The discovery of 17-year-old Lashonda Flynn’s lifeless body in a Seattle park in November, 2003 launched what would become one of the city’s most infamous murder cases — unearthing a bizarre love triangle that puzzles investigators to this day.
At the center was Demar Rhome, a 22-year-old with a dark history of preying on vulnerable teen girls.
Flynn was a runaway living with 22-year-old Rhome when she was brutally stabbed four times by someone she barely knew, 17-year-old Kialani Brown.
Rhome met Brown, a teen mom from Vancouver, Washington, on a telephone party chat line in October 2003 and invited her for a week’s stay in November at the apartment he shared with Flynn in Seattle, as seen on season 7, episode 1 of the true-crime series “For My Man,” which airs Monday nights on TV One.
Rhome used the pseudonym Devante Carlson on the phone party line, describing himself as “Handsome in the face, thick in the ass,” adding that he would offer “sit-down delicate dinners” and “sexual experiences nonstop.”
News reports at the time noted that Rhome specifically sought out women who were not Black.
Three weeks after talking on the party line, Brown, who was reportedly white and originally from Hawaii, boarded a bus and arrived at Flynn and Rhome’s apartment with her two-year-old son in tow, lying to her mom that she planned to stay with a female friend in the city.
Within days of meeting, Brown said Rhome had persuaded her to kill his girlfriend — who he described as his “foster sister” — and within a week, the two had dumped Flynn’s lifeless body in a trash bag at Seattle’s Discovery Park, where her remains would be found the next day.
Shortly after the murder, Rhome allegedly pinned everything on Brown in a phone conversation with her mother, who immediately called 911. Police arrested Brown and Rhome at the apartment he shared with Flynn amid bloody knives and trash bags.
When the bizarre…
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