State v. Brooks

Facts of Case

In the early afternoon of July 21, 1979, at 2 p.m., the defendant was seen going under a bridge at the Olney Creek campground near Sultan with a 10-year-old boy. Some 20 minutes later the defendant was seen to emerge by himself. A relatively short time afterward, the child's nude body was found under the bridge draped over a large rock. The boy had head wounds, numerous scratches, abrasions and bruises as well as a severe laceration of the genitalia which appeared to have been made by a dull cutting instrument. Death was determined to have been caused by drowning, although the…