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it can be pretty difficult to Simply disappear but what if someone really wanted you
to maybe for for them you are a problem a big problem and at the end of the day isn't
that what we all want for our problems to just simply go away this week we tell the story of a
young mother who vanished on August 17th 2006 32-year-old Brandy Hall was working
the night shift at the Malibar fire station just before 11:00 p.m. Brandy told her co-workers that she was going
home her husband says she never showed up she has never been seen since the last images of Brandy start at
10:32 p.m. from surveillance cameras at the fire station in the footage we can see Brandy
preparing to leave the station she enters the common area of the firehouse there are three firefighters
sitting on couches one walking with a bag and another standing by the door Brandy wearing a white long sleeved
pullover engages the firefighter by the door for a few moments she then walks through the next
room alone on her way out to her truck and then the final image captures the tail lights of bry's dark green
2002 Chevy Silverado pickup truck slowly leaving the station's camera frame at 10:50
p.m. the images are chilling because well that's it she's gone this is true crime garage and this
is the missing person's case of Brandy [Applause] [Music] Hall this week we are going out to a
place called Malibar Florida Malibar is a picturesque Town brimming with natural
beauty nestled on the eastern coast of the Sunshine State Malibar offer offers residents and visitors alike a tranquil
escape from the hustle and bustle of urban life this idyllic Town boast a unique blend of residential
neighborhoods parks and a quaint downtown area creating a welcoming atmosphere for all Malibar is a small
town with a rural field to it it's only about 13 square miles of which 2.6 square miles are water and only about
3,000 people live there there are hiking trails Parks lots of open spaces and no
tall buildings to speak of it's one of the few places left in brever county that still has some dirt roads the town
has a volunteer fire department but no police station of its own the day that Brandy Hall disappeared was a warm and
muggy day with humidity topping out at 84% the temperatures reached 89° but had dropped down to about 75°
when Brandy disappeared now we also need to talk about a nearby place called Palm
Bay so you're going to hear a lot of us bouncing back and forth between Malibar Florida and Palm Bay Florida which is
pretty much next door to Malibar but to the west and before we get into this week's mystery I want to give a couple
of shout outs here first to floridatoday.com and to new news columnist and investigative journalist
John Torres he's a reporter who has doggedly followed this Brandy Hall case and worked very closely with some
retired detectives and he covered this story extensively in season 3 of the murder on the Space Coast podcast he did
a fantastic job and I like to cite these sources early in the show here Captain especially when we have a situation like
this week such great work was done here Gang Busters work as I like to say and so we
need to give a longdistance high five and shout out to John Torres now the people involved in this case there are
going to be a lot of people as we typically see in these cases that are going to be on the peripheral however
there are several people that are at the very center of this case first off of course we have our victim Brandy Hall
she's a devoted mother of to she is a victim of a mysterious disappearance now keep in mind she disappears this is
leaving her two small children both of them ages 10 and under at the time of her disappearance she was holding a
position as a firefighter at the Malibar fire department at the time that she went missing Brandy skill set defined
traditional Norms according to her husband she embodied the essence of a country girl and in fact growing up
Captain her nickname and this was a nickname that she was rather fond of was redneck and all of her friends and would
say that she did the stuff that the boys did and she could do the stuff that the
boys did a lot of times much better than they did riding ATVs getting in the mud
getting dirty she liked to work do construction things of that nature so that gives a little bit of back
background about the individual that we are going to be focusing on for this week's case she was also as an adult uh
into welding fishing hunting and sharp shooting now Brandy's story is intertwined with elements of intrigue
and controversy she was married to a former fire chief who had a tarnished record she and her husband seem to have
been entangled in drug related TR troubles and we'll get into the specifics of that as we go through our
timeline here today simultaneously she is in a longstanding extramarital affair with a married man
so this further complicates our case despite this complexity Brandy garnered widespread respect within the
firefighting Community her peers agree that she excelled As A Firefighter and she was quick witted and reliable
