We have an update on the murder of 86-year old Louis Jean Espy in Murfreesboro. The man who allegedly killed and raped the 86-year old woman and later abused her corpse, will be in court on March 17, 2017.

60-year old William Russell Brace is being held at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center. He is scheduled to appear in the courtroom of Judge David Bragg.

The TBI began investigating the death of Lois Jean Espy on February 23, 2015, the same date deputies from the Bedford County Sheriff's Department found the body of the Espy on Mullins Mill Road.

During the course of the investigation, Agents developed information which led to her neighbor, William Russell Brace, as the individual responsible for Espy's death in her Murfreesboro apartment in February, as well as the subsequent placement of her body in Bedford County.