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Brandy Hall | The Backpack in the Canal and the Skid Steer in the Yard (Part 3)

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4.710.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Brandy Lynn Hall was a 32-year-old firefighter and mother of two from Brevard County, Florida, who vanished on the evening of August 17th, 2006, after leaving her volunteer fire station in Malabar. The next day, her prized green pickup truck was found deliberately submerged in a nearby pond with a significant amount of her blood inside but no trace of Brandy herself. As time went on, scattered personal items surfaced miles away, but no body, no clear timeline, and no definitive suspect ever emerged. Despite connections to her husband’s recent drug case, a long-term affair with a fellow firefighter, and a series of investigative missteps, Brandy’s disappearance remains one of Florida’s most mystifying unsolved cases.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody.

0:13.3

Welcome back to Crime Weekly.

0:14.4

I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:15.4

And I'm Derek Lavasser.

0:16.6

And we are diving into the third and final part of the Brandy Hall series.

0:38.7

And, I mean, we should just get right in, right? Yeah, I mean, we're part three here. By now, if you haven't heard about this case, you got to go back and watch it. Yeah, if you don't know what we're talking about. There's a lot that's happened. So you're going to be lost. All right. So we kind of finished up last time discussing how Brandy's truck was found, the condition of it, what was inside of it. And then they were

0:46.0

kind of looking at suspects. Obviously, her husband, Jeff Hall, would have been at the top of the

0:49.6

list, but also her affair partner of over 10 years, Randall Richmond. And then we talked about how Randall's truck, his fire captain's truck, was spotted

0:58.7

nearby where Brandy's truck would be found in the pond and that there was a police officer,

1:05.1

Jasmine Campbell, who saw Brandy's truck in the Home Depot parking lot, which was basically right next to the gas station

1:12.8

where Randall's fire captain truck was found, even though Randall says he never left the station

1:16.6

that night. Now, things kind of, they died down after this because I guess they didn't have evidence.

1:23.7

They really, you know, they couldn't really arrest or do anything because there wasn't enough to do anything.

1:31.1

But then about a year after Brandy Hall vanished, a discovery was made roughly 30 miles south of Malabar in Vero Beach along Florida's east coast.

1:39.3

On June 24th, 2007, several teenagers were hanging out near one of the area's many canals. They were smoking

1:46.0

pot. And then they noticed something in the water. They pulled it closer, and they realized it was a

1:50.7

camouflaged backpack. And when they opened the backpack, they found a strange collection of

1:55.7

items. There were a few pieces of clothing, several small steel squares, some pornographic DVDs, a tube of erection cream, and an address book.

2:05.7

The name inside that address book was Brandy Hall.

2:08.9

The teenagers called the police, but according to reports, no one came.

2:12.8

Later that same day, one of the teens searched Brandy's name online and realized she'd been missing for nearly a year.

2:18.6

He called the police again, and this time, they responded. Now, what made the backpack especially

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