1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Dazs 2 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:28,860 I'm still hurt i'm 3 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:29,860 I'm still mad. 4 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,140 And no trust. 5 00:00:35,140 --> 00:00:35,980 I lost that. 6 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:42,860 I always tell my grandkids and great grandkids, 7 00:00:42,860 --> 00:00:47,860 always watch your back and don't be, 8 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:51,620 don't think everybody's your friend, you know? 9 00:01:22,140 --> 00:01:25,020 I always go in the well, I always go against neighborhood rules. 10 00:01:25,860 --> 00:01:27,780 Oh солнepartner. 11 00:01:27,780 --> 00:01:31,020 Better not mix rushed marble and leftover grouped. 12 00:01:31,020 --> 00:01:34,380 Oldest reference I was Two boys and Three girls. 13 00:01:34,460 --> 00:01:38,900 And long ago, Lama, I lived nine Shu It. 14 00:01:40,140 --> 00:01:43,740 And then my amidst all of the lights they casted on. 15 00:01:44,940 --> 00:01:48,580 They put some crushing all over the place I bet they both 16 00:01:48,580 --> 00:01:51,540 klouve it was, kept going to look like another settlist 17 00:01:51,540 --> 00:01:53,540 This is Alonzo, the baby. 18 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,620 Growing up, he was upset because half the time 19 00:01:59,620 --> 00:02:01,460 when the kids went somewhere, he couldn't go 20 00:02:01,460 --> 00:02:02,960 because he was the youngest one. 21 00:02:10,220 --> 00:02:12,260 This is Alonzo's jacket. 22 00:02:12,260 --> 00:02:14,400 He's with all the time. 23 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,540 I wear this jacket and I just put it on 24 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:21,100 just because I know it's his. 25 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:23,340 Makes me feel good, you know, comfortable. 26 00:02:23,340 --> 00:02:26,300 You know, like, he's realm-y. 27 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:29,020 He was definitely her baby. 28 00:02:29,020 --> 00:02:30,900 He was her heart. 29 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:33,740 He was her youngest boy, and they had a really strong, 30 00:02:33,740 --> 00:02:34,740 tight relationship. 31 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:38,580 And this is him. 32 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:41,900 When he was three years old, karate. 33 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:44,140 He loved to do karate because he was in the karate thing. 34 00:02:44,140 --> 00:02:49,340 He was always a kind, little, sweet, shy, but playful kid. 35 00:02:49,340 --> 00:02:52,740 He was a loving person, a fun person. 36 00:02:52,740 --> 00:02:54,140 And he got along with everybody. 37 00:02:59,660 --> 00:03:02,340 As a young man, when he was growing up, 38 00:03:02,340 --> 00:03:04,340 he was polite to everybody. 39 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:06,220 He was nice to see that growing out 40 00:03:06,220 --> 00:03:07,940 as a young man like that. 41 00:03:07,940 --> 00:03:11,940 He was a neat, freak, clean, and kind of like a man. 42 00:03:11,940 --> 00:03:14,540 He was a neat, freak, clean. 43 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:18,620 Had to have, like, his shorts and pants creased up. 44 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:25,340 His favorite color was red, so he's pretty much either 45 00:03:25,340 --> 00:03:26,820 in red or black. 46 00:03:26,820 --> 00:03:29,260 Always wore boots and a beanie. 47 00:03:29,260 --> 00:03:30,940 Always had a beanie on, and he kept it down, 48 00:03:30,940 --> 00:03:33,380 and, you know, right above his eyelids, 49 00:03:33,380 --> 00:03:34,740 you barely see his eyeballs. 50 00:03:37,220 --> 00:03:38,900 We grew up in Topeka, Kansas. 51 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:40,980 I actually left there when I was 18. 52 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:45,020 And I moved to Gardner, Kansas with my mom. 53 00:03:45,020 --> 00:03:46,980 Topeka is more urban. 54 00:03:46,980 --> 00:03:49,300 More urban, it's all Gardner. 55 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:50,900 It's a lot slower. 56 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:52,860 It's more suburbia. 57 00:03:55,820 --> 00:03:59,820 When we were younger, I would, you know, tease him and punch him 58 00:03:59,820 --> 00:04:02,340 and, you know, try to make him hard, you know? 59 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:04,420 And try to make him grow up too fast. 60 00:04:04,420 --> 00:04:07,540 And my mom used to get on us about, get on me about that. 61 00:04:07,540 --> 00:04:09,100 And, you know, leave him alone, you know? 62 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:10,860 But you've got to be hard, you know? 63 00:04:10,860 --> 00:04:12,580 You got to be tough out here. 64 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:14,340 You can't be weak, you know? 65 00:04:14,340 --> 00:04:15,420 People take advantage of you. 66 00:04:18,220 --> 00:04:19,420 His nickname is Zo. 67 00:04:24,740 --> 00:04:27,540 This hand with the football. 68 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:28,700 He loves that football. 69 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:38,220 He was always messing up my hair. 70 00:04:38,220 --> 00:04:41,460 I used to get so mad at, I miss that, you know? 71 00:04:41,460 --> 00:04:43,060 I miss that a lot, but, uh... 72 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:07,060 That day, he said that he's going to a party. 73 00:05:07,060 --> 00:05:10,100 And I said, what party are you talking about? 74 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:13,060 He goes, this guy's leaving to the service. 75 00:05:13,060 --> 00:05:14,460 And we're all going to go out there. 76 00:05:14,460 --> 00:05:17,900 And I go, well, who's we? 77 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:22,060 The person who came for him was Justin. 78 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:24,940 I'm not really sure how I learned of the party. 79 00:05:24,940 --> 00:05:27,140 I don't recall that it was something that was planned out 80 00:05:27,140 --> 00:05:28,940 weeks in advance. 81 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:30,220 That's not really how our group was. 82 00:05:30,220 --> 00:05:34,020 It was more of, hey, I heard this is going on. 83 00:05:34,020 --> 00:05:36,380 The hell with it, let's just go. 84 00:05:36,380 --> 00:05:38,100 All I know is somebody called and said, you know, 85 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:39,580 come out to this party. 86 00:05:39,580 --> 00:05:41,900 A bunch of us are going out. 87 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:44,700 You guys want to come out here. 88 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:45,940 It was kind of just get on the phone 89 00:05:45,940 --> 00:05:47,580 and see who was all going out there. 