someone who could always be counted on in times of need and normally when a woman a mother a wife goes missing the
first suspect that law enforcement needs to look at and needs to question to get
answers is the husband Jeff Hall Jeff Hall and Brandy they met their paths crossed working for a fire department
okay while they were both volunteering now Jeff Hall who is he well he's not just Brandy Hall husband he is or was a
once distinguished firefighter from the Oola County fire department now his journey in the fire
service began at an astonishingly young age as he joined the fire department Reserve team in Orange
County at age 14 by 1983 he had transitioned to a full-time role as a Saint Cloud
firefighter an achievement underscored by his rapid Ascent to the esteemed position of fire chief within a mere
decade commanding an annual salary of about $555,000 now in 1993 Jeff further solidified his legacy
by becoming the youngest individual in the county history to assume the role of head of Public Safety notably he was the
inaugural person to concurrently hold the positions of of head of Emergency Management and fire chief so he's he's
playing both of these roles at the same time with an already impressive track record Jeff was on the cusp of obtaining
the Zenith of his career when fate brought him into bry's life now we will see and we discussed briefly that Jeff
Hall is going to find himself into some troubles and again we will get into that
in our timeline now Randall rich man is another person that we will be discussing at length today because he is
the longtime boyfriend of Brandy Hall and it sounds like Captain that they may have been seeing each other for
nearly 10 years flicky flicky leading up to bry's disappearance this is according
to bry's friends and other firefighters in fact the two were referred to by some as brandall you know
putting meshing the two names together lame brandall was the last person believed to have spoken with Brandy
interestingly he initially denied having spoken to or seeing Brandy for the past
couple of weeks H the timeline here is such key as it always is especially in a missing
person's cases but the the movements of this Randall Richman are very curious to
say the least keep in mind he's married both Brandy Hall as we discussed she's married to Jeff
Hall and Randall Richmond is married to an Marie Richmond many times when you have a affair happening nobody knows
about the affair except for the two people that are in the entanglement but this one not the case
it seemed like almost everybody knew about the affair not only the two involved but both individual ual's
Partners knew about the affair as well that's what's very interesting in this case and a really hard to
decipher having not been directly involved in the situation is who knew what and what
exactly did they know and it sounds to me that there's a little bit of a incestuous type of environment going on
maybe in some of these smaller fire departments down in this Florida area at this
time these two might not be the only two that were fooling around or running around on their spouse which makes the
case that much more convoluted and very cloudy and we have no evidence for or against the idea that any of these
individuals weren't having multiple Affairs there's rumor of such but the thing seems to be here Captain is that
Jeff Hall I can't say that he fully 100% knew of the affair it sounds to me like
he he wasn't completely dumb to it the same thing could be said for anarie Richmond it sounds like she had her
suspicions but maybe not was unable to confirm those suspicions but again we're going to get into all the details of
that stuff now we need to point out here though that an Marie Randall's wife she
is working at the Palm Bay Hospital she will play a key role in this timeline as
well which we're going to jump into right now so this timeline the reason why we give a shout out to
floridatoday.com is a portion of that is taken from floridatoday.com and we've filled in
some of the blanks added to the gaps and added a lot of detail where needed and even some other stops here on the
timeline let's go all the way back Captain to 1993 so this will be when Brandy and
Jeff her would be husband when they first met so he's a firefighter/paramedic and she is a
volunteer for the acola county where they run calls into rural areas of a place called Hollow pal the pair would
marry when brand was only 19 years old and Jeff is 30 years of age at this time in October of
1994 Palm Bay Fire Department hires Brandy Hall As A Firefighter and medical technician she had applied to several
fire departments in May of 1994 and then is later hired by Palm Bay on October 10th of that same year she
starts off with a salary of just under $20,000 Now by all accounts and this is to put it pretty lightly she loves it
she loves the job this is this is like dream job right we see a person who is volunteering their time to go into a
career that they've always dreamt of being a member of this career path so she loves it her family says she loves
it her mom says that her passion was being a firefighter we're going to fast forward
6 years to April of 2000 this is when Brandy receives a really cool promotion she's promoted to
