'Closure' vowed as Sterling Heights man is charged in Backpage.com slayings

Sterling Heights — Vowing "closure" for the victims' families, the Macomb County prosecutor has filed murder charges against a Sterling Heights man accused of mutilating and transporting four corpses last December.

James Cornelius Brown, 34, was arraigned Monday on four counts of first-degree murder, said Prosecutor Eric Smith. If convicted, Brown faces up to life in prison.

In June, authorities charged Brown with four counts of disinterment and mutilation of a dead body, a 10-year felony, as well as two arson counts.

Police say on Dec. 19, Brown placed the bodies of two women in the trunk of a car in Sterling Heights, drove it to Detroit and then abandoned the vehicle.

Six days later, he did the same thing with the bodies of two other women, officials said. On that occasion, however, he set fire to the car and part of a home near where it was parked on Lannette Street.

By Charles E. Ramirez
From The Detroit News:

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