HOUSE LINKED TO MURDER ALARM PIN FOUND THERE, POLICE SAY THREE STAR Edition 1

Correction Published: March 2, 1994 - The Post-Dispatch reported on Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 that police investigating the killing of Cassidy Senter were turned away in December from a residence in north St. Louis County where murder suspect Thomas Brooks was staying. The newspaper said the police left aft...

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Published inSt. Louis post-dispatch
Main Author William C. Lhotka and Tim O"Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Kim Bell, Bill Bryan and Joe Holleman, all of the Post-Dispatch staff, contributed information for this story
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published St. Louis, Mo Pulitzer, Inc 05.02.1994
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Summary:Correction Published: March 2, 1994 - The Post-Dispatch reported on Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 that police investigating the killing of Cassidy Senter were turned away in December from a residence in north St. Louis County where murder suspect Thomas Brooks was staying. The newspaper said the police left after a woman told them her refrigerator was broken and that the smell of rotten fish permeated her house. The newspaper based its account on confidential information from an investigator close to the case. St. Louis County Police Chief Ronald Battelle says that the account is wrong and that no such incident happened. No other sources contradict Battelle"s statement. The Post-Dispatch should not have run the account based on inadequate documentation. Thomas Brooks Jr., 27, a two-time felon who was paroled in August, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder, kidnapping, attempted rape and armed criminal action in Cassidy's murder. On Friday, he and two other occupants of the house at 4935 Spring Forest Lane were arraigned in St. Louis County Circuit Court. Police said Brooks has confessed to killing Cassidy when she resisted his efforts to rape her. Police said Brooks had told them he hid her body in the basement until about 4 a.m. Dec. 9, when he hauled it in a rental truck to an alley near Martin Luther King Drive and Cass Avenue in St. Louis.