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| Brandi Wells: Missing since 08/02/2006 |
As per KETV, the Brandi Wells case is being re-investigated by Homeland Security.
For those who don't remember, Wells was featured in the first season of Disappeared. She went to a nightclub in 2006 and hasn't been heard from since. A few days later her car was found abandoned on the side of the highway. For a while, police honed in on security footage of a woman thought to be her in the nightclub. This was broadcast to the public at large, before it was discovered that that footage was of another woman, and Wells arrived at the nightclub at a later time in the evening. This may have made the trail even colder than it already was.
Seven years on, we're not much closer to knowing what happened to her. A few years ago Wells's mother, Ellen Tant, received a mysterious call, where an unknown man claimed Wellswas alive in Kansas City, Missouri, and that he had her contact number. He hung up before Tant could get that information, and that seems to be the extent of leads on this case up to this date. From my limited information on this case, it seems to bear many hallmarks of stranger on stranger crime, which is a notoriously difficult type of crime to solve.
The article about re-opening Wells's case is a bit scant. We know Homeland Security is taking an interest, and we know her family thinks human trafficking is likely. (For the record, Dawn Drexel thinks something similar happened to her daughter, Brittanee Drexel.) I don't know if there is a connection between these two facts; human trafficking crosses national borders, of course, and is something Homeland Security takes an interest in. As of July 23rd, they also seem to have edited their page for the missing person form. But it's unknown whether they have evidence that Wells was trafficked and/or if that's the reason for their renewed focus on this case.
It has come to my understanding on the first search for Brandi wells in the neighborhood where her phone was found that a woman came up to some of the crew and stated it's a shame what they do to little white girls in this neighborhood that they get them on drugs and into prostitution. The crew then showed the woman a picture of Brandi Wells and she stated that she has seen her in there before in that neighborhood they bring the girls in there at night. Longview PD was notified and the department stated it was too dangerous to go in there at night
ReplyDeleteToo dangerous!!! If you want to get someone back you go in and get t hem no matter what the danger is!! Send in the swat team or the army.
DeleteSend them in with cannon and guns. If the country is able to tackle Saddam Hussian it can tackle a bunch of criminals with weapons. Come on people get going!!!!!!!!!!
The woman was seen talking to the crew members some of the dealers came up to her and let them and told them to get out of the neighborhood
ReplyDeleteTo make you all aware of the woman supposedly lives in that neighborhood
ReplyDeleteTo make you all aware of the woman supposedly lives in that neighborhood
ReplyDeleteVery sad
ReplyDeleteMother states she intended to pawn a necklace. During said pawning of the necklace, she runs into someone else "pawning" items who tells her he works at the GCS in Longview. She is told to "Come up and I'll give you some free drinks" Thus the reason she had to be there on a specific day- the day the per was working in the bar. Guy was pawning items from his previous victim and doing it in a different county to keep his own back yard clean and to avert suspicion. Check pawn shops near her home or her mothers home to develop a suspect list. If it's a trafficking ring, one of these pawn shops will present a suspect pool. She goes to Longview, suspect either does not work at the club but close enough to spot victims he lures in or does work at the club which might explain why a suspect could not be developed through the ID swiping of customers. Either way, without a known contact such as a phone call, it's hard to think the perp would wait for some random girl he met 40 minutes away to show up on a given night and time unless he had developed the routine over more victims.
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