Name: Brandy Renee Hanna

Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Date of Birth: 1972-11-16
Date Missing: 2005-05-20
From City/State: Charleston, SC
Missing From (Country): USA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 32
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 69 inches
Weight: 115 pounds
Hair Color: Sandy
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Light

Identifying Characteristics: Tattoo of a "sun" on right shoulder, tattoo of a "heart" between thumb and forefinger of right hand, three piercings in left ear, two piercings in right ear, gap in upper front teeth, crooked upper teeth, missing molars.

Clothing: Possibly wearing a light blue shirt, blue jeans, white athletic shoes.
Jewelry: Diamond ring (very small diamonds make up the shape of a flower).

Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Brandy was last seen after 10:00pm on May 20, 2005 at her residence in the vicinity of the 3300 block of Florida Ave. in Charleston, SC. All of her belongings were left behind.

Investigative Agency: North Charleston Police Department
Phone: (843) 745-1015
Investigative Case #: 2005019398

Print a poster: http://www.projectja...BrandyHanna.pdf

A Message from Brandy's Mother:

"Brandy is my oldest child and my only daughter I always told her she was her mothers child. She is so much like me in so many ways. Brandy is a very quiet & private person. It takes her a while to open up to people.

She has 2 brothers whom she loves dearly, especially her baby brother. He was her baby . We all miss her so much words cannot begin to express the ache in my heart or the hopelessness that I feel. My life cannot go on until I find out where she is or what happened. This is something you never think will happen to you . Thank you."


Brandy worked with her mother at a local restaraunt. She had her own apartment, although it was not in a good part of town. Brandy's mother is certain her daughter had no involvement in drugs or other criminal activities. She lives a quiet life.

http://www.charleston.net

9 weeks ago, Brandy Hanna seemingly vanished, leaving her friends and family searching for clues

BY BRIAN HICKS
Of The Post and Courier Staff

Brandy Hanna left work in a playful mood that Friday, planning her weekend on the keypad of a brand-new cell phone. That night, she would go shopping with her best friend and on Saturday see her boyfriend before heading out to the beach. Sunday, she was supposed to have breakfast with her mother and younger brother.

But she never did any of those things. Sometime on the evening of Friday May 20, Brandy Hanna vanished.

She left behind her clothes, her money and an apartment devoid of clues -- a blanket and pillow on the couch, a cup of tea on the table.
There was no suggestion of a forced entry, no signs of a struggle. No hint of where she had gone.

It looked as if she would be right back.

The disappearance of the 32-year-old North Charleston woman has baffled police and kept her family and friends in an agonizing limbo for nine weeks now. At Alex's on Dorchester Road, where Hanna and her mother work, the restaurant's reader board asks: "Where is Brandy?"

It is a question that seems to have no answer.

Everyone who knows Hanna says there is no chance she would just leave. She's shy, has a tight circle of friends. She never missed work, where she has a great rapport with her customers. And silence is not her thing. Until she disappeared, she was on her phone constantly, chatting and text-messaging friends, and sometimes talking to her mother more than a half-dozen times a day.

North Charleston police say they have to treat Hanna as a missing person because they have no evidence that she was hurt or abducted, although her family is almost certain that is what has happened. Since May, police have questioned friends, boyfriends, family members, co-workers -- even given a polygraph test to one ex-boyfriend. But the police say they have no clues that point to foul play.

"Everyone tells me she would not go off without checking in, but we have nothing to suggest she was abducted," Detective Eric Jourdan said. "This is not common at all."While the national media provided 24-hour coverage of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba and breathless updates on runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, Hanna's disappearance has received no such attention. There has been no full-scale manhunt and no national TV cameras focused on North Charleston.

Hanna's family still clings to hope that she will turn up; the alternative is unthinkable. But as every day passes, the people closest to her worry that she will become just another statistic, one of thousands who vanish without a trace each year.

"It's just unreal that someone can disappear off the face of the Earth," said Donna Parent, Hanna's mother. "Not knowing is driving me crazy."

'SHE WAS SCARED OF SOMEONE'

It had been a year of change for Hanna.