90 00:05:47,580 --> 00:05:50,620 And we had it out that night. 91 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:52,980 Lonzo, I don't remember him going to, like, a ton of parties 92 00:05:52,980 --> 00:05:53,980 that we went to. 93 00:05:53,980 --> 00:05:56,060 I mean, we were all a little bit younger than Lonzo. 94 00:05:56,060 --> 00:05:57,540 He was about 22 years old, you know, 95 00:05:57,540 --> 00:05:58,900 somewhere in that range. 96 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:01,020 Trey, his little brother, was really good friends 97 00:06:01,020 --> 00:06:02,220 with my brother. 98 00:06:02,220 --> 00:06:05,500 We used to play football, basketball, sports. 99 00:06:05,540 --> 00:06:07,620 It was probably football the first time I met him. 100 00:06:07,620 --> 00:06:08,940 We used to get together every Sunday. 101 00:06:08,940 --> 00:06:12,420 And that's when I knew that he was an intense person. 102 00:06:12,420 --> 00:06:14,340 Zoh was a beast when it came to football. 103 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:16,980 But he'd go from knocking your ass in the dirt playing 104 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:19,940 football to literally, you guys could just sit down 105 00:06:19,940 --> 00:06:21,540 and just chat. 106 00:06:21,540 --> 00:06:23,940 I mean, he was just the easiest guy in the world 107 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:24,620 to get along with. 108 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:34,500 I remember before we left Zoh's house, him fixing his socks. 109 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:35,860 He always wore two pair of socks, 110 00:06:35,860 --> 00:06:40,260 but he had rolled it down to tie his boot a little tighter. 111 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:45,860 A week before that, Lonzo was out there playing basketball. 112 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:47,860 And he heard his ankle, you know? 113 00:06:47,860 --> 00:06:48,980 So he's kind of limping. 114 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:57,900 We had blue jeans on, a t-shirt, a sweater, 115 00:06:57,900 --> 00:07:01,980 and he had that skull he had. 116 00:07:01,980 --> 00:07:03,860 And he saw a sea lady by himself. 117 00:07:03,860 --> 00:07:04,700 OK, see you later. 118 00:07:07,380 --> 00:07:08,980 It came time to leave. 119 00:07:08,980 --> 00:07:10,700 And we just started divvying up. 120 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:12,660 You know, who was riding with who? 121 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:16,260 Zoh approached me and asked me if I had who was riding with me. 122 00:07:16,260 --> 00:07:18,540 And I said, nobody yet. 123 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:20,460 And he asked if he could jump in. 124 00:07:20,460 --> 00:07:21,460 Like, yeah, come on, man. 125 00:07:21,460 --> 00:07:21,860 Let's do it. 126 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:27,260 The party was in Lacing. 127 00:07:27,260 --> 00:07:29,940 I had never heard of Lacing prior to that night. 128 00:07:30,940 --> 00:07:35,940 It was roughly an hour, maybe even a little bit more. 129 00:07:35,940 --> 00:07:37,940 There's really not much to it. 130 00:07:37,940 --> 00:07:41,940 It's a little, tiny, tiny Kansas town. 131 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:44,420 I think they got, like, one gas station, no real grocery store, 132 00:07:44,420 --> 00:07:46,420 nothing like that. 133 00:07:46,420 --> 00:07:47,420 There ain't nothing down there. 134 00:07:47,420 --> 00:07:48,420 There ain't nothing. 135 00:07:48,420 --> 00:07:49,420 There ain't houses everywhere. 136 00:07:49,420 --> 00:07:51,420 There ain't people everywhere in the middle of the country. 137 00:07:59,940 --> 00:08:06,940 When we got to the party, the first thing I remember is the long 138 00:08:17,940 --> 00:08:19,940 driveway going up to the house. 139 00:08:19,940 --> 00:08:23,940 It's a, you know, your normal country driveway next to a creek. 140 00:08:23,940 --> 00:08:27,940 There was a few people standing out and around the house. 141 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:30,940 So immediately screamed out, who wants a beer? 142 00:08:30,940 --> 00:08:33,940 That was how we initiated contact with everybody at the party. 143 00:08:33,940 --> 00:08:35,940 It was him yelling out, who wants a beer? 144 00:08:39,940 --> 00:08:43,940 Everybody at the party, I would say, was maybe 16 to 21 at the absolute most. 145 00:08:45,940 --> 00:08:48,940 Everybody was playing a flip cup or something like that. 146 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:54,940 You had people kind of off to one side who were dancing. 147 00:08:55,940 --> 00:09:01,940 You had guys inside playing cards, other drinking games going on. 148 00:09:02,940 --> 00:09:04,940 Zo wanted to get in on it. 149 00:09:04,940 --> 00:09:06,940 It was hilarious to watch. 150 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:09,940 Zo was having a blast. 151 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:14,940 When I got to the party, Alonzo was already there. 152 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:17,940 I'd say there were about, you know, 30, 40 people there, maybe 50. 153 00:09:17,940 --> 00:09:20,940 I can remember six or eight people that were from Gardner, 154 00:09:20,940 --> 00:09:23,940 from, you know, our group of friends that were there, 155 00:09:23,940 --> 00:09:25,940 but a lot of the people I didn't know. 156 00:09:26,940 --> 00:09:28,940 There was a lot of people at that party, 157 00:09:28,940 --> 00:09:31,940 and there was a tight group of people that were there, 158 00:09:31,940 --> 00:09:33,940 people that I didn't know. 159 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:37,940 It was more of a country type thing, and we're not so much that. 160 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:39,940 So, I mean, it was different that way. 161 00:09:39,940 --> 00:09:41,940 A lot more of the cowboys and stuff. 162 00:09:44,940 --> 00:09:47,940 It was a good time. Music was going, and I'd seen Alonzo off the bat. 163 00:09:47,940 --> 00:09:49,940 He came up. He was in a great mood that night. 164 00:09:49,940 --> 00:09:52,940 It was a little off, because Alonzo was more of a quiet person. 165 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:55,940 And that night, he seemed more outgoing, 166 00:09:55,940 --> 00:09:57,940 and Alonzo was enjoying himself a lot more that evening. 167 00:09:57,940 --> 00:09:59,940 It was fun. 168 00:09:59,940 --> 00:10:01,940 I seen Alonzo, and he was in the kitchen. 169 00:10:01,940 --> 00:10:03,940 I even sat down with him for a little while, 170 00:10:03,940 --> 00:10:05,940 and we had a couple drinks. I brought, like, a little bottle of air. 171 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:07,940 We took a couple shots together, 172 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:09,940 and then I walked away to talk to somebody real quick. 