In March of this year, special agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) arrested a Murfreesboro man in connection with the murder of his neighbor. 60-year old William Russell Brace is being held at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center. District Attorney Jennings Jones stated...

The TBI began investigating the death of Lois Jean Espy on Monday, February 23rd, the same date deputies from the Bedford County Sheriff's Department found the body of the 86-year-old woman 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.

William Russell Brace was charged with one count of first degree murder.

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TN Bureau of Investigation
DA of Rutherford Co. Jennings Jones