Brandy Hall /// Part 2 /// 730 | Forensic Files

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[Music] Friday August 18th 2006 this is where we left off on our Brandy Hall timeline
Brandy Hall has not been seen since roughly this day or the end of the day prior keep in mind we have a situation
where we have an officer who calls in that she sees a vehicle that matches Brandy Hall's vehicle description with a
person sitting in the driver's seat that matches Brandy Hall's description so I think that it's easy for a lot of us to
agree that at roughly just before midnight on August 17th 2006 Brandy Hall is sitting in her truck
behind the Home Depot with someone in the passenger seat yeah what's going to happen the following day is that her
husband Jeffrey Hall is going to be sentenced to 18 months in prison and 42 months of probation on those drug
charges now curious to everyone Brandy never shows up for the sentencing she said that she was going to be there and
I understand that she's having an affair and that she's running around on her husband but it also sounds like she did
care for this man yes this is the father of her children she did have concerns for him and she also wanted him for many
reasons mainly the children to not have to be in prison any longer than necessary yeah and I hate to State the
obvious but that's why they call me the captain Captain Obvious it's not just about her not
showing up to the courthouse it's that she has kids that she will be responsible solely responsible because
her husband is going to be sentenced and hauled off to jail yep and she's nowhere
to be found well and this is going to really get more and more concerning to Jeff H PA and others as time drags on so
remember the previous evening he finds out late at night he gets a call from his attorney hey your sentencing hearing
is going to be earlier in the day tomorrow than we had once we told he tries several times to get a hold of his
wife that night to make her aware that this sentencing hearing is going to be earlier in the day unsuccessful can
never get a hold of her she never picks up the phone never responds he becomes increasingly
concerned and worried when he wakes up the next morning again she's not home he's trying to get a hold of her we got
these two kids here I got to go to court you don't want to take your kids to court and from my understanding Captain
the kids would have had uh I apologize I think that I said earlier that the kids
would have had school the next day I actually believe this would have taken place before the school year started and
I have in my notes here that Jeff Hall says that he left early for the sentencing hearing so that he could drop
his kids off with a either a family member or a friend so he drops off the kids they're young the oldest one is 10
at this time he goes off to the sentencing hearing he can't get a hold of his wife he also leaves a note at
home explaining that the hearing is going to be earlier than they once thought in case she were to come home
now we're going to go from a seven or an eight on the scary scale to about a 10 really quickly this happens around
noon Captain a gentleman named Donald Watson so he's the head of grounds maintenance for all of The Bard
Community College properties now Eastern Florida State College he is fishing over on College property
his fishing line snags what turns out to be some bunker gear of a firefighter so this would be a
large pond that he's fishing in he snags this gear he he grabs it and he decides to
take it over to the Palm Bay Fire Department which has a station right there on San
filipo so it's just like two 300 yard north of where he is he walks into the fire station says
hey look what I found yeah what this is going to lead to is Brandy Hall's firefighting gear it's it's her gear and
her truck are found in the Palm Bay Pond this is April 18th she's last seen leaving the
firhouse Late just before you know 11:00 p.m. on April 17th a police officer believes that she
saw her with another person in her truck around midnight this is 12 hours later m a lot
I if if she was met with Foul Play or disappeared and decided to put her truck in that pond or somebody else put it in
there A lot has happened in this short 12-hour period now what is found here Captain a significant amount of blood is
found in bry's truck and many believe that this is enough to indicate that Brandy did meet with Foul Play So when
the truck is finally pulled from the pond the crime scene folks find Blood on the driver side map pocket and just
under the steering wheel what makes the blood find even more interesting is that
the windows of the truck had been left open and the cab filled with water this so this is a weird situation right he
snags this Gear in from my understanding believes that that he can see that it's
a shallow Pond I believe that it's at its deepest depths is just 20 feet deep and I think he can see what he
believes to be some type of vehicle in the water in fact what they did was they they did a fly over with a helicopter
and could clearly see that there was a vehicle in the water and they so they decid to pull it out of there now I got
a couple conflicting reports here here so I want to make sure that I go through the details of both now the conflicting
reports are one report states that all of the windows in the truck were down when it was pulled from the water the
other report is that the passenger side rear window was down I don't know if that's
just not a thorough report and that all of the windows were down and it's only referencing that one window for some
reason right so both could be true true but what we do know 100% certainty based
off of those two reports is that at least one of the windows in the vehicle were down I think that's significant for
a couple of reasons no expert but I'm guessing here captain that if you leave a window down
or multiple windows down in a vehicle that baby's going to sink a little faster yes F fill up with water a little
faster also gives you a way out gives you a way out if you need to get out the other thing too is if you've done
something terrible to somebody in that vehicle that's left a whole lot of blood a bloody mess inside that truck that
water is going to help wash away some of that right now what we are told here is
that the remaining blood evidence so it's believed that for their it's actually we say significant blood amount
of blood found in the truck that doesn't sound to me to be the actual case it sounds to me like a small amount of
blood probably the size of uh let's say a football is found underneath the steering wheel and a small amount of
blood is found either in or near the map pocket which would also be right in about that same location of the vehicle
it's on the it's on the driver's side mhm so all of your blood is kind of in one
area now while it's not a large amount of blood and I've not seen pictures so I'm speculating here but my guess is
what you probably had happened was that there was once a significant a very large huge bloody mess in that truck and
because the water washed a lot of it away this is the only blood that remains well why does this Blood remain and the
the rest got washed away right this Blood had coagulated coagulation so now it's it's almost like a a very sticky
almost tar likee substance right that that's adhered itself to those surfaces in the truck sticky sticky and who knows
how long it would have had to soak in that water to to wash away that evidence or if it ever would but we both agree
this is not a good sign and this to me is evidence look people can say well maybe Brandy dumped her truck in this
Pond herself and she left her Bel belongings in the truck to to be but it doesn't make a lot of
sense so when you start looking at missing person cases you go well is there any reason for her to commit
suicide yes there's there's some bad going on in her life but she has a lot of positives as well we don't have
anybody saying that she's depressed we have no body found so you can kind of rule that out
pretty quickly but then you go well did she want to run away MH and when they talk to the last person that they that
Brandy talked to the the married man she was having an affair with he claims well she was going
to run away but I think how did she get there where did she go why would she leave these
belongings behind why why would you ditch this vehicle that supposedly she had a fondness
for why would you destroy the vehicle yeah she loved that vehicle and so we need to go
through what was in the vehicle and what was not in the vehicle because that's going to be of significance here to our
case but before we get to that let's go through this Blood evidence a little bit
more we will later learn through testing it will be confirmed that is Brandy Hall's blood in that truck
so it does it indicates that that there is foul play something Foul Play in nature happened to this woman in this
vehicle now what the experts will tell us is that for that blood to coagulate like it did to stay in that truck it had
to have been allowed to dry for a period of time meaning whatever happened to create that bloody mess
didn't happen and then seconds minutes later somebody's figuring out how to put that truck in the water right it's
believed that it would have had to sit out there and dry for a period of time before it
entered the water submerged into this Pond the experts have said that for the blood to reach that state they believe
that it would have been between about 5 to 8 hours hours now keep in mind she's last seen
by this police officer around midnight Vehicles found around the gear is found around noon and then later they pull the
truck out so what we can say is we now have eyes on this Pond starting when Dude is out there fishing so once he
starts fishing nobody put that vehicle in there in that pond after that time starts right so we have if it had to
have dried for five to eight hours that leaves us with a very small window of time when this vehicle would have
entered the pond now again I'm no expert and I shouldn't I I I shouldn't combat what these individuals are
saying but my experience with blood coagulating and drying like that again I've not seen
pictures of the interior of this truck after it was pulled from the pond my experience is that it I've seen
blood dried like that on a Surface within about 3 hours so I question the five to eight hours a
little bit I and don't you think that the environment it's in being in Florida hotter weather thank you yes sir doesn't
