As reported by Lisa Pruett Mystery, David Branagan went to the Shaker Heights Police Department on September 15, 1990, to give a voluntary statement about Lisa Pruett's murder. According to the detective's summary of the interview, Branagan said he met a Black man at a bus stop on the afternoon of September 14. He said the man told him he had not been in Shaker Heights for "approximately five or six years." According to Branagan, the man also mentioned Pruett's murder and the murder of Philips and Dorothy Porter, who lived in the same neighborhood in 1985.
In the course of the interview, Branagan disclosed he was a witness in the Porter homicide and that he had seen a Black man leaving the area after the murder was committed. He also admitted he was in the neighborhood where Pruett was killed in the early morning hours of September 14, 1990. According to Branagan, he was questioned by officers at the scene of Pruett's murder. However, the officers do not remember seeing or speaking to him.
The detectives concluded "Branagan's purpose for coming to the Shaker Heights Police Department was to obtain information relative to the Lisa Pruett homicide" and that "it appeared he wanted to draw attention to himself in a bragging sort of way." In addition, Branagan was a "prolific burglar" who was reportedly robbing homes in Pruett's neighborhood on the night she was killed.
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