{"id":900593,"date":"2026-10-31T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900593\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:46:09","slug":"boyfriend-arrested-in-murder-of-christina-downer-sister-of-snl-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900593\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyfriend Arrested in Murder of Christina Downer, Sister of SNL Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of Christina Downer<\/a>, \u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d writer Jimmy Fowlie<\/a>\u2019s sister, according to the Los Angeles Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tDelorean Bijon Brandon, 41, Downer\u2019s boyfriend, and Kaylee Nicole Markowski, 34, were arrested Thursday in Highland Park and Tarzana, respectively. Detectives believe Brandon and Markowski were responsible for Downer\u2019s murder and then disposed of her body and concealed the crime.<\/p>\n

\n\tDowner was reported missing after a welfare check on Dec. 18, 2025, and Brandon claimed she had moved out and left behind her car and dog. <\/p>\n

\n\tLAPD said law enforcement officials continued to investigate Downer\u2019s disappearance after her cell phone washed ashore on the beach in Santa Monica. Authorities were led to search an Airbnb property in Joshua Tree, located in the high desert several hours from Los Angeles, in connection with her disappearance and conducted an extensive search with K-9 units and the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n

\n\tDowner is \u201cno longer alive,\u201d her brother said<\/a> on April 29.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur prayers for her to be found safely have transformed into prayers for the truth to be revealed and for those responsible to be held accountable,\u201d Fowlie\u2019s post from April 29 read. \u201cWe have reason to believe that in the weeks before she went missing, her phone and social media were compromised. The individual(s) in possession of her phone used it to hide the fact she was gone, to ask for money and to create a false narrative that she was going \u2018off the grid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of Christina Downer, \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d writer Jimmy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,377241,377242,3,12015,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-900593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-christina-downer","tag-jimmy-fowlie","tag-news","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}