that play a factor thank you I mean some people will call us dumb asses or do masses but I I think that plays a factor
here it's well like we said it's going to be in the mid to high 70s when she goes
missing and so I do think that that matters right I mean that's that's just the way the world works the hotter it is
the warmer it is things seem to dry faster so I think that I would like to expand
that 5 to eight hours to I don't know what would you say captain closer to 3 to 8 hours right and that means that
this stuff could have went down in the the small hours of August 18 2006 it could have been 3:00 in the
morning when that truck went in the water right so the items that are that would have been expected to be found in
the vehicle one we don't have any person that's found in the vehicle obviously but we don't have her radio
her fire radio a medical bag and Brandy was known to carry a personal firearm now it sounds to me
like she didn't always carry it on her person but it was often found in her truck so a firearm would have been
either in her truck other reports state that she carried a pack which would have
carried the firearm like like a maybe like a backpack right so gun never found medical bag not found in the truck fire
radio not not found in the truck now the police dive team they're going to be searching this Pawn so this this
technically the search of this Pond starts taking place on on Friday August 18th but this search will
continue in various methods for the next following days so for about six days technically this is really Six-Day
process so on the 18th they they find the gear the fisherman does pull it out pull the truck from the pond on the 19th
we have dive teams there they're looking for Brandy and in fact I believe that they that they were thinking they would
probably find her in the water they don't find her in this Pond and so then they decide you know what she's got to
be there or her other items her other belongings are probably there we want to make sure we didn't lose or miss any
evidence here because you only have two situations at this point right you find this truck with her blood in it in that
pond you're thinking she did this to herself or somebody did this to her and we probably should in under both of
those scenarios we think it's likely that we will find her near this vehicle so they do their due diligence captain
and they drain the pond now this is a little bit confusing this takes about three days or so for them to do it
shouldn't be that confusing they're going to take the water out of the pond well right but that's actually not
exactly what happens this a joke this is an L-shaped Pond roughly yeah what they
decided to do is they brought in Personnel that that created a dam they basically damned off half of the Pond
from the other half they were concerned about the half where they found the truck and they drained the water from
that side into the other side so when we say we drain the pawn they didn't really
drain the pawn they drained half of the pawn right so that's why I wanted to be clear and that's why I said it was a
little tricky here now what happens that same day well Randall Richmond dirty Randall
Richmond he's questioned by police a couple of times and just to be clear this is the guy that's married that's
having an affair with Brandy yes from my understanding and this is a little dicey
too and I can't sort out if it's the reporting on the situation or the timeline just as we said it's it's got
some gaps in it but it sounds like to me that a bunch of other things are happening all at the same time so we
know Jeff Hall is off at court he gets sentenced and he's going to go away Jeff Hall says that Randall Richmond called
him that morning and he's according to Jeff Hall Randall Richmond is crying now most of
this convers we only have Jeff Hall's side of the story Jeff Hall says that Randall called
and told him you know uh he's crying and says look buddy I'm not going to be able
to be at your sentencing hearing I've had a change of heart I have I've worked my way up to this position at the fire
uh with the fire department I'm a public servant I I'm building towards my retirement I think it would be a bad
move for my career to go and stand up for you in court so I'm I'm backing out on having promised you that I would go
and vouch for you and and say what a stand-up guy you are at your sentencing hearing it's also kind of weird the guy
that is sleeping with your wife and has been for about 10 years is going to be a
character witness well I also very strange I also think that you can um well keep in mind I'm it wouldn't be out
of the realm a possibility I'm guessing maybe even Randall worked for Jeff at one time but yeah but still it's oh no
it's very weird yeah it's very weird but again that's why wonky donkey man that's
why I don't think that I that's why I don't think that the spouses 100% knew exactly what was going on or maybe they
knew and they just didn't care they well it's also been stated several times over
that the Hall's marriage had while they still cared for another and they obviously they're being good parents to
their children for the most part I mean we can say good parents except for you you set up a drug operation at some
