For more than three decades, Alfred Brooks has marked time in prison.
He's waiting to get out. Police are waiting for him to talk.
Classic impasse.
In the late 1960s or early '70s, Brooks joined a group of radical Black Muslims headquartered in Oklahoma City. The group has long been suspected in a series of black-on-white crimes, including at least six unsolved slayings, three shootings, two abductions and a dozen arson fires.
Police think Brooks, a convicted murderer who declined interview requests for this story, is the key to cracking the cases. They think he committed some of the crimes, or at least knows who did.
They just can't prove it. Not after 34 years.
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