Missing Woman: Brandy Hanna - SC - 05/20/2005
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A Message from Brandy's Mother:
Glad everyone likes the redo on the site.Tim has added a message board also if anyone would like to join it. Have not been on much lately my Hero my brother in law Henry Smalley Jr. passed away May 3,2006.I have had a hard time dealing with this along with everthing else and trying to be the strong one for my sister. This was a great man and we all miss him very much. I have made a Tribute Page on Brandy`s website to him if you want to check it out. Thank you for your continued prayers. Kelly hope you are doing okay. I know the anniversary for Jason is coming up I pray for God to give us the strength to get thru this.You are always in my thoughts. Donna
Glad everyone likes the redo on the site.Tim has added a message board also if anyone would like to join it. Have not been on much lately my Hero my brother in law Henry Smalley Jr. passed away May 3,2006.I have had a hard time dealing with this along with everthing else and trying to be the strong one for my sister. This was a great man and we all miss him very much. I have made a Tribute Page on Brandy`s website to him if you want to check it out. Thank you for your continued prayers. Kelly hope you are doing okay. I know the anniversary for Jason is coming up I pray for God to give us the strength to get thru this.You are always in my thoughts. Donna
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Brandy`s 1 year Vigil [/hr]Daughter's disappearance an open wound
BY BRIAN HICKS
The Post and Courier
It has been a year, and still she cannot sleep.
Her life has become one long nightmare, a hunt that never ceases. Everywhere she looks, Donna Parent sees her daughter - on the street, in the store. She has to force herself not to follow every passing car with a thin blond woman inside.
It's not her, she constantly has to tell herself.
The restaurant she manages has become a shrine of missing person posters and well-wishers who come in to eat every day. A year later, and the Alex's Restaurant's reader board still asks 'Where is Brandy?'
After work, Parent spends much of her time on the computer, reading about and corresponding with people who are just like her, who have lost someone without a notion of when they may find out what happened. Like her, they try to avoid the unthinkable: that they may never know. So many people out there like her, she realizes with great sadness.
Every night as she lies down to attempt sleep, Donna Parent looks at her daughter's picture and asks the same question:
Where are you?
On Saturday night, nearly 100 people gathered at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road to mark the one-year anniversary of Brandy Hanna's disappearance with prayer and a candlelight vigil. On May 20, 2005, Hanna, then 32, got off from work there on a Friday afternoon with big plans for the weekend.
She caught a ride home with a customer and made plans to go shopping that night, to be ready for a trip to the beach. She spoke with her mother once more on the phone. And then nothing.
All leads in the case have proven dead ends. The few suspects brought in passed polygraph tests, leaving police stumped. Every day more time passes without answers, without clues.
One year later, and all of the sudden Brandy's disappearance is a cold case.
'This is a situation that a year ago I never thought I would be in,' Parent says. 'I can't stop looking, because if I stop, who's going to look for her?'
Parent has become disillusioned about a lot of things. Mostly, she is upset that no one has found her daughter. When she first reported her missing, it was nearly a week before police would investigate, because adults have a right to be missing.
Police departments across the country say they cannot investigate every call that comes in on a missing adult - they would get little else done.
There are nearly 2 million people missing in the United States right now, about half of them adults. While there are networks and agencies and Amber Alerts for children who go missing, there is no mechanism ? save for dozens of networks that exist on the Internet and in the kitchens of people who have suffered loss ? to hunt for adults who disappear.
'Adult missing person cases are hard. You have the right to be missing, a right to privacy,' says Monica Caison, the founder and executive director of the CUE Center, a missing persons organization in North Carolina. 'I've heard police say they don't want another Runaway Bride story. We've got to stop judging people, and listen when families say someone is missing. If they turn up on a beach drinking pina coladas, so what? Let it embarrass them.'
Caison says that if police had looked quicker at Brandy Hanna's last-known whereabouts, they might have turned up a clue. But in this case, there are no guarantees. Because, unfortunately, hers was a trail that went cold fast.
North Charleston Detective Eric Jourdan said there has been no new information in Brandy's case since last August, when Caison brought search teams and cadaver dogs to town to search several areas. Police followed up on a few leads from those searches, but they were all dead ends.
'What's most frustrating is that she had such a close circle of friends, only four or five people she associated with, and none of them could think of any reason she would want to disappear on her own,' Jourdan says.
