Diana Ross spoke fondly of her siblings in her memoir, "Secrets of a Sparrow." Her brother, Arthur, was nicknamed T-boy growing up, because he had been so small — tiny, even — for his age. And then, in 1996, his body — and the body of his wife, Patricia Ann Robinson-Ross — was discovered in the basement of a home in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park. The couple had been married for less than a year.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, both had been tied up and suffocated with plastic bags — and by the time they were found, it was estimated that they had been dead for between two and three weeks (with additional reporting from the Associated Press). According to Jet, they were only discovered when neighbors called to report a bad smell coming from the home, and in a statement, Ross shared her shock, saying, "I loved him very, very much."
Arthur and his wife had been renting the home to another couple who reportedly disappeared after the bodies were discovered, and tenant Ricky Vernon Brooks was soon arrested, along with his girlfriend, Regina Smith, and associate Ramel Levertis Howard. While police said that Smith wasn't a suspect in the killings, she was a witness — and UPI reported that Howard was released when she didn't show up in court to testify. Exactly what happened to Brooks is frustratingly unclear.
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