point but well hey he was just trying to provide a little extra for his family but it's been said that the Hall's
marriage had been falling apart for a long period of time I mean look they could have had an arrangement hey we're
going to stay married and we're going to live together for the kids and I and because they're they're both
firefighters and I I don't want to pretend to know what that lifestyle would be but that would be a very
difficult situation to be you know to go multiple days sometimes without seeing your partner I know but I'm envious of
all the cool tools and gear that they get to work with yeah very envious well you know we could we could always buy a
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right here's the thing though we don't know exactly what this conversation was between Randall and Jeff keep in mind
this is before the the sentencing hearing but I think we can confirm some of it because we do have both persons
who would later talk about this conversation so Jeff's the only one that says Randall was crying on the phone
but what we can agree on is Randall later says Jeff didn't seem too concerned that I wasn't going to show up
to the sentencing hearing so it seems like both are agreeing that that is portion of the nature of his call right
and and let's go back to some of the fact we know the call happen so we know that much so what yeah so what happens
here is Randall says look Jeff wasn't too concerned because he pled guilty he knew he knows he's going to prison it's
only in question at the length of the sentence but it sounds like a lot of this stuff was worked out between the
state and his attorneys in advance so a lot of this sentencing hearing is not a big mystery and some people have
speculated that Jeff Hall killed his wife because she was supposed to go testify and maybe maybe she changed her
mind like like rich like uh Randall did right and said you know I'm not going to
go vouch for for I'm not going to go say you're a standup guy I decided I don't like you and some people say well maybe
he got mad and killed her because he needed her to to to go and say what a good guy he was but again you got to
look at the whole situation and the whole situation is that very little was going to come out of how many people
went to court to say that this guy's a good guy right a lot of this was already pre-arranged and so Jeff basically says
look man I I don't care too much uh I understand one of the two someone on this phone call though asked the other
have you seen Brandy my guess is that it's Jeff asking Randall yes Randall says according to Jeff I no I've not
talked to her yet today now another weird thing too is I don't know what's missing from this
timeline is what time was she who and when did somebody notify police that they believe that Brandy
Hall is missing yeah that's a big question mark because nowhere in any timeline that I've reviewed is that do
we have that that event taking place well what we do know and what look my speculation
is we know for a fact that she's missing once she doesn't show up for court we know we know that much at least law
enforcement knows that much but also what's what's strange too in this whole thing is once law enforcement knows that
she's missing she they start questioning the husband and he's going I can't talk
to you and he's not being cooperative which is very strange well so a couple things happen here that and that's what
that's what's really bizarre like we you know we've covered a lot of missing persons cases we've covered a lot of
timelines here in the garage this one there's so much stuff happening all at about the same time in a very short
period of time that it gets difficult to keep track of this so I'll I'll try to be as succinct as I can right that
morning Jeff Hall and Randall have that phone call that we just discussed now it's
also reported that in the 9:00 hour close to 9 a.m. that Patrol officers knock on the door of Randall Richmond
and they talk to him asking him uh if he is talk to Brandy hall or knows where she is and his response is I didn't know
that she was missing at 10:00 a.m. Randall calls Jeff Hall now he's at court by this time he answers his phone
in court and they have a very short conversation where Randall is asking Jeff if he can
go to the Halls property because remember that skid steer that we talked about yesterday that Brandy
owns I'm a little unclear about this I think maybe Randall had co-signed or helped her to purchase that skid
steer but the way that Randall describes it is that that there were some warranty
issues with the skid steer that were going to be addressed and that Brandy was supposed to have dropped it off so
it could be serviced but that didn't happen br's missing the phone call to Jeff is
Randall asking permission can I go to your property take the machine off of the trailer so the people that are going to
service it can come out and work on it to which Jeff says yeah sure yeah but it seems like a very dumb thing to be
concerned about when the person you've been having an affair with for 10 years is missing well we're going to get into
that because what's going to happen that same day on the same day that Jeff is sentenced yes he's questioned where's
