Bodies of two children (ID'd) found in Delray Beach canal KILLER CONVICTED

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http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_s_palm_beach_county/delray_beach/bodies-of-two-children-found-in-delray-beach-canal
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Bodies of two children found in Delray Beach canal
One in a suitcase, the other in a duffel bag
March 3, 2011

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Several different agencies are working tirelessly to find out the identities of two children found in a Delray Beach canal on. Divers were back in the water Thursday morning.

A passerby spotted something strange bobbing in the water Wednesday morning and alerted police to the C-15 canal that stretches between US 441 and the Intracoastal Waterway.

The body of a girl, who appeared to be between 6 and 10 years old, was found in a duffel bag around 9 a.m. on Wednesday. The girl was dressed in short sleeves, dark pants, and blue polo sneakers. Her hair was arranged in beaded braids.

Police were doing a routine search for evidence, when they found the second child, stuffed in a suitcase around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

He appeared to be between 10 and 12 years old. The boy was dressed in dark blue or black pants with no shirt.
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Many people who use the canal did not notice anything unusual over the weekend, leading them to believe the bodies were dumped within the past 48 hours.

Police are asking anyone who has not seen their grandchild, a niece, or nephew to call them.

There's no word yet on how the children died or how long they were in the water for.

Police are investigating the deaths as homicides and believe the killings are related.

If you have any information call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.

Rochelle Ritchie and Evan Axelbank contributed to this story.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/02/florida.child.deaths/index.html
Children's bodies packed into luggage, dumped in Florida canal
March 3, 2011

Police are trying to identify the bodies of two children found stuffed into luggage and floating in a south Florida canal on Wednesday.
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The remains of two African-American children -- a girl between 6 and 10 years old and a boy believed to be 10 to 12 -- were found about six hours and a half-mile apart in the canal that separates Delray Beach from Boca Raton. The girl's body was found first, after a passerby alerted police to a duffel bag floating about midway across the canal; the boy's body turned up in a suitcase closer in as investigators combed the banks for evidence, Guerriero said.
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The bodies showed no obvious signs of trauma, Guerriero told HLN's "Nancy Grace." The bodies had been in the water long enough to have been affected by the immersion but were still intact, she said.

An autopsy is planned, and investigators will return to the canal for a more extensive search on Thursday, she said. Meanwhile, she said investigators are checking missing persons reports in an attempt to identify the children.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/police-divers-renew-search-for-clues-to-identities-1294889.html
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Police divers renew search for clues to identities of 2 kids' bodies found in canal in Delray
March 3, 2011

DELRAY BEACH — Divers from the Boca Raton Police Department joined Delray Beach police and fire-rescue this morning in a renewed search of a canal for any additional clues that might lead them to the identities of two kids' bodies stuffed in luggage in the brackish water on Wednesday.

The divers are preparing to go into the waters of the C-15 canal near Congress Avenue, and plan to push their search as far west as Military Trail today, according to police department officials.
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Delray police spokeswoman Nicole Guerriero said they are not searching for another body, but evidence in the case of the kids found Wednesday.

"We have no reason to believe that there are more bodies in the water," she said.

After Wednesday's horrific discoveries, at 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., detectives are attempting to learn how the children - both of whom are African-American - died, and to track down who dropped them in the water.

The girl had been shoved into a black duffel bag. The boy was folded into a suitcase.

Both had been placed in the long, wide C-15 canal that divides Boca Raton and Delray and stayed there until Wednesday, when a passerby spotted a strange little buoy bobbing near the city's south side.

Police divers went into the water twice, 61/2 hours apart, and emerged cradling little bodies, children who had died and were cast off like old shoes, investigators said.

The bags were found about a half-mile apart in the canal near Avocet Road and Carl Bolter Drive. The canal stretches between U.S. 441 and the Intracoastal Waterway and flows under almost every major north-south road in Palm Beach County. The water flows east or west, depending on the tides.
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No children fitting their description had been reported missing in the area. Detectives had no immediate way of telling how long they had been in the canal. The bodies "had been affected" by the water but were intact, Guerriero said.

