximately 7 a.m. before Brown’s phone became inactive.

Authorities also investigated the planned joint business venture
between Watts and Brown, saying they found a number of red flags.

According to investigators, the two entered into a partnership
agreement on Aug. 28, 2022, in which Brown agreed to invest funds in
Watts’ restaurant, Birdie’s Kitchen, which they planned to open
earlier this year. It would have been a relaunch for Brown’s
restaurant, which had previously struggled during the coronavirus
pandemic, and, according to Facebook posts, shut down for good in
July 2022.

“Detectives found that on the afternoon of Jan. 3, 2023, the day
before Brown was reported missing, two cash transfers were made to
accounts controlled by Watts,” prosecutors said following Watts’
arrest. “CashApp records show a transfer of $9,000 went through to
‘$Birdieskitchen’ at 4:23 p.m. A second transfer of $8,000 via Zelle
was completed at 4:35 p.m. to ‘Birdies.’ This total of $17,000 was
never part of a written agreement between Brown and Watts.”

When police spoke with the owners of the proposed Phoenixville
property, they told detectives that they had met with Watts last
year about renting the storefront, but had “never signed a lease
with Watts, received money from Watts or gave Watts a key to the
property,” prosecutors say. On Dec. 28, 2022, one of the owners told
Watts they would not be moving forward with the lease. Watts
allegedly responded by threatening to sue.

However, on Jan. 4, 2022, the property owners told police that Watts
“showed up at the property unannounced, ‘now saying he had money to
put down on a lease,'” prosecutors wrote in a news release.

“For 37 days since this devoted mother was reported missing,
detectives have been accumulating evidence, piece by piece, bringing
into focus what happened to Jennifer and who murdered her,”
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said in a statement
in February. “That picture shows Blair Watts murdered Jennifer Brown
on Jan. 3rd, then moved her body and ultimately buried her in a
shallow grave. He is now behind bars at the Montgomery County
Correctional Facility.”

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Watts in January 2023 appeared
insulted by the suggestion that he could have anything to do with
Brown’s disappearance.

“It seems like I’m being the one poked at,” he said in response to
questions from reporters. “And it’s frustrating because I’m the
first person that was the one calling the police, trying to kick
down windows. Trying to find my friend. Trying to make sure her son
is covered.”

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