Narrative Essay: The Murder Of Harry Brown

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When Yvette Henley went missing, her desperate grandparents turned to an unlikely person for help, a stranger they had never met that lived in a different country.

Harry Brown became he man Gary and Kim Forester pinned their hopes on when their son, Virgil Henley, disappeared with their granddaughter after they gained custody of the girl who was in danger, according to the Mirror.

After the courts ruled the child had suffered “emotional damage,” the Forester's were ready to bring Yvette into their California home, but that didn't happen because her dad took off with her. The panicked grandparents reported Yvette missing, but after three weeks of police searching for her, she was still nowhere to found.

Things changed when Gary found a link on Virgil's Facebook page, under the name Mark Johnson, leading back Brown.
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Brown found a way to get the runaway father who kidnapped his daughter to spill the beans about where he was staying, from 5,000 miles away at his Surrey home in the United Kingdom.

After spending two days working on Virgil, he got a tip on his location when the 28-year-old dad complained:

“F*cking HATE Arizona."
Brown got even more detailed information out of Virgil when offered to buy him a pizza after the father revealed he was in a hotel in Arizona with his girlfriend, Alyssa, and Yvette, getting the dad to give him the room number for the free pizza. Brown said:

“He said he didn’t want any but his wife did. He gave me his exact address and room number. I rang Gary straight away.”
Virgil's pizza never arrived, but police were waiting on the other side of the door to arrest him when he opened it up expecting it to be a delivery man.

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