A boyfriend, as well as a recent ex-boyfriend, were considered possible suspects, but both submitted to polygraph tests and passed. Since then, one of them, Ray McAdams, has died of natural causes.
'I check Brandy's Web site all the time, looking for anonymous tips, and I check into all unidentified bodies found in the state,' Jourdan says. 'But there's not a lot we can do without some sort of clue.'
Parent has pushed the city to do more, and in February got Mayor Keith Summey to agree to put up billboards with Brandy's face, asking for information in her disappearance.
Parent is upset those billboards have not gone up, but Summey said he's at the mercy of charity. MAC Advertising has agreed to put up a city-designed Brandy billboard starting June 1. They will leave it up all summer, moving it to a new location every month.
'We've been working with MAC, but we've had to wait until they had space available,' Summey said.
On Saturday night, Parent set up a table with Brandy's pictures - as a baby, in the ROTC, at work at Alex's - and the vigil attendees signed the guest book with notes such as, 'We all pray for your safety' and 'You are and always will be my best friend.'
Cindy Cornell, who worked with Brandy at Pappy's in North Charleston, said when she first heard the news, she assumed her friend had 'just gone off somewhere.'
'I hope that's right, I hope she's off somewhere,' Cornell said. 'I just hopes she comes back.'
As the people crowded around the shrine to Brandy began to light their candles, a mighty wind blew up where moments before it had been calm. For several minutes, they tried in vain to light a few flames to Brandy's memory on the anniversary of her disappearance.
Eventually, Parent said it was no use and asked them to simply hold the candles high above their heads for a moment. There would be no candlelight at this vigil.
It was a disappointment for sure, but Parent has had many of them in the past year. This was a small problem, she knows. There is a much bigger one out there, one that has been looming over her entire life for a year now.
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BY BRIAN HICKS
The Post and Courier
It has been a year, and still she cannot sleep.
Her life has become one long nightmare, a hunt that never ceases. Everywhere she looks, Donna Parent sees her daughter - on the street, in the store. She has to force herself not to follow every passing car with a thin blond woman inside.
It's not her, she constantly has to tell herself.
The restaurant she manages has become a shrine of missing person posters and well-wishers who come in to eat every day. A year later, and the Alex's Restaurant's reader board still asks 'Where is Brandy?'
After work, Parent spends much of her time on the computer, reading about and corresponding with people who are just like her, who have lost someone without a notion of when they may find out what happened. Like her, they try to avoid the unthinkable: that they may never know. So many people out there like her, she realizes with great sadness.
Every night as she lies down to attempt sleep, Donna Parent looks at her daughter's picture and asks the same question:
Where are you?
On Saturday night, nearly 100 people gathered at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road to mark the one-year anniversary of Brandy Hanna's disappearance with prayer and a candlelight vigil. On May 20, 2005, Hanna, then 32, got off from work there on a Friday afternoon with big plans for the weekend.
She caught a ride home with a customer and made plans to go shopping that night, to be ready for a trip to the beach. She spoke with her mother once more on the phone. And then nothing.
All leads in the case have proven dead ends. The few suspects brought in passed polygraph tests, leaving police stumped. Every day more time passes without answers, without clues.
One year later, and all of the sudden Brandy's disappearance is a cold case.
'This is a situation that a year ago I never thought I would be in,' Parent says. 'I can't stop looking, because if I stop, who's going to look for her?'
Parent has become disillusioned about a lot of things. Mostly, she is upset that no one has found her daughter. When she first reported her missing, it was nearly a week before police would investigate, because adults have a right to be missing.
Police departments across the country say they cannot investigate every call that comes in on a missing adult - they would get little else done.
There are nearly 2 million people missing in the United States right now, about half of them adults. While there are networks and agencies and Amber Alerts for children who go missing, there is no mechanism ? save for dozens of networks that exist on the Internet and in the kitchens of people who have suffered loss ? to hunt for adults who disappear.
'Adult missing person cases are hard. You have the right to be missing, a right to privacy,' says Monica Caison, the founder and executive director of the CUE Center, a missing persons organization in North Carolina. 'I've heard police say they don't want another Runaway Bride story. We've got to stop judging people, and listen when families say someone is missing. If they turn up on a beach drinking pina coladas, so what? Let it embarrass them.'
Caison says that if police had looked quicker at Brandy Hanna's last-known whereabouts, they might have turned up a clue. But in this case, there are no guarantees. Because, unfortunately, hers was a trail that went cold fast.
