Edward Brown, NYC Man, Allegedly Beat 2-Year-Old Daughter To Death, Fed Her Body To Pit Bull In 2006

After eight years, police are still investigating the case of a missing child in Brooklyn. Serenity Brown was almost two years old when she mysteriously disappeared in 2006. City social workers discovered the child was missing during a 2011 visit to her parents, Edward Brown and Paula Johnson, and cops opened an investigation after Johnson told them horror stories about what went down in their Brooklyn apartment.

The Daily News reported that police learned the child was possibly beaten to death by her father, then sliced up and fed to a pit bull in July, 2006. According to law enforcement sources, Johnson was reading a story to her baby in their Canarsie apartment when the mother claims Edward, an ex-con, became infuriated over the child’s laughter. He punched the baby in the chest and left her unresponsive, Paula Johnson told investigators.

She claimed Brown snatched Serenity’s body from her arms, carried her to the bathroom, put her in the tub and filled it with water, according to the Daily News. He allegedly got a knife from the kitchen, turned up the volume on the radio and told Johnson to stay in the bedroom. Sources say that he proceeded to slice up the baby’s dead body. An anonymous caller later told investigators that Brown fed the girls remains to a pit bull, which the ex-con killed to cover up Serenity’s murder.

The Serenity case was uncovered in 2011 when social workers visited Johnson after a report that she was keeping her 12-year-old son home from school. Johnson and Brown were already divorced and living in different places. Serenity was listed as receiving public assistance, according to the Daily News, and she was nowhere to be found. Johnson told the Administration of Children’s Services that the baby was living with her paternal grandparents in Alabama, but later came clean.

Serenity’s paternal grandmother told the Daily News that the mother was to blame. “Why did she say that and then say that he had her down here?” she said. “She’s the one folks need to be talking to.” Neither Edward Brown or Paula Johnson have been charged with a crime regarding Serenity’s mysterious disappearance, and, if proven, gruesome murder.