After working at Pappy's off Remount Road on and off for years, she had moved to Alex's on Dorchester Road in March. The move afforded Hanna a chance to spend time with her mother, the manager there.

"When you don't live with your children, some of that closeness goes away," Parent said. "So it was a thrill having her there. And my boss loved her. The customers loved her."

Tricia Williamson, her boss at Pappy's, described Hanna much the same way. "She loved animals and was always happy," Williamson said. "She was a good girl."

The job change came on the heels of a breakup with Ray McAdams, with whom she had lived for six years. In February, Hanna began seeing McAdams' friend Zeke Lankford.

In April, Hanna and Lankford rented an apartment together off Florida Avenue in a rundown neighborhood off Spruill Avenue. Her mother pleaded with her not to move into the neighborhood, within blocks of crack dealers and hookers, but Hanna said it was what she could afford.

"I begged her to come home, but she wouldn't," Parent said. "She's a grown woman; she wanted her own place."

Hanna didn't have a car, so she often walked to a convenience store two blocks away to buy cigarettes or soft drinks. She sometimes paid one of the regulars at Alex's, Andy Rangnow, to give her a ride to and from work. Hanna hadn't driven since her license was suspended on a bad check charge years earlier. She especially needed transportation after Lankford left a few weeks later, moving back in with his children and his wife, from whom he had been separated for a year.

Amy McAdams, Hanna's best friend and Ray McAdams' sister, said her friend was trying to decide what she wanted to do and that she had broken up with Lankford. But Hanna told some of her customers and co-workers that she was planning to see him the weekend she disappeared.

"We were still very close when she came up missing," Lankford said. "I was supposed to see her that weekend."

Lankford and some of Hanna's friends say they believed Ray McAdams wouldn't leave her alone; Ray McAdams said Hanna kept in touch with him and asked him to drive by her apartment to wave at her -- but not to stop because it would make Lankford mad. He said he last saw her on May 16, at his niece's doctor's appointment. Hanna had gone to the doctor's office with McAdams.

On Thursday, May 19, Hanna showed up for lunch with Amy McAdams at Pappy's, where McAdams works. She invited one of the other waitresses, Susan Berry, to go to the beach with her that weekend; Berry couldn't go.

The next day, Hanna worked her regular shift at Alex's, coming in about 7 a.m. and taking off about 2:30 p.m.

"She was fine all day long," Diane White, a waitress at Alex's, remembers. "She was happy because (Lankford) was coming to see her the next day."

Sometime that afternoon, a customer in the restaurant said Hanna took a call on Alex's main number that shook her up.

"She told me she was scared of someone, but she wouldn't tell me who," said Thomas Johnson, a regular at Alex's.

Parent said no one has checked records to try and trace the call. She isn't sure her daughter was frightened. If she was, she didn't let it show to many people. She seemed almost giddy. Another customer, a retired police officer, had offered to give her a ride to the beach the next day. Before she left, she called her mother, who hadn't arrived at the restaurant. Hanna didn't want to leave without seeing
her.

"Momma, you're late. Where are you?"

Parent was just a couple of blocks away and told her, "Hold your horses. I'll be there in a minute."

Hanna was using a new cell phone her mother had bought her earlier that week. She'd previously had a prepaid cell phone, but Parent didn't want her to run out of minutes. She programmed the phone for her daughter before Rangnow gave Hanna a ride home.

A little before 3 p.m., Hanna walked out of the restaurant with Rangnow, carrying a to-go cup filled with iced tea.

In the car, Rangnow said Hanna was "happy-go-lucky and could not wait for the weekend to start." He dropped her off at the apartment and waited until she got inside before pulling away.

"She said she'd see me Monday morning," Rangnow said.

Hanna spent the afternoon watching television, curled up on her couch with a pillow and a blanket. At 5:50 p.m., she talked to her mother. She was expecting Lankford to come by, but he told police he had to work late and just went home instead.

About 8 p.m., she sent a text message to Amy McAdams: "Are you still coming?" The two were supposed to go to Wal-Mart to shop for bathing suits when McAdams got off work at Pappy's.

