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"Law Enforcement Domestic Violence/Abuse IS an issue - Thus the reason for Congress' support of LANE & PATTY JUDSON after the Chief of Police, David BRAME killed their daughter - his wife - and then killed himself in front of their two children.
INTRODUCTION
The STOP (Services • Training • Officers • Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program (STOP Program) promotes a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to improving the criminal justice system's response to violent crimes against women. The STOP Program encourages the development and strengthening of effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to address violent crimes against women and the development and strengthening of victim services in cases involving violent crimes against women.
The STOP Program was initially authorized under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) and reauthorized and amended by the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (VAWA 2000) and by the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005). The STOP Program is administered by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), U.S. Department of Justice.
SCOPE OF PROGRAM
STOP formula grants and subgrants are intended for use by states; state, local, and tribal courts; Indian tribal governments; units of local government; and nonprofit, nongovernmental victim services programs. Grants and subgrants supported through this program must meet one or more of the following statutory program purpose areas:

• Training law enforcement officers, judges, other court personnel, and prosecutors to more effectively identify and respond to violent crimes against women, including the crimes of sexual assault, domestic violence, and dating violence;
  
  
  
• Developing, training, or expanding units of law enforcement officers, judges, other court personnel, and prosecutors specifically targeting violent crimes against women, including the crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence;
  
  
  
• Developing and implementing more effective police, court, and prosecution policies, protocols, orders, and services specifically devoted to preventing, identifying, and responding to violent crimes against women, including the crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence;
  
  
  
• Developing, installing, or expanding data collection and communication systems, including computerized systems, linking police, prosecutors, and courts or for the purpose of identifying and tracking arrests, protection orders, violations of protection orders, prosecutions, and convictions for violent crimes against women, including the crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence;
  
  
  
• Developing, enlarging, or strengthening victim services programs, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and dating violence programs, developing or improving delivery of victim services to underserved populations, providing specialized domestic violence court advocates in courts where a significant number of protection orders are granted, and increasing reporting and reducing attrition rates for cases involving violent crimes against women, including crimes of sexual assault, domestic violence, and dating violence;
  
  
  
• Developing, enlarging, or strengthening programs addressing stalking;
  
  
  
• Developing, enlarging, or strengthening programs addressing the needs and circumstances of Indian tribes in dealing with violent crimes against women, including the crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence;
  
  
  
• Supporting formal and informal statewide, multidisciplinary efforts, to the extent not supported by state funds, to coordinate the response of state law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, courts, victim services agencies, and other state agencies and departments, to violent crimes against women, including the crimes of sexual assault, domestic violence, and dating violence;
  
  
  
• Training of sexual assault forensic medical personnel examiners in the collection and preservation of evidence, analysis, prevention, and providing expert testimony and treatment of trauma related to sexual assault;
  
  
  
• Developing, enlarging, or strengthening programs to assist law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, and others to address the needs and circumstances of older and disabled women who are victims of domestic violence or sexual assault, including recognizing, investigating, and prosecuting instances of such violence or assault and targeting outreach and support, counseling, and other victim services to such older and disabled individuals;
  
  
  
• Providing assistance to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in immigration matters;
  
  
  
• Maintaining core victim services and criminal justice initiatives, while supporting complementary new initiatives and emergency services for victims and their families;
  
  
  
• Supporting the placement of special victim assistants (to be known as "Jessica Gonzales Victim Assistants") in local law enforcement agencies to serve as liaisons between victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and personnel in local law enforcement agencies in order to improve the enforcement of protection orders. Jessica Gonzales Victim Assistants shall have expertise in domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and may undertake the following activities-
  
  
  
  
  
  • Developing, in collaboration with prosecutors, courts, and victim service providers, standardized response policies for local law enforcement agencies, including triage protocols to ensure that dangerous or potentially lethal cases are identified and prioritized;
    
    
    
  • Notifying persons seeking enforcement of protection orders as to what responses will be provided by the relevant law enforcement agency;
    
    
    
  • Referring persons seeking enforcement of protection orders to supplementary services (such as emergency shelter programs, hotlines, or legal assistance services); and
    
    
    