North Charleston Detective Eric Jourdan said there has been no new information in Brandy's case since last August, when Caison brought search teams and cadaver dogs to town to search several areas. Police followed up on a few leads from those searches, but they were all dead ends.
'What's most frustrating is that she had such a close circle of friends, only four or five people she associated with, and none of them could think of any reason she would want to disappear on her own,' Jourdan says.
A boyfriend, as well as a recent ex-boyfriend, were considered possible suspects, but both submitted to polygraph tests and passed. Since then, one of them, Ray McAdams, has died of natural causes.
'I check Brandy's Web site all the time, looking for anonymous tips, and I check into all unidentified bodies found in the state,' Jourdan says. 'But there's not a lot we can do without some sort of clue.'
Parent has pushed the city to do more, and in February got Mayor Keith Summey to agree to put up billboards with Brandy's face, asking for information in her disappearance.
Parent is upset those billboards have not gone up, but Summey said he's at the mercy of charity. MAC Advertising has agreed to put up a city-designed Brandy billboard starting June 1. They will leave it up all summer, moving it to a new location every month.
'We've been working with MAC, but we've had to wait until they had space available,' Summey said.
On Saturday night, Parent set up a table with Brandy's pictures - as a baby, in the ROTC, at work at Alex's - and the vigil attendees signed the guest book with notes such as, 'We all pray for your safety' and 'You are and always will be my best friend.'
Cindy Cornell, who worked with Brandy at Pappy's in North Charleston, said when she first heard the news, she assumed her friend had 'just gone off somewhere.'
'I hope that's right, I hope she's off somewhere,' Cornell said. 'I just hopes she comes back.'
As the people crowded around the shrine to Brandy began to light their candles, a mighty wind blew up where moments before it had been calm. For several minutes, they tried in vain to light a few flames to Brandy's memory on the anniversary of her disappearance.
Eventually, Parent said it was no use and asked them to simply hold the candles high above their heads for a moment. There would be no candlelight at this vigil.
It was a disappointment for sure, but Parent has had many of them in the past year. This was a small problem, she knows. There is a much bigger one out there, one that has been looming over her entire life for a year now.
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Brandy 1 year Vigil
A Message from Brandy's Mother:
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On a day I wanted to pay tribute to my daughter what could go wrong did go wrong. As the day progressed I could see it wasn`t gonna be good. People I counted on were calling and could not make it. I understand this life changes constantly things we have no control over they happen. Monica Caison from CUE was unable to make it, there were no TV Crews to show up. I personally emailed them all. But I did have a great turn out of Family and Friends I would like to Thank you all for showing your support. Leroy Robinson (Foots) to most of us did a great job to keep everything together. Cindy paid great tribute to Brandy and myself she has worked with us both and knows us well. As for the sudden gust of wind when it came time to light the candels there`s a message. Time will tell.Thank you all who came out I really appreciate it and your continued support. Brian Hicks your story is wonderful as always .Thank You Brandy`s Mother Donna
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On a day I wanted to pay tribute to my daughter what could go wrong did go wrong. As the day progressed I could see it wasn`t gonna be good. People I counted on were calling and could not make it. I understand this life changes constantly things we have no control over they happen. Monica Caison from CUE was unable to make it, there were no TV Crews to show up. I personally emailed them all. But I did have a great turn out of Family and Friends I would like to Thank you all for showing your support. Leroy Robinson (Foots) to most of us did a great job to keep everything together. Cindy paid great tribute to Brandy and myself she has worked with us both and knows us well. As for the sudden gust of wind when it came time to light the candels there`s a message. Time will tell.Thank you all who came out I really appreciate it and your continued support. Brian Hicks your story is wonderful as always .Thank You Brandy`s Mother Donna
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Dear Donna,
I just wanted to let you know that Brandy is not forgotten. I see her face, too. Someday, I hope it will be real.
Keep the faith and the fight.
Kelly
I just wanted to let you know that Brandy is not forgotten. I see her face, too. Someday, I hope it will be real.
Keep the faith and the fight.
Kelly
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Brandy Hanna will be featured on television program "Missing"
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Brandy Hanna will be featured on television program "Missing".
http://www.usamissing.com
The show will air the week of July 31, 2006, and in most areas, is shown on the following weekend.
Please check out whick station airs the program in your area by visiting the following link.
http://www.usamissing.com/findus.htm
Then check out the station's site (provided in the above link) for the exact day and time the show airs.
All the following adults and children will be featured on this episode.
