{"id":3084,"date":"2017-12-01T16:33:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2017-12-01T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T21:39:09","slug":"letters-in-berkeley-springs-arson-homicide-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"Letters in Berkeley Springs Arson Homicide Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patricia Brooks sent correspondence to Social Security on November 21, just four days before her body and two others were found on property New Hope Road in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3083\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3083\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3083\" src=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/brooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/brooks.jpg 250w, https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/brooks-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia and Carroll Brooks<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Morgan County Sheriff K.C. Bohrer, in her November 21 notice to Social Security, Brooks asked Social Security to discontinue sending checks to Carroll and Carl Brooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patricia Brooks, 53, was found in a parked car on the property dead with a gunshot wound to the chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two other bodies found in the burned out house on the property are presumed to be Patricia\u2019s husband Carroll Brooks, 73, and Carl Brooks, 33. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enforcement authorities are investigating the case as a homicide and arson case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patricia Brooks also mailed two envelopes to herself that were returned to the local post office and recovered by a search warrant, Sheriff Bohrer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPost mortem examinations determined that at least one of the two deceased persons in the fire had a bullet recovered from their body,\u201d the Sheriff said in a statement.\u201cThe investigation is not yet complete but this new information supports theories that no other person was involved in these deaths.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Brooks sent correspondence to Social Security on November 21, just four days before her body and two others were found on property New Hope Road in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. According to Morgan County Sheriff K.C. Bohrer, in her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}