driver engineer she obtains certification as a paramedic and we should note too that Brandy is only one
of four female firefighters employed by the city at that time July 2nd of 2005 Brandy Hall's husband Jeff Hall former
Oola County fire chief he is arrested and charged with trafficking marijuana so to fill in the blanks here a little
bit Captain as we said Jeff is 11 years older than Brandy and so while he started his
firefighter career at the young age volunteering at the young age of 14 and Rose through the ranks rather quickly
and it sounds like deservedly so it sounds like this man was well-liked hardworking very very smart very good at
being a firefighter he rises to the ranks of County Fire Chief and then he retires well him and a buddy decide that
you know what would be exciting and what would be really cool we can make a whole
lot of money and have this exciting lifestyle his buddy's name is Paul hirs they decide to go into business
together well what business are they going to go into together that would be the drug business we're going to go into
the illegal drug business well yeah so his family had this extra 13 acres and they thought well we could grow some
marijuana I I don't know how much they were trying to become rich off this or if it was just something that they were
going to try to make a few extra bucks so you're exactly right Captain because the stories don't they vary greatly in
the situation you have some stories where Jeff and his buddy Paul are saying well this was pretty small operation
this was really kind of just a casual thing that a couple buddies were doing we got a few seeds from The High Times
magazine and decided that we wanted to start cultivating marijuana plants and then there's other people
that say not so fast Mister because you had this large property for which you had a facility you put in all of these
resources to set up a rather large grow operation yeah when law enforcement was hdden them with these charges law
enforcement was saying hey this is a extensive operation this is you know kind of
complex but again there's two sides of that coin right exactly and and one part of that coin says law enforcement saying
that this is like a an operation where these two stood to make about a million or so dollars off of their crop and that
would just be one season right if they could get away with that they could do it season after season now Jeff to his
credit and I want to be clear here too these these two individuals are not like some real lowlevel low life dirty drug
users smalltime dealers right this sounds much more to me like guys that had made it in this
world and had some extra cash had some extra space and I'm not trying to defend them too much because it was incredibly
illegal at the time to be doing what they were doing but Jeff says look I kind of just got caught up in this like
it started off as something casual and recreational and then I kind of got excited by the idea of living a
different lifestyle making a bunch of money which back up the truck a little bit Jeff pump the brakes on on wanting
to be whatever it is you thought you were going to be you got a wife and two kids at home yeah and not to defend them
but there's many professions that are Society relies on firefighters being one underpaid teachers underpaid nurses
underpaid so you could see the lore there and because he's in a small community a lot of these firefighters
are connected to law enforcement and and maybe they've heard about other people doing some Mis dealings and they thought
well we can get away with it it's not going to be that big of a operation and one thing we're going to see you want to
talk about firefighters being connected to something one thing we're going to see in this case time and time again a
lot of our firefighters are tied to construction and this case and I think that's a lot of Jeff's background as
well so regardless in July of 2005 once a well-respected fire chief Jeff Hall he's arrested in charge with
trafficking marijuana possession with intent to sell plus manufacturing a hallucinogen a few days later Brandy
Hall then surrenders to police on drug charges connected with her husband's marijuana oper ation this to me is a
little cloudy I don't have full understanding of the situation my guess here as Captain is that it was no secret
to Brandy what her husband was doing and what he was up to her level involve of involvement seems a little dicey to me
to try to sort out but what we do know is she is charged and wanted by police in relation to the charges against her
husband she then turns herself in to the police yeah this situation becomes cloudy with the side of Meatballs again
two sides of the coin law enforcement is saying she had to know what was going on
uh she was more involved than she claimed she is and then her story is basically I didn't know anything about
this so again two sides to that coin whether she knew everything or didn't know anything at all what this is going
to lead to is is at the end of that same year 2005 she's going to lose that job that
she loves so much so she loses her city of Palm Bay firefighting job okay this will require her it doesn't technically