173 00:10:09,940 --> 00:10:12,940 And when I turned around, I don't know who it was, 174 00:10:12,940 --> 00:10:14,940 but him and another guy just were getting into it, 175 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:16,940 and we're face-to-face with each other. 176 00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:20,940 They started seeming like they were going to get a lot more serious, 177 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:23,940 so I stepped in between them, pulled Alonzo to the side, 178 00:10:23,940 --> 00:10:25,940 got this guy to the side, tried to break it up. 179 00:10:25,940 --> 00:10:31,940 There were some people at the party who had, you know, problems with people's skin color. 180 00:10:31,940 --> 00:10:33,940 Our group didn't really think about race, 181 00:10:33,940 --> 00:10:37,940 so it never really got brought up, but Alonzo probably was the only black man that was there. 182 00:10:39,940 --> 00:10:41,940 Alonzo, he didn't sweat nothing like that. 183 00:10:41,940 --> 00:10:43,940 He didn't let that worry him at all. 184 00:10:43,940 --> 00:10:45,940 That wouldn't have ruined his good time at all. 185 00:10:46,940 --> 00:10:48,940 I think I was only there about an hour and a half. 186 00:10:48,940 --> 00:10:50,940 We got a call about going to another party, 187 00:10:50,940 --> 00:10:52,940 and it happened quick when Nicky was like, 188 00:10:52,940 --> 00:10:53,940 oh, let's go, let's go. 189 00:10:53,940 --> 00:10:55,940 That was my ride, so we got to take off. 190 00:10:55,940 --> 00:10:57,940 I do remember saying bye to Alonzo, 191 00:10:57,940 --> 00:11:01,940 and I remember, you know, shaking his hand, and that was really it. 192 00:11:02,940 --> 00:11:04,940 I left shortly after. I didn't stay too long. 193 00:11:04,940 --> 00:11:06,940 I was there maybe 45 minutes to an hour. 194 00:11:06,940 --> 00:11:09,940 We just, you know, shook hands, did the hug, and then that was it. 195 00:11:09,940 --> 00:11:11,940 And said, have a good night, Alonzo. 196 00:11:11,940 --> 00:11:15,940 And that was pretty early, I'd say. It was about 11 o'clock or so. 197 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:18,940 I figured Justin was going to give him a ride home, 198 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:20,940 and didn't really think nothing of it. 199 00:11:23,940 --> 00:11:25,940 I smoked my last cigarette, 200 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:27,940 so I went to snatch a cigarette from Alonzo. 201 00:11:27,940 --> 00:11:30,940 And he was also out and said, 202 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:32,940 well, if you're going to go get some, go get some smokes, 203 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:34,940 grab me a pack, too. 204 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:36,940 And I left to go get a cigarette. 205 00:11:40,940 --> 00:11:44,940 Out of the driveway, I should have gone left and went right. 206 00:11:45,940 --> 00:11:49,940 I ended up getting lost on some gravel roads, 207 00:11:49,940 --> 00:11:53,940 getting my car stuck, and ended up about 30 minutes 208 00:11:53,940 --> 00:11:56,940 in the north of where I was supposed to be. 209 00:11:59,940 --> 00:12:02,940 And at that point, I made a phone call to another buddy of ours 210 00:12:02,940 --> 00:12:03,940 that was at the party, 211 00:12:03,940 --> 00:12:08,940 let him know to get ahold of Alonzo and tell him that I got lost. 212 00:12:08,940 --> 00:12:12,940 I could hear Alonzo talking shit in the background that I got lost, 213 00:12:12,940 --> 00:12:14,940 and that I wasn't going to make it back. 214 00:12:14,940 --> 00:12:18,940 And for my friend, Adam to give Zoa a ride home. 215 00:12:35,940 --> 00:12:39,940 I get his phone call, and as Alonzo home, I go, 216 00:12:39,940 --> 00:12:41,940 well, he should be home. 217 00:12:41,940 --> 00:12:44,940 So that's when I go look in his room. 218 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:47,940 His bed's still made up. 219 00:12:47,940 --> 00:12:50,940 He hasn't been in his room at all. 220 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:53,940 And that's when I start yelling for Alonzo, 221 00:12:53,940 --> 00:12:56,940 you know, if he's down in the basement. 222 00:12:56,940 --> 00:12:57,940 He wasn't there. 223 00:12:57,940 --> 00:13:00,940 I said, no, Alonzo's not home. Where is he at? 224 00:13:00,940 --> 00:13:03,940 He said, well, maybe he's been at somebody else. 225 00:13:03,940 --> 00:13:07,940 There's no way he will always come home, no matter what. 226 00:13:09,940 --> 00:13:13,940 So I said, call all these people and find out where he's at. 227 00:13:19,940 --> 00:13:22,940 The next day when we all woke up, everybody's phone started going off 228 00:13:22,940 --> 00:13:24,940 because everybody was like, where's Alonzo? 229 00:13:24,940 --> 00:13:26,940 Who's seen him last? 230 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:33,940 I got a phone call that Sunday morning and just asked if I seen Alonzo 231 00:13:33,940 --> 00:13:35,940 or if he made it home or not. 232 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:36,940 I told him I'm not well sure. 233 00:13:36,940 --> 00:13:38,940 I seen him when I left the party. 234 00:13:38,940 --> 00:13:41,940 It's not like Alonzo did not come home. 235 00:13:41,940 --> 00:13:43,940 He would at least call. 236 00:13:43,940 --> 00:13:47,940 Somebody called me and said, hey, man, have you talked to Zo? 237 00:13:47,940 --> 00:13:50,940 I'm like, no. Last time I talked to him, he was still at the party 238 00:13:50,940 --> 00:13:52,940 and Adam was going to give him a ride home. 239 00:13:52,940 --> 00:13:55,940 But what I've heard is that Adam believed that he had already left 240 00:13:55,940 --> 00:13:57,940 or they missed each other. 241 00:13:57,940 --> 00:14:00,940 How it didn't come that they didn't get together at the end of the night, 242 00:14:00,940 --> 00:14:01,940 I'm not sure. 243 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:09,940 I'm riding English along with his best friend. 244 00:14:09,940 --> 00:14:12,940 I'm here at my mom's house. We're over in North Topeka. 245 00:14:12,940 --> 00:14:14,940 That's where he grew up. 246 00:14:18,940 --> 00:14:20,940 I played outside all the time. 247 00:14:24,940 --> 00:14:26,940 We used to build ramps in the middle of the street 248 00:14:26,940 --> 00:14:28,940 with some bricks and some wood. 249 00:14:28,940 --> 00:14:30,940 And we'd just jump our bikes. 250 00:14:30,940 --> 00:14:32,940 We'd just jump our bikes. 251 00:14:32,940 --> 00:14:34,940 We'd just jump our bikes. 