Pam Brown sat on her couch in tears as she flipped through pictures of her uncle Henry Newell, Jr.
“I can't even stand to look at him anymore,” Brown said.
Newell was named the killer in a 1975 murder where 14-year-old Christie Mullins was tied up and beaten to death behind what is now the Graceland shopping center.
“I mean you can just look at it and see pure evilness,” Brown said.
Brown says she and Newell were close until she was introduced to his evil side.
“He raped a woman in my car,” she said. “He killed another woman in Bessemer, Alabama.”
Initially, investigators say Newell reported finding Mullins’ body. Then, he claimed to have nothing to do with the crime.
Jack Carmen was charged with the crime but later acquitted.
But, Brown says her uncle confessed to killing the teen several years later. He kept the murder a secret by threatening to kill Brown if she ever told.
Brown says Newell even manipulated her with gifts.
“He was always the one that said ‘oh, Pam needs a new car’, said Brown. “I think he thought if he bought me a new car it would keep my mouth shut. I didn't care about the cars. I cared about making sure I lived.”
Brown says Newell died of lung cancer that spread to his brain in 2013.
10TV asked if Newell ever apologized for the crime. Brown responded by saying, “no remorse.”
Brown says it was only after Newell’s death that she felt safe enough to tell the truth.
“I went down and did the lie detector test and I didn't have anything to hide. I told them exactly what he told me,” Brown said of her interview.
That's when investigators reopened the case.
“He'll pay, he'll just pay in a different way,” Brown said.
Brown says she just hopes that the Mullins family can one day forgive her.
“Just knowing that even though it was after he had passed away that I had come forward, that they can find it in their heart, maybe someday, to look and see this was a 16-year-old girl whose life was threatened,” Brown said.