Alonzo Brooks, 23, disappeared after attending a farmhouse party in rural La Cygne, Kansas, on a spring night in April 2004. He was reportedly one of only three Black people among about 100 attendees. Friends left during the night after an apparent misunderstanding, leaving Brooks without a ride; that was the last time he was seen alive.

When he did not return the next day his family reported him missing. After nearly a month with no leads, family and friends organized a search on May 1, 2004, and found his body in a creek near the farmhouse, partially on a pile of brush. An initial autopsy did not determine a cause of death and the investigation grew cold.

The case was reopened by the Department of Justice and the FBI in 2019. Authorities exhumed Brooks in July 2020 for further examination, and in April 2021 armed forces medical examiners concluded his death was a homicide, citing injuries inconsistent with normal decomposition. The FBI is offering up to a $100,000 reward; no suspects have been publicly named and no arrests reported.

Did anyone at the party or in the La Cygne area that night notice something unusual or remember Alonzo’s last movements?