require her but she wants so badly to stay in the field of firefighting that that's her dream job her dream
career and she just lost that because of this arrest because of her ties and her
husband's drug operation that he was attempting to do but because she wants to stay in in firefighting there's a
certain level of training there's a certain level of involvement that you want to keep if you want to continue
that career so very smartly she decides you know what I will go to Malibar fire department they have a volunteer fire
department there I'm going to go there and volunteer here so I can continue my training I can can continue working as a
firefighter and maybe once all this mess gets cleared up I can then resume my career as a paid firefighter with a
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today [Music] [Applause] all right we are back you filthy animals cheers to everybody in the front and
everybody in the back that's right pour me one Captain so I can cheers everybody
in between yeah give you a pint my friend that's right so where we left off Brandy and recently lost her job but now
she's volunteering for the Malibar fire department remember these two locations are practically right next door to one
another Palm Bay is much bigger and Malibar as we said at the time would be a population of about 3,000 people well
this really sucks for her because if she did not know about the dealings of her husband the Mis dealings or whatever you
want to call them she is facing consequences for somebody else's actions can I throw in just some pure
speculation here yeah I have nothing to back very little to back this up again I
I'm very uncertain to what her involvement was and and frankly exactly what she was charged with but we do know
her charges stem from ties to this air quotes drug operation and that may just be the
simple fact that oh her husband's running this there's no way she didn't know maybe we just charger
but Brandy is very involved in construction and you will see this a lot of times because of the schedule that
firefighters typically work a lot of them will have a part-time job or some other gig that they do to add to extra
income well and that's why in this case you see firefighters so connected to construction workers because when you're
off hey here's a job that you can do part-time and they're happy to have the extra help and there's no way that he's
listening to this so if somebody out there hears this I'm giving a shout out to one of my favorite bartenders of all
time disco Dean wherever you are cheers to you my friend disco Dean that's the nickname I gave him his you know great
guy he was a firefighter with Columbus great guy bad nickname for many many years and he bartended I believe just
one day a week at one of my favorite establishments uh so great guy shout out to him but that's just one example of a
firefighters who grab these part-time jobs or they work and have their own small businesses that they can run on
their days off because typically you'll work one on two off from my understanding because your one on is
24-hour shift right Brand's very involved in construction so my speculation here Captain is did they
have any proof that she helped to build up this land or the area where they were
attempting to run this this grow operation out of yeah I'm guessing that they have some phone records and then
they have not just phone records but text records as well so it could be a slam dunk case as far as she had some
text message between friends or somebody and they they know 100% that she was involved but that that information has
never been made public now here Captain is where we get into some soap opera Real Housewives of Malibar Florida type
stuff yeah it on this is the juicy details that some people juicy juicy so this is going to be February of 2006 Now
by this time I'm a little uncertain as to when the affair starts but as said the people that knew Brandy best seem to
all agree that the affair with Randall Richmond had been going on for years leading up to her disappearance so by
this point the affair seems to be in full go 10 years there are rumors about a heated exchange that took place out in
a very public setting so the rumors are that Brandy Hall and an Marie's husband Richard those rumors that are going on
about the two being involved this leads to a heated exchange between the two women at the grant Seafood Festival
it was reportedly ugly and caught in in view of a lot of people and a lot of people's attention so Reports say that
it started when Brandy asked Randall hey why are you wearing your wedding ring he
asked Brandy to lower her voice and Brandy just got louder and louder until Randall's wife and Marie she hears
what's going on she comes over and then there's an altercation between the two women again this was at the grant
Seafood Festival February of 2006 yeah see I heard it different I heard it was that Brandy asked the wife why are you
wearing your wedding ring because I can have your husband whenever I want to oh so no one wants to you don't want to
be confronted with that at the seafood festival no so that you mentioned earlier how much did did this man and
