Trans Woman Fatally Stabbed in Vermont; Suspect Tries 'Panic' Excuse
VT Digger reports. Witnesses had seen Feather and Brunell in a parking lot Tuesday morning and called the police because the pair had been there for an extended period.
Feather and Brunell told the officers they were simply looking for a place to walk their dogs.A couple of hours later, Brunell called Eliza Curtis, a friend of Feather’s, and said he had killed Feather.
He told Curtis that Feather “had come on to me and was going crazy,” according to police reports viewed by VT Digger.A passerby, Karen Cleary, asked Brunell to hand the phone to her, and Curtis asked Cleary to call the police, which she did.
When the Morristown police arrived, they found Feather’s body. They later recovered a bloody 12-inch knife.Brunell told the officers that Feather had made a sexual advance and said she “attacked” him, according to a police affidavit.