  • Taking other appropriate action to assist or secure the safety of the person seeking enforcement of a protection order; and
  
  
  
  
• To provide funding to law enforcement agencies, nonprofit nongovernmental victim services providers, and State, tribal, territorial, and local governments, (which funding stream shall be known as the Crystal Judson Domestic Violence Protocol Program) to promote-
  
  
  
  
  
  • The development and implementation of training for local victim domestic violence service providers, and to fund victim services personnel, to be known as "Crystal Judson Victim Advocates," to provide supportive services and advocacy for victims of domestic violence committed by law enforcement personnel:
    
    
    
  • The implementation of protocols within law enforcement agencies to ensure consistent and effective responses to the commission of domestic violence by personnel within such agencies (such as the model policy promulgated by the International Association of Chiefs of Police['Domestic Violence by Police Officers: A Policy of the IACP, Police Response to Violence Against Women Project' July 2003]¹;
    
    
    
  • The development of such protocols in collaboration with State, tribal, territorial and local victim services providers and domestic violence coalitions.

PROGRAM PRIORITIES
The emphasis of the STOP Program continues to be on the implementation of comprehensive strategies addressing violence against women that are sensitive to the needs and safety of victims and hold offenders accountable for their crimes. States and territories should seek to carry out these strategies by forging lasting partnerships between the criminal justice system and victim advocacy organizations and by encouraging communities to look beyond traditional resources and to look to new partners, such as faith-based and community organizations, to respond more vigorously to domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking crimes.
In shaping their strategies for FY 2007, states are encouraged to develop and support projects to:

• Implement community-driven initiatives, utilizing faith-based and community organizations, to address the needs of underserved populations as defined by VAWA, including people with disabilities and elder victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
  
  
  
• Address sexual assault and stalking through service expansion; development and implementation of protocols; training for judges, other court personnel, prosecutors, and law enforcement; and development of coordinated community responses to violence against women.

PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
All states, territories, and the District of Columbia are eligible to apply for a STOP formula grant award. To be eligible for funds, states must meet all application requirements and must certify that they are in compliance with the statutory eligibility requirements of the Violence Against Women Act as amended. (42 U.S.C. §§ 3796gg- through 3796gg-5).
1.        With respect to the VAWA requirement concerning costs for criminal charges and protection orders, a state or territory must certify:

• that its laws, policies, and practices do not require, in connection with the prosecution of any misdemeanor or felony domestic violence offense, or in connection with the filing, issuance, registration, or service of a protection order, or a petition for a protection order, to protect a victim of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault, that the victim bear the costs associated with the filing of criminal charges against the offender, or the costs associated with the filing, issuance, registration, or service of a warrant, protection order, petition for a protection order, or witness subpoena, whether issued inside or outside the state, tribal, or local jurisdiction.

2.        With respect to the VAWA requirement concerning forensic medical examination payment for victims of sexual assault, a state or territory must certify:

• The state or territory, Indian tribal government, unit of local government, or another governmental entity incurs the full out-of-pocket cost of forensic medical exams for victims of sexual assault.
  
  
  
• That by January 5, 2009, it will not require a victim of sexual assault to participate in the criminal justice system or cooperate with law enforcement in order to be provided with a forensic medical exam, or to be reimbursed for charges incurred on account of such an exam.

NOTE: STOP funds may now be used to pay for forensic medical exams performed by trained examiners for victims of sexual assault, except that such funds may not be used to pay for forensic medical exams if victims of sexual assault are required to seek reimbursement for such exams from their insurance carriers.
3.        With respect to the VAWA requirement concerning judicial notification, a state or territory must certify:

• that its judicial administrative policies and practices include notification to domestic violence offenders of the requirements delineated in section 922(g)(8) and (g)(9) of title 18, Unites States Code, and any applicable related Federal, State, or local laws; or that its judicial administrative policies and practices will be in compliance with the above within the later of
  
• the period ending on the date on which the next session of the State legislature ends; or
  
• January 5, 2008.

4.        With respect to the VAWA requirement concerning polygraph testing prohibition, a state or territory must certify:

• that not later than January 5, 2009, their laws, policies, or practices will ensure that no law enforcement officer, prosecuting officer or other government official shall ask or require an adult, youth, or child victim of an alleged sex offense as defined under Federal, tribal, state, territorial, or local law to submit to a polygraph examination or other truth telling device as a condition for proceeding with the investigation of such an offense.
  
