✝️ Joanne Brown, age 33 – October 22 2016, Orange, New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸💔
Joanne had been grappling with homelessness at the time she was last seen alive, climbing into serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver’s car before being reported missing in October.
In Dezcember a work crew found the 33-year-old’s lifeless body inside yet another abandoned home in Orange.
Her nose and mouth were covered in duct tape, and she had been strangled to death with a jacket – which was still tied around her neck when she was found.
All three victims were black women who were involved in prostitution, and prosecutors said Wheeler-Weaver targeted them because he did not think anyone would miss them. ‘They were viewed as somehow less than human, less valuable,’ Essex County assistant prosecutor Adam Wells said in October, according to NJ.com
In each instance, Wheeler-Weaver arranged to meet a woman for sex, then wrapped her face in duct tape and strangled her with an item of clothing.
Wheeler-Weaver was sentenced to 160 years in prison.