your wife she's missing he goes yeah I know I was concerned before I before I got sentenced I was concerned uh when I
couldn't get a hold of her last night I was concerned when I couldn't get a hold
of her the this morning and I was concerned when she didn't show up to court he doesn't really seem to have any
answers now here's in his defense yes he he's not cooperating so that looks really
bad but his attorneys would later come out and say look we knew that he would have
appeals to these charges and we were hoping to get a lesser sentence even after the fact even after he was
sentenced and in by Florida State law when you are being questioned for anything anything you say about anything
can be used against you in the court of law meaning we can ask you about your missing
wife but we could also work in some questions about the drug operation or anything else and that could be held
against you in the court of law keep in mind at this time we don't 100% know that there's
anything crazy going on other than the fact that they pulled the truck from the pond I can't say with 100% certainty
that the news reports are stating on that day that blood was found in the truck he he may have just been look
maybe he killed his wife maybe he's sitting there in a holding cell going what the hell's going on where the hell
is she and he's just clueless and he's got attorney saying right now we're advising you to not talk to the
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today [Music] all right we are back to the windows to the walls onward and upward cheers to
you the nasty nasty nasty Colonel cheers to everybody out there in listener land we have something that happens that
evening that's really interesting to me we have Randall Richmond who's going going to be talking with
police and that night he tells them the first the first thing he says to them is I haven't talked to her in weeks
I haven't talked to Brandy Hall in in a while it's been quite some time weeks is
what he says haven't talked to her in weeks yeah two days later they're going to be sitting at the same table asking
the same questions to the same man and he's going to be giving very different answers his answers at this time is look
she called me that night and said that she was going to meet with somebody she's waiting on some money she's going
to get some money and she's going to leave and I wanted to cover for her and so I that's why I lied to you guys two
days earlier was that I she told me that she was going to take off and leave and I
was just covering for in a missing person investigation if I'm a detective anybody that's telling me an
individual is running away I'm going to find that to be very fishy oh I was just covering up for you
just become number one suspect in my eyes there son one thing I really want to know
about is on that same day remember Randall and Jeff Randall calls Jeff Jeff's already at the courthouse they
have a very quick conversation about this piece of equipment this Bobcat he wants to take it off the trailer so it
can be serviced remember his words to Jeff though are that Brandy was supposed to take it
to the service station to be fixed or worked on right his request is that they are going to come out and work on it at
the hall property as long as it somebody takes it off of the trailer there's a couple things that are
very weird here one the place that would service it has no record of working on any
machine in that area that day okay so that looks awfully suspicious for Randall Richmond however remember he did say it
was warranty issues so if the only records they're keeping are for in purposes well if it was items
that were under warranty they may not have those records years later because it wasn't anything that anybody was
charged for nobody paid for anything because it was items under warranty they do have record of a
service call where they charged for a service call on that day that morning so that
does go with what Randall Richmond's saying the problem is what are those records who paid for what did they go to
that address that stuff we don't know that stuff is unclear if they even if they have that information at all it's
either never been made public or the police don't have that information or they don't have the details of that
service call however private investigators have pointed out a couple things there would be no charge for a
service call if you just drive it to where it gets worked on there charging cuz they
have to go out on location exactly and that company tells the private investigators look we always encourage
people to bring the equipment to us it saves them money and it saves us time Randall Richmond would have had the
ability to take the trailer with the equipment with the machine on it already and just drive it it's 2 miles from the
hall property to where this machine the Bobcat the skid steer whatever you want to call it would have been worked on
so that seems like a bit of a no-brainer now we do have reports that the skid steer was removed from the
trailer but never left the hall property that day which is really curious to me I
want to know who gave them that information because keep in mind on that day at the time when
