FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A Valley rapist is denied parole for the 23rd time.
62 year-old Alan Brooks has been in San Quentin State Prison more than 40 years for kidnappings and violent sexual assaults of women in both Tulare and Kings County.
On September 25, 1975, Brooks approached a 24-year-old woman in the Sears parking lot in Visalia, pointed a revolver at her and forced her to walk to his truck and get in the driver’s side.
He ordered her to drive outside Visalia, stop the truck, walk into an orchard, where he told her to take off her clothes, and lie on the ground.
Brooks put the gun in his pocket, and raped her.
They heard a vehicle drive up and a man, who farmed the orchard, yelled, asking who was there.
Brooks ordered his victim to get dressed and to walk out close together, pretending she was his girlfriend.
Brooks told the man that everything was cool.
He drove back to Visalia, letting the victim out near Mooney Blvd.
A few days later, on October 1, 1975, at the Hanford mall, Brooks approached the 26-year-old victim’s car, knocked on the passenger side window with his gun, telling her to let him in.
He had her drive a zig zag route outside of town, at gunpoint, while he rifled through her purse, stealing approximately $300.
He told her to drive to a canal bank and walk in to a cornfield, where he raped her.
Brooks drove back to where he had abducted her and told her she was going with him in his truck.
As he was fumbling with the keys to stop the engine, she escaped from the car and ran screaming to a nearby residence.
In Tulare County, Brooks was convicted of kidnapping and rape with the special allegation of use of a firearm.
In a separate Kings County trial, he was convicted of kidnapping for purposes of a robbery with harm and rape with the special allegation of use of a firearm.
Originally sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, Brooks was resentenced to life with the possibility of parole in 1978 after a statutory change to the kidnapping for purposes of a robbery conviction.
A Senior Deputy District Attorney argued against the inmate’s release in this case.
On July 31, 2018, at San Quentin State Prison, a California parole board denied parole for Brooks. He received a three-year denial and is not scheduled for another hearing until 2021.
Listen to the report by KMJ’s Liz Kern:
