[6] Following the night of the party, the Brooks family traveled to La Cygne to search for their son and contact the local authorities.
Eventually, the Linn County Sheriffs Office turned the case over to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation after failing to locate Brooks.
On the first day of the search effort, Brooks' body was found on the banks of Middle Creek adjacent to the house where he was last seen a month earlier.
Acting U.S. Attorney Duston Slinkard stated that while the FBI knew that Brooks died under very suspicious circumstances, the autopsy ultimately proved that his death was not an accident.
[1] On July 1, 2020, Brooks' death was featured in the fourth episode "No Ride Home" of the fifteenth season of Unsolved Mysteries TV series.