At 8:49 p.m. Hanna checked the voice mail on her cell phone and at 10:19 p.m. sent Lankford a text message, which he said was about their plans to see each other over the weekend.

Amy McAdams got off work late, about 10 p.m. and then got delayed at a railroad crossing. She didn't make it to Hanna's apartment until about 10:30.

When she got there, McAdams says she beat on the apartment door but got no answer. She tried to call Hanna on the prepaid cell phone (McAdams didn't have the new phone's number). She heard the prepaid phone ringing inside the apartment. She figured Hanna had fallen asleep, so she left.

Sometime that evening, Parent tried to call her daughter, but Hanna didn't answer.

"When she didn't answer the phone I got a feeling in the pit of my stomach," Parent said. "The feeling I had was something was wrong."

'I KNOW SHE'D HAD SOME PROBLEMS'

Parent worried all weekend. She tried to call Hanna several times, but the phone went straight to voice mail; it had been turned off.

Parent knew Hanna would not turn off her phone. It was practically glued to her ear. But Parent told herself that Hanna was a 32-year-old woman who was entitled to her privacy. She figured her daughter was spending the weekend with Lankford.

Lankford said he did not go see Hanna on Saturday morning because he could not get her on the phone. He figured she wasn't taking his calls because she was mad at him, so he went to work without driving by the apartment.

Amy McAdams tried to call Hanna over the weekend, to find out what happened Friday, but never got her.

"I didn't think anything of it," McAdams said. "I figured she was at the beach."

On Monday morning, Parent awoke and looked at the clock. It was 7:20 a.m. She was relieved, because she knew if her daughter hadn't shown up for work, someone from Alex's would have called her.

As she was having that thought, her phone rang. Hanna wasn't at work.

Parent called the police, but without signs of foul play or some sort of crime, it is a hard for them to investigate. Adults can do as they like, don't have to answer to anyone. North Charleston police listened to countless people say that Hanna wouldn't do that. They took a report, searched the apartment.

Hanna had left behind the money she'd made on Friday at Alex's and had not taken a single thing she owned. It looked like she had just stepped out for a moment. The cup of tea from the restaurant sat beside the couch.

"I thought: This happens on TV, not in real life," said Gary Dillon, Hanna's stepfather. "It is a horrible feeling."

North Charleston police interviewed Parent, Lankford and Ray McAdams. After a week of police tailing him, McAdams said, he volunteered to take a polygraph test. He passed it, and police say they have no reason to suspect he had anything to do with Hanna's disappearance.

"I do not know what happened to her, I wish I knew who did," McAdams said.

McAdams and Lankford look suspiciously at each other, and McAdams said drugs were involved, though Hanna's family and everyone else said she never touched any hard drugs. McAdams said he believes Lankford knows what happened. Lankford said he doesn't know what happened to her, but that he believes she left with someone she knew. He suspects McAdams knows more than he is telling.

"I think she left the house with every intention of coming right back," Lankford said. "I know she'd had some problems with her ex-boyfriend. ... I fear the absolute worst."

Police say neither man is a suspect; at this time, there's no sign of a crime.

Parent said she wishes people would stop pointing their fingers at each other and find her daughter. For nine weeks, she has searched and worked to raise money to pay for information. She hopes that money will make someone come forward.

So far they've raised $5,000, and on Thursday a customer at Alex's offered to match the amount. There is now a $10,000 reward for information that leads police to Hanna.

Parent said not knowing is killing her. She has been in touch with the families of other missing adults. It is a big community, bigger than she could have imagined. According to the National Center for Missing Adults, there were 47,842 adults missing as of last year, and more than 30,000 of them had been gone for more than a year.

The family has talked to private investigators, psychics and police from various departments. They've fended off crank calls and false leads. They've contacted the governor and senators. They want the FBI involved. They want answers.

They want Brandy Hanna found.

"The good, the bad, I've got to know," Parent said.