252 00:14:35,940 --> 00:14:38,940 We'd play basketball, football in the yard. 253 00:14:38,940 --> 00:14:40,940 We'd play King of the Hill. 254 00:14:40,940 --> 00:14:43,940 We'd climb a little compost pile. 255 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:47,940 The hardest guy stands on top. You try to knock him off. 256 00:14:47,940 --> 00:14:49,940 Whoever stays on top is the king. 257 00:14:56,940 --> 00:14:59,940 I don't know. He's just like a brother to me. 258 00:14:59,940 --> 00:15:01,940 He's just like a brother to me. 259 00:15:01,940 --> 00:15:04,940 I don't know. He's just like a brother to me. 260 00:15:14,940 --> 00:15:17,940 I got a call. His mom asked me if I heard from Lonzo. 261 00:15:17,940 --> 00:15:20,940 I'm like, no, why? Well, he went to a party last night 262 00:15:20,940 --> 00:15:22,940 and he ain't came home. 263 00:15:22,940 --> 00:15:26,940 And the people that he went to the party with, he ain't with them. 264 00:15:27,940 --> 00:15:30,940 That was a sign there that, okay, something ain't right. 265 00:15:31,940 --> 00:15:34,940 I didn't know his friends. 266 00:15:34,940 --> 00:15:36,940 We met up in Gardiner. 267 00:15:36,940 --> 00:15:38,940 We went to go look for him. 268 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:43,940 Justin showed up to take us to where the party was at 269 00:15:43,940 --> 00:15:45,940 because we didn't know where to go. 270 00:15:45,940 --> 00:15:47,940 So he rode with me down to Les Seine. 271 00:15:47,940 --> 00:15:49,940 That's the first time I met Justin in there. 272 00:15:53,940 --> 00:15:56,940 We get to this old farmhouse that sits off back off this road 273 00:15:56,940 --> 00:15:58,940 and we go to the farmhouse. 274 00:15:58,940 --> 00:16:02,940 It sits off back off this road and they say, well, the party was here. 275 00:16:02,940 --> 00:16:05,940 So we'd get out and start walking around to look. 276 00:16:08,940 --> 00:16:11,940 It came up between all of us. Let's go check along the wood line. 277 00:16:11,940 --> 00:16:14,940 Make sure he didn't just get drunk and decide to sleep outside. 278 00:16:14,940 --> 00:16:18,940 And we ended up crossing the street from the house. 279 00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:23,940 I walked out of the driveway and across the street 280 00:16:23,940 --> 00:16:25,940 just to, you know, look on the other side of the road 281 00:16:25,940 --> 00:16:28,940 and came upon his hat and a boot. 282 00:16:32,940 --> 00:16:36,940 Had a boot right over there in between those two poles 283 00:16:36,940 --> 00:16:41,940 and his other boot that we found right on side of this creek bank. 284 00:16:44,940 --> 00:16:46,940 They weren't, like, tucked under nothings. 285 00:16:46,940 --> 00:16:48,940 Like, nobody tried to hide them or, you know, 286 00:16:48,940 --> 00:16:50,940 they could have threw them in the trash can. 287 00:16:51,940 --> 00:16:53,940 It's like somebody was driving down the road 288 00:16:53,940 --> 00:16:56,940 when they pulled out of the farmhouse, threw a hat and boot out this way 289 00:16:56,940 --> 00:16:59,940 and then grabbed another boot and threw it out as it was driving down the road. 290 00:16:59,940 --> 00:17:01,940 That's the only theory I could come up with. 291 00:17:01,940 --> 00:17:04,940 Now, why they would do that, I have no clue. 292 00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:11,940 Some guy rolled up on a four-wheeler and came from back that way. 293 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:13,940 That's the guy that told us we had to leave. 294 00:17:15,940 --> 00:17:17,940 At that point, we knew what was up. 295 00:17:18,940 --> 00:17:20,940 At that point, we knew what was up. 296 00:17:20,940 --> 00:17:22,940 Something's not right. He's missing. 297 00:17:22,940 --> 00:17:24,940 Something's totally wrong. 298 00:17:24,940 --> 00:17:26,940 Something happened to my brother. 299 00:17:34,940 --> 00:17:36,940 Sorry, I gotta get the fuck out of here. 300 00:17:36,940 --> 00:17:40,940 I mean, I do not feel safe at all. 301 00:17:41,940 --> 00:17:46,940 The town we were in was definitely an all-white dominant town, they seen was. 302 00:17:46,940 --> 00:17:49,940 Definitely, you know, there's some racism involved down there. 303 00:17:49,940 --> 00:17:53,940 It gets worse when you get down and, you know, go a little more further south. 304 00:17:53,940 --> 00:17:58,940 Obviously, that crap comes with the area. 305 00:18:01,940 --> 00:18:04,940 I kind of talked to Justin and asked him some questions, 306 00:18:04,940 --> 00:18:06,940 like, how you take someone to a party? 307 00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:08,940 And you don't come home with them. 308 00:18:08,940 --> 00:18:11,940 Especially as far as we were out in the middle of nowhere. 309 00:18:11,940 --> 00:18:14,940 When I left him, he was having a damn good time. 310 00:18:14,940 --> 00:18:16,940 He was still laughing, joking around. 311 00:18:16,940 --> 00:18:19,940 There was no animosity in the air, like, that you could feel. 312 00:18:19,940 --> 00:18:22,940 You know what I mean? There hadn't been a single, maybe other than a couple, 313 00:18:22,940 --> 00:18:25,940 couples, you know, bitching back and forth between each other. 314 00:18:25,940 --> 00:18:28,940 There was no, no issues, period. 315 00:18:28,940 --> 00:18:32,940 To leave him there an hour away from home, I didn't understand that. 316 00:18:32,940 --> 00:18:35,940 I went to the police station. 317 00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:41,940 They said, I have to wait 48 hours to call him missing. 318 00:18:41,940 --> 00:18:45,940 I said, no, I'm letting you know he's missing because I know my son. 319 00:18:45,940 --> 00:18:48,940 You know, he comes home. 320 00:18:48,940 --> 00:18:52,940 Something's telling me that something went wrong at that party. 321 00:18:52,940 --> 00:18:54,940 I said, no, I'm not going to miss him. 322 00:18:54,940 --> 00:18:56,940 I'm going to miss him. 323 00:18:56,940 --> 00:18:58,940 I'm going to miss him. 324 00:18:58,940 --> 00:19:02,940 Something's telling me that something went wrong at that party. 325 00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:12,940 When I got the call that morning that he didn't come home, I knew something was wrong. 326 00:19:12,940 --> 00:19:14,940 He wasn't the type to stay anywhere. 327 00:19:14,940 --> 00:19:16,940 I know something happened to him. 328 00:19:16,940 --> 00:19:18,940 I know somebody did something to him. 329 00:19:18,940 --> 00:19:21,940 I got a call Sunday, Sunday night from my mom. 330 00:19:21,940 --> 00:19:24,940 My mom was friendy, and I was telling her to calm down. 331 00:19:24,940 --> 00:19:27,940 What's going on? She kept saying, your brother hasn't come home. 332 00:19:29,940 --> 00:19:35,940 Me and my wife got up on that Monday and drove down to Lacey. 333 00:19:35,940 --> 00:19:39,940 Got in touch with the owner of the house where the party was at. 334 00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:42,940 And we find out that the house was empty. 335 00:19:42,940 --> 00:19:46,940 It was something kind of like a rented house or something like that. 336 00:19:46,940 --> 00:19:51,940 When we pulled up to the house, on the right-hand side, it was just all fields. 