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Lea Anne Brown was 24 and serving as a Navy Petty Officer when she and 29-year-old Michael Eugene Patten were ambushed after leaving a nightclub in Washington, D.C., on a summer night in June 2001. The two stopped in a church parking lot in Fort Washington, where they were beaten, forced into the trunk of Patten’s Acura Legend and driven to a secluded wooded area in Accokeek. Both were shot execution-style and their bodies were found by a passerby on June 10, 2001.

Prince George’s County Police and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service identified a group of local men in connection with a series of robberies and carjackings tied to the attack. Five suspects were arrested and charged: Marco Dominique Scutchings-Butler, Robert Alan Odum Jr., Cortez Nicholas Carroll, Eric Ronnell Thomas and Aaron Thearone Hollingsworth. Carroll confessed to being one of the gunmen and pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder; Thomas was convicted of both murders and received a life sentence. Hollingsworth pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years. Odum was acquitted of murder but convicted of kidnapping and given 60 years; that conviction was later overturned, retried, and he was reconvicted and resentenced to two consecutive 30-year terms. Scutchings-Butler was acquitted of the murder charges.

Did anyone who knew Lea Anne Brown or Michael Patten recognize them from the description of the crime or the locations mentioned?