Randall Richmond is asking to go to the hall property take that machine off of the trailer what's going on at that
property that day a whole lot of nothing because Brandy Hall is missing right the
children have been dropped off at a family friends or family member or friend's house to be cared for that day
because Dad's in court being sentenced to go to prison so the four people that live at that house live on that property
nobody's there that day so who the hell is telling us and how are we getting confirmation that the skid steer never
left that property that day and that is significant to me for a million reasons that we're going to get into some of
those here in a minute Captain are you okay if we go through some suspects and theories I know we've been dancing
around a lot of them as we went through the timeline but to be clear to everybody I think we should go through
some of this information well let's start where I would start if I was law enforcement let's start with the husband
okay so let's go to Jeff Hall so there is a theory out there that Jeff Hall is responsible some believe that Jeff to
have been involved in his wife's disappearance uh this has because of the amount of legal pressure he was under
due to the drug charges bu look there's another motive anyways she's having an affair yeah may maybe he wants to get
his revenge on her before he's locked up yeah and again look I don't mean to throw her under the bus or throw any
shade on her name but if she's having this affair that for 10 years and this guy that she's having an affair with
well he's a lying piece of anyways but he's saying well it's it's not really physical it's just kind of
emotional like that makes it any better but is there a possibility that she was having or trying to get attention from
somebody else is is this affair happening or is it on the way out and so that would be another motive
against the husband okay well I I I could accept the one Affair but the second Affair I can't accept or like you
said get the Revenge before he goes to prison or is there some information that she
has with these drug charges maybe you know he's downplaying the situation himself cuz like we said two sides of
the coin law enforcement is saying this is a complex operation and he's saying well
this was just to make a little extra money on the side what does she know and that would be motive to get rid
of her so she doesn't tell anybody there's a lot of stuff and then when law enforcement starts questioning
you the lawyers are saying hey you can't talk to our client and you you go if you
really care about her give them as much information as you can you can have your
lawyers sit in with you and say no no no no you can't ask that question but they
could ask you something but in his defense once all that is said and done he starts Co operating with law
enforcement so yes we we have a situation where Jeff Hall will eventually cooperate with the police in
the regard of his missing wife so before we get to that let's go through these the drug situation because
PE people were probably going well wait what about the charges the drug charges against Brandy
Hall I don't know when this happened but it's in the record those charges were eventually dropped against Brandy here's
my understanding of the situation Captain Paul and Jeff they have this grow operation
police they do their normal thing right when you bust up a a drug ring or a grow
operation you're looking for all the other people involved you know who will these guys
rat on who will they tell us is involved well Jeff and his business partner have
the exact same answer we only know one there's only one other person involved so police vet this pretty good and they
believe Jeff and they believe his business partner that they don't know like people at the ground level they
don't know the street pushers they don't know the people that would be moving the
product they know one person their intent was to grow Harvest and then sell everything to
this one guy and then he would make sure that all the product gets moved and sold
to the people on the streets the consumers right right and when he's all out he'll have to go back to the
supplier which is their grow operation Jeff and his business partner agree that the one person that that that
they know that's involved that they could rat on for leniency is a person that they've known for a very long time
and they both tell police the same thing we're not going to rat on this one guy just to save our own butts or any
leniency police do their full investigation and they believe that all of that is true and that is in part why
we have Jeff just pleading guilty look this I did this I'm admitting to it yeah which makes you
wonder how bad of a dude is this guy if they're not willing to give him up is it a situation of if we give him
up my children are killed no I don't think it's like that at all like may maybe I mean there is some speculation
one of the one of the major theories here is a drug related disappearance or death right I mean think about that
because what if this said person he's saying look I I made a deal I'm not going to give you up don't hurt my
family and then this person says you know what I'm going to get rid of your wife to let you know how serious this is
