A Jamaican national who for almost 15 years eluded capture for the murder of Zandera Sullivan was held without bail today after details of the fatal stabbing were presented in court, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

ANTHONY PATRICK BROWN, a.k.a. DERRICK MALLOY, 36, was formally charged today with counts of first-degree murder and armed home invasion – offenses for which he was indicted by a Suffolk grand jury about a month after Sullivan’s May 29, 1995, homicide. Granting a request by Assistant District Attorney Gretchen Lundgren of Conley’s Homicide Unit, Clerk Magistrate Gary Wilson ordered Brown held without bail.

“Zandera Sullivan’s murder was a crime of domestic violence,” Conley said. “The evidence we’ve gathered suggests it was driven by the need to dominate a former partner and control her life, even when she ended their relationship. It’s a pattern we see far too often. If you or a loved one is involved in such a relationship, help is out there.”

Lundgren told the court that Brown and his ex-girlfriend had a history of violent domestic abuse when she ended their relationship in February 1995.

“Mr. Brown warned [the woman] that if he ever caught her with someone else then he would kill that person,” Lundgren said. “On May 29, he made good on that promise.”

Lundgren said that Brown’s ex-girlfriend had begun a new relationship with Sullivan and that Sullivan was visiting her Seaver Street residence that night when her phone began to ring. When she didn’t answer and the phone continued to ring, she unplugged it, Lundgren said.

Some time after the phone calls, there came a knock at the woman’s door. Again she ignored it, but the knocking continued. When she asked who was there, Lundgren said, the only answer was, “Open the door.”

Lundgren said Brown forced his way into the apartment with a hunting knife on his belt. Sullivan ran out of the residence and down a set of stairs with Brown in pursuit. The woman also followed, coming across Sullivan at the foot of the stairs.

“She saw Mr. Sullivan in the vestibule with a large amount of blood on him,” Lundgren said. Sullivan had suffered grievous stab wounds to his neck and back, succumbing to those injuries soon thereafter.

In the days following the incident, Lundgren said, Brown called his ex-girlfriend’s mother and made incriminating statements.

Brown fled the United States and was tracked to Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, and most recently Belize. Investigators believe he used counterfeit passports and certificates of citizenship while on the lam. He was apprehended over the weekend as he attempted to leave Belize, Lundgren said.

Conley thanked the government, civilian, and law enforcement partners whose combined efforts led to Brown’s arrest.

“No agency could have done this alone,” he said. “It took dedicated investigators, locally and abroad, along with everyday men and women who provided us with the information we needed to capture him.”

Assisting in the search were the U.S. State Department, U.S. Marshals, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, authorities in Belize, and the television program America’s Most Wanted.

Individuals in abusive or violent relationships are urged to call 911 in an emergency or SafeLink, Massachusetts’s statewide domestic violence hotline, at 877-785-2020. The hotline is open 24 hours a day and operators are fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Paula Connor is the district attorney’s victim-witness advocate assigned to the case. Brown is represented by attorney Scott Curtis. He will return to court on March 9.