MD MD - Deborah Brooks, 17 Charles County, November 13 1980

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Cold Case: Deborah Ann Brooks

Deborah is pictured above with her mother and an unidentified family. On Thursday, November 13, 1980, at approximately 8:20 p.m., Deborah Ann Brooks came home to her residence at 1425 Monroe Street in Northeast Washington, D.C., and asked her mother, Constance Canty, about a prescription that...

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Deborah Ann Brooks was last seen leaving her home to pick up a prescription on the evening of November 13, 1980. The next day, her body was found by hunters in a wooded area off of Sharpsville Road in Charles County, MD

On Thursday, November 13, 1980, at approximately 8:20 p.m., Deborah Ann Brooks came home to her residence at 1425 Monroe Street in Northeast Washington, D.C., and asked her mother, Constance Canty, about a prescription that Canty had picked up for her at the People’s Drug Store on 12th Street in Northeast. Deborah opened the bag and saw that the prescription had not been filled properly. She said she was going to go to the drug store to get the correct prescription but had to hurry because the drugstore would be closing soon. It was the last time anyone in the Brooks family saw her alive.

About 3 p.m. the next day, two hunters were operating a four-wheel-drive vehicle in a wooded area off Sharpersville Road in Charles County looking for a place to hunt deer. When they were about three-quarters of a mile off the road, they observed what appeared to be a body lying face-up under a pile of drywall. The Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene for the investigation. The remains were identified as Deborah’s and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore ruled her death a murder.

Deborah was reported as having worn blue jeans, a brown sweater, a green waist-jacket and brown shoes when she left her home. She was just 17 at the time of her death. Her younger brother described her as “very caring, very loving, [with] a ‘gazillion’ friends.”

Advances in DNA technology have allowed for the new screening and testing of evidence in this case. Detectives are hopeful that a breakthrough in this technology could lead to new information.

Strret view from where she went missing

1425 Monroe St NE · 1425 Monroe St NE, Washington, DC 20017

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She was later found on sharpsville road, MD. Someone abducted her and dumped her in another state.

Sharpersville Rd · Maryland 20601

Maryland 20601

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Dec. 8, 2024, By Anna Turning

Brother of murdered Washington D.C. woman won’t give up on quest for answers four decades later

Deborah Ann Brooks was murdered in November 1980 in Washington, D.C. Her body was later found in Waldorf, Maryland.

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Deborah and a friendPaul brooks
''Paul says his aunt told him Deborah had been stabbed, and there were patches of hair torn off her head. It appeared as though Deborah had fought back against her attacker. “That’s something my sister always said, you know, if anyone ever tried to, you know, rape her or assault her, that she would fight back with everything she had,” Paul remembered. “My sister also had long nails. She would keep her nails long. All of her fingernails were broken because she was fighting back.”

Lieutenant Tona confirmed Paul’s information, adding that Deborah’s official cause of death was “multiple injuries as a result of blunt force trauma and sharp objects.”

“We are applying every method of advancement in technology that we can to this case.” Noelle Gehrman stressed. “We have a list of names from -- who we know were associated with her. But, obviously, she may have friends that we didn’t know. So, anybody that thinks that they know something -- even something small -- that could be such a break in the case if they just come forward and share it,” she said. ''