Kathleen Brooks

Kathleen Brooks is the mother of Jessica Brooks. Her original daughter was transformed into a boy named Dana Costello in 1999 at the age of 10, leaving a 40-year-old police detective named Conrad Mancini to take her place.

For a number of years, Kathleen raised this ersatz daughter, frustrated by her insistence that she was not the real Jessica. It was only upon the death of her father, (known to the original Jessica as Grandpa Carl) that, through some combination of time, effort and emotional distress, Kathleen was able to believe her daughter.

She expressed skepticism that many of the subsequent Inn Victims she met, such as Arthur Milligan, Jake Matthews and Louisa Torrence, were anyone but the women they appeared to be, but was emotionally reunited with her original daughter in her new male form following Jessica's road trip in late 2007.