Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt and you guys I am so proud of all of us. We got a final tally. Oh, I haven't even heard this. I'm so excited. Yeah, despite the fact that I clearly never took French in high school and apparently I don't know how to pronounce

Jack, which a lot of you told me you can stop emailing me. Thank you. I'm awful and from the Midwest. Either way, we all band together and we were able to raise drumroll please David. 17,500 dollars for the DNA

project. Yes, I'm so excited when I talk to the team over there. I mean, they were thrilled they cannot thank you guys enough. I asked them to keep us updated on what cases they're able to solve. They said, you know, this is so good to have because there are so many cases that a lot of people have given up on and don't want to necessarily donate to. So I think we're going to be able to solve a lot of cases that maybe have gotten forgotten. So you guys can follow this cases if you want to go to their website DNAdo project dot org. While we're letting the smart experts solve the cases.

Britt and I are back to telling you another story though. And this time it's a story of a woman named Brandy Hall who went missing at one of the most tumultuous times in her life. At first, people thought perhaps she'd left on her own. But as time passed and the secrets of her life were revealed. It became clear to her family and investigators that she had met with foul play.

Brandy Hall was 32 years old. She was a married mother of two living in her home state of Florida whose passion in life was helping people. She'd actually suffered a like horrible ATB accident in her childhood that left her in the hospital for months, like clinging to life. And she ended up making it out alive. But from that time on, she had this passion for helping other people. And when she was grown, she studied to be a firefighter EMT and paramedic. Wow.

Her husband Jeff while working as a firefighter, he was one, too. And he was just taken with her right away saying that he'd never met anyone like her. She was tough and kind and caring. And in 1992, they married.

Life was really good for them for a while. They had two kids. Jeff was promoted to chief of his station, Brandy got a full-time job at her station. And despite their crazy 24 hour shifts, they were still blessed with those two kids. And Brandy's mother would actually help take care of them. And like they both like got their schedule. So they would work on the same days. They'd have to work like 24 hours. And then they'd get two days off. But they made it work.

Everything seemed peachy. But what have I said a thousand times? You never know what happens behind closed doors. And you never really know anyone ever. And everything people thought they knew about Brandy and her life with Jeff was challenged in August of 2006.

On the 17th, Brandy was working her shift at a volunteer station. And her husband was home with the kids. And she calls the house around like 930 to talk to him, then say prayers with the kids before they go to bed. And she tells her husband that she's going to see him in the morning.

So he puts the kids to bed. They each go about their business. And then he tries to reach her one more time later in the evening around like 1130-ish.

This time she doesn't answer. And you know, not super big deal. He knows what life is like at the station. You get busy. You know, you're saving lives. Not worried.

What he doesn't know though is that he should be worried. So the next morning Brandy's husband tries to reach her again, but with no luck.

They had a very important appointment that morning that he expected her to be at no matter what happened the night before she wouldn't have missed this. And it's not just her husband who's concerned, all of Brandy's family is wondering where she is too.

So her mother actually starts to drive around like friends are looking for her. And she goes, she's like, look to the fire station. She doesn't see her car there. She doesn't see her car at home. And her mom drives for hours looking for any sign of her.

And just as dusk is settling in and it's starting to get dark Debbie, who's her mom, pulls up to this stop sign. And she's approached by another vehicle. And this vehicle stops. And one of Brandy's friends comes running out towards Debbie's car.

And she gets to the window and tells Debbie, they just pulled Brandy's truck out of a pond.

What?

And this felt like the worst case scenario to Debbie, like, what does this mean? Was she still in the car? Was she somewhere in the pond? Was this an accident? Yeah, that's so many more questions.

Right. So she rushed to the pond where the truck is found. And it was a very secluded pond. Like not many people even knew it was back there.

Just maybe a few locals, like a couple people who were like food fish. And then a lot of firefighters knew about it since it was near their like training building. And I guess sometimes they'd even pull water from it.

So it turns out the truck was found because that morning someone had been out fishing on the pond and they spotted a bag floating in the water. And when they reeled it in, the bag had a bunch of items belonging to Brandy.

Now I don't think this person knew Brandy was even missing it. No one really did. But it looked weird enough that they turned it over to police. And when police came to check out the scene, they saw a large area on the west side of the pond where brush had been like flattened.

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