Re-broadcast of Disappeared on Discovery ID (sometimes just called ID), on Sunday, February 12 at 6pm ET. It is really a nice program, I encourage people to watch to see Danice's story. Listed as Daddy's Girl.
http://investigation.discovery.com/videos/disappeared-danice-day-the-end-of-happiness.html
Investigation Discovery (ID Channel) will air Disappeared: The End of Happiness February 6th at 9pm (EST).
http://investigation.discovery.com/videos/disappeared-danice-day-the-end-of-happiness.html
This episode will highlight Danice's story and how law enforcement solved the case.
Posted: Friday, Oct 14th, 2011
Perjury suspect Vernon Braun
DEL NORTE — Perjury charges against Vernon Braun will be tried in district court.
The six perjury charges stem from Braun’s 2005 testimony about the Jan. 9, 2002 disappearance of Danice Day.
Vernon is the father of Victor Braun, who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Day, then 19.
Victor was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter and to have several theft charges dropped in exchange for the location of Day's remains.
He is serving a 12-year sentence at the Buena Vista Minimal Center.
Under the plea agreement, Victor gave authorities information that not only led to the recovery of Day’s remains, but also led to perjury charges against his father.
In June 2009, seven-and-a-half years after her disappearance, divers recovered Day’s remains from the lake at Lyman Lake State Park, Ariz.
Dr. Leon Kelly, a forensic pathologist from the El Paso County Coroner’s Office, described the remains found in the barrel as “charred small pieces of bones, oil, glass, skeletal muscles, a femur.” He said there was very little soft tissue left, and not enough left of the body to determine how the young woman died.
She was identified by mitochondrial DNA provided by her mother.
Victor Braun told authorities how he took a barrel, cut the top off, put the body in it, then soldered it back together.
He said he then put the barrel in a boat, took it out into a lake, pushed it overboard and waited for it to sink.
The statements upon which prosecutors based perjury charges against Vernon Braun include:
“I was going to Cortez. But if I couldn’t find the car, then I was going to go into Gallup and see a friend over there that had a couple of cars. And he wasn’t home, so then we come back to Navajo and got the boat.”
“Hard to say, probably maybe — maybe a hundred miles, more or less.....maybe we went 40 or 50 miles south of Cortez, and east......to the Navajo.”
Vernon Braun is scheduled to appear before District Judge Martin Gonzales at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17.
Danice's story will be on the new season beginning October 24th. There is a preview available now:
http://investigation.discovery.com/videos/disappeared-danice-day-the-end-of-happiness.html
By MATT HILDNER | matth@chieftain.com
DEL NORTE — Prosecutors have filed six counts of perjury against a father whose son was convicted in the 2002 death of a Monte Vista woman.
Vernon Braun, 71, made statements in 2005 under oath that he had not helped dispose the body of Danice Day.
He also said he had no knowledge of how her body had been disposed.
Prosecutors allege Braun knew those statements were false along with four others that had to do with his whereabouts, according to his June charging documents.
Day was 19 when she went missing after her shift at a Monte Vista restaurant.
Her burned and mutilated remains were found in June 2009 in a barrel at the bottom of Lyman Lake, roughly 170 miles northeast of Phoenix.
Victor Braun, who had fathered a child with Day, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in December 2009 for reckless manslaughter in connection with her death.
Vernon Braun is due back in court Oct. 4.
Kenytv.com
Local Television Interview with Sheriff Brian Norton and Undersheriff Chuck Chick, please go to the following link:
http://www.kenytv.com/video/victor-braun-sentenced-manslaughter-danice-day
Victor Braun is sentenced for the manslaughter of Danice Day
Long version interviews of Rod Day and Sheriff Brian Norton regarding the sentencing to 12 years in prison for the death of Danice Day in 2002.
Alamosa Valley Courier
12 years for Braun for Day killing
Victim impact statements heard
By JULIA WILSON
DEL NORTE — On Thursday, Judge Martin Gonzales sentenced Victor Braun to 12 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the death of Danice Day.
“Nothing I do here will bring her back,” Gonzales told the family, as he sentenced Braun to the DOC, gave him a $1,000 fine and two years mandatory parole. Gonzales also ordered over $7,000 in restitution in the two burglary cases that were dropped as part of his plea bargain. “But if I sentenced him to anything other than what I am going to sentence him I don’t believe I would be sending the proper message.”
More of this story at Alamosa Valley Courier:
http://www.alamosanews.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=15094
Pueblo Chieftain:
Braun given 12-year sentence in Day case
Judge hands down maximum sentence in case of mother whose case went unsolved for more than seven years.
By MATT HILDNER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
DEL NORTE - The man who pleaded guilty in connection to the 2002 death of Danice Day was given a 12-year prison sentence Thursday.
District Court Judge Martin Gonzales gave Victor Braun, 33, the maximum sentence allowable for reckless manslaughter and pointed to Braun's long criminal history and the seven-and-a-half years of anguish he caused Day's family by not coming forward sooner.
"It's 2,851 days her children did not have her," Gonzales said. "Each day, each hour, each second of that time - her family has suffered for."
For more on this story please go the Pueblo Chieftain:
http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2009/12/11/news/local/doc4b2200b700705025102258.txt
Thank you to everyone who was able to brave the Wyoming weather to get to the Memorial on Friday night in Laramie. It was a special time to share memories and celebrate Danice's life.
I am sorry to those of you that had the best intentions, but were unable to make it.
Everyone's support has been remarkable and my family and I are very grateful.
Thanks again!