Marilyn "Niqui" McCown, Suzanne Lyall, Savanna Todd, Brandy Hanna, Jeremy Alex, Brianna Wilkins, Mark Jackson, Theresa Waldron, Damon Bonds, Rogelio Cerda, Sofia Hernandez, Johan Garcia-Bonilla, Kelly Wilson, Shawn White, Tristen Myers, Vicente Nunez, Karla Coronado, Mary Ann White, James Martin Jr., Oscar Romero, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Bianca Lebron, Karla Rodriguez, Daniel Ryan.
http://www.usamissin...les/Page733.htm
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Brandy Hanna will be featured on television program "Missing".
http://www.usamissing.com
The show will air the week of July 31, 2006, and in most areas, is shown on the following weekend.
Please check out whick station airs the program in your area by visiting the following link.
http://www.usamissing.com/findus.htm
Then check out the station's site (provided in the above link) for the exact day and time the show airs.
All the following adults and children will be featured on this episode.
Marilyn "Niqui" McCown, Suzanne Lyall, Savanna Todd, Brandy Hanna, Jeremy Alex, Brianna Wilkins, Mark Jackson, Theresa Waldron, Damon Bonds, Rogelio Cerda, Sofia Hernandez, Johan Garcia-Bonilla, Kelly Wilson, Shawn White, Tristen Myers, Vicente Nunez, Karla Coronado, Mary Ann White, James Martin Jr., Oscar Romero, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Bianca Lebron, Karla Rodriguez, Daniel Ryan.
http://www.usamissin...les/Page733.htm
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Posted 16 May 2007 - 09:54 AM
Brandy Hanna will be featured on the television program "Missing" Episode M-414.
Visit USA Missing Homepage
The show will air the week of October 30, 2006, and in most areas, is shown on the following weekend.
Please check out which station airs the program in your area by visiting the following link.
Links to TV Stations airing "Missing"
Then check out the station's site (provided in the above link) for the exact day and time the show airs.
All the following adults and children will be featured on this episode.
Anthony Mema, Brandon Mema, Suzanne Lyall, Savanna Todd, Brandy Hanna, Jeremy Alex, Brianna Wilkins**, Mark Jackson, Theresa Waldron, Damon Bonds, Rogelio Cerda, Sofia Hernandez, Johan Garcia-Bonilla, Kelly Wilson, Shawn White, Tristen Myers, Vicente Nunez, Karla Coronado, Mary Ann White, James Martin Jr., Oscar Romero, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Bianca Lebron, Karla Rodriguez, Daniel Ryan.
** Brianna Wilkins located deceased
The Weeks' featured cases on Television
Visit USA Missing Homepage
The show will air the week of October 30, 2006, and in most areas, is shown on the following weekend.
Please check out which station airs the program in your area by visiting the following link.
Links to TV Stations airing "Missing"
Then check out the station's site (provided in the above link) for the exact day and time the show airs.
All the following adults and children will be featured on this episode.
Anthony Mema, Brandon Mema, Suzanne Lyall, Savanna Todd, Brandy Hanna, Jeremy Alex, Brianna Wilkins**, Mark Jackson, Theresa Waldron, Damon Bonds, Rogelio Cerda, Sofia Hernandez, Johan Garcia-Bonilla, Kelly Wilson, Shawn White, Tristen Myers, Vicente Nunez, Karla Coronado, Mary Ann White, James Martin Jr., Oscar Romero, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Bianca Lebron, Karla Rodriguez, Daniel Ryan.
** Brianna Wilkins located deceased
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Year and a half later, question stands
Candlelight vigil to ask again, where is Brandy?
Thursday, November 16, 2006
BY BRIAN HICKS
She put it off for more than a year, but Donna Parent knew she had to do it. She had to go through her daughter's belongings one more time.
When Brandy Hanna vanished in May 2005, Parent and a friend hastily stored her things. So much going on. Not enough time to think about it. Plus, she couldn't bring herself to do it, she couldn't bear to look at it.
But a few months ago, she could no longer bear not to. She rummaged through all she had left of her first-born and there it was: a tiny ring, something she thought was long gone. Parent slipped the ring on her finger that afternoon, and it's not been off since. Right now, it's all she's got left to hold onto.
Today is Brandy's 34th birthday, and in a few days she will have been missing a year and a half. A vigil for Brandy will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road.
Please continue to read at the link provided.
Candlelight vigil to ask again, where is Brandy?
