Insets: Stephanie Dowells and her husband David Brinson (KCRA/YouTube). Background: Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., where David Brinson allegedly strangled Stephanie Dowells (KCRA/YouTube).

David Brinson, already serving life for four murders, had claimed that his wife, Stephanie Dowells, a 62-year-old grandmother, had fainted when she was found dead after an unsupervised overnight ...

Family members remembered Dowells as a compassionate woman who had been urging her incarcerated husband, 54-year-old David Brinson, to “be a better person,” according to KCRA. David Brinson ...

A California inmate convicted of killing four people is now being accused of killing his wife during a conjugal visit at a prison in November, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

A California inmate convicted of killing four people is now being accused of killing his wife during a conjugal visit at a prison in November, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

The Amador County Sheriff’s Office said Stephanie Diane Brinson, 62, died while visiting her husband, David Brinson, in November 2024. Shortly after 2 a.m. on Nov. 13, inmate David Brinson ...