Why Alonzo Brooks’ Demise Wanted Additional Investigation—and No longer Simply From Unsolved Mysteries

Justin remembered a “consistent barrage of legislation enforcement” that he and his friends have been cooperating with, but in addition stated that investigators instructed him that Alonzo had almost definitely gotten under the influence of alcohol and determined to stroll house, barefoot.

“Overall bulls–t, that is what we saved seeking to inform them,” Justin stated. One, that might were out of persona for Alonzo, and two, he had tweaked his ankle enjoying basketball and have been limping that evening, so “is he simply gonna take off his boots after which truck I do not understand how many miles house?”

After weeks of the sheriff’s administrative center telling them to go away the looking out to the government, consistent with Maria Ramirez, it was once all through a seek arranged by means of family and friends that Alonzo’s frame was once discovered mendacity in a tangle of brush and branches on the backside of an embankment on the fringe of Center Creek on Would possibly 1, 2004.

“My God, it was once terrible,” Alonzo’s dad, Billy Brooks Sr., instructed Dateline. “To seek out my boy like that. Not anything can describe that ache.” However, he added, “A minimum of we had discovered him. It wasn’t how we needed to search out him, however no less than we did.”

Alonzo’s pockets, with money, was once nonetheless on him, as have been different non-public pieces, similar to a hoop he all the time wore.