ABSTRACT
The neighbor who had acted so strangely when the young rape victim came to the door and whose testimony helped convict Clarence Elkins, was a
At about the time that Clarence Elkins’s attempt to be exonerated became front-page news, Tonia Brasiel disappeared. Mann may have been in Brasiel’s home when the little girl came for help the morning of the murder and the rapes. It would certainly explain her bizarre behavior in not calling an ambulance and the police. Most people would have immediately called the police out of fear that this predator might still be in the neighborhood. Most would have called an ambulance for the little girl and to make certain that Mrs. Johnson might not still be alive and need emergency care. If it is true that Brasiel was giving Mann cover, she knew that Clarence Elkins was the wrong person in prison those many years. Attempts to question her about the case by the Innocence Project team were unsuccessful.