Thursday, November 16, 2006
BY BRIAN HICKS
She put it off for more than a year, but Donna Parent knew she had to do it. She had to go through her daughter's belongings one more time.
When Brandy Hanna vanished in May 2005, Parent and a friend hastily stored her things. So much going on. Not enough time to think about it. Plus, she couldn't bring herself to do it, she couldn't bear to look at it.
But a few months ago, she could no longer bear not to. She rummaged through all she had left of her first-born and there it was: a tiny ring, something she thought was long gone. Parent slipped the ring on her finger that afternoon, and it's not been off since. Right now, it's all she's got left to hold onto.
Today is Brandy's 34th birthday, and in a few days she will have been missing a year and a half. A vigil for Brandy will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road.
Please continue to read at the link provided.
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Police Hope Billboard WIll Help Crack Cold Cases
Harve Jacobs, Live 5 News
11/15/07
You can't miss it when driving eastbound on I-26, just before the Aviation Avenue exit.
A digital billboard asking for help to find Brandy Hanna, who disappeared in May 2005, and Lilia Maldonado, who went missing last month.
Brandy's mom found out about the billboard when her son called her.
"When I first heard, I was shocked. I was surprised, made me want to cry because tomorrow is her birthday and it's a great remembrance and honor for her," said Donna Parent.
The billboard space was donated by Adams Outdoor Advertising after the company was approached by the North Charleston Police Department.
"We wanted to think out of the box and try something different," said police spokesman Spencer Pryor.
Police say they picked that particular billboard because of its location. Officials tell us during the week, North Charleston's population rises from 90,000 to more than 200,000, with many of those folks driving down the interstate.
"We're hoping this will perhaps jog someone's memory or give us another clue, something that we just haven't had yet," said Pryor.
Brandy's mom is also hopeful the billboards will bring results.
"It's plain as day and it will stay there for awhile and it's not just for Brandy. It's for all missing persons. They will change it when they have other missing people. "I would like to know where she is, good or bad, no matter what, I would like to know where she is. It's a nightmare and iI want it to end," she said.
Police Hope Billboard WIll Help Crack Cold Cases
Harve Jacobs, Live 5 News
11/15/07
You can't miss it when driving eastbound on I-26, just before the Aviation Avenue exit.
A digital billboard asking for help to find Brandy Hanna, who disappeared in May 2005, and Lilia Maldonado, who went missing last month.
Brandy's mom found out about the billboard when her son called her.
"When I first heard, I was shocked. I was surprised, made me want to cry because tomorrow is her birthday and it's a great remembrance and honor for her," said Donna Parent.
The billboard space was donated by Adams Outdoor Advertising after the company was approached by the North Charleston Police Department.
"We wanted to think out of the box and try something different," said police spokesman Spencer Pryor.
Police say they picked that particular billboard because of its location. Officials tell us during the week, North Charleston's population rises from 90,000 to more than 200,000, with many of those folks driving down the interstate.
"We're hoping this will perhaps jog someone's memory or give us another clue, something that we just haven't had yet," said Pryor.
Brandy's mom is also hopeful the billboards will bring results.
"It's plain as day and it will stay there for awhile and it's not just for Brandy. It's for all missing persons. They will change it when they have other missing people. "I would like to know where she is, good or bad, no matter what, I would like to know where she is. It's a nightmare and iI want it to end," she said.
Kelly Murphy, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
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Please help us in our mission as a 501 c 3 nonprofit: http://projectjason....y-campaign.html
If you have seen any of our missing persons, please call the law enforcement agency listed on the post. All missing persons are loved by someone, and their families deserve to find the answers they seek in regards to the disappearance.
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Remembering Brandy Hanna On Her Birthday
Friday November 16, 2007 11:10pm Reporter: Renee Williams Posted By: Katie Newingham
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Two and half years after she disappeared, Brandy Hannas family remembers her and celebrates.
On the day when Brandy Hanna would have turned 35, her mother holds a special celebration.
Shes honoring the daughter she lost, the daughter she hopes some day will be found.
I'd really like to celebrate Brandy's birthday as a birthday because it is her birthday. Brandys mother, Donna Parent, said. And until I know she's dead I'm going to keep hope that she's alive.
Its that hope that has kept Parent going these past two and a half years, from the moment she felt something wasn't quite right. Thats the night she says Brandy vanished.
It was just my mother's instinct, Parent adds.
That instinct led Parent to her worst nightmare.