POSTED BY PUSH BLAZER 8/18/05

My daughter has now been missing 3 months. Monica Caison & Margie Spencer along, with her K 9 Team, came to town August 8 thru August 13. They were able to help the Detective who is working this case with quite a lot of valuable information. We are still not sure what happened to my daughter but I feel we are getting closer.

Thank you all for your prayers.

Donna Parent

Brandy's story is featured today on the Project Jason-Voice for the Missing blog.

It is entitled "I Love You, Mom - See You Later", which were the last words she spoke to her mother. In the story, we also share a special announcement about national media coverage for Brandy.

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/


Be sure to help out the families of the missing by telling others about the blog. This is just another way we can reach out and let the faces of the missing be seen. We welcome appropriate website links. Other ideas are posting the blog link on other forums you frequent, and sending it out to your friends and family via email.

Thank you for helping us to help others.

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

POSTED BY SCLYNNBIRD 8/27/05

Hello everyone- my name is Lynn and I live in Charleston, SC and my GOOD FRIEND is Donna Parent who has and still is jumping through every hoop available to her to try and find out where and what has happened to Brandy. It has been 14 weeks today and still nothing.

I have become very aggitated that everytime I turn on the television- I hear about different people being reported missing from all over the COUNTRY and getting all kinds of recognition of sorts except for BRANDY RENEE HANNA. I just don't understand! Donna has been a real TROOPER and I have been there for her whether for a sounding board or whatever.

I worry about her and it bothers me that I can do no more than I am already doing. I just lend an ear, a shoulder or whatever it takes to help her through this terrible ordeal.

I have no children of my own and will not pretrend to know the agony that Donna or any other parent out there must be going through.

All I can say is that everyone is in my prayers and I can only hope that one day real soon that answers will be found in order for loved ones to be able to have some sort of closure in their lives.

God Bless each and everyone of you!

POST BY PUSHBLAZER, 9/8/05

Sept.01/05 Today was another step into this nightmare. I received a letter from the Records department of the police department via certified mail I was told I had ten day to sign this letter stating Brandy was still a missing person and supply the dept. with a copy of Brandy`s Dental Records or my daughter would be taken out of the computers as a missing person . I am still in shock and cannot believe how cruel people can be Thank God I was able to get my hands on her records.I don`t know if anyone else has been thru this but I needed to share with someone . I don`t know what to expect next. Donna Parent Brandy`s mother

POSTED 9/8/05

I have never heard of doing such a thing! Is this standard procedure in your city, or is this a statewide procedure? What would supplying dental records have to do with proving she is still missing? I would be taking this up the "food chain" and finding out why this callous procedure is done.

Kelly

PUSHBLAZER, 9/8/05

Kelly I spoke with the Detective who is in charge of Brandy`s case after I dropped the signed letter and her Dental Records off at the police Dept Sept 07/05
He claimed he had know knowledge of this letter and told me he was going to check into this.He also agreed this was not the way to handle this. Thanks Donna

Project Jason announces that Brandy Hanna is on the current 18 Wheel Angels campaign. Her campaign will continue through September.

18 Wheel Angels is a national missing person's locator program in which truck drivers or other business travelers are recruited to place posters of a specific missing person along the way as they travel.

For additional information, and to print Brandy's poster, please see:

http://www.projectjason.org/18wheel.html

We ask that you print and place one or more posters wherever you live.

You do not need to be a truck driver to help place posters. You can also help by telling any truck drivers or trucking companies you know about this program.

This is also a reminder that if you haven’t already, you may want to read Brandy’s story on the Project Jason-Voice for the Missing blog. It is one of our reader’s favorites. You can read it here:

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com...you-later.html

Thank you.

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

http://www.charleston.net/stories/De...tion=localnews

Mother presses hunt for missing woman
Leads are few, hopes are many 4 months after Brandy disappeared

BY BRIAN HICKS
Of The Post and Courier Staff


She looked a lot like Brandy, even answered to her name.
A man had seen the woman in the Big Lots on Rivers Avenue, stopped and talked to her briefly. She had told him, "I'm not missing."

His story carried just enough detail to give Donna Parent the familiar stirrings of hope.

