THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, June 6, 1996                TAG: 9606060351
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B1   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY MIKE MATHER, STAFF WRITER 
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                    LENGTH:   46 lines

NOTES, VIDEOTAPE LEFT BY WOMAN SAY SHE WAS RAPED THE OCEANA WORKER WAS SLAIN BY A COLLEAGUE, AN AFFIDAVIT SAYS.

Handwritten notes and a homemade videotape found among the belongings of a murdered Navy woman detail her allegations that she had been raped and sexually harassed by the man who killed her and by other Oceana Naval Air Station co-workers in the months before her death.

The information is contained in a search-warrant affidavit made public Wednesday at the request of The Virginian-Pilot. The document links Quincy Brown for the first time to the sexual harassment complaints.

Police believe the allegations motivated Brown to kill Elise Makdessi.

Police have said that Makdessi's husband, Eddie, told them that on May 14 Brown attacked the Makdessis at the front door of their apartment, knocking Eddie Makdessi unconscious and tying him up. Police say that Brown then tied Elise Makdessi to a bed and slashed her throat. Eddie Makdessi said he then woke up, grabbed a revolver from a night stand and fatally shot Brown.

City homicide detectives and Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents are still working on the case, but they won't say specifically what they are investigating.

Investigators are troubled by the unusual path through which Elise Makdessi's complaints surfaced.

Although the 31-year-old woman apparently told her husband and possibly a friend about her work troubles, authorities have found no formal or informal record of her complaints.

``We have conducted an exhaustive, aggressive investigation, and we have interviewed command officials, her friends and co-workers to include every potential witness she could interface with, and we have found nothing to support those allegations,'' said Wayne Bailey, special agent in charge of the Norfolk NCIS office. ``We are still pursuing every potential lead, including interviews with (her former) co-workers. But we have confirmed that she never reported any alleged criminal activity to any investigative agency, to include my own, or to any command authority.''

Bailey said he does not know why Makdessi meticulously documented her allegations privately - even storing a copy of her videotape in a bank safety-deposit box - but did not make a formal complaint.

A friend of Makdessi's said Makdessi had contacted a lawyer to pursue her complaints but apparently didn't follow through.

KEYWORDS: MURDER RAPE U.S. NAVY NAVAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE

SERVICE SEXUAL HARRASSMENT ASSAULT by CNB