and if you even if I even think you're thinking of my name I'll get rid of your children but we should underline
the fact that he he does not give that person up no but that's what I'm saying isn't that more evidence
of to me by not giving the person up you there's a reason are is it because you're scared of this individual which
could be but they do state the reason they they're open with police saying it's a it's it's a longtime lifelong
friend mhm and we are not going to have this person jammed up and thrown in prison
because we tattled on them well no and I understand like you can believe them but
you could also not believe them because they are criminals I agree with you Captain what I'm saying is the persons
investigating the situation agreed with that right and here's the other thing too we we talk about how big is this
drug operation this is how this goes all the time right when they make a huge drug
bust everything everything is elevated everything is heightened we made this huge drug bust we took $42 Million worth
of drugs off the streets today let's applaud and let's throw a freaking parade for the persons that busted this
thing up right and then guess what happens a year and a half later when they sentenced the person that did this
such horrible thing that was going to put all these drugs on the streets that was going to kill every baby that you've
ever met they give him a slap on the wrist because at the end of the day it's it a lot of this is victimless crimes
and the the money is inflated the the money that they could make is inflated because it looks good in headlines it
looks good on the news and they always do this stuff Jeff he's running this giant huge drug operation that that they
that they want to celebrate this huge bust what did he end up getting 18 months in prison right it's not that big
of a deal he's not going to serve all 18 probably and then on top of this in state of Ohio if you if you're going to
serve 80% at Best of your sentence well no and I know I'm the one putting out hey there's a cartel and
they're going to kill your whole family but let's see if you agree with what I'm
putting down right let's see if you can pick up what I'm putting down don't you think the type of drug that they're
trying to sell don't don't you think that play some part where you go okay well we had these 13 acres we're going
to grow some marijuana we're going to sell it to this guy we're not going to give you his name because he's a
lifelong friend we we decided to do this we don't want to ruin his life as well and you go well it it was
weed it was Mar marij Joana right when I think of well don't give up my name or I'm going to kill your whole
family I start thinking of higher end drugs cocaine heroin methamphetamines right seems like this well the the
punishment would be more severe for other types of drugs I mean marijuana charges are are pretty low on the totem
pole there and in fact you can fast forward to less than 20 years later and it's legal and for recreational use in
many many states right these days and so so I'm just saying like my theory on on
why they want to give him up like I think it's not as likely because it's a lesser drug well and we also have a
couple of other factors that we need to to sort through here first off you know of course he denies any involvement and
we do know that law enforcement has stated that Jeff Hall has passed lie detector
test administered in relation to this case and there's also been a few sources that state that he's been
cleared as being involved in in The Disappearance of his wife and then there there's also sources that state that the
drug angle a drug rated death for you know bry's life being in danger has also been cleared by police that they've
worked that angle and they don't find any evidence to suggest that now I'm not stating that every Source states that
and I've never I've never seen anything in print from law enforcement that states that I've just reviewed a couple
of sources that state that they examine that angle they've cleared Jeff and they've cleared the possibility of a
drug rated [Music] [Applause] [Music] death a whale of a case stick around for part
three until then be good be kind and don't [Music] [Applause] win [Music]

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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 disappears before her husband's sentencing, leading to a complex investigation involving blood evidence and her affair partner.

Key points

Brandy Hall Timeline Begins. Brandy Hall has not been seen since August 17, 2006, raising concerns.
Discovery of Blood Evidence. Significant blood is found in Brandy's truck, indicating foul play.
Randall's Confession. Randall Richmond calls Jeff Hall, expressing regret about not attending the sentencing.
Jeff Hall's Alibi. Jeff Hall's lack of concern about his missing wife raises eyebrows during his sentencing.
Randall's Conflicting Statements. Randall initially claims he hasn't spoken to Brandy in weeks, but later contradicts himself.
Suspicious Skid Steer Service. Questions arise about the skid steer service records and Randall's request to access it.

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