In the four months since her daughter, Brandy Hanna, disappeared from her North Charleston apartment, Parent has heard it all.

Folks claim they have seen Hanna in North Charleston hotels, and walking along a Johns Island road. A search team came to town with tracking dogs, and one national television show has expressed interest. But so far, police have few leads in the 32-year-old woman's disappearance, and no one has even called about the reward money.

Such is life for the family of a missing person.

The Big Lots sighting seemed like a credible story. The man had seen the girl one day, told her friend the next. Two days later, Parent and North Charleston police were at the store, looking at surveillance videos.

"She bore a striking resemblance to Brandy," Parent said. "It gave me hope, but it's such a letdown when you figure out it's not her."

On May 20, Hanna left work at the Alex's Restaurant her mother manages on Dorchester Road, caught a ride home with a customer and settled in for a long weekend. She planned to go shopping that evening, see her boyfriend and go to the beach on Saturday, meet her family for breakfast on Sunday. But sometime that evening, between 9 and 10:30 p.m., Hanna vanished.

Since that time, Parent has learned a lot about the world of missing adults. There are more than 97,000 missing person cases in the country. Most are for people who disappear without a trace.

There is so little that can be done. Police have given polygraph tests to Hanna's boyfriend and ex-boyfriend, they've questioned friends, co-workers and family members. They searched her apartment for clues, and came up with next to nothing. Hanna disappeared with her new cell phone, and apparently didn't take much else with her -- not even money.

With detectives stumped, Parent became frustrated. She got some hope when Monica Caison, founder of the North Carolina-based CUE Center for Missing Persons, brought a five-dog team in August to scour the area around Hanna's Florida Avenue apartment. Ultimately, they found nothing concrete.

Gary Dillon, Hanna's stepfather, hung new posters in West Ashley, designed by a national missing persons organization. "Hopefully, we'll get an answer," he said. "At least something would be better than not knowing anything."

Dillon describes Parent as "holding up pretty darn good, considering." He says her work as manager at Alex's keeps her busy seven days a week. But even at work, she cannot escape the family horror. Posters and articles about Hanna hang on the restaurant's wall. Outside the reader board still asks, "Where is Brandy?"

"A lot of people come in and ask about her and say, 'I'm praying for you.' Well, I say pray for her -- this is about Brandy," Parent said.

In the past month, Parent saw a chance to bring publicity to the case lost when Caison's appearance on "Larry King Live" was canceled because of Hurricane Katrina. Caison planned to highlight Hanna's case on the show.

The case has gotten a national boost this month from Project Jason, a Nebraska-based missing persons center. Kelly Jolkowski, president of the organization, featured Hanna's story on her Web site and this month is distributing posters through her 18 Wheel Angels program. Truck drivers and anyone else who volunteers can download posters with photos and a detailed description of Hanna and post them in truck stops, restaurants and any other public place throughout the country.

In about a year and a half of work, the program has gotten about 9,000 posters of missing persons distributed throughout the country. Jolkowski, whose own son has been missing since 2001, said she chose Hanna's case for the program because she fit the profile of a missing person with some hope of being found.

"Awareness is the key in these cases," Jolkowski said. "It's really tough with missing adults, because the older they get, the harder it is to get attention for them."

For now, the trail is going cold and the police can only react to new leads. Parent is left to come up with anything new she can to keep people helping her look. Brandy's birthday is in November, and she has considered a candlelight vigil for her on that date.

Then she stops and thinks. "She will have been missing nearly six months by then," Parent said.

SCLYNNBIRD 9/22/05;
I am Donna Parent's friend and talk w/her everyday-I know this is very tough for her and I worry about how she is holding up. I try and make her laugh whenever I can and let her know I am there for whatever she needs.

When she told me about the candlelight vigil on Brandy's birthday-she knows I am at the top of her list for supporting that.

I pray for Brandy as well as Donna and her family everyday-hoping that some little something will turn up- anything!!! I love you Donna-my friend!