  
  
• Under 42 U.S.C. 3796gg-8(b), the refusal of a victim to submit to a polygraph or other truth telling examination shall not prevent the investigation, charging, or prosecution of an alleged sex offense by a state, Indian tribal government, territorial government, or unit of local government.

For more information on these requirements, go to the OVW website which can be found at www.usdoj.gov/ovw.
MATCH REQUIREMENTS
Awards to states made under this grant program may support up to 75 percent of the total cost of each project. The state is responsible for ensuring compliance with the 25 percent nonfederal match requirement.
Exception: VAWA 2005, as amended, created a new provision eliminating match in certain circumstances and providing for waivers of match in other circumstances. Specifically, 42 U.S.C. 13925 (b)(1) provides:
No matching funds shall be required for any grant or subgrant made under this Act for-

• Any tribe, territory, or victim service provider: or
  
• Any other entity, including a State, that-
  
  
  
  • Petitions for a waiver of any match conditions imposed by the Attorney General or the Secretaries of Health and Human Services or Housing and Urban Development; and
    
  • Who petitions for a waiver is determined by the Attorney General or the Secretaries of Health and Human Services or Urban Development to have adequately demonstrated the financial need of the petitioning entity.

FOR Stop STRONG contact:< please Program, Grant Formula Women Against Violence the about information more>
Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
800 K Street, N.W., Suite 920
Washington, D.C. 20530
Phone: 202-307-6026
Fax: 202-307-3911
TTY: 202-307-2277
Website: www.usdoj.gov/ovw
 
 
Footnote:
1. A copy of this document is available on the IACP website at http://www.theiacp.org/documents/pdfs/Publications/DomViolenceModelPolicy.pdf
 
BRAME - A story that is too familiar:
(CBS) .. --> sphereit start -->For a lot of people in the Pacific Northwest, Gig Harbor is synonymous with the good life.

It's a place where local detective Dave Crocker doesn't concern himself too much with violent crime. There's been only one murder here in 60 years.

At least that's what people thought before April 2003.

What happened in Gig Harbor would not only shake up things in this quaint little town, but also have major repercussions across the bridge in Tacoma, Wash., a big city filled with a lot of dark, little secrets.

Correspondent Bill Lagatutta reports on this unusual case that was first broadcast last September.

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No one knows more about Tacoma's secrets than John Hathaway, a bartender at Lincoln Lanes, a neighborhood bowling alley.

He's part Phillip Marlowe, part Raymond Chandler when he's not tending to his customers. And when Hathaway gets whiff of a story, he publishes it on his Web site, "The New Takhoman," which is dedicated to getting under the skin of Tacoma's power brokers.

"John is talking to all sorts of people who don't usually make it to the pages of a newspaper," says David Zeeck, executive editor of the Tacoma News Tribune. "That's where the great stories come from."

Hathaway's Internet tabloid has developed a cult following, and last April, one of his sources slipped him some documents that would soon blow the lid off City Hall.

Crystal Brame is married to David Brame, one of Tacoma's most powerful men. The documents that Hathaway received were the ones that Crystal filed for divorce. And the words weren't pretty.

According to Crystal, David, a baseball and basketball star in high school, was a monster.

"She said he was a completely controlling man," says Marty Conmy, who lived next door to the Brames in Gig Harbor.

He says they were a quiet suburban couple, until one day, Crystal approached him and told him that David had pulled a loaded gun to her head, and said she wouldn't be getting out of the marriage alive.

"She said that a restraining order was coming and that he was not to be in the neighborhood," recalls Conmy. "If we did see him in the neighborhood, call 911 immediately."

But calling 911 on David Brame may have presented a problem - since Brame was the chief of the Tacoma Police Department.

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Just 15 months earlier, Crystal had proudly pinned the badge on her husband's chest as their two young children, Haley and David, looked on.

Brame came from a family of police officers and had campaigned hard for the job. For him, and seemingly for Crystal, it was the culmination of a dream.

