Cold Case Spotlight
It’s one of the more infamous ‘whodunit’s’ in all South Texas. A young, Harlingen mother found with 25 stab wounds, a cut throat, and a broken neck. No arrests were ever made in the killing of 23-year-old Candy Mora-Fletcher.
For 45 years, the case file remained quiet, until a new lead on the decades-old crime presented itself.
“Once the investigator was able to put the entire case together where it made sense to him, it didn’t take long to realize there was one prime suspect that was left out there and everything seemed to point to him, and that was a man by the name of Lewis Brewster,” says Commander Osborne of the Harlingen Police Department.
“He did allude to the fact that he knew we were looking for him and we’d arrest him if we came back and there seemed to be some sort of solace with that,” says Osborne.
Last November, the case took its final blow. Brewster passed away due to complications from diabetes.
Mora now rests at the Monta Meta Memorial Park in San Benito.
Thursday marked the 47th anniversary of the crime.
Before the suspect died, D.A. Saenz says the prosecution was on the verge of presenting the case to the grand jury. That move was only two weeks away.
