Charlie Brandt
American serial killer
A serial killer committed several murders in Florida and Indiana during the late 1970s. In 1971, at the age of 14, committed the homicide of his own mother, which remained unsolved for decades. Later killed two women in the late 1990s. Brandt's life ended in 2004 when he took his own life after a domestic incident.
Murdered multiple individuals in Indiana and Florida
Culpable of maternal homicide at age 14
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