Murder Supect Set For Trial Dec. 6 In Slaying of Limerick Mom

LIMERICK, PA — Jury selection in the trial of Blair Watts is scheduled Wednesday, Dec. 6, in Montgomery County Court on first-degree murder in the killing of Jennifer Brown, a Limerick mother who was reported missing on Jan. 4.

Opening statements will begin after the panel is selected in the trial before Judge William R. Carpenter. The trial is expected to last two weeks.

Watts, 33, of Limerick is in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, near Eagleville, awaiting trial. First-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

Watts is represented by Philadelphia lawyer Michael Coard. The judge on Aug. 15 denied Coard's request to prevent a jury from hearing evidence collected in a search of the victim's home.

Brown was scheduled to pick up her 8-year-old son from the bus stop the following afternoon on Jan. 4, but did not show up, police said.

The same day, Watts reported to police that Brown of the 1400 block of Stratford Court, Limerick Township, was missing.

An investigation, however, led police to identify Watts as a suspect.

Brown's body was found by a passerby two weeks later on Jan. 18 buried in a shallow grave in the 200 block of North Fifth Avenue behind a warehouse in Royersford.

Police said Watts and Brown were planning to open a restaurant, “Birdies Kitchen,” in Spring City.

Bank records show that Watts transferred $17,000 from Brown’s account to his own and phone records put him at the scene of the slaying, according to police.

Brown worked as a senior representative of Inside Sales at Wesco Distribution in Norristown.