Missing Woman: Brandy Hall--FL--08/17/2006

[Kathylene]

Missing Firefighter


Volunteer Firefighter's car and gear found in lake, but the search continues for the woman.

Police in Palm Bay have identified a woman who's been missing under mysterious circumstances.http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=18087

[Kathylene]

Pond Being Drained In Search For Missing Firefighter

POSTED: 12:01 am EDT August 20, 2006
UPDATED: 12:54 pm EDT August 21, 2006

PALM BAY, Fla. -- Palm Bay police spent all night working to drain a retention pond to find clues as to what happened to a missing firefighter, but by early Monday afternoon there was still no sign of Brandy Hall.http://www.wftv.com/news/9705791/detail.html

[Kathylene]

Pond drained in search for firefighter

BY J.D. GALLOP
FLORIDA TODAY

Palm Bay police have begun draining a 5-acre pond this afternoon as part of their ongoing search for a Malabar volunteer firefighter missing since Thursday.http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc.../60820005/1086

[Kathylene]

Palm Bay Search Expanded For Missing Firefighter

POSTED: 11:43 am EDT August 22, 2006
UPDATED: 12:58 pm EDT August 22, 2006

PALM BAY, Fla. -- The search for a missing Malabar firefighter expanded Tuesday. A search and rescue team is now looking in a wooded area near the lake where her truck and gear were found.http://www.wftv.com/news/9716714/detail.html

[Kathylene]

August 22, 2006

Dogs join search for woman

Team continues efforts to find missing Malabar firefighter, 32

BY J.D. GALLOP
FLORIDA TODAY

A search team from South Florida and its cadaver-sniffing dogs are expected to comb a wooded area today near where missing Malabar firefighter Brandy Hall's truck was found submerged in a murky pond.

Dive team members Monday afternoon drained and searched the 10-foot-deep pond, hoping to find evidence that could lead officers to the 32-year-old woman, missing since Friday.http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...608220327/1006

[Kathylene]

Apparent Blood Found In Missing Central Fla. Firefighter's Pickup

Investigators in Palm Bay, Fla., are hoping that possible blood evidence found in a pickup truck belonging to missing volunteer Malabar firefighter Brandy Hall could shed light on what may have happened to her, according to a Florida Today report. http://news.yahoo.com/s/wkmg/20060823/lo_wkmg/9723773

[Kathylene]

Clues scarce in firefighter search

Posted August 23, 2006

Palm Bay -- Law officers searched nearby woods while divers scoured the bottom of a partially drained pond Tuesday but found few, if any, clues in their continuing search for missing firefighter Brandy Hall.

The effort was scheduled to resume today at 7 a.m., said Yvonne Martinez, a spokeswoman for the Palm Bay Police Department.http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...dlines-volusia

[Kathylene]

Husband Of Missing Firefighter Talks To Channel 9

POSTED: 4:59 pm EDT August 23, 2006
UPDATED: 12:32 pm EDT August 24, 2006

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- The husband of a missing Central Florida firefighter talked only to Channel 9. Former Osceola County Fire Chief Jeffrey Hall begged for his wife's safe return Wednesday.

Mr. Hall was very emotional. It has been nearly a week since he last saw his wife and the mother of his children. He said he wants more than anything to know where she is.

"I'm begging. Somebody has to know something. They need to contact the authorities and let them know where she's at. We beg you. Your children need you. We really need you," Jeffery Hall said.
http://www.wftv.com/news/9726357/detail.html

[Kathylene]

Police Say Missing Firefighter Wasn't In Pond

POSTED: 5:12 pm EDT August 23, 2006
UPDATED: 5:36 pm EDT August 23, 2006

PALM BAY, Fla. -- One more day of intense searching answered an important question about a missing firefighter and mother of two in Brevard County.

Brandy Hall's body is not in the pond where searchers have been looking for five days, WESH 2 News reported.

"She's not here," said Lt. Joe Eakins of the Palm Bay Police Department. http://www.wesh.com/news/9726492/detail.html

[Kathylene]

Blood found in woman's truck
Firefighter missing 6 days

BY J.D. GALLOP
and KIMBERLY C. MOORE

PALM BAY - Six days after Malabar volunteer firefighter Brandy Hall's disappearance, the focus is on possible blood evidence found in her waterlogged pickup truck.

"We found what appeared to be blood," Palm Bay Police Chief Bill Berger said of potential evidence found after the truck was pulled from a pond near the city's Brevard Community College campus last Friday.

"Because the car was filled with water, there wasn't a lot of it," he said.

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...608240347/1006

[Kathylene]

Husband pleads for public's help

By J.D. GALLOP and KIMBERLY C. MOORE
FLORIDA TODAY

VIERA — The search for missing Malabar volunteer firefighter Brandy Hall moved Thursday morning from a muddy pond in Palm Bay to a trash-dotted stretch of Interstate 95 in the Viera-Rockledge area.

Later in the day, Hall’s husband asked for the public’s help in locating her.

“I’m scared to death,” Jeffrey Hall said Thursday, his two attorneys by his side. “Somebody’s got to know something. If somebody’s seen Brandy, call the authorities.”
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc.../60824008/1086

[Kathylene]

Video Shows Firefighter Shortly Before Disappearance

POSTED: 12:35 pm EDT August 24, 2006

PALM BAY, Fla. -- Channel 9 obtained video Thursday of a missing Malabar firefighter. Brandy Hall disappeared one week ago.

From behind the lens of several surveillance cameras scattered throughout the Malabar Fire Station, Brandy Hall's last known movements were captured. One camera showed Hall drive off in her Chevy pickup truck.

"The video is significant in two aspects. One, it puts her alive at approximately 10:45pm on Thursday. It also allows us to put her behind the wheel of her green truck," said Yvonne Martinez, Palm Bay Police Department.
http://www.wftv.com/news/9731265/detail.html

[Kathylene]

http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=18207

Missing Firefighter Investigation

Palm Bay Police say it now appears missing firefighter Brandy Hall was the victim of a homicide. Detectives say blood in her truck has caused them to now lean towards that conclusion.

Tests confirm it was Hall's blood and police say it was a significant amount that alarmed them. The truck was pulled out from a pond a week ago Friday after Hall's firefighting gear was found floating in the pond that afternoon.

"At this point, we're looking at everyone as a suspect and until we can rule people out," Detective Mark Fell said.

Please read more at the link provided.

[Kathylene]

Hunt For Firefighter Returns To Pond
POSTED: 3:20 pm EDT August 25, 2006
UPDATED: 5:53 pm EDT August 25, 2006

The search for missing Malabar volunteer firefighter Brandy Hall returned Friday to a Palm Bay pond after police spotted an item belonging to the woman, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today.

Hall's firefighting pants were seen flowing back into the pond when it was refilled on Thursday. She vanished last week after leaving the Malabar fire station just after 10:30 p.m. Aug. 17.

http://www.local6.com/news/9739182/detail.html

[Kathylene]

Pond Drained Again In Firefighter Search

POSTED: 8:56 am EDT August 30, 2006

Palm Bay detectives plan to have a pond drained for the second time hoping the waters will reveal more secrets to a missing firefighter, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today.

The last time firefighter Brandy Hall was seen alive was nearly two weeks ago, when she climbed into her green pickup truck outside the Malabar Fire Station.

That truck later was found at the muddy bottom of a Palm Bay pond authorities spent days draining.

"This will be done as soon as possible," Palm Bay Police Detective Jess Suelter said. "There are a lot of people in that decision-making process,"

http://www.local6.com/news/9760732/detail.html