remember he was bry's boss at one time correct how much did his wife know about this affair I think she knew all about
it and obviously when Brandy goes missing and law enforcement is showing up at your door going hey we we want to
know where Brand's at and by the way you were the last person to talk to her he was downplaying everything of course
he's going to downplay everything cuz he probably told his wife multiple times it's done and over with we're not we're
not a thing anymore well and what's weird too is that Randall Richmond is often referred to as a friend of Jeff
Halls now what my speculation is Captain is what a friend they they were probably
one-time friends and as we just discussed a firefighter schedule Brandy works for Randall Richmond they do 24
hours on their overnights together you know and and there there seems to be you know we know with Brandy and Randall
there's a lot going on there but there's also rumors of this isn't the only Affair that's ever happened in a
firehouse right and and look I'm just going to play some devil's advocate here because is it possible that bry's
husband went well she's having this affair and I know she's having it or maybe it's on again off again maybe he's
not very sure of it but I would give somebody reason to go hey I got these 13 acres I'm just going to grow a little
pot make a little money on the side and I don't need to tell her about it cuz there's stuff in her life that she
hasn't told me about so this is a very messy situation it's juicy juicy part of me wonders Captain is this like a
midlife crisis situation for Jeff Hall recently retired maybe late at night sucking down a couple Budweisers sees
catches an episode or two of weeds on Showtime and decides you know what sucking on some cold ones that looks
like fun I'll start up a little a little marijuana operation yeah or maybe he is
uh a big fan of Breaking Bad or something that's right so let's get into the day in question and there's going to
be a lot of moving parts and pieces here so pay attention folks this is Thursday
August 17th 2016 and as we already said this is going to be a hot and humid day temperatures reaching about 80 9° by the
time that uh Brandy goes missing or his last scene it's going to be about 75 76 degrees so we'll start off at the 900
p.m. hour now we have Randall Richmond at this time in our timeline he is the Palm Bay fire captain at 900 p.m. he
calls Jeff Hall now why would he call Jeff Hall he's having an affair with Jeff Hall's wife he calls Jeff Hall
because again there's it's said that they were friends Jeff Hall is due in court the
following day yeah not to determine if he is innocent or guilty of the drug grow operation charges or not no he is
dueing Court to be sentenced they are going to decide how long he should be in prison for these charges well just to
clear this up so he was on trial and then he was released and now he's facing his sentence and so
by this time Jeff Hall has already pled guilty to the charges and the following day he's going
to be sentenced Randall Richmond calls Jeff at 900 p.m. this to lend him support so Jeff considered Randall
Richmond a friend and Randall is telling Jeff hey I'll be there tomorrow at your
sentencing hearing what they have is a bunch of character Witnesses right a bunch of people are
going to come forward and say Jeff Hall's a good guy I've known him for x amount of years yes he he did this one
bad thing he did something stupid but otherwise has live lived and led a productive life he's a he's a good
citizen a good civilian uh a member of the community so and so you know we see this in in every case that we cover that
goes to court there will be people that come forward to say either a you know Victim Impact statement this guy's
complete trash or B this is a good guy maybe the court can be lenient on this dude he's either trash or class Randall
was calling Jeff and saying hey I'll be there tomorrow at your sentencing to tell everybody the good stuff that
you've done and now we're going to go 45 minutes later to 9:45 this is when Brandy calls home to
speak with Jeff and her children this is to say good night she tells Jeff on this
phone call that she will see him in the morning and that she too will be at the sentencing hearing he says that they say
I love you and this captain from my understanding is something that Brandy Hall regularly did so she works the
night shift Jeff is at home with their two young kids it was very common if not every night that she worked because
she works overnight she works the third shift right that she would call home talk to Jeff briefly get the kids on the
phone tell them good night they would say their prayers together and then it's bedtime so this is something she did
darn near every night now just after 10 p.m. Brandy Hall is last scene we talked
about this in the trailer it's at 10:32 that she's seen preparing to leave the fire station yes and this is on video
footage so we're not guessing this right this this absolutely happened so this is
roughly this is roughly 1 hour after calling home talking to Jeff and the kids so Brandy decides to leave the fire
