JERMAINE McNEIL -10 yo and Ju'TYRA ALLEN -6 yo (2011) - Delray Beach FL

February trial date set for Delray man accused of killing mom, 2 kids

By Daphne Duret and Cynthia Roldan, The Palm Beach Post
9:19 p.m. EST, December 14, 2011

A judge has set a tentative early trial date for a Delray Beach man charged with the murders of his former girlfriend and her children.

Clem Beauchamp is being held in a federal facility in Virginia where he is appealing a 10-year prison term for possessing an illegal handgun silencer.

Prosecutors submitted paperwork to federal authorities to get Beauchamp back in state custody for Wednesday's hearing, but attorneys told Circuit Judge Richard Oftedal that Beauchamp declined a legal provision that would have gotten him back in state custody sooner.

Oftedal rescheduled the status check for Jan. 18, but because Beauchamp has not yet waived his right to a speedy trial, the judge also set the case for trial in the week of Feb. 27.

Beauchamp is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Felicia Brown, of West Palm Beach, and her children, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/delray-beach/pb-clem-beauchamp-trial-date-20111214,0,6053159.story

Clem Beauchamp in custody at Palm Beach County Jail, could face trial as early as Feb. 27

Posted: 8:07 AM
Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

• By: Maxim Alter



Clem Beauchamp, the Delray Beach man charged in the slayings of his former girlfriend and her two children, is in custody at Palm Beach County Jail Wednesday and could face trial as early as Feb. 27, according to court documents.

Beauchamp was booked into the jail at 6:46 p.m. Tuesday after previously being held in a federal facility in Virginia where he was appealing a 10-year prison term he received for possessing an illegal handgun silencer.

Beauchamp was indicted in September on three first-degree murder charges in connection with the deaths of Felicia Brown, of West Palm Beach, and her two children, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6.

The children were found stuffed in suitcases in a Delray Beach canal in March. Brown was found at a landfill last year.


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Documents: Clem Beauchamp used son to help dump children's bodies in Delray Beach canal


PBSO Clem Beauchamp



courtesy Ju'Tyra Allen



Enlarge Photo A family photo of Jermaine McNeil.



PBSO Felicia Brown in 2006.


Children found dead in Delray canal »


By Michael LaForgia and Daphne Duret

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Updated: 9:14 a.m. Thursday, April 26, 2012

Posted: 9:42 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, 2012


WEST PALM BEACH — The bags were dark and heavy as the boy and his father
hauled them from the family's blue Oldsmobile Cutlass. Together, they
grunted and strained - "a good workout," his father had called it -
until the pair had muscled the bags up and into the canal.

Demetrius Beauchamp, then 15, never questioned the strange chore he did with his
father, Clem Beauchamp, the boy said later in a statement to
investigators. Nor did he suspect it was connected to the disappearance
of his stepbrother and stepsister in February 2011.

Days later, the bodies of Demetrius' playmates, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra
Allen, 6, bobbed to the surface of the C-15 canal between Delray Beach
and Boca Raton, shrouded in oversized luggage and loaded down with
35-pound barbell weights.

Soon after, police announced that the
children's mother had been identified as the nameless woman whose body
was discovered at a county garbage dump months earlier.

The teen's chilling account was part of more than 1,000 pages of documents
made public today in the state's first-degree murder case against Clem
Beauchamp, a case in which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Among the new details:

-
The children's mother, Felicia Brown, likely was murdered by
asphyxiation, though the poor condition of her body made it impossible
to say for sure, the medical examiner's office concluded.

Jermaine, who died by blunt force trauma, had his jaw broken in at least two
places and a tooth cracked. Ju'Tyra had likely had duct tape wrapped
tightly around her mouth when her body was tossed into the water.

-
A key part of the prosecution's case against Beauchamp hinges on
statements made by a felon, Arthur Lee Harmon II, 33, who shared a jail
cell with Beauchamp in March 2011 and who was facing prosecution for
federal gun charges. Prosecutors later asked a judge for leniency during
Harmon's sentencing hearing, citing his cooperation.

- Beauchamp insisted to detectives that a man named Mike, Felicia Brown's new
boyfriend, had taken custody of the children, although investigators
quickly poked holes in the story.

The investigation that led to
Beauchamp's arrest began March 2, 2011, when the bodies of two small
children were found wrapped in luggage and discarded in the south county
canal. A day later, Beauchamp went to Delray Beach police and told them
that the murdered kids might belong to Brown, his ex-fiancee. He was
taken into custody that night on an unrelated federal gun charge, giving
detectives more time to build a case against him.

Beauchamp shared a jail cell with Harmon, who previously had been convicted of
crimes ranging from grand theft auto to aggravated assault with a
weapon. He now was facing federal gun charges.

Harmon told investigators Beauchamp confessed to the killings, saying Brown
"deserved to die, but the kids, you know I don't know why I did that to the kids."

Harmon said Beauchamp told him he "squeezed the baby" - Ju'Tyra - in his arms until she died.

Harmon would plead guilty in his federal gun case, and the prosecutor - the
same assistant state attorney who handled Beauchamp's gun charge -
recommended Harmon receive a reduced sentence in exchange for his
cooperation. He got two years in prison.

Convicted in his federal gun case, Beauchamp was sentenced to 15 years last year. He's now appealing.

The documents also raised questions about Michelle Dent, who was living
with Beauchamp when the children were murdered. Investigators learned
that a woman matching her description applied for and received a tax
refund of more than $7,000 in Brown's name.

The Florida Department of Children and Families said Dent had posed as Brown in
August 2010 and requested that Brown's state subsidy checks be sent to a
different address. Since then, five of Brown's checks totaling $2,000 were cashed.

Dent failed key parts of a lie detector test,
according to an examiner, including when asked whether she killed
Felicia Brown, coached her kids for police interviews and knew who had
murdered Brown, Jermaine and Ju'Tyra.

Police have said Dent never
was a suspect in the killings, although a DCF investigator called her a
person of interest in a 2011 hearing. Dent hasn't been charged with a
crime.

The documents also described strange behavior by Beauchamp
after the children disappeared. A friend of Beauchamp and Dent said she
was with the couple when news first spread that children's bodies had
been found. She said Beauchamp vomited and rolled on the ground, acting
hysterical.

On March 3, the day Beauchamp was arrested, he and
Dent went to Jermaine and Ju'Tyra's school to answer questions about the
children's absence. A school official asked Beauchamp where the
children were. She told police he didn't respond immediately. She said
he stared blankly, looking at no one in particular, and mumbled
something she recalled more than a month later:

"They're with her mother," Beauchamp said.

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This man is a waste of oxygen.

I wonder if the poor murdered woman knew what a monster he was.

Witnesses still being interviewed in 2011 triple murder case against Delray man

Posted: 3:01 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014
WEST PALM BEACH — Attorneys in the death penalty first-degree triple murder case of Clem Beauchamp are still interviewing witnesses surrounding the murders eight months apart of his girlfriend and her two children, they told a judge Tuesday.
At a status hearing for Beauchamp Tuesday, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Richard Oftedal scheduled the case for another hearing on May 7 to determine how close the attorneys are to being ready for a trial.

http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/witnesses-still-being-interviewed-in-2011-triple-m/ndLDZ/