Gennice Walker: Lived off her dad’s money until his body unearthed in homemade coffin — but did she kill him?

Lavinia Thompson
Degrees of Monstrosity: Female Killers
2 min readSep 17, 2023

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When police sat down to interview Gennice Walker in Kansas City, Missouri, they had already unearthed the homemade coffin containing her father’s remains in the backyard of a home in Pahrump, Nevada, according to a press statement from the Nye County Sheriff’s Office (NCSO).

Police began digging into the case of a missing man, 95-year-old Bruce Brown, after receiving a report in April 2023 that he had not been heard from in some time, the statement says.

The NCSO says that by the time they arrived at his daughter, Gennice’s, door, they had already unearthed evidence that she had been living on his Social Security and VA benefits after he vanished. They’d also discovered her father had potentially been buried in the desert.

Gennice Walker (Nye County Sheriff’s Office)

Sheriff Joe McGill told the Pahrump Valley Times that Gennice never reported her father missing.

“We don’t know if this is a murder or not, because we’re still trying to determine that,” he said. “We are hoping that the autopsy will maybe answer some questions as to the cause and manner of death.”

Gennice refused to cooperate during the interview, the statement says, and she was arrested in Kansas City, Missouri, for Larceny. On August 25…

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Lavinia Thompson
Degrees of Monstrosity: Female Killers

Just an old garden witch who writes about murder, true and fictional.