KAREN H. GARRIS, 11/5/05:
DONNA I AM SO SORRYTO HEAR ABOUT BRANDY IF THERE IS ANYTHING I CAN DO PLEASE CONTACT ME AT KHGARRIS@YAHOO.COM YOUR SISTER, KARYN

SCLYNNBIRD 11/5/05:

Brandy's birthday is fast approaching-Donna has asked me along with several others to help organize a Birthday Candlelight Vigil at the apartment where Brandy was last seen.

Donna has also asked that I be her spokesperson for that night knowing that this will be an emotional time for her and her family. I am very honored and proud to do this for my very dear friend.

On November 16th- please keep Donna and all of her family and friends in your prayers as we celebrate Brandy's birthday.

MARCIA, 11/5/05:

On November 16th- please keep Donna and all of her family and friends in your prayers as we celebrate Brandy's birthday.
very good idea. A candle light vigil. Count me in if only in spirit

PUSHBLAZER, 11/12/05:

Brandy`s website is finished please check it out and sign the guestbook www.missingbrandyhanna.com

thank you Kelly for your continued support Donna

11/16/05:
Wishing a Happy Birthday to Brandy, and hopes and prayers she will be home long before the next one.

With Hope, Always,
Kelly

MARCIA, 11/16/05:
Happy Birthday to Brandy

Monica sent this earlier but thank you

PUSHBLAZER, 11/17/05:
Brandy`s birthday vigil went very well tonight we had a good turn out from the community. Brian Hicks from the post & courier two different News Channel . I hope & pray something will come from this.Tomorrow night Brandy will be featured on our local show Cold Case WCIV 4 News at 7 p.m.

Vigil marks missing woman's birthday
Few leads in case of Brandy Hanna after six-month search

BY BRIAN HICKS
The Post and Courier
http://tinyurl.com/9q5gy

There were a million places they would have preferred to sing "Happy Birthday," far smaller candles they would have rather lit.

But on Wednesday night, nearly 60 members of Brandy Renee Hanna's family and circle of friends marked the 33rd anniversary of her birth in the parking lot of the North Charleston apartment where she was last seen nearly six months ago.

They had hoped a party would have been possible by now, but the closest they could come was a candlelight vigil.

"We love you and can only hope that wherever you are you know that we miss you terribly and are desperately looking for you daily," Lynn Waldroup said, speaking for the family after the group sang a melancholy version of "Happy Birthday."

On May 20, Brandy - a waitress at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road - served Waldroup lunch. She was happy, excited to have the entire weekend off and before her. That afternoon, she caught a ride home with a customer and later talked to her mother, Donna Parent, by phone.

Sometime that night, she disappeared from her Florida Avenue apartment, leaving behind all her belongings, her money and no clue as to what had happened.

It is a mystery that has tormented her mother. Along with Brandy's stepfather, Gary Dillon, Parent has gotten her daughter's picture and story on television and in newspaper, on "missing" posters across the country.

She will be featured on Channel 4's Crime Stoppers at 7 tonight.

"Your mother is using every avenue available to find you," Waldroup said at the service. "She is leaving no stone unturned to bring you home to all of us."

North Charleston police have looked for clues, Alex's owner Carol Billips has established a reward fund and the rest of the city has sat trying to solve a frustrating puzzle.

"We talk about it every morning at Pappy's," said Charlie Stephens, who knew Brandy from her time waitressing there. "It's a mystery to me."

Parent, her sons Michael and Shane, and Dillon stood silent as the crowd lit candles and prayed for Brandy.

Parent said she appreciated the outpouring of support and hoped that someone could give her the answer that keeps her up nights and fills her thoughts every day.

"If you know anything, please tell me," she said. "All we need is one person to tell us."
To offer tips

Anyone with information about Brandy Hanna can contact North Charleston police at 554-5700 or Crime Stoppers at 554-1111.

Contact Brian Hicks at 937-5561 or bhicks@postandcourier.com

KELLY, 11/30/05:

Be sure to watch ON the Record with Greta Van Susteren tonight. Donna will be interviewed by Greta about Brandy's case.

Let's hope it brings answers for Donna.

