Edward Brown was 59 when he was murdered in his Denver apartment; the killing occurred August 5, 2002, and firefighters discovered his remains the next day while responding to a fire at the East 12th Avenue residence. Brown’s roommate, Sean Paul Hanify, bludgeoned him with a claw hammer, then stabbed and eviscerated him before setting the body on fire.

Hanify had previously served a four-year sentence for stealing Brown’s VCR; Brown had allowed him to live with him after that conviction. During the police investigation Hanify confessed and said his motive was revenge for the earlier incarceration. A jury rejected an insanity defense and in December 2005 convicted Hanify of first-degree murder. He later received two life sentences without parole after also being convicted in the 2000 murder of Mark Davis. The Colorado Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in July 2011.

Does anyone have information about Brown’s life in Denver or knew him or his neighbors around East 12th Avenue in 2002?