As forensic investigators scoured the bodies for clues Wednesday night, detectives were working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and reaching out to the state Department of Children and Families for help.
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http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/state/bodies-of-two-children-found-in-south-florida-canal
Bodies of two children found in south Florida canal
March 3, 2011

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The wide canal where the children were found flows east to west, stretching between U.S. 441 and the Intracoastal Waterway and passing beneath Florida's Turnpike and Interstate 95.

"Where they were found, these kids could have been from anywhere," said Sgt. Nicole Guerriero, Delray Beach police spokeswoman.
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http://www.winknews.com/Home/2011-03-03/Police-may-know-identities-of-children-found-dead-in-canal
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Police may know identities of children found dead in canal
March 3, 2011

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Police said Thursday they think they have identified two children whose bodies were stuffed into luggage and dumped in a South Florida canal.

Authorities believe the children - a girl between 6 and 10 and a boy between 10 and 12 - were siblings, but they have not released their names.

They said they have made no arrests, though they could be seen Thursday afternoon searching a nearby house.

A police spokeswoman said authorities believe the children were the victims of some sort of domestic situation, but she declined to elaborate.

It is still not known how long the bodies were in the canal, and autopsy reports haven't been released.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13043701
Bodies Found in Fla. Canal Were Brother, Sister
Police: Bodies in Fla. canal were brother and sister killed in domestic violence
March 3, 2011

Two children whose bodies were found stuffed into luggage and dumped in a canal were apparently a brother and sister killed in some kind of domestic violence, authorities said Thursday.
As the hunt for clues intensified, police surrounded a house near the waterway and searched its perimeter. Divers used sonar and a remote-controlled submarine to scour the canal. No arrests had been made.
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"We believe that this situation is domestic-related," said Sgt. Nicole Guerriero, a spokeswoman for the Delray Beach Police Department. She declined to elaborate and said officers were "working to confirm everything we believe."
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Police surrounded a small peach-colored house in a nearby neighborhood, but officers would not confirm any link to the case.

Reporters and curious residents converged on the home, which was surrounded by unkempt, spindly bushes and had a car parked on the front lawn. Hurricane shutters covered a side window
Kenneth Marshall, 43, who sometimes stays with his mother across the street, said he often saw a man at the house playing football with his boys in the street.
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Marshall said he last saw the children two or three weeks ago.

"We've been asking for the mom for a couple days, and all he's been saying is, 'She's in jail,'" he said.

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 Long article, I snipped some but do go to the link to read all of it. Also more photos and video at link. Another punk that decided he has the right to end someone life. Not only are two children missing, but the childrens Mother::MonkeyMad::

Police questioning Delray man about dead children found in canal

By Adam Playford, Cynthia Roldan, Michael LaForgia and Cynthia Roldan

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Updated: 11:08 p.m. Thursday, March 3, 2011

Posted: 9:08 a.m. Thursday, March 3, 2011
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/police-questioning-delray-man-about-dead-children-found-1294889.html
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DELRAY BEACH — Clem Beauchamp walked to the end of his driveway on Tuesday night, passed his mailbox and headed for the church on the corner. As neighbors stood and stared, the troubled father fell to his knees and prayed. It was 11 p.m.

The scene was the first hint to the neighborhood that something wasn't right at the Beauchamp house, where just two weeks earlier four happy kids had tossed a football during a family barbecue.
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A search for their killer on Thursday led detectives to Beauchamp's little tan house on Southwest Seventh Avenue.

By Thursday night, detectives had named the 34-year-old felon as a suspect in the slayings but declined to identify the victims, describe a cause of death or say whether they were children in Beauchamp's care. They hadn't arrested him.

Neighbors who ringed a police perimeter at Beauchamp's house on Thursday said they hadn't seen children around since the barbecue. It's been even longer -- weeks or months, depending on whom you asked - since they saw his former girlfriend, Felicia Brown. Police on Thursday still were searching for Brown.
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It wasn't clear whether they had located Beauchamp's other girlfriend, and the mother of his children, Michelle Dent.