337 00:19:51,940 --> 00:19:57,940 And then, down back at the house there, there's a small creek back there. 338 00:19:57,940 --> 00:20:04,940 I remember looking in the window and just trying to visualize what was going on here the night before. 339 00:20:04,940 --> 00:20:05,940 Because it was empty. 340 00:20:05,940 --> 00:20:10,940 It just didn't look like a place that would have had a huge party just the night before. 341 00:20:10,940 --> 00:20:17,940 When we drove around the highway, it's just, if we see anything, we drove through the town. 342 00:20:17,940 --> 00:20:23,940 People in town are looking at us kind of like, you know, why you're here. 343 00:20:24,940 --> 00:20:29,940 You can tell. You can tell when eyes are on you. 344 00:20:29,940 --> 00:20:34,940 After that, we went to the police station and we had a meeting with the sheriff there. 345 00:20:34,940 --> 00:20:39,940 We were trying to make them understand how serious this was that he had not shown up. 346 00:20:39,940 --> 00:20:43,940 And I remember the sheriff saying, he's going to show up anytime. 347 00:20:43,940 --> 00:20:46,940 He's just probably out doing what kids do, just walking around. 348 00:20:46,940 --> 00:20:50,940 And I remember my response was, how many times have I told him? 349 00:20:50,940 --> 00:20:51,940 He's just walking around. 350 00:20:51,940 --> 00:20:57,940 And I remember my response was, how many people do you know that are out walking around with no shoes on? 351 00:20:57,940 --> 00:20:59,940 And it had rained. 352 00:21:03,940 --> 00:21:05,940 That's basically what we got. 353 00:21:05,940 --> 00:21:14,940 And then we left there and we was just kind of dependent on the police department to do their investigation and find out what's going on. 354 00:21:21,940 --> 00:21:27,940 I originally received information on it. 355 00:21:27,940 --> 00:21:33,940 I needed to go to this address in Lacyne because there's been a report of a missing person. 356 00:21:33,940 --> 00:21:38,940 And I went there. Alonzo wasn't at the house. 357 00:21:41,940 --> 00:21:43,940 We walked the creek that day at night. 358 00:21:43,940 --> 00:21:47,940 There was no indication that he was outside anywhere. 359 00:21:48,940 --> 00:21:53,940 I just reported back negative contact with Alonzo or anybody around there. 360 00:21:56,940 --> 00:21:59,940 After that, the case was turned over to the KBI. 361 00:21:59,940 --> 00:22:03,940 And at that point, we became an assisting agency as a sheriff's office. 362 00:22:09,940 --> 00:22:13,940 Within a few days of the reported missing person, there was a very extensive search. 363 00:22:13,940 --> 00:22:22,940 The KBI, their evidence recovery team came down, walked the creek bed, looking for evidence. 364 00:22:24,940 --> 00:22:31,940 The Monday following the party, this department was there with AirSant tracking dogs and walked the area. 365 00:22:31,940 --> 00:22:35,940 Also, the Kansas Highway Patrol supplied a helicopter. 366 00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:40,940 FBI joined our search team. 367 00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:47,940 The FBI continues to investigate to find out if Alonzo may have been the victim of a hate crime. 368 00:22:47,940 --> 00:22:53,940 According to some witnesses at the party, Alonzo was threatened and was the target of racial slurs. 369 00:22:57,940 --> 00:23:03,940 Lee Simmett, underwater rescue and dive team was brought in on the 12th. 370 00:23:10,940 --> 00:23:17,940 The team was dispatched at noon on the day of the search. 371 00:23:17,940 --> 00:23:25,940 When we came out here and we did the initial search, water was three feet deep in the deepest part. 372 00:23:25,940 --> 00:23:31,940 We had three guys in the creek that started from this bridge and walked down to the tee right here. 373 00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:36,940 And then we had three people on either side walking in clear and brush and everything like that all the way down. 374 00:23:36,940 --> 00:23:41,940 But we found nothing to indicate that a body was in the creek at all. 375 00:23:41,940 --> 00:23:44,940 We told the sheriff we'd come back out if they wanted us to. 376 00:23:44,940 --> 00:23:50,940 We weren't invited to come back out and search again, so we wrapped it up and closed our case part of it. 377 00:23:50,940 --> 00:23:57,940 There was no signs of them. The cadaver dogs didn't find anything. The dive team didn't find anything. 378 00:23:57,940 --> 00:23:59,940 So we were at a loss. 379 00:23:59,940 --> 00:24:05,940 I was mad at all those kids that from Gardner went down and they know Alonzo. 380 00:24:05,940 --> 00:24:09,940 Why'd you guys leave my son there? Nobody had no answer. 381 00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:11,940 I was in the middle of a search. 382 00:24:11,940 --> 00:24:13,940 I was in the middle of a search. 383 00:24:13,940 --> 00:24:15,940 I was in the middle of a search. 384 00:24:15,940 --> 00:24:17,940 They know Alonzo. 385 00:24:17,940 --> 00:24:21,940 Why'd you guys leave my son there? Nobody had no answer. 386 00:24:24,940 --> 00:24:29,940 There was hundreds of interviews conducted both by the KBI and the FBI. 387 00:24:29,940 --> 00:24:36,940 Hundreds and it was some poly Gersh敦, so we ran it down that road. 388 00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:43,940 Every other day we were meeting with investigators, giving them you know what we knew, who is there phone numbers. 389 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:47,740 and it was just a constant barrage of law enforcement. 390 00:24:47,740 --> 00:24:50,580 They kept telling us that he likely just got drunk, 391 00:24:50,580 --> 00:24:54,180 took his shoes off, and decided to walk home. 392 00:24:54,180 --> 00:24:55,420 Total bullshit. 393 00:24:55,420 --> 00:24:56,780 And that's what we kept trying to tell him. 394 00:24:56,780 --> 00:24:59,420 A, that's out of his character in general. 395 00:24:59,420 --> 00:25:01,300 And B, his ankles messed up. 396 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:05,220 Why is he going to just take off his boots 397 00:25:05,220 --> 00:25:07,860 and then truck, I don't know, how many miles home? 398 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:16,740 With that many days going by, we know 399 00:25:16,740 --> 00:25:18,860 he's not walking down the highway. 400 00:25:18,860 --> 00:25:21,260 We know he's not staying at somebody's house. 401 00:25:21,260 --> 00:25:25,620 We couldn't say what it was, but we knew something happened. 402 00:25:25,620 --> 00:25:27,740 They didn't want my family to go looking for him. 403 00:25:27,740 --> 00:25:31,860 We want to go out there to the farmhouse and search. 404 00:25:31,860 --> 00:25:33,620 The sheriff told us no. 405 00:25:33,620 --> 00:25:36,980 They say that they're looking for him. 406 00:25:36,980 --> 00:25:39,260 We were calling the Lane County Sheriff's Police Department 407 00:25:39,260 --> 00:25:40,340 daily. 408 00:25:40,340 --> 00:25:41,460 I mean, daily. 