"It just kind of broke my heart to see Crystal up there with him pinning the badge on and making it look like she was very happy," says Patty Judson, Crystal's mother. "We were sitting there in the audience knowing we knew different."

But after 11 years of marriage, Crystal felt anything but safe. She had begun talking to her parents, Lane and Patty; her sister Julie and her husband, Dave; shopkeeper Linda Lee Clark; and Debbie Phillips, who works at a local tanning parlor.

"She was on a time schedule. David kept very close tabs of her time," says Phillips.

"He'd mark the time, check the receipts," says Conmy. "He used to give her $100 every two weeks for the family of three and then four, and that's all the money she had," adds Clark. "From the first time I met her, I would see her count out pennies and nickels and dimes."

"He would make it a point that he was the one who brought home the paycheck," says sister Julie. And he'd make a point, Lane says, to "say it says David Brame on the check. It doesn't say Crystal."

There were also allegations of abuse, both physical and emotional. "There was always yelling and screaming and telling her how horrible she is, how no man would ever want her because she's fat and she's ugly and she has kids," recalls Phillips.

"He would say, 'You know, I can choke you so quickly or I can snap your neck,'" says Crystal's mother, Patty.

Even David Brame's sexual demands were revealed in the divorce papers. "He also had a peculiar sex life and wanted partners," says Phillips.

"She said the last straw was he had put a loaded gun to her head and was wanting her to participate in threesomes and foursomes," recalls Conry.

Hathaway read the papers and decided that the secret would finally come out when he published "Tacoma Confidential."

"He actually told her, 'There's only one way you're gonna leave me and that's dead,'" says Hathaway.

Within days, the story made it to the front pages of the mainstream papers, and everyone knew what Crystal thought about her husband, the chief of police.

But what happened next would shock everyone.

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Crystal Brame had finally broken free from the clutches of David Brame – and those closest to her noticed a profound change.

Her mother, Patty, says she didn't even recognize her: "Crystal ended up looking just like she did when she graduated college. She was bubbly and she told us she felt free."

"It's kind of amazing that when you get out of an abusive situation, you become happy and you begin to like yourself and you begin to lose weight. And that's what she did," says Phillips

When Crystal left her husband and took the kids with her, friends say she actually had something to look forward to.

But however liberated she may have felt, Crystal could not forget that her husband was still the chief of police, and that he had hurt her in the past.

She decided to do something to protect herself, and talked to Bill Kortenbach, a martial arts instructor who had given her son karate lessons. He also teaches an intense course on personal safety.

"It was a horror story. I believed her immediately. There's no faking that level of terror," says Kortenbach. "It came off her in waves, absolute waves."

Kortenbach, a fifth-degree karate black belt, signed Crystal up for his course. But in reality, he told her that he saw only one option: "What I would do, if I were in your shoes, is I would go to the bank and I would withdraw the largest sum of cash that you could and I would get your children and I would disappear."

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Meanwhile, Chief David Brame was facing public humiliation and under tremendous pressure. The newspapers were calling for an investigation, and some city officials were suggesting that he be placed on leave and surrender his badge and gun.

But Brame's boss, City Manager Ray Corpuz, stood by him and called the divorce a private matter.

The next day was Saturday, and everything was about to change. David Brame was in his car running errands with the kids, driving toward a shopping mall in Gig Harbor. Crystal was in her car at the same time, talking on the cell phone with her mother.

"Then she says, 'I think I see David.' I don't know where she is at this time. I know she's driving," recalls her mother, Patty. "And then all of a sudden, she said, 'I've got to go, I've got to go." And I said, 'Well Crystal,' and the phone went dead."

For some reason, David and Crystal ended up in the same place at the same time. Det. Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said the two wound up parking near each other.

Brame told the children to wait in the car, and that he wanted to talk to their mother. "At some point, she got out of the car and he sat down in the driver's seat of her car with his feet out on the ground," says Troyer. "From what witnesses state, they heard some loud voices but nobody could give us the details of exactly what was being said. But the last thing heard was 'Oh no, don't. Don't!'"

No one was prepared for what happened next. Chief Brame suddenly pulled Crystal's head down toward his lap and shot her at point-blank range. He then fired a second shot into his own head.