Court documents, state records, arrest affidavits and interviews paint a portrait of Beauchamp as perennially at war with his girlfriends - a violent, gun-toting drug-user who nevertheless fought hard for custody of his children and showered them with affection.

He shared the home with one girlfriend or another, but lately he always was surrounded by four kids. Staying with him were Jytra Allen, 6, and Jermaine McNeil, 10, children of his ex-girlfriend Brown, and his own kids, Keayana, 10, and Demetrius, 15. Police on Thursday wouldn't say whether all of the children were accounted for.

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In laying out the federal allegations, the ATF agent described finding, in the trunk of Brown's repossessed car a .22-caliber handgun fitted with a homemade silencer and a black bag filled with a green Halloween mask, ammunition, a black knit cap and a tube of crack.

The women in Beauchamp's life often were at odds, records show. Once, in 2008, Dent lured Brown out of Brown's Boynton Beach house using Beauchamp's daughter as bait. Dent put a knife to Brown's throat and threatened to kill her, according to an affidavit for Dent's arrest.

In recent weeks, Beauchamp split up with Brown, his girlfriend of four or five years, and Dent, whom he had been fighting for custody, moved back into his house, neighbors said. They said Brown disappeared after the breakup, but her kids remained with Beauchamp.


Fearing the worst, Brown's sister, Margaret Gissome on Thursday made the short trip up Atlantic Avenue to the city police station, seeking to confirm the dead children were her niece and nephew.

Clutching photos of the missing children, she offered help but was turned away.


Staff writer Julius Whigham II contributed to this story.
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They believe the mother's body was found in August.  Another sad case....

Police: Body of woman found in West Palm may be linked to dead kids found in Delray canal

By Jane Musgrave, Cynthia Roldan, Michael LaForgia and Cynthia Roldan
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Updated: 5:18 p.m. Friday, March 4, 2011

Posted: 9:53 a.m. Friday, March 4, 2011

DELRAY BEACH — West Palm Beach Police are looking into the possibility that a woman's body found in August in a trash bin in West Palm Beach is linked to the deaths of two children found in bags in a Delray Beach canal on Wednesday.

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Last August, police said the unidentified woman had the names JuTrya and Jermaine tatooed on her calf. The two missing children who were living with Beauchamp are named JuTrya and Jermaine.

Curtis Allen, who had a 6-year-old daughter, JuTyra, with Brown, said he was worried about his daughter's safety. Today, he gave Delray police DNA samples, hoping that it would help the detectives determine whether JuTyra is the girl police found in the canal. The other child was a boy.

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Also today, the Florida Department of Children & Families persuaded a judge to remove children from the custody of Michelle Dent, Beauchamp's current girlfriend. During the hearing, a DCF investigator told the judge that Dent was "a person of interest" in a double and possibly a triple homicide.

DCF investigator Michele Fuhrman testified before a judge that she believed it was not in the best interest of the children - Demetrius Beauchamp, 15, Keayana Beauchamp, 10, and Karchelle Washington, 3 - to remain with Dent during the ongoing criminal investigation.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/police-body-of-woman-found-in-wpb-may-1297344.html

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/police-confirm-id-of-girl-6-found-dead-1299854.html?cxntcid=breaking_news
Police confirm ID of girl, 6, found dead in Delray Beach canal
March 5, 2011



DELRAY BEACH — Confirming what police already suspected, the medical examiner positively identified the little girl found in a black duffel bag in the C-15 canal as 6-year-old Ju'Tyra Allen, a Delray Police Department spokeswoman said in a statement today.