station surveillance footage shows her Milling around in the common area of the firehouse this is at 10:32 p.m. then at
10:50 p.m. another C camera picks up her truck as it leaves the firehouse parking
lot phone records indicate Brandy is using her next t phone so why is that important she actually has two cell
phones one is an AT&T phone and one is a nexttel phone which the nexttel phones if if people remember back
then was a combination of a mobile phone and a walkie-talkie yeah and correct me
if I'm wrong I'm guessing one is work rated and one is personal that I don't know the thing
here is she's a volunteer right so I don't know the status of those two cell phones they may
both be hers right and again the next Tel phones back then had that walkie-talkie
feature which for First Responders and and I know this from working security back then in Security operation we use
those Nextel phone walkie-talkie feature all the time because what was so cool about it was let's say I got a
supervisor or somebody we have an emergency and somebody I need to get a hold of is on vacation or at their home
you know I work third shift second shift first shift so you would second shift and third shift you're you may need
somebody that is likely not there not working at that time right and I remember one emergency that we had it
was really cool I could hit a button I didn't have to dial anything or nothing hit a button and it would it would beep
the individual I needed to get a hold of and in that case the individual was several states
away and within a second I hear a beep back and and I'm now walkie-talkie feature talking to that
individual so she is using her next hell phone at this time at 1050 she's using this next cell phone to
call her cell phone voicemail she's checking her own messages while she's leaving the station yeah makes sense
seems like a common practice right from there it's believed that she went to the
Sonoco Gas Station she fills up her pickup truck with diesel fuel and then she makes another
call so after the leaving the fire station and the this is based off of phone records so this is not in question
these are things that we absolutely know happen right the problem is we don't know what the conversations were we
don't know what the words were we don't know if it was a heated argument or a casual conversation or just a hey how
you doing I love you I miss you kind of situation but after leaving the fire station we know that Brandy Hall and
Randall richond exchanged text messages so this takes place at 10:53 p.m. 10:56 p.m. and 10:57 p.m. but also don't we
have him on on a call with her as well yes so they had text or spoken on the phone more than 80
times before Brandy leaves the fire station on the night of her disappearance okay repeat that so there
between text and talking on the phone 80 times in one day the information I have
says 80 times now that seems like a and it is a lot but but there are I've I've heard from
recorded conversations detectives stating that they have records saying that the two spoke or traded
Communications so either text or phone calls roughly about 50 times a day on average right so this is not excessive
but it's more than the average more than the average but not excessive considering how much communication they
had so according to the information I have this is based off of phone records Brandy is the one who text Randall
Richmond at 10:53 p.m. the problem is police have said we know that they were texting we don't know what the messages
were right so Brandy texts Randall Richmond at 10:53 p.m. Randall then text her back at 10:56 so 3 minutes later and
then again the following minute at 10:57 so 1 from Brandy Two from Randall Richmond now we go to
1106 p.m. August 17th 2006 Brandy Hall and Palm Bay fire captain Randle Richmond talk on the phone for 10
minutes and 46 seconds that is the last phone record of anyone speaking to Brandy h
on either of those cell phones right that she owned and I don't think it's clear or at least I don't know if it's
been stated again correct me if I'm wrong but do we have record of him reaching out to her after she goes
missing well that's what's going to become a problem for Randall Richmond is that it looks
like after this call he doesn't attempt to communicate with her again via text or phone call
because if you know somebody's missing you there's no reason to contact them because you know what happened to
them it's very fishy so to reiterate here Captain Brandy calls Randle Richmond she is at she's parked at the
Sonoco Gas Station at this time the phone call as we said is 10 minutes 46 seconds so that's from 11:06 p.m. to
11:17 p.m. that night right we can say that she goes missing right afterwards she's going to go missing soon
afterwards but I also want to be clear here as we're going through this timeline that there are some gaps they
might be small and who knows what could happen if anything happened at all during these
small little gaps but there there is some wiggle room here in the timeline that things could have happened she
could have stopped off somewhere and other people are just not being honest with us but from what we can see from
