Accused Killer Of Limerick Mom Jennifer Brown Professes Innocence

LIMERICK, PA — A lawyer representing Blair Watts has posted a video maintaining Watts’ innocence following his Feb. 9 arrest on charges of the first-degree murder of 43-year-old Jennifer Brown in Limerick Township.

“We look forward to our day in court to fight and prove the innocence of our client, Blair Watts,” Watt’s lawyer, Chris Mandracchia, said in statements on several social media sites including, Facebook.

Watts’ first day in court is a March 16 preliminary hearing before District Judge Richard H. Welsh in Limerick on murder and related charges.

Mandracchia’s office on Monday directed the Patch to the online statement when asked for a comment on Watts’ defense.

Brown’s decomposed body was found Jan. 19 in a wooded area in the 200 block of North Fifth Avenue behind a warehouse in Royersford.

An autopsy showed Brown of Stafford Court had three broken ribs and her death was ruled a homicide.

Police said Watts, 33, killed Brown in her home on Jan. 3 and got rid of her body in a shallow grave in Royersford.

The following day, police said, Watts reported that Brown failed to pick up her 8-year-old son at the bus stop that afternoon after the boy had spent the night at Watts’ home.

The defense

Mandracchia, a Conshocken-based defense attorney at the firm, CDM LAW, said in the video that Watts has been cooperative with police since day one.

In a statement on his firm’s social media sites, including Facebook, Mandracchia, standing next to Watts’ mother, Kimberly, said the law firm became involved as soon as it found out that a Black man was the prime suspect in Brown’s disappearance.

“He was the first person to call the police,” his lawyer said. “He voluntarily gave his phones and voluntarily gave multiple statements.”

Mandracchia said the evidence is circumstantial at best.

The prosecution

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steel said during a Feb. 9 press conference that evidence shows that the defendant transferred $17,000 from Brown’s account to his account the day Brown was found missing.

Watts was Brown’s business partner, and the two were planning to reopen Birdies’ Kitchen in Spring City. A story about Watts’ business and its financial problems during the pandemic was featured in a Patch story in October 2021.

Other evidence presented in the arrest warrant includes cell phone records and that human remains had been in a Jeep driven by Watts.

Brown, grew up in Northeast Philadelphia, before moving to Galloway Township, Atlantic County, N.J., according to Brown’s obituary.

She was a 1997 graduate of Absegami High School and Atlantic County Vo-tech’s culinary program. She went on to study cooking at Cape May Community College.

She worked as a senior representative of inside sales at a distribution center in Norristown.

In her free time, she enjoyed spending time with her two sons, fishing, going to the beach, football, and cooking.