Corey Lynn Brooks was 21 when he was last seen on June 19, 1998, at a family reunion in Fort Bend, Texas. After playing basketball with relatives he borrowed his mother’s house keys to shower at her home and never came back. Brooks had a history of disappearing for stretches but always kept in contact with family; concern led to an official missing persons report filed January 31, 1999.

The case was reopened in 2003 after anonymous tips alleged Brooks had been shot during a fight and his body dumped in the Brazos River or buried near Orchard, Texas. The investigation shifted in December 2005 when 12-year-old Teketria Buggs, the stepdaughter of Brooks’s cousin Steven Carrington and last seen from the same Orchard home where Brooks had been living, was found murdered. While jailed on unrelated charges, Carrington confessed to killing Brooks in 1998, saying he shot him in the head during an argument, wrapped the body in a blanket and dumped it in the Brazos River with help from another man.

Carrington later pleaded guilty to the murders, but Brooks’s remains have never been recovered. Does anyone have information about Brooks’s last known movements in Fort Bend or the Orchard area that could help confirm what happened?