409 00:25:41,460 --> 00:25:43,100 I mean, probably for three weeks straight. 410 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:45,940 He'd said, you know, you need to slow down the phone calls. 411 00:25:45,940 --> 00:25:47,180 Just stop calling. 412 00:25:47,180 --> 00:25:48,620 Let us contact you. 413 00:25:48,620 --> 00:25:49,700 We're working on things. 414 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:03,380 A month later, that's when they let my family go down there. 415 00:26:03,380 --> 00:26:08,300 They gave them the OK to go down and search for my son. 416 00:26:08,940 --> 00:26:11,500 From the Lane County standpoint, they didn't have anything 417 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:12,580 on this case. 418 00:26:12,580 --> 00:26:14,740 So of course, they were like, yeah, go ahead and have your search. 419 00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:15,620 Half at it. 420 00:26:15,620 --> 00:26:17,740 Go ahead. 421 00:26:17,740 --> 00:26:21,420 Family were reaching out to friends, asking anybody that, 422 00:26:21,420 --> 00:26:25,060 you know, we're going to do a search in Lacyne. 423 00:26:25,060 --> 00:26:26,300 A lot of people heard about it. 424 00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:29,180 A lot of people wanted to participate. 425 00:26:29,180 --> 00:26:32,100 And, you know, honestly, we don't know what we was looking for. 426 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:34,580 We just wanted to find something that was a representation 427 00:26:34,580 --> 00:26:36,060 of my brother. 428 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:38,300 Or what could have happened or anything. 429 00:26:46,060 --> 00:26:47,540 We all split up. 430 00:26:47,540 --> 00:26:50,780 I was going to go along the creek bank on the east side 431 00:26:50,780 --> 00:26:52,980 of the house and follow that creek bank. 432 00:26:56,820 --> 00:27:00,100 There was a white shed that's not there now. 433 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:03,820 And we had always said somebody needs to go down there. 434 00:27:04,620 --> 00:27:08,660 We had always said somebody needs to search that shed. 435 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:13,620 That's where we were actually headed toward that. 436 00:27:13,620 --> 00:27:16,740 We were digging, you know, where we could through all the brush. 437 00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:18,620 And we got down there. 438 00:27:18,620 --> 00:27:21,300 And I looked up and I said, oh, crap. 439 00:27:26,140 --> 00:27:26,820 There he is. 440 00:27:26,820 --> 00:27:29,220 There's Zo. 441 00:27:29,220 --> 00:27:31,100 And I radioed and said, we've got him. 442 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:31,780 We've got Zo. 443 00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:37,820 I got a call from my uncle on the walkie talkie. 444 00:27:37,820 --> 00:27:39,820 So Billy, we found him. 445 00:27:39,820 --> 00:27:42,820 Just followed the creek. 446 00:27:42,820 --> 00:27:46,820 So I kept running all the way through this mud area out here. 447 00:27:46,820 --> 00:27:49,820 When I seen him, I ran down there, you know, kind of slid down 448 00:27:49,820 --> 00:27:52,820 on the embankment. 449 00:27:52,820 --> 00:27:55,820 My uncle stopped me and said, don't touch him. 450 00:27:55,820 --> 00:27:56,820 Don't go over there. 451 00:27:56,820 --> 00:27:59,820 I was trying to make my way over there. 452 00:27:59,820 --> 00:28:01,820 It was just a mess. 453 00:28:01,820 --> 00:28:02,820 It was a mess. 454 00:28:02,820 --> 00:28:03,820 You know, it was a mess. 455 00:28:03,820 --> 00:28:07,820 So you see him laying there. 456 00:28:07,820 --> 00:28:12,820 And you think back all the time, did you see him walking around, 457 00:28:12,820 --> 00:28:14,820 having fun? 458 00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:19,820 And you see this young man just laying there. 459 00:28:19,820 --> 00:28:22,820 His life just gone. 460 00:28:22,820 --> 00:28:26,820 Lucky his mom didn't come and help search. 461 00:28:26,820 --> 00:28:29,820 Because I don't think my search could have took that day. 462 00:28:32,820 --> 00:28:35,820 He was 23 years old. 463 00:28:35,820 --> 00:28:38,820 He was 23 when I last saw him. 464 00:28:42,820 --> 00:28:46,820 After we found him, there was KBI FBI, 465 00:28:46,820 --> 00:28:47,820 being in helicopters. 466 00:28:47,820 --> 00:28:48,820 It was crazy. 467 00:28:48,820 --> 00:28:50,820 It was just like boom. 468 00:28:51,820 --> 00:28:54,820 Family members found the body of Alonzo Brooks 469 00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:59,820 in a creek just 200 meters from his home. 470 00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:01,820 We all went down to town. 471 00:29:01,820 --> 00:29:04,820 And that's where the press conference was at. 472 00:29:04,820 --> 00:29:06,820 We just really wanted to find him. 473 00:29:06,820 --> 00:29:09,820 We just really wanted to find him and bring some kind of light 474 00:29:09,820 --> 00:29:11,820 to that he's not just missing, that there may 475 00:29:11,820 --> 00:29:14,820 been some foul play into it. 476 00:29:20,820 --> 00:29:23,820 The body was closed. 477 00:29:23,820 --> 00:29:26,820 And some personal items including a ring. 478 00:29:26,820 --> 00:29:30,820 The examination internally and the examination of the clothing 479 00:29:30,820 --> 00:29:33,820 does give me a fair degree of confidence 480 00:29:33,820 --> 00:29:38,820 that I don't have penetrating injuries as a cause of death. 481 00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:40,820 I don't have any physical injuries. 482 00:29:40,820 --> 00:29:42,820 I don't have any physical injuries. 483 00:29:42,820 --> 00:29:44,820 I don't have any physical injuries. 484 00:29:44,820 --> 00:29:46,820 I don't have any physical injuries. 485 00:29:46,820 --> 00:29:49,820 I don't have any physical injuries. 486 00:29:49,820 --> 00:29:54,820 I don't have any physical injuries as a cause of death. 487 00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:57,820 No evidence of any acute bone fracture. 488 00:29:57,820 --> 00:30:01,820 No evidence of a sharp force injury nor a gunshot. 489 00:30:01,820 --> 00:30:03,820 Could he have drowned? 490 00:30:03,820 --> 00:30:05,820 Yes. 491 00:30:05,820 --> 00:30:08,820 But there are no specific anatomic signs 492 00:30:08,820 --> 00:30:11,820 to make a determination of drowning. 493 00:30:11,820 --> 00:30:12,820 Could he be strangled? 494 00:30:12,820 --> 00:30:13,820 Certainly. 495 00:30:13,820 --> 00:30:16,820 The soft tissues in the neck are gone. 496 00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:20,820 They've been damaged by animals and insects. 497 00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:23,820 So there's nothing there that allows me to dig 498 00:30:23,820 --> 00:30:25,820 a determination that he was or was not strangled. 