what Randall Richmond agrees to telling police from what Jeff Hall agrees to telling police and what the phone
records indicate and the surveillance footage from the fire station this is the best that we can piece together her
timeline now now this is going to take us to 11:48 p.m. this is when Jeff Hall hears from
his attorney that his sentencing hearing has been moved up so remember he's going
to be sentenced the following day again he's pled guilty so this is not a situation where he's like I'm not going
to prison I might not go to prison he's he's about 99.9% sure tomorrow my ass is going to
prison yeah and what's important I have children and I need their mother around correct well and remember Brandy
is supposed to be a character witness if you will at his hearing the following day right and so is Randall Richmond and
several other people now Jeff Hall says that at this time he is at home in bed and he's actually trying to spend as
much time with his young children as he can given the circumstances so he says they
were all lying in bed together and that they all fell asleep watching TV now what time they fell asleep I do not know
exactly but what we do know happens is at 11:48 p.m. his attorney calls and says hey man tomorrow your sentencing
hearing it's going to be a little earlier in the day than we anticipated right so he knows his wife Brandy Hall
is at the fire station or should be at the fire fire station working and so he attempts to get in touch with Brandy
because he wants to let her know hey tomorrow the sentencing hearing is earlier than expected and you're one of
the people I'm counting on not just to to put in a good word for me but as the captain said somebody's got to watch
these kids right now the kids will have school the following day because that will be a Friday but he attempts to
reach out to Brandy and he he's unable to get a hold of her at this time so he calls Brandy at 11:48 p.m.
there's no answer he then tries her next tell again and then there's no answer so
he tries both cell phones no answer at 11:48 now let's fill in everybody in on what Brandy's plans were so remember we
said that she's involved in construction so she owns a piece of equipment called a skid steer
now I don't know if it's I can't speak for other locations but I can say for here in Ohio Captain you and I would
typically look at that piece of equipment that machine and say oh that's a bobcat you know this is like a looks
like a a oneperson very small bulldozzer for a lack of a better term right a front loader right and it
technically the machine is a skid steer front loader we typically refer to them as
Bobcats up here because one of the biggest brands in in bestselling brands of that machine is the Bobcat brand so
he's got to get in touch with his wife for obvious reasons but it's much more important that he gets in touch with her
because he knows know Jeff knows that often times after Brandy gets done with her
shift she will go and either do welding early in the morning or she will operate
her skid steer and do some work so the plan from what he understood was that she was
doing a bobcat job earlier that day but due to weather conditions she decided that she was
going to resume some of that work the following morning and then get cleaned up and go
to the sentencing hearing so he wants to make sure he gets in touch with her because her first stop after work might
not be to come home well like you said this is very important I mean he needs her there in court he needs her also
there to do her motherly duties because she is going to be the only parent and he calls several times and he calls both
phones and no reply that is going to lead us to The Stroke of Midnight which is actually kind of a rough time right
here it's a roundabout time and you'll see why here in just a second but the record state that at midnight the
following occurred so military time I guess all zero on the clock right this is when Jasmine Campbell files a tip a
tip that unfortunately seems to get Mis placed for I believe one year or so okay so to give a little background
here Jasmine Campbell is a police officer and she is working her job that night but by this time her shift is
technically over but she spotted something and decided to fill out the tip form call it in what have you she
reports this information after her shift is over so you're never really off the clock when you are a first responder you
always have a job to do and so she's just doing her due diligence and she files this
report now what she says is that she had seen a fire Captain's vehicle parked at
a Hess gas station this is just moments before she saw bry's truck nearby so she knows this truck right it's a
dark green large 2002 Chevy Silverado and it sounds to me Captain like when she sees this truck
immediately she is of the idea that it's this is probably Brandy Hall's truck right okay so she sees this truck
sitting and it's in the back so the it's in the back of of a Home Depot so for I don't know do we have
Home Depot in every state in this country I think so okay so yeah it's one of those large box stores uh
