Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek LaVaser.

And we are back for part two of the Brandy Hall series. Such a great case. I've been thinking about it all week, thinking about what we talked about last week when we filmed. I know you've probably been thinking about it too. I know our Patreon community boards have been blowing up with talk about this. I've been watching that. The Brandy Hall chat is, yeah, very involved right now. Yeah. Well, it's a crazy case. And I had to write part two,

you know, after we filmed last week. I like to wait until we filmed so I can kind of include

questions you had or questions I had that popped up. So I was writing it last week. And I was,

I was thinking again, I was like, wow, this was going to be two parts,

but it has to be three. Yeah. So, because there's just so, so much. And it just gets weirder.

And today it's really going to pop off. Yeah, it's going to pop off today. Oh, okay. All right.

So I'll give you a quick synopsis of what we talked about last time.

Brandy Hall was a 32-year-old firefighter wife and mother of two living in Brevard County, Florida.

By all accounts, she was driven, capable, and deeply devoted to her children, building a life that revolved around her family and her career in the fire service.

But in 2005, everything began to unravel when her

husband, Jeff Hall, was arrested for running a large-scale marijuana grow operation on one of the

rental properties. Although Brandy maintained that she had no knowledge of it, she was also arrested,

suspended from her job, and left struggling to rebuild both her reputation and her finances.

In the months that followed,

Brandy took on multiple jobs, volunteered at a local fire department to stay active in her field,

and prepared to testify on her husband's behalf at his sentencing hearing schedule for August 18,

2006. At the same time, her marriage was deteriorating and she had confided in friends that she was considering leaving Jeff altogether.

Complicating matters further, Brandy had been involved in a long-term affair with Palm Bay Fire Chief Randall Richmond, something widely rumored within their tight-knit firefighting community.

On August 17th, the day before Jeff's sentencing, Brandy spent the day working, running errands, and communicating frequently with Randall Richmond.

That night after leaving her volunteer shift early, she was last seen driving away from the Malabar fire department.

By the following day, Brandy Hall had vanished.

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