On Feb. 2, 2002 a couple from Phoenix left on a trip to Tucson and were never heard from again – but now, a little more than 16 years later, Brian James Ferry stands accused of the alleged murders of Charles Martin Russell and Catherine Nelson.
According to the Nicol Green, a prosecuting lawyer, Russell and Nelson drove up to Tucson to purchase a motorcycle being sold by Ferry. He had placed a false advertisement in the Arizona Republic and was selling the nonexistent motorcycle for $12,000.
When the couple left for the weekend to complete the purchase, they never returned home.
Their bodies were never found.
But the red truck owned by Russel was.
Officer Eduardo Castillo, of the Tucson Police Department, was sworn as a witness to be examined by Nicol Green. Castillo has been a police officer for the city of Tucson for 19 years. On February 5, 2002, he responded to a
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When she interviewed Ferry, Couser-Skeenes said that he “abruptly” talked about wanting to rent his house, which was why he wanted to pull up the carpets and paint the walls. However, there was no financial evidence that Ferry was in the process of renting his house at the time.
Struckmeyer then went on to question if she had been to the house in question. When she confirmed that she had, Struckmeyer asked her if she had noticed anything. She said that she had noticed that the carpets had been torn up, a fact that coincided with the testimony given by John Ferry, Brian Ferry’s father. However, she did not remember the walls being damaged. When she entered Ferry’s bedroom she said she recalled some furniture, a cash safe that held $2,000 and a suicide