do-it-yourself Home Improvement type stores so her truck is parked behind this business and this is obviously not
during the hours of operation so of course her police mind is going to be curious as to well what's going on over
there so she drives by to see what's up to check on the situation and she sees this truck and
here's what she says so she says she drove out to the back of the Home Depot where they sell trees and stuff like
that and she saw this big pickup truck so she goes down there she says the driver was a lady that had long blonde
hair and that there was another person in the vehicle with her with the driver she calls in the
tip and that tip includes that she had spotted previously spotted a Palm Bay Fire this is where this is where things
get incredibly murky there's many different sources on this case we cited two at the
top of the show but when I review all the sources here Captain I get kind of a different
detail in each one so some of the reports the sources state that Miss Campbell saw a fire chief's
Suburban others state that a fire Captain's vehicle right and other state of fire supervisor vehicle I don't know
what is true my guess here is that it's probably the fire Captain's vehicle because that seems to be the one that's
referenced the most but to be clear I don't think we have video footage of bry's vehicle or this fire chief or fire
fire vehicle however you want to describe it I don't think either one is caught on video footage correct we don't
have video footage all we have is this report from this officer that from my understanding
was uh in in some of the reporting she's on patrol at the time I believe she was
actually just leaving her just finished her patrol for the night and had spotted
this shortly after her shift had ended regardless this is what she sees right she sees a vehicle that she describes
that the description matches that of Brandy Halls she states that the driver was a lady who matches vaguely matches
Brandy Hall's description a lady that had long blonde hair now she states that there's another individual in the truck
with the driver she calls this in this might be just as simple as you know this vehicle's kind
of parked in a suspicious spot around midnight hey just in case the place gets broken into I probably should call this
in right but it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot of investigative work going on and maybe she didn't feel
in the situation that that it was necessary but it does say in the report that the fire
officer's vehicle was secured and there's nobody in it and the vehicles nearby this other parked vehicle where
we have two persons in it I don't think it's a big leap to say hey there's a chance that whoever was driving that
fire supervisor's vehicle might be one of the two people in this truck that's found nearby yeah I agree with you I
don't think that would be a giant leap yeah we're not in the business of making giant leaps here in the garage we
haven't done our stretches yet that's right uh but now as we stated in the trailer keep in mind all of this
activity that's happening this is all the night before Jeff Hall is to be sentenced for a crime that he
willingly admits that he is guilty of so there's no question that he's going to get some kind of punishment so all this
activity is leading up to the following day where Brandy is a mother of two children she's going to go missing she
goes missing sometime this night so now Jeff and her have two children and it looks like to me Captain all within a
short period of about just 12 hours two young kids are [Music] [Applause] so much more to get to join us for the
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This week we tell the story of a young mother who vanished. On August 17th, 2006, 32 year old Brandy Hall was working the night shift at the Malabar fire station. Just before 11PM, Brandy told her coworkers that she was going home. Her husband says she never showed up. She has been gone ever since. Foul play is suspected. Where is Brandy?

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Brief Summary

Brandy Hall, a firefighter, vanished in 2006; her complicated relationships and final communications are explored in this episode.

Key points

The Disappearance of Brandy Hall. A young mother vanishes without a trace after leaving work one night.
Brandy's Complicated Life. Brandy Hall's life was intertwined with controversy and intrigue, including an affair.
The Drug Operation. Brandy's husband was arrested for drug trafficking, complicating her life further.
The Heated Exchange. A public confrontation occurs between Brandy and Randall's wife at a seafood festival, escalating tensions.
Randall's Call to Jeff. Randall Richmond calls Jeff Hall the night before his sentencing, complicating the affair's timeline.
Brandy's Last Call. Brandy Hall makes her last call to Jeff before disappearing, saying she will see him in the morning.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

The images are chilling because, well, that's it, she's gone.

Describing the last known footage of Brandy Hall before her disappearance.

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