Ju'Tyra's body was found near that of her half-brother, Jermaine McNeil, 10, whose body was identified yesterday.
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/body-found-in-west-palm-in-august-identified-1297344.html
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Body found in West Palm in August identified as mom of dead kids pulled from Delray canal
Updated: 1:23 p.m. Saturday, March 5, 2011
Posted: 9:53 a.m. Friday, March 4, 2011


Felicia Brown in 2006. She is the mother of Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, and Jermaine McNeil, 10, both of whom are believed to be the children pulled from a Delray canal on Wednesday, March 2, 2011.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/two-children-found-in-canal-and-their-mother-1317241.html
Two children found in canal and their mother laid to rest in Delray Beach
March 12, 2011

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/violent-felon-went-unnoticed-in-case-involving-two-1324480.htm
Violent felon went unnoticed in case involving two children found in Delray canal
March 16, 2011

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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/2nd-Person-of-Interest-in-Delray-Sibling-Deaths-118069994.html
2nd Person of Interest in Delray Sibling Deaths
Woman considered person of interest in death investigation: DCF
March 16, 2011

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I can only imagine what hell these children went through . . . Lord have mercy on their precious souls!

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This is the only report I can find dated after all of the above

Prosecutor: Beauchamp's murdered ex-girlfriend was government witness against him

By Michael LaForgia
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Updated: 1:28 p.m. Thursday, March 10, 2011

Just the mention of Felicia Brown’s name on Wednesday made Clem Beauchamp shift in his chair. The shackles that bound his ankles jingled as a federal prosecutor ran down the allegations.

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In pressing to keep Beauchamp jailed on a charge of possessing an unregistered weapon, McMillan called him a suspect in the “disappearance and potential murder” of Brown, who had shared information in a federal case against Beauchamp. He said Beauchamp was a danger to the community and a threat to other potential witnesses against him.

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Brown had spoken to an employee of a repo agency in October 2009 about a robbery kit found in the trunk of Brown’s 2004 Ford Taurus. The car was seized from Beauchamp’s driveway.

Brown told the employee, a government witness, that the green Halloween mask, knit cap, sham crack and silenced .22-caliber pistol were Beauchamp’s, Dooley said.

Six months later, in late April 2010, agents and police served a federal search warrant at Beauchamp’s home on Southwest Seventh Avenue in Delray Beach, discovering marijuana and other items in the process. Brown was inside the house when authorities raided it, Dooley said.

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She may have been murdered at some time days or weeks before then, McMillan told Magistrate Judge Linnea Johnson, adding: “Beauchamp told people that he had spoken to her and that she was still alive in December 2010 and January 2011.”

Beauchamp is a suspect in the killings of Brown and her children, but has not been charged. McMillan said Wednesday he planned to add a charge of possession of a handgun by a felon to the federal allegations against Beauchamp.

Beauchamp has been arrested five times in Florida on charges ranging from robbery to drug possession. In 1996, he was convicted of aggravated assault with a firearm.

No attorney appeared in court Wednesday on Beauchamp’s behalf. In a soft voice, he told the court he had “no means” to hire a lawyer. Johnson told him to put up his house as collateral.

Looking tired, with his dreadlocks shorn, Beauchamp sat in exasperated silence while McMillan outlined the charges against him. He seemed especially affected by the portions involving Brown. At one point, when McMillan said Beauchamp was living with Brown in October 2009, Beauchamp stirred and murmured, “No, that’s incorrect.”

In arguing for his release, Beauchamp said: “I’ve lived in Palm Beach County all my life. I don’t own a passport. I’ve never owned a passport. I’m not a danger to the community.”

After considering the arguments, Johnson denied bail and scheduled an arraignment hearing for March 18. Before dismissing Beauchamp, she stressed for him how important it is to hire a lawyer, especially in a federal criminal case “with these overtones.”

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/prosecutor-beauchamps-murdered-ex-girlfriend-was-government-witness-1308695.html?printArticle=y

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http://www.wpbf.com/news/27671737/detail.html
Suspect In Canal Deaths No-Show In Court
Attorney For Beauchamp Says Client Having Trouble Paying Court Costs While In Jail
April 26,2011

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- A suspect in the deaths of two children whose bodies were found stuffed in luggage in a South Florida canal was represented by his attorney in federal court Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale.
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Clem Beauchamp faces unrelated weapons charges. Beauchamp's attorney told a judge his client is having difficulty selling his property to pay court-ordered costs while he is incarcerated.
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The judge reset the pre-trial hearing for Thursday morning and ordered Beauchamp to attend.

