UPDATE: Murfreesboro man accused of murdering and raping 86 year old woman due in court in 2017

Dec 28, 2016 at 09:00 am by bryan


Murder and rape suspect William Russell Brace will appear in a Rutherford County Courtroom on March 6, 2017. Assistant District Attorney J. Paul Newman told WGNS...

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The TBI began investigating the death and rape of 86 year old Lois Jean Espy on February 23, 2015, the same date deputies from the Bedford County Sheriff's Department found her body 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.

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