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Case Description
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On November 16, 1980, Antoinette Brown, a 75-year-old African American woman and widow living alone in Oakland, California, was found murdered in her apartment. Her neighbor, Wayne Anderson, last saw her that afternoon when she brought him homemade cookies and he invited her to Thanksgiving dinner. Concerned after noticing her newspapers remained uncollected, Anderson contacted Brown's sister, who had a key to the apartment. Together, they discovered Brown's body face down in the bedroom. She ha ...Read More
Victim Details

Antoinette Brown

Female

Black / African American

Oakland

CA

1980-11-16

75

Antoinette

Brown

11/16/2025