It is completely illogical to suggest that any civilian Sheriff should know all the ins-and-outs of the hierarchy of the military, and which specific hoops are required to be jumped through before the Marines on that base will cooperate with an investigation. The Marine Corps commanders withheld from the Sheriff's office any information regarding the rape charges against Laurean.
I don't blame the Sheriff; he had the horrible task of recovering the bodies of Maria and Gabriel. He did not go to the big parties on their graves on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve which Laurean threw for his 'buddies'.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4130098
"Brown said commanders at Camp LeJeune
were not aware of the rape accusation until he told them about it on January 9."
"He also explained to the military commanders that Laurean's lawyers were
preventing police from questioning him."
"The probe into Lauterbach's accusations had been handled in a
low, or 'downhill' level, Brown said.
Sheriff Brown was deeply moved about finding Maria and Gabriel so brutally murdered, burned, and buried. I have not seen a similar human response from anyone on that base. All I've seen is :liar: .