499 00:30:25,820 --> 00:30:27,820 There's no broken bone. 500 00:30:27,820 --> 00:30:29,820 There's no penetration of bone. 501 00:30:29,820 --> 00:30:34,820 If he's been beaten, it has not left anything identifiable. 502 00:30:40,820 --> 00:30:42,820 Mr. Brooks died. 503 00:30:42,820 --> 00:30:45,820 I do not know the circumstances of his death. 504 00:30:45,820 --> 00:30:48,820 I do not know the cause of his death, 505 00:30:48,820 --> 00:30:50,820 whether there was an accident 506 00:30:50,820 --> 00:30:54,820 or whether there was a purposeful involvement in his death. 507 00:30:59,820 --> 00:31:02,820 There's no accident that could have happened to my brother. 508 00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:04,820 That was intentional. 509 00:31:04,820 --> 00:31:06,820 Very intentional. 510 00:31:08,820 --> 00:31:11,820 His boots in hat was found off the side of the highway, 511 00:31:11,820 --> 00:31:14,820 far away, you know, from his body and everything. 512 00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:18,820 That obviously give you some kind of something to happen. 513 00:31:18,820 --> 00:31:19,820 Why is his shoes here? 514 00:31:19,820 --> 00:31:21,820 Why is his hat here? 515 00:31:21,820 --> 00:31:23,820 What happened? 516 00:31:23,820 --> 00:31:25,820 There's just foul play written all over it. 517 00:31:25,820 --> 00:31:26,820 That's all there is to it. 518 00:31:26,820 --> 00:31:29,820 There's just foul play written all over it. 519 00:31:29,820 --> 00:31:32,820 The night of the party, witnesses say there were four men 520 00:31:32,820 --> 00:31:33,820 living at this house. 521 00:31:33,820 --> 00:31:35,820 They've now since been evicted. 522 00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:37,820 But what happened at the party 523 00:31:37,820 --> 00:31:40,820 and whether it was a hate crime is still under investigation. 524 00:31:40,820 --> 00:31:45,820 There's a lot of opinions out there 525 00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:48,820 on the web and on blogs 526 00:31:48,820 --> 00:31:52,820 and all sorts of different variations of what could have happened. 527 00:31:57,820 --> 00:31:59,820 The different rumors that were going around, 528 00:31:59,820 --> 00:32:01,820 some of them, I guess were feasible 529 00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:04,820 and the other ones were just completely asinine. 530 00:32:06,820 --> 00:32:09,820 You know, rumors that maybe he did start walking on that highway 531 00:32:09,820 --> 00:32:11,820 and somebody picked him up. 532 00:32:11,820 --> 00:32:14,820 We set him up to drug dealers. 533 00:32:14,820 --> 00:32:17,820 Alonzo was chased down the driveway. 534 00:32:17,820 --> 00:32:19,820 After the party, like he tried to run. 535 00:32:19,820 --> 00:32:21,820 Somebody kept him in the trunk of a car, tortured him. 536 00:32:21,820 --> 00:32:22,820 I mean, you name it. 537 00:32:22,820 --> 00:32:24,820 There's a lot of that going around, you know. 538 00:32:24,820 --> 00:32:26,820 And the thing is, is that there was so much of it 539 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:28,820 that some of it actually could have been true. 540 00:32:31,820 --> 00:32:34,820 I remember hearing from the police officers 541 00:32:34,820 --> 00:32:38,820 that there were a couple of fights later that night. 542 00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:41,820 I mean, we all know how everybody can get when you're drinking. 543 00:32:41,820 --> 00:32:43,820 I mean, tempers are short. 544 00:32:47,820 --> 00:32:51,820 One of the things that I've heard is that there was a girl there, 545 00:32:51,820 --> 00:32:55,820 a white girl, and maybe she flirted with him 546 00:32:55,820 --> 00:32:57,820 or maybe he flirted with her. 547 00:32:58,820 --> 00:33:01,820 And they got too friendly. 548 00:33:01,820 --> 00:33:06,820 And some of the other guys that were there at the party didn't like it. 549 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:10,820 I mean, I don't know. 550 00:33:14,820 --> 00:33:17,820 If he's the only black kid there, 551 00:33:17,820 --> 00:33:21,820 you're gonna have somebody in there or a group of some people 552 00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:24,820 that's just gonna probably want to do something 553 00:33:24,820 --> 00:33:27,820 just because of his color. 554 00:33:29,820 --> 00:33:32,820 I'm sure the inward was getting thrown out that night. 555 00:33:32,820 --> 00:33:36,820 Alonzo would get mad about it, I do believe. 556 00:33:38,820 --> 00:33:41,820 I think he got his ass beat by about four or five people. 557 00:33:41,820 --> 00:33:44,820 That's what I believe Alonzo got beat up, he got jumped. 558 00:33:45,820 --> 00:33:51,820 It definitely would have taken a few guys or some type of brutal force of something. 559 00:33:52,820 --> 00:33:54,820 Because Alonzo wouldn't have gave up. 560 00:34:08,820 --> 00:34:14,820 The FBI continues to investigate to find out if Alonzo may have been the victim of a hate crime. 561 00:34:14,820 --> 00:34:18,820 Brooke's body was found here in this ravine in Lacing, Kansas. 562 00:34:18,820 --> 00:34:22,820 Sheriff Seitz says his crew was there many times before. 563 00:34:22,820 --> 00:34:27,820 His body was absolutely not where it is now at the time law enforcement was there. 564 00:34:27,820 --> 00:34:33,820 It doesn't make any sense that a dive team came out, KBI came out, that we had cadaver dogs out. 565 00:34:33,820 --> 00:34:37,820 And you'd done all these searches before and never found him. 566 00:34:37,820 --> 00:34:43,820 But we do a search and within 30 minutes we find him. 567 00:34:46,820 --> 00:34:51,820 When we came out here and we did the initial search, the creek level was so low they could actually see the bottom. 568 00:34:51,820 --> 00:34:56,820 We would have found him doing this motion here, just shuffling our bodies and our feet like this. 569 00:34:56,820 --> 00:34:58,820 Just walking through the creek doing this. 570 00:34:58,820 --> 00:35:03,820 If there was a body in here, when we searched it, he would have been found that night. 571 00:35:08,820 --> 00:35:13,820 Searches often fail to find the person you're looking for. 572 00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:19,820 You'll have helicopters and dogs and police and family and then all of a sudden they get found. 573 00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:26,820 He could have floated down the creek when the creek had higher water levels after a rainstorm. 574 00:35:28,820 --> 00:35:33,820 We've got a clog there of brushes and branches and he's simply trapped in that mess. 575 00:35:33,820 --> 00:35:40,820 When we found my brother, his body did not look like he was bloated, like he was in the water. 576 00:35:40,820 --> 00:35:43,820 His complexion of his skin looked normal to me. 577 00:35:43,820 --> 00:35:52,820 He actually looked like he was, you know, like he had his color and stuff on, like he wasn't, you know, dead. 578 00:35:54,820 --> 00:35:57,820 All these items was found on my son, all of them. 579 00:35:57,820 --> 00:36:04,820 For here's for being in that water for over a month doesn't look like it because this stuff is not damaged. 