Kelly

PUSHBLAZER, 12/1/05:
Thank you Kelly for your support & encouragement . You have been by my side since this nightmare began. Kelly you were my first contact and you helped me when I did not know which way to turn next or where to begin.And you continue to be a call or email away. You are truly one of Gods angels. Thank you so very much Donna

KELLY, 12/1/05:

Thank you for your kind words, Donna.

We will continue to be here for you.

With hope for all of our missing loved ones,
Kelly

PUSHBLAZER, 1/1/06

Christmas has came and went and now a New Year has begun I hope and pray this year we all willl get some kind of answers about our missing loved ones. Anything would be better than living in the not knowing.May God Bless us all this year.

PUSHBLAZER, 1/24/06

Brandy has been missing 8 months now with still no idea or clue. I wish this nightmare would end.

PUSHBLAZER, 2/5/06:

I do not know if the Missing Show featured Brandy or not never heard and could not get it in Charleston.

PUSHBLAZER, 2/5/06:

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I met with my Mayor,Police Chief and Captain of Detectives on Feb.03,06 trying to get their Dept to change how they view Brandy`s case. They were very respectful and apologized for the way the case was handled from the beginning or not handled. The Mayor has promised to get more press releases out about Brandy and to put a billboard up with Brandy`s picture and info on it. I had quiet a few people from the press calling the Mayor`s office and I think this helped. They have also agreed to keep me updated more often. I hope they will follow through with everything.

PUSHBLAZER, 2/5/06:

Tim has added a very beautiful poem to Brandy`s website if you get a chance check it out. I believe it will hold a lot of meaning for all of us.

2/5/06

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Brandy is on the missing show this weekend. I sent you an email about this many weeks ago. I'm sorry if you did not get it. You can see her name in the list here:

http://www.usamissing.com/thisweek.htm

I'm so glad to hear the good news for you locally. It's past due, but at least things are moving forward.

With Hope,
Kelly

PUSHBLAZER, 2/5/06:
I got the email it was suppose to be on the week of the Jan,30, but our TV stations do not carry the show.

PUSHBLAZER, 3/5/06:

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I met with the Mayor`s office Feb.3rd and thought they were serious about helping keep the word out about Brandy but as of today March 4th I have not heard from any of them. There has been no sign of a billboard obviously they were just telling me what I wanted to hear to get me out of there. I do not understand why LE won`t take this serious.

MARCIA, 3/5/06

I think politicians will say anything at times, to see what we will do next. We keep bugging them is what we do...........

SCLYNNBIRD, 3/12/06:

Hello everyone-Brandy has been heavy on my mind more so now than ever. May 20th, 2006, is fast approaching and my dear friend, Donna, still knows nothing more than she did 10 months ago when this horrible ORDEAL began for Brandy's family and all of her friends and co-workers. That's right, May 20, 2006, will mark the one (1) year anniversary of Brandy's disappearance.

It is a terrible thing to know that we are no closer to finding out anything at all.

Not exactly sure what the authorities are doing or have have done anymore. I know this much-things were not handled as they should have been in the beginning-and now of course, all we hear is "what would you like for us to do?"

I love and miss you Brandy Renee Hanna, and hope that someday soon we will find out all the answers that have plagued our minds and bring you home where you belong.

3/12/06:
Thank you for being a friend and supporter for Donna.

Prayers for Brandy,
Kelly

PUSHBLAZER, 4/06:

Tim has updated and added on to Brandy`s website if you get a chance check it out. he has did an awesome job.Kelly it was a real pleasure to finally meet you. You are a wonderful lady.

PUSHBLAZER 4/06:
Brandy`s website http://www.missingbrandyhanna.com

MARCIA, 4/06:
Wonderful job on web site

PUSHBLAZER 4/06:

Thank you glad you liked the site. My friend Tim and I have spent a lot of time to make this site as beautiful as Brandy is. I miss her so much this is a way for me to feel connected to her in some small way.

"Brandy’s one year vigil

Alex’s Dorchester Rd.
May 20th 2006
8:30 P.M.

Everyone is invited.

missingbrandyhanna.com"