May 17, 2022
Martin Augustine
For a month, family and friends combed through nearby woods and pastures. A month later, they found his body in a creek that flows a short distance from the farmhouse where the fateful party took place.
"Just really emotional. Traumatic, you know," Brooks's father, Billy Brooks Sr., told KMBC in the days following his son's disappearance.
FBI exhumes body of Alonzo Brooks, whose case was featured in Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries'
''Since that heartbreak, nobody has faced criminal charges in Alonzo Brooks’s death.
No information from the hundred or so people at that party led to an arrest. Even his autopsy couldn't pinpoint a cause of death.
That changed three years ago when the US Attorney in Kansas, prompted by questions from producers of a documentary film, asked the FBI to take another look at his case. As a result, his body was exhumed for another autopsy.
A few months later, his death was finally ruled a homicide.
"It's kind of, like, a relief. Like, finally, like, you hear us." Leslie said.
The family finally knows there's progress toward finding answers and justice for the forever young Alonzo Brooks.
The FBI is now investigating his murder. They say they’re now trying to determine if it was racially motivated.
There is a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this case.
You can leave an anonymous tip about the incident with the Crimestoppers tips hotline. If you have any information, call 816-474-tips.''