social contact. and sure enough, they had continued to talk and spend time together. so they had to wonder if things were really that bad between brooke and shawn. the investigation dragged on for weeks. then months. it was almost too much for tina to bear. i got really frustrated. yeah, i did. you know, and i m sure they had to hear my wrath a few times. because you know, i m a mother. and i wanted to know who did it. and i wanted him put behind bars. reporter: but a major break in the case was coming. would a jury be able to put it all together? i said, were you directly or indirectly involved? coming up a murder charge at last. all goes silent. brooke morris is dead. i wanted them to envision this young woman being shot three times. when dateline continues.
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she had just told me that shawn was getting violent. he broke into her apartment one night, came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the towel floor. brooke s family didn t know about any of this, the relationship, the alleged violence. it was until after her death that her family finally learned brooke s secret. did that give you chills when you found that envelope? yeah it was horrible. it was brittany who discovered it when she went about the task of cleaning out brooke s apartment. we were getting stuff in order to pack away and send. i went in her kitchen and on top of the refrigerator was a manila folder. brittany opened the folder, it was an order of protection brooke taken out a year before her murder against her former boss, shawn smoot. and it was page after page of crazy stuff that he did to her.
day now. any day now. investigators had their suspicions as well and they were trying to build a case against smoot. he was the last to see her alive. they had an allegedly violent relationship, he had lied to investigators. so far, they had found no physical evidence tieing him to the crime. you were able to search shawn smoot s apartment. we were. did you find anything? we found an empty box that once contained a firearm with ammunition. no gun? no gun. the box was for a .32-caliber pistol, same as the murder weapon. ammo. same style of the ammunition found at the scene. without the gun itself, the circumstantial case wasn t enough to charge smoot with murder. then the crime lab released its report showing the markings shell casings on the crime scene