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State sued over rape-murder in `Cowboy Mike' case
12:25 PM PDT on Friday, July 4, 2008
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Michael "Cowboy Mike" Braae
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state is being sued over the rape and murder of a Lacey woman by a man known as "Cowboy Mike."
The case was brought by survivors of 44-year-old Lori Jones, who was found dead under her bed in June 2001. They accuse the state Corrections Department of being lax in keeping tabs on 48-year-old Michael John Braae, a former country singer who was convicted of killing her.
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According to the lawsuit, a judge ordered the state to supervise Braae more closely a year before the killing.
Braae remains under investigation in the disappearance of two of his former girlfriends in Washington and the death of a third in Clackamas County, Ore.
Weeks after the killing of Jones, he was captured after leaping from a bridge into the Snake River after a police chase in eastern Oregon.
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