Brandy was her oldest child and she was gone.
Police had little to go on and at first they thought she just left and that she'd eventually come back.
Brandy didnt just walk off. I'd bet my life on it, Parents says.
Even with the celebration, Brandy's mother can't help but fear the worst.
Her number one goal is to keep Brandy's face in the public eye.
Just a few days ago, North Charleston Police helped to achieve that goal.
The lead detective on the case helped to put up a billboard along I-26.
Its better late than never for me. I wished it happened when she went missing because I don't feel we would be here now, Parent said.
Until her daughter is found, Donna plans to keep her faith and keep Brandy's memory alive.
I am Brandy's voice. She has no one but me and I will be that voice until I die, Parent said.
Thats the promise made from a mother to her daughter on her birthday.
In a few months, another search team will comb through Adams Run looking for Brandy.
Remembering Brandy Hanna On Her Birthday
Friday November 16, 2007 11:10pm Reporter: Renee Williams Posted By: Katie Newingham
North Charleston, SC -
Two and half years after she disappeared, Brandy Hannas family remembers her and celebrates.
On the day when Brandy Hanna would have turned 35, her mother holds a special celebration.
Shes honoring the daughter she lost, the daughter she hopes some day will be found.
I'd really like to celebrate Brandy's birthday as a birthday because it is her birthday. Brandys mother, Donna Parent, said. And until I know she's dead I'm going to keep hope that she's alive.
Its that hope that has kept Parent going these past two and a half years, from the moment she felt something wasn't quite right. Thats the night she says Brandy vanished.
It was just my mother's instinct, Parent adds.
That instinct led Parent to her worst nightmare.
Brandy was her oldest child and she was gone.
Police had little to go on and at first they thought she just left and that she'd eventually come back.
Brandy didnt just walk off. I'd bet my life on it, Parents says.
Even with the celebration, Brandy's mother can't help but fear the worst.
Her number one goal is to keep Brandy's face in the public eye.
Just a few days ago, North Charleston Police helped to achieve that goal.
The lead detective on the case helped to put up a billboard along I-26.
Its better late than never for me. I wished it happened when she went missing because I don't feel we would be here now, Parent said.
Until her daughter is found, Donna plans to keep her faith and keep Brandy's memory alive.
I am Brandy's voice. She has no one but me and I will be that voice until I die, Parent said.
Thats the promise made from a mother to her daughter on her birthday.
In a few months, another search team will comb through Adams Run looking for Brandy.
Kelly Murphy, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Please help us in our mission as a 501 c 3 nonprofit: http://projectjason....y-campaign.html
If you have seen any of our missing persons, please call the law enforcement agency listed on the post. All missing persons are loved by someone, and their families deserve to find the answers they seek in regards to the disappearance.
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A Mother's Search For Answers
When you have a grown-up child go missing it is hard to convince people and the police she didn't just go off on her own....But where do you draw the line, especially when you have a mother who knows her child and knows something bad happened? Brandy did not just wander away and leave everything behind - clothes, furniture, make-up, money. Someone somewhere knows what happened, and I won't stop until I know.
Brandy with her mother Donna.
My Story By Donna Parent
My life since my daughter disappeared has been hell......day to day, wondering every morning if today will be the day I find out what happened to Brandy...wondering if I ever will.
Ever since Brandy Hanna went missing, Donna Parent has been on a mission to keep her daughter's case alive. Her work has included creating several web pages dedicated to finding Brandy, working closely with law enforcement, and petitioning media organizations to highlight her daughter's disappearance.
Brandy vanished, leaving behind nothing but questions, and Donna still hasn't found her answers.
I felt whatever happened to her, I knew something was wrong instantly.
A Mother's Intuition
still have the image of Brandy laying somewhere alone, waiting for me to come to her rescue and I can't find her. My life will never be the same. I look everywhere, in ditches, in bushes alongside the highway. Places a mother should not even have to think about.
Donna says she experienced a sudden feeling that there was something wrong before she knew for certain that Brandy was missing. Those feelings haven't gone away.
Brandy is my first born and only daughter. I have dreams where I talk to her and they seem so real I don't want to wake up.
Donna first had those feelings on Friday, May 20, 2005. She waited the entire weekend, calling her daughter constantly, but receiving no answer. She went to Brandy's apartment, but no one was home. Finally, she had Brandy's boyfriend come over with a spare key. There was no sign of Brandy, and no obvious signs of foulplay. All of her belongings were still there. She simply vanished.
