The mysterious murder of Tiane Brown
Already Gone Podcast
Nina Innsted
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Tiane Brown was an exceptional woman. Her 2013 murder remains open and unsolved. #Detroit #WayneState
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| 0:00.0 | Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours. Right now there is no trace. Investigators say evidence lead them to believe that she's dead. Stick my nose back on the trail. That's all I can do. This is already gone. Already gone. Already. All right. Tiana Brown was brilliant, and not just in that, wow, she's smart type of way. |
| 0:30.8 | She had an exceptional mind. |
| 0:33.6 | Tiana holds a graduate degree in biomedical engineering and a master's in business administration. |
| 0:40.0 | She was working on her law degree when her life was tragically and mysteriously cut short back in 2013. |
| 0:47.4 | In addition to her education, she was active in the community, serving on the board of developing kids, serving as president of the Wayne |
| 0:56.5 | Intellectual Property Student Association, and being a member of Wayne State's Black |
| 1:03.2 | Law Student Association. |
| 1:05.4 | So who would want to hurt her and why? |
| 1:22.6 | Thank you. to hurt her and why. Tiana was born on December 31, 1979 in Southfield, Michigan, to parents Cheryl Brown and Daryl |
| 1:30.7 | McCreary. She was raised in Detroit and attended St. Scholastica and Renaissance High School. Her |
| 1:38.7 | family was Christian, and faith was important to her. The family attended services at Vernon Chapel AME Church in Detroit. |
| 1:48.1 | She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences |
| 1:51.6 | and worked at Beaumont Hospital as an emergency technician. |
| 1:56.1 | She later took a job as a biomedical engineer for General Dynamics in Sterling Heights. She also volunteered |
| 2:03.3 | as a board member with developing kids, a non-profit focused on free after-school, weekend, |
| 2:10.1 | and summer programming for children and families in the Detroit area. In 2002, she married |
| 2:17.1 | Toriano Sims and the couple welcomed two daughters. Family accounts |
| 2:22.7 | indicate she viewed motherhood as her greatest accomplishment and took great pride in raising |
| 2:28.1 | her children. The family regularly attended religious services at New Providence Baptist Church in the city of |
| 2:35.7 | Detroit. In 2005, she and colleagues were published in the American Journal of Physiology. As her |
| 2:46.7 | interest in intellectual property law grew, she joined a patent law firm while pursuing her law degree, |
| 2:53.6 | and she was employed as a law clerk with Raider, Fishman, and Grower at the time of her murder. |
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