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.