A Daughter's Gift
Last Mother's Day Brandy bought me a necklace with all three of my kids birthstones on it. She was so excited she couldn't wait to give it to me so I got it early. This is a gift I have never taken off.
I have her picture by my bed and I look at it and beg her to tell me where she is. I know she can't but I can't stop asking.
Sex Female
Race White
Age at Disappearance 32
Height 5'9"
Weight 115 lbs.
Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair) Blond
Hair is described as 'sandy' in color.
She has two piercings in her right ear, and three piercings in her left ear.
Eyes (Color and Correction) Blue
Other Physical Characteristics Brandy has a gap in her upper front teeth.
She has missing molars.
Upper row of teeth are crooked.
Traits and Habits
Brandy is described as shy.
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Vigil marks 3rd anniversary of woman's disappearance
May 20, 2008
They will light candles, release balloons and silently wonder once again what happened that led them to this sad ceremony.
It has become, unfortunately, a regular event.
Tonight, the friends and family of Brandy Hanna will hold a vigil to mark the third anniversary of her disappearance. On May 20, 2005, Hanna disappeared from her North Charleston apartment.
Since that time, there have been no answers, no leads, no clues — nothing but the vigils. And Donna Parent, Brandy's mother, always dreads it.
"It's not something you want to do," Parent said, "it's something I have to do. If I don't remind people she's missing, I'm afraid they'll forget."
Monica Caison, director of the CUE Center for Missing Persons, said these things do more than just provide comfort for the families of missing adults, they sometimes stir up witnesses.
"It does happen," Caison said. "There's somebody out there they haven't reached, somebody who hasn't realized they've seen something."
It is all the hope Brandy's family and North Charleston police have these days. Investigators have learned little beyond what they knew from the first.
On the day she vanished, Brandy worked her shift at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road, got a ride to her apartment and talked to her mother on the phone in the early evening. She had big plans for the weekend — shopping Friday, the beach Saturday, breakfast with her mother and brother Sunday. But sometime that evening, the 32-year-old walked out of her apartment, leaving her money, her clothes, her entire life, behind.
North Charleston Detective Tamara DiCenzo-Driggers said she and other investigators have been back over the case in the last year, reinterviewing everyone who knew Brandy or had seen her that Friday. They got nothing.
"There are not many cases where nothing comes up," DiCenzo-Driggers said. "Every Sunday I pray that I get something to help me help that family. Donna just wants to know about her daughter, and it just kills her that we can't give it to her."
Parent said after three years she still struggles with the questions, but deals with it as best she can, working and spending time with her grandchildren. But every day she wonders.
"I know in my heart there's got to be one person who could break this open," Parent said. "I wish they knew how important it could be to one family's life."
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Vigil marks 3rd anniversary of woman's disappearance
May 20, 2008
They will light candles, release balloons and silently wonder once again what happened that led them to this sad ceremony.
It has become, unfortunately, a regular event.
Tonight, the friends and family of Brandy Hanna will hold a vigil to mark the third anniversary of her disappearance. On May 20, 2005, Hanna disappeared from her North Charleston apartment.
Since that time, there have been no answers, no leads, no clues — nothing but the vigils. And Donna Parent, Brandy's mother, always dreads it.
"It's not something you want to do," Parent said, "it's something I have to do. If I don't remind people she's missing, I'm afraid they'll forget."
Monica Caison, director of the CUE Center for Missing Persons, said these things do more than just provide comfort for the families of missing adults, they sometimes stir up witnesses.
"It does happen," Caison said. "There's somebody out there they haven't reached, somebody who hasn't realized they've seen something."
It is all the hope Brandy's family and North Charleston police have these days. Investigators have learned little beyond what they knew from the first.
On the day she vanished, Brandy worked her shift at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road, got a ride to her apartment and talked to her mother on the phone in the early evening. She had big plans for the weekend — shopping Friday, the beach Saturday, breakfast with her mother and brother Sunday. But sometime that evening, the 32-year-old walked out of her apartment, leaving her money, her clothes, her entire life, behind.
North Charleston Detective Tamara DiCenzo-Driggers said she and other investigators have been back over the case in the last year, reinterviewing everyone who knew Brandy or had seen her that Friday. They got nothing.
"There are not many cases where nothing comes up," DiCenzo-Driggers said. "Every Sunday I pray that I get something to help me help that family. Donna just wants to know about her daughter, and it just kills her that we can't give it to her."
