{"id":4799,"date":"2014-03-22T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T22:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:15:16","slug":"mastermind-of-1985-california-murder-plot-that-inspired-books-tv-miniseries-dies-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/22\/mastermind-of-1985-california-murder-plot-that-inspired-books-tv-miniseries-dies-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastermind of 1985 California murder plot that inspired books, TV miniseries dies in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_86779999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4813\" alt=\"shutterstock_86779999\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_86779999-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_86779999-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_86779999.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>CORCORAN, Calif. &#8211; A man who masterminded the 1985 murder of his wife in a plot that inspired two books and a TV miniseries has died in a central California prison.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for California State Prison, Corcoran said David Brown died of natural causes in a prison hospital Thursday. He was 61.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Bear said Brown was in a protective housing unit because of his notoriety for the killing of Linda Brown in the couple&#8217;s Orange County home.<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of persuading two teenagers &#8211; one his daughter, the other his sister-in-law and secret lover &#8211; to kill his wife. The computer businessman went on to collect $835,000 from the victim&#8217;s insurance, including several policies started just months before her death.<\/p>\n<p>The plot inspired the Lifetime miniseries, &#8216;Love, Lies and Murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORCORAN, Calif. &#8211; A man who masterminded the 1985 murder of his wife in a plot that inspired two books &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1107,260,1272],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","tag-ca","tag-murder","tag-plot","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}