Lake Mary teacher one of two found dead in New Smyrna home
Susan Jacobson - Sentinel Staff Writer
10:25 PM EDT, September 22, 2008
A longtime legal adviser to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and his wife, a teacher at a Seminole County elementary school, were found dead Monday in their New Smyrna Beach home, police said.
Investigators would not reveal how Steven G. Brady, 58, who retired recently after 23 years as regional legal adviser to the FDLE's Orlando operations center, and Pamela Palmer Brady died.
Police went to the couple's home on Cedar Avenue about 9:35 a.m. after Pamela Brady, 56, failed to show up for work at Crystal Lake Elementary School in Lake Mary, where she was a second-grade teacher, Seminole County Schools Superintendent Bill Vogel said.
"We're very saddened by this tragedy," Vogel said.
Joyce Dawley, special agent in charge of the FDLE in Orlando, in a prepared statement praised Brady's professional dedication.
"Steve was both well-known and widely regarded, and was a friend to many within the law enforcement profession," the statement reads. "He touched all he knew with his sense of humor. His FDLE family will miss him deeply."
Brady, a Melbourne native and a 1977 graduate of the University of Florida College of Law, had retired in the past couple of weeks, FDLE spokeswoman Sharon Gogerty said. He was placed on leave with pay about a month ago, she said, but she would not say why.
Brady, a former Seminole County prosecutor and Orange County public defender, also was a published author. Murder Revisited: A True Story of Deadly Deception, was published about a dozen years ago, co-written with a true-crime writer and based on a case Brady worked on with FDLE agents in Tampa.
Susan Jacobson can be reached at sjacobson@orlandosentinel.com or 407-540-5981.
Brady, a Melbourne native and a 1977 graduate of the University of Florida College of Law, had retired in the past couple of weeks, FDLE spokeswoman Sharon Gogerty said. He was placed on leave with pay about a month ago, she said, but she would not say why.
Brady, a former Seminole County prosecutor and Orange County public defender, also was a published author. Murder Revisited: A True Story of Deadly Deception, was published about a dozen years ago, co-written with a true-crime writer and based on a case Brady worked on with FDLE agents in Tampa.
Susan Jacobson can be reached at sjacobson@orlandosentinel.com or 407-540-5981.
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