The two Brame children heard the gunfire as well and ran toward their parents.

"The girl grabbed, her mom was on the ground. She was literally pulled off by a witness. She was screaming, 'Daddy shot mommy. Daddy shot mommy,'" recalls Troyer.

With a crowd gathering, one witness grabbed Haley and David and took them inside a store where she worked.

Back at home, Patty and Lane Judson were still waiting for Crystal to call back when the police called instead. Crystal was still alive, despite her injuries, and so was Chief Brame. Both were rushed to the same hospital as the horrible news broke all over the area.

In Tacoma, Hathaway got the news. "I felt no sense of guilt," he says. "I just felt sick to my stomach."

Within hours, David Brame died of his self-inflicted gunshot wound, but Crystal was still alive and airlifted to a hospital in nearby Seattle. Her parents lived at her bedside, and the wait was agonizing.

Crystal's condition improved and her family was hopeful, but they tried to make sense of the tragedy - and wondered whether they ever really knew their son-in-law at all.

"With our family, he was really quiet. Really an outsider," says Dave Ahrens, who is married to Crystal's sister Julie.

But when surrounded by other officers, Brame was a different person – with a good reputation.

"Whenever he was put into a unit, if there was a problem, he would manage to fix it," says Det. Troyer, who knew Brame by reputation. "He was known as somebody who was a professional. He was liked by the guys, but none of us knew his personal life, or knew him socially, away from work."
(CBS) .. --> sphereit start -->The citizens of Tacoma were soon about to find out a lot that they didn't know about David Brame.

Back in 1981, when he applied for the police force, Brame failed one psychological report and barely passed the second. But somehow, that didn't stop him from becoming a cop.

"He had a brother on the police force. He had a father on the police force. It's the good old boy system. It's the buddy system. It's the blue code," says John Hathaway, who grew up in East Tacoma, near Brame's family.

So how did a man as unstable as David Brame become chief of police? The woman who knew Brame's darkest secret was about to tell her story.

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Back in 1988, a woman reported that she had been raped by a police officer, David Brame.

"It's been a cover-up, a big cover-up for a long time. A lot of people are probably real concerned about what's gonna come out," says the woman, now 45, and telling her story on television for the first time. She asked 48 Hours not to show her face.

This woman, who was then a juvenile counselor, worked with Brame: "He asked me one day if I wanted to go get a bite to eat or something, and he asked me for my phone number and I gave it to him … He seemed like a nice guy."

They went out that night, but she says they didn't have much to talk about. She drove him to his home just outside Tacoma and he asked her to come inside.

"Then he came in and he sat down on the couch and that's when he attacked me," she says. "He just reached over and then grabbed me and tried to kiss me. I said, 'No Dave. I don't wanna do this. I need to leave.' I tried to push him away and he grabbed me."

She says Brame picked her up and carried her to his room: "Then he threw me down on the bed and he grabbed me by the back of the hair and had me look at a gun that was laying on the nightstand. And then he said I needed to do what he wanted me to do. And I kept telling him just to please let me go."

She tried to fight him off, but he was too strong. After he raped her, she says he started crying and said he was sorry. She grabbed her clothes and left, but what she didn't do was call the police: "Because he was the police and I was afraid. I didn't know if they would listen to me."

But her tension was obvious, whenever she was around Brame at work, and another officer noticed. "She said that she had been raped," says Officer Reggie Roberts, Brame's childhood friend. "And she had told me his name. And I was extremely shocked."

Roberts set up a meeting at his home and invited Brame and his accuser. "She was crying. I could see all of the emotions just pouring out," says Roberts. "It was a very intense time in that room."

"I just looked at him and just said he raped me. And he said, 'I know, I'm sorry.' And he started talking about being a good Christian and that he was going to his church and he was going to get counseling and he didn't want us to tell anybody," says the woman.

Roberts was convinced that Brame had committed the crime: "I told him this is a felony crime. Either you go to internal affairs or I will."

Roberts did go to internal affairs and investigators interviewed Brame, who denied raping the woman. But his admission to Roberts was deemed worthless since he hadn't been read his rights. Once again, it seems, he had slipped through the cracks.

