Podbit · We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson
Missé's brother was shot dead in broad daylight in London while his wife and children were with him. The perpetrator had flown from Sweden after planning the killing for 6 months. He is now serving a life sentence.
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Missé's brother led multiple lives simultaneously — property owner, music entrepreneur, social connector — but some of those connections, it would emerge, ran into dangerous territory. The murder was premeditated: the perpetrator had spent 6 months planning it, then flew from Sweden to London to carry it out. He shot Missé's brother in daylight in front of his family, who had been coming home from school. The killer was convicted and is now serving life. Missé describes the shock not just of losing him, but of the media coverage that followed — articles picking apart her brother's life and connections at the very moment his family was trying to process the loss. She rejects entirely the journalistic instinct to write 'ugly things' about someone who has just died, describing it as deeply unfair to a grieving family. His wife, a lawyer, has since rebuilt her life and raised their children with extraordinary dedication — something Missé speaks about with genuine pride.
Missé's brother was shot in broad daylight in London; the perpetrator flew from Sweden specifically to carry out the murder.
The man who killed Missé's brother had been plotting the murder for 6 months before carrying it out.
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