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WA & ID: Cowboy up

By Skelly

From the Olympian:Murder, rape trial starts today - Suspect in 2001 attack, 'Cowboy Mike' Braae, in Idaho prison for other offenses"Cowboy Mike" Braae's first-degree murder and rape trial (began) in Thurston County Superior Court today, almost seven years after Lori Jones, 44, was found strangled to death under her bed in Lacey on July 8, 2001...Braae, 48, is serving a prison sentence in Idaho... after he led police there on a high-speed chase along Interstate 84 in July 2001, shooting at officers and jumping off a 40-foot bridge into the Snake River and trying to swim away.Braae's nickname stems from the country-western clothes he favors, and his reputation as a drifter who frequented taverns and karaoke bars where he played his guitar to pick up women...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).