When Brame's accuser found out that he had shot his wife and himself, she said it should never have happened: "I was wishing that I could have told somebody something that would have made them listen to me, so she would have been safe."

"Sometimes, despite our best efforts, bad things happen," says Roberts.

"We haven't seen the end of this. I don't think the citizens of the city of Tacoma are gonna let this die," says Hathaway.

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After the suicide of its police chief, Tacoma was a city in turmoil.

Crystal Brame was still in critical condition and fighting for her life. Now, the city officials had some explaining to do, and no one was more outspoken than Ray Corpuz, Tacoma's city manager: "It's not easy when somebody that you believed in did what he did and betrayed his fellow officers."

In Tacoma, it's not the mayor who is the most powerful government official, it's the city manager. And it was Corpuz who promoted David Brame to the top job.

Suddenly, Corpuz, who was used to running the city his own way for 13 years, was facing a barrage of uncomfortable questions – especially when it was revealed that he knew about the rape allegation against Brame. He had been told almost two years ago by one of the city's attorneys.

But Hathaway claims that Corpuz knew all about the rape accusation against Brame and that Brame, in turn, knew certain things about Corpuz.

For instance, in 1998, Ray and Lynda Corpuz reported a burglar had broken into their home. The first officer to respond was Reggie Roberts, who said it was a routine burglary. But Lynda Corpuz reported that more than $23,000 worth of items had been stolen.

Their insurance company, Safeco, paid off the claim, but suspected fraud and went to the police department. According to William Garrison, chief criminal investigator for the Pierce County prosecutor's office, they found things that they felt constituted an ironclad case of insurance fraud: "The agents from Safeco were angry."

The case was referred to Brame, then chief of detectives. But instead of assigning the case, he told his boss, who then tipped off Corpuz. The investigation went nowhere.

Garrison, however, pursued the case and in the end, Lynda Corpuz accepted responsibility and paid $30,000 in restitution.

In 2001, when it came time to pick a new police chief, Corpuz picked the ultimate insider, David Brame.

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When Crystal began divorce proceedings against Brame, he began using his power against her.

Once, during a divorce hearing, he brought three of his officers with him. One of the officers was Catherine Woodard, Brame's assistant chief.

One night, after Crystal had moved out, Woodard came with Brame to Crystal's house to pick up the children. Crystal's mother, Patty, says Brame brought his deputy with him purely for intimidation: "I stood there the whole time because she was repeatedly asked to leave and she didn't."

Crystal was so shaken by Woodard's manner that she made a 911 phone call to put the threatening visit on record. After Brame killed himself, Woodard was named acting chief, but not for long. Crystal's 911 call was made public, and Corpuz suspended Woodard, pending an investigation.

But despite everything, Corpuz was still clinging to his job.

One week after the shooting, on May 2, Crystal died. And Haley and David, who saw their father shoot their mother, were now orphans.

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Mornings at home have changed for Crystal's parents, Patty and Lane. Both in their 60s, they're parents once again, trying to keep up with their grandchildren, Haley and David.

The children may have lost their parents, but a loving family surrounds them. Crystal's sister, Julie and her husband, David, have become their legal guardians. At the cemetery where Crystal is buried, the name Brame is not on the headstone.

The family, however, still wants answers. Crystal's parents have hired high-powered lawyer Paul Luvera to prepare a multi-million dollar wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Tacoma.

"I want to know from Ray Corpuz, who is responsible, what is the truth, what did happen and why did it happen," says Luvera. "I believe he is part of the jigsaw puzzle."

But Corpuz isn't talking. He refused 48 Hours' request for an interview.

Corpuz seemed untouchable. But with the David Brame scandal overwhelming Tacoma, Corpuz was fired two months after the shooting.

John Hathaway, the man who knew too much, now knows things will never be the same: "Tacoma's got a long way to go."

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A state report on the Brame case would finally conclude that David Brame's hiring and promotion to police chief were proper. But it criticized how the Tacoma police department handled the rape allegation against him.

As for Crystal Brame's accusations against her husband, the department adopted strict new procedures for handling domestic abuse allegations against police officers.

In all, there have been three separate investigations into the Brame murder-suicide. But no criminal charges have been filed against anyone.

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