Ibral 3, 2004.

Lassine, Kansas.

23-year-old Alonzo Brooks vanishes while attending a party at a farmhouse,

and his body is discovered on the banks of a nearby creek nearly one month later.

While a forensic pathologist is unable to determine Alonzo's exact cause of death,

rumors start circulating that he was the victim of a hate crime

before his body was placed at that location.

In 2021, after Alonzo's body is exhumed and given a new autopsy,

it is announced that his death has officially been reclassified as a homicide,

but there's still no conclusive answers about how he was killed.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be exploring a highly

requested case which is featured on the Netflix reboot of Unsaw Mysteries,

the 2004 unexplained death of Alonzo Brooks, or I guess we can now officially call it

the murder of Alonzo Brooks.

This is a story of a young man who went missing after attending a party at a farmhouse in rural

Kansas before his body was discovered on the banks of a nearby creek nearly one month later.

While Alonzo's exact cause of death could not be determined, there was no direct evidence of

foul play, but since Alonzo was one of the only persons of color attending a party in a

predominantly white area, the authorities did explore the possibility that he was the victim of a

hate crime. There was also some controversy over the fact that the area where Alonzo's body was

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