Before he died, David Branagan placed himself at the scene of three murders that occurred on his block in Shaker Heights, between 1985 and 1990 – the murders of Phillip and Dorothy Porter, and the murder of Lisa Pruett. He told the mother of his child that he was breaking into homes the night of…
The day after Lisa Pruett’s murder, a young man named David Branagan stopped by the Shaker Heights police department to share what he knew about the crime. By the time he was done, he’d managed to place himself at the scene of the crime near the time of the murder, got caught in a lie…
Over the last several months, I’ve been reviewing thousands of pages of documents related to the unsolved murder of Lisa Pruett, the subject of my next book. One name that has appeared in police reports is David Branagan. Branagan was a couple years older than Lisa Pruett and her classmates. He attended Shaker Heights High…