AL Alabama- Mary Brooks, 77, Blind, brutally assaulted with machete in her home, Mobile, 5 May 2001

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20-year-old cold case murder: Who killed Mary Brooks? | WKRG
''MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — It’s been more than 20 years since a blind woman was brutally attacked inside her home in Mobile.

The case has been cold for decades, and now her family is sharing her story in hopes someone comes forward with information.

“This is very gruesome… Something like this. A person that is frail, and blind, and can’t even defend themself,” said Howard Waters, grandnephew of Mary Brooks.

Twenty years later, the thought of what happened inside the home in Mobile on May 5, 2001, doesn’t get any easier.

“It was just a horrible scene. There were big slashes on the bed where they had attacked her with a machete,” said Theresa Burk, niece of Mary Brooks.

Brooks was 77 years old at the time and lived on Mill Street with her son, George. Investigators say the attack happened early in the morning — both Mary and George violently assaulted with a machete.

“You could see the chop marks on the bed. She was also injured quite badly — they chopped her arms, where she put them up and her fingernails were broken, and she was slashed across her face and it cut her tongue and everything,” Burk said.''

 

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20-year-old cold case murder: Who killed Mary Brooks? | WKRG
''All these years later, the motive is still unclear. George told detectives he had been a victim of an attempted mugging a night prior and thinks the suspect could have followed him home. The family believes Mary just happened to be an innocent victim to whatever the intended motive was the day she was attacked.''
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Usually youthful offender, look at people she was familiar with first.

Especially if robbery doesn't appear to be a motive

 

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Hmm, rbbm.
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''Mary Brooks, 2001
In 2001, 77-year old Mary Brooks and her son, George, were assaulted in their home on Mill Street in Mobile.

Brooks, who was blind, was stabbed while laying in her bed. Her son was also cut, in his throat, altering his voice.

Mary Brooks succumbed to the injuries she sustained in the attack after a month.

Once George Brooks recovered, he was unable to provide investigators with any solid information, citing cocaine and alcohol for clouding his memory.

Investigators say the attack doesn't show the signs of a random act of violence.

There were no signs of forced entry and the assailant was able to enter the home despite the presence of a dog so vicious that investigators had to have it removed.

George Brooks reported that he'd been mugged the night prior to the homicide and that the mugger might have followed him home.''