True Crime Mama
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In 1999 Sherry Brannon and her two young daughters were brutally slain in their secluded suburban Manatee County home. Many suspected Sherry’s estranged husband, Dewey Brannon, of the crime. He was never prosecuted for the crime. What really happened, and how did the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office discover the truth?

The first time I learned about the 1999 murders of Sherry Brannon and her daughters, 4-year–old Cassidy and 7-year-old Shelby, was in the class, “Famous Murders of Manatee County,” that just-retired sheriff Charlie Wells was teaching at the Lifelong Learning Academy in Sarasota. It was a sunny, warm, breezy February morning in 2008 and about…