Cinnamon Brown

The sentencing of convicted murderer David Brown, who faces life in prison for orchestrating his wife's 1985 killing, was postponed Wednesday following a death in the family of one of the lawyers in the case. The court date was rescheduled for Sept. 17. The delay gives the 37-year-old Brown additional time to work with a sentencing specialist whom he has apparently hired in an attempt to dissuade Judge Donald A. McCartin from sending him to prison for life without the possibility of parole.

"Girls, it has to be done tonight," the balding computer whiz whispered as he roused the two teen-agers--one his daughter, the other his sister-in-law and secret lover--from a restless sleep. Startled, the girls awoke to the cool, past-midnight quiet of their bedroom and set to work, putting months of helter-skelter, clandestine planning into murderous motion.

David Arnold Brown: Masterminded a twisted plot to have his 14-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, kill his wife Linda Marie, collect $835,000 in life insurance on his wife and then marry the dead woman's 17-year-old sister, Patti. When the plot was unraveled and Brown arrested, he hired a fellow inmate to kill the three people he felt responsible for his predicament.

"Girls, it has to be done tonight," the balding computer whiz whispered as he roused the two teen-agers--one his daughter, the other his sister-in-law and secret lover--from a restless sleep. Startled, the girls awoke to the cool, past-midnight quiet of their bedroom and set to work, putting months of helter-skelter, clandestine planning into murderous motion.

David Arnold Brown: Masterminded a twisted plot to have his 14-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, kill his wife, Linda Marie, collect $835,000 in life insurance on his wife and then marry the dead woman's 17-year-old sister, Patti. When the plot was unraveled and Brown arrested, he hired a fellow inmate to kill the three people he felt responsible for his predicament.

Anaheim Hills computer entrepreneur David Arnold Brown, already facing life in prison for orchestrating the elaborate 1985 murder of his wife, pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he also tried last year to kill three key figures in his prosecution from his jail cell. The plea marked the first time that Brown, 37, has admitted any wrongdoing since being incarcerated nearly two years ago in connection with allegations that he set up his teen-age daughter to kill his wife.

A millionaire computer entrepreneur who prosecutors claim persuaded his 14-year-old daughter to kill his wife and then take sole responsibility for it was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder for financial gain. Cinnamon Brown served nearly four years at the California Youth Authority before telling authorities that her father, David A.

A millionaire computer entrepreneur, accused of persuading his 14-year-old daughter to kill his wife and then take sole responsibility for it, was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder for financial gain. David A.