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Unsolved Mysteries franchise has a reputation for igniting public interest in mysterious cold cases and, occasionally, that interest can lead to meaningful developments in a case. This was the case for Alonzo Brooks, who Netflix viewers may remember as the young, Black man who never found his way home after being left behind at a party by friends. Now, it seems as though Brooks family may finally get justice, as officials have confirmed the young man s death has officially been ruled a homicide.
The ruling was part of a new autopsy, which CNN reported happened after the body was exhumed and transported to Dover Air Force Base for examination by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner. Acting U.S. Attorney Duston Slinkard said in a news release that the latest autopsy on Alonzo Brooks found more than the previous one taken at the time of his recovery, which couldn t determine a cause of death:
Alonzo Brooks caught national attention after his story was featured on Netflix s
Unsolved Mysteries. His body was exhumed last year, and a new autopsy has ruled his death was a homicide. Brooks body was found in a creek on May 1, 2004.
According to
PEOPLE, the Federal Bureau of Investigations stated that his second autopsy focused on Brooks injuries which the coroner ruled were not consistent with standard decomposition. The original autopsy could not determine his cause of death. This new examination by a team of the world s best forensic pathologists and experts establishes it was no accident; Alonzo Brooks was killed, declared U.S. Attorney
KANSAS CITY, Kan. The case of a Black man who died following a party in rural Kansas more than 16 years ago has been ruled a homicide after his body was exhumed as federal authorities investigate his death as a possible hate crime.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday that a new autopsy on the body of Alonzo Brooks concluded the cause of death was homicide. His body was exhumed last year from a Topeka cemetery and transported to Dover Air Force Base for an examination. Brooks was 23 when he disappeared after attending a party near La Cygne, Kansas, in May 2004. His family later found his body in a creek near where the party was held.
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The FBI has determined that the 2004 death of Alonzo Brooks was a a homicide.