580 00:36:04,820 --> 00:36:08,820 His bill for stealing tack, his banana is not even that bad. 581 00:36:11,820 --> 00:36:14,820 Everything's still intact, there's papers. 582 00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:16,820 Look at that, nothing. 583 00:36:18,820 --> 00:36:21,820 This too, the plastic, look at that, it's still good. 584 00:36:22,820 --> 00:36:28,820 This is the video call to go to the movies and it's still intact, look at that. 585 00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:37,820 I can't say it, I can't do it anymore. 586 00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:39,820 I can't do it anymore. 587 00:36:48,820 --> 00:36:53,820 We believe that the body had been placed in the creek after the last search. 588 00:36:55,820 --> 00:37:06,820 When we went down there to ask Sheriff Stites that we want to do our own search, I don't know who Sheriff Stites talked to and let them know that, hey, you know, the Brooks family are going to do a search. 589 00:37:08,820 --> 00:37:15,820 It seemed, being a small town, somebody could tell somebody, somebody could tell somebody and it just goes like wildfire. 590 00:37:15,820 --> 00:37:23,820 And then somebody that had him or whatever probably just figured, hey, this time we can get rid of him right now, let him find him. 591 00:37:23,820 --> 00:37:27,820 So that's what we believe, somebody had placed him there. 592 00:37:29,820 --> 00:37:34,820 Where was he at from April 4th all the way to May 1st when we found him? 593 00:37:34,820 --> 00:37:36,820 Where was he at all that time? 594 00:37:36,820 --> 00:37:47,820 I believe my brother could have been in a meelock or something. 595 00:37:49,820 --> 00:37:54,820 For the body to not decompose as fast. That's what I believe. 596 00:37:54,820 --> 00:38:09,820 There's nothing that allows you to know whether somebody's been frozen. 597 00:38:09,820 --> 00:38:18,820 If you find it immediately upon thawing, there are some microscopic changes that might suggest that that's what's happened. 598 00:38:18,820 --> 00:38:23,820 However, when you have significant decomposition that's superimposed upon that, these signs disappear. 599 00:38:23,820 --> 00:38:27,820 There's no way to prove or disprove that a body's been frozen. 600 00:38:27,820 --> 00:38:34,820 As far as how long that body's been in the creek, it's consistent with having been there 30 days. It could easily be shorter. 601 00:38:34,820 --> 00:38:44,820 I also don't know the circumstances under which he ended up in the creek, so I can't tell you whether he placed himself in that environment or somebody else placed him in that environment. 602 00:38:45,820 --> 00:38:51,820 We know that most people, when they kill somebody and dispose of a body, do so in convenient fashions. 603 00:38:51,820 --> 00:38:54,820 Moving a dead body is not convenient. 604 00:38:58,820 --> 00:39:02,820 To bring that body down there and dump it, very inconvenient. 605 00:39:02,820 --> 00:39:08,820 You've got to go through a brush, you've got to go an extended period across a field. That's highly improbable. 606 00:39:09,820 --> 00:39:19,820 Now, having said that, if somebody sets their mind to it, you can take a body and you can move it and you can dump it somewhere. 607 00:39:24,820 --> 00:39:29,820 They hid my son from me. They hid my son from all of us. 608 00:39:38,820 --> 00:39:48,820 Sometimes I think about, you know, if he was, you know, being jumped or something, you know, he could have been calling out for me, you know, as well, you know, calling out for his big brother to come and help him. 609 00:39:48,820 --> 00:39:51,820 So, I didn't get that opportunity. 610 00:39:55,820 --> 00:40:01,820 You don't want to think about him suffering and being in pain. I'm sure he's very scared and didn't know what was happening or why it was happening. 611 00:40:02,820 --> 00:40:09,820 I wish I was still there because I would have grabbed him up. I would have grabbed him up and he wouldn't have been there. 612 00:40:17,820 --> 00:40:22,820 It's my fault I should have been there. He wouldn't have been alone. 613 00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:31,820 I'd have gone down with him fighting. I'd trade places with him today. And I'm heartbeat. 614 00:40:36,820 --> 00:40:47,820 They said time heals all wounds, but it doesn't. What they took from us was a piece of our heart. You know, a piece of our soul. 615 00:40:53,820 --> 00:41:09,820 Everyone else is going on with their day, living our life, and here we are stuck, wondering who did it, why they could be walking past us. We don't know. I mean, you know, it's just always one of those questions that stay in your mind. Why and who did it? 616 00:41:10,820 --> 00:41:24,820 He didn't get to have his family, to get married, go to work, you know, we got barbecues or something like that here. Here is crazy live. I can't hear that no more. All that's gone. 617 00:41:24,820 --> 00:41:45,820 This is a letter from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that says the KBI was one of the several law enforcement agencies who investigated the April 4th death of Alonzo Brooks. 618 00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:58,820 No evidence or information gained throughout the lengthy investigation indicated that Alonzo Brooks was the victim of a crime. For this reason, the investigation into his death was closed. 619 00:41:58,820 --> 00:42:20,820 My brother deserves more than this along with his family. This case needs to stay open. It should never close. It should stay open until it's actually closed with results. There's no results. 620 00:42:20,820 --> 00:42:27,820 If you can find Osama Bin Laden across the dang world, you can find somebody here who did something. 621 00:42:31,820 --> 00:42:39,820 I think there was enough people at that party that night that they could have figured something out, or there'd be more evidence out there for them to find what happened. 622 00:42:39,820 --> 00:42:57,820 I just don't know how the FBI didn't get anything out of anybody. I mean, for all the people they probably put that lie detector test to, how you come up with nothing. Some people lawyered up and then a lot of people didn't have to take lie detector tests. 623 00:42:58,820 --> 00:43:13,820 Why are you refusing in the first place? You obviously got something to hide. All I can say is that you know who you are. Think about this being your son. Think about this being your brother, your friend. 624 00:43:17,820 --> 00:43:22,820 If you know something, please come out. Please come out and just give us a little help. That's what we're asking for. 625 00:43:28,820 --> 00:43:47,820 This was tragic for our family. I want answers now. It's been 15 years. It's too long. 626 00:43:47,820 --> 00:44:00,820 That town still hasn't said anything. And the people and the kids don't say shit. And I still wonder why.