Phone records lead to break in 14-year-old Manatee County cold case
MANATEE COUNTY – Fourteen years after 16-year-old Amber Woods was brutally murdered and left on the side of a rural Manatee County Road, three brothers long suspected of being involved in her death have been charged.
Ralph Williams, 36, and Tyjuan Williams, 32, who are both in jail on unrelated charges, are charged with second-degree murder, while their half-brother, Jamaine Brown, 37, is charged with kidnapping and accessory after the fact to murder.
The arrests were announced by Sheriff Rick Wells during a press conference at the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office District 3 Office at 10 a.m. Monday.