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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-04-29/news/fl-beauchamp-firearms-trial-20110429_1_silencer-and-black-tape-ju-tyra-allen-public-defender
Suspect in children's deaths questioned about ability to pay attorney
April 29, 2011

Clem Beauchamp, the suspect in the deaths of two children found floating in a Delray Beach canal last month, is headed to a May 9 trial date on federal firearms violations, and it still is uncertain whether he will have a defense attorney.
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During a Thursday hearing in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Beauchamp answered financial questions put to him by a judge. Beauchamp has been ordered to pay $10,000 toward his public defender, because he owns his Delray Beach home free and clear.

But Beauchamp told the judge he has been unable to talk to any family members about getting a loan on the home since he was transferred to a federal detention center in Miami early this month. He also said he has no money or other assets.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer cautioned Beauchamp he might be stripped of his public defender if he doesn't come up with the payment, which likely would force Beauchamp to represent himself during the trial. The judge seemed hesitant to do that, and said he would confer with the judges in West Palm Beach that imposed the public defender fee.

Beauchamp's public defender, Robert Berube, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer that it would be nearly impossible for his client to get a loan on the home, considering the condition of the home and the fact that Beauchamp has no income.

"It needs a lot of work," Berube said of the house. "With all due respect, it's a dump."
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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-05-05/news/fl-clem-beauchamp-trial-date-20110505_1_trial-on-gun-charges-ju-tyra-allen-illegal-handgun-silencer
Suspect in deaths of children found in Delray canal heads to trial on gun charges
May 5, 2011

Clem Beauchamp, suspected in the deaths of two children found floating in a Delray Beach canal in March, is to go to trial on unrelated federal gun charges on June 20, a federal judge ordered Thursday.

Beauchamp, 34, has been in federal custody since March 3, the day after the bodies of Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, were discovered folded into luggage. The children and their mother, Felicia Brown, had lived with Beauchamp.
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Beauchamp has not been charged in any of the deaths.

Federal prosecutors have said Brown may have been killed because she was a potential witness against Beauchamp in the gun case. Beauchamp is accused of illegally possessing an unregistered handgun, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possessing an illegal handgun silencer.

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Posted: 08/01/2011
 Jane Musgrave Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
 


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - FORT LAUDERDALE — A 34-year-old Delray Beach man who is the lead suspect in the deaths of his former girlfriend and her two children pleaded guilty to a weapons charge today.

Clem Beauchamp, who was arrested the day after police found the bodies of Felicia Brown's two children stuffed in suitcases discovered in a Delray Beach-area canal, has also made a jailhouse confession to killing Brown, federal prosecutors said in court papers filed last week.

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Originally charged with three weapons offenses, he pleaded guilty to one count of possession a silencer that was not registered to him. He faces a maximum 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine when he is sentenced on Oct. 11. The other two charges were dropped. He remains in custody.

Beauchamp has not been charged in connection with the deaths of Brown, or her two children.

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http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state/man-suspected-in-children's-murder-case-scheduled-to-stand-trial-monday-

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Ex-boyfriend charged with murdering Florida woman found in landfill, 2 kids found in canal

By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, September 22, 2:24 PM

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A man was charged Thursday with murdering his ex-girlfriend and her two children, who were found stuffed in luggage in a South Florida canal, months after police first called him their lone suspect in the case.

A prosecutor said he would seek the death penalty against Clem Beauchamp, 34, who had been held behind bars since March on an unrelated gun charge while police completed their investigation into the children’s deaths.
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Beauchamp also is charged in the death of his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Felicia Brown, 25, who was the children’s mother. Her body was found last year in a landfill. Beauchamp lived with Brown and her children before her death.
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McAuliffe wouldn’t say if anyone else might face charges in the case. He said the investigation continues.

Beauchamp pleaded guilty last month to the federal gun charge as part of a plea deal and is awaiting sentencing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/developments-on-sole-suspect-in-the-deaths-of-2-children-found-stuffed-in-luggage-in-fla-canal/2011/09/22/gIQAdB2znK_story.html