Valley Rapist Denied Parole for Twenty-Third Time
On July 31, 2018, at San Quentin State Prison, a California parole board denied parole for Alan Brooks, age 62, for kidnappings and violent sexual assaults in both Tulare and Kings County in 1975. Brooks received a three-year denial and is not scheduled for another hearing until 2021.
On September 25, 1975, Brooks approached the 24-year-old victim in the Sears store parking lot in Visalia, pointed arevolver at her and forced her to walk to his truck and get in the driver’s side. He ordered her to drive outsideVisalia, then stop the truck and walk into an orchard, where he told her to take off all her clothes. Brooks put the gun in his right front pocket, told the victim to lie on the ground, and raped her. When they heard a vehicle drive up and a man (who farmed the orchard) yell, asking who was out there, Brooks ordered the victim to get dressed and to walk out close together as if she was his girlfriend. Brooks told the man that everything was cool and 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. After shehad gotten in the driver’s seat, he 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; however, as he was fumbling with the keys to stop the engine, the victim 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.
This was Brooks’ twenty-third parole hearing. The District Attorney’s Office routinely attends life parole hearingsand a Senior Deputy District Attorney argued against the inmate’s release in this case.
Media inquiries can be directed to the Office of the District Attorney, County of Tulare Supervising Deputy District Attorney Rick Tripp (559) 636-5494