Parent said after three years she still struggles with the questions, but deals with it as best she can, working and spending time with her grandchildren. But every day she wonders.
"I know in my heart there's got to be one person who could break this open," Parent said. "I wish they knew how important it could be to one family's life."
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Another sad birthday
By Brian Hicks
The Post and Courier
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Today is Brandy Hanna's birthday.
There won't be a party, or a fancy dinner, no one to joke about calling the fire department to put out the 36 candles on her cake.
No, this day will pass like the past 1,270 — with her mother, Donna Parent, waiting for the phone to ring.
You see, Brandy is missing.
A lot of people already know the story. On Friday, May 20, 2005, Brandy worked her shift at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road, got a ride to her apartment and, later that evening, talked to her mother on the phone. She had big plans for the weekend — shopping Friday night, the beach Saturday, breakfast with her mother and brother Sunday.
None of that ever happened.
That night, Brandy walked out of her apartment, leaving her money, her clothes, her entire life, behind. No one has seen her since.
For the last three-and-a-half years, there have been candlelight vigils for Brandy on every birthday, every anniversary of her disappearance. They are sad affairs of prayer, tears, candles and balloon releases. But they serve a purpose: they ensure no one forgets Brandy.
This year, her mother instead chose to drive to Conway for another family's vigil. Six years ago, Alice Donovan was abducted from a Wal-Mart parking lot and killed. Her killers, one of whom is on death row, either can't or won't tell where they left her.
Donna thought it was important to honor Brandy by supporting Alice's family.
"I feel like it is the right thing to do," she said Friday. "I know what that family is going through."
Since Brandy's disappearance, Donna has become active in missing person advocacy. She does it for the right reason, to help. When the newspaper dispatches a photographer for a new picture of her, she asks that we just run a photo of her daughter instead. She wants no publicity, no fame, no attention. She just wants Brandy back or to at least know what happened.
Not knowing is perhaps the hardest part.
Donna wakes up every morning and goes to sleep every night thinking about Brandy. She has had to go through something no parent ever should — she has seen her daughter become a face on a billboard, a story on missing persons Web sites. She endures it as part of her fight to make sure that no one forgets.
This is something you wouldn't wish on anyone, especially not a kind-hearted, generous soul like Donna. It's a miracle she holds up as well as she does, and has even gotten strong enough to allow the occasional joke to slip out — she laughs that the idea of Brandy being 36 makes her feel old.
Donna has added two new grandchildren to the family in the last couple of years, and they provide her a lot of joy. But even playing with them reminds her how much Brandy would enjoy her new nephew.
This is never far from her mind. Every time another body is found, every time the phone rings, she feels a cold chill. That has become her life. A few months ago, police thought they had found her in Calhoun County. It wasn't Brandy, just another false alarm, but it brought on another period of unbearable waiting for Donna.
Today will be no different, vigil or not, birthday party or not. But by now Donna knows that there are people out there who will not forget, who will not give up until she has found her daughter. Since it's her birthday, maybe some of them will even light a candle for Brandy.
Another sad birthday
By Brian Hicks
The Post and Courier
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Today is Brandy Hanna's birthday.
There won't be a party, or a fancy dinner, no one to joke about calling the fire department to put out the 36 candles on her cake.
No, this day will pass like the past 1,270 — with her mother, Donna Parent, waiting for the phone to ring.
You see, Brandy is missing.
A lot of people already know the story. On Friday, May 20, 2005, Brandy worked her shift at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road, got a ride to her apartment and, later that evening, talked to her mother on the phone. She had big plans for the weekend — shopping Friday night, the beach Saturday, breakfast with her mother and brother Sunday.
None of that ever happened.
That night, Brandy walked out of her apartment, leaving her money, her clothes, her entire life, behind. No one has seen her since.
For the last three-and-a-half years, there have been candlelight vigils for Brandy on every birthday, every anniversary of her disappearance. They are sad affairs of prayer, tears, candles and balloon releases. But they serve a purpose: they ensure no one forgets Brandy.
This year, her mother instead chose to drive to Conway for another family's vigil. Six years ago, Alice Donovan was abducted from a Wal-Mart parking lot and killed. Her killers, one of whom is on death row, either can't or won't tell where they left her.
Donna thought it was important to honor Brandy by supporting Alice's family.
"I feel like it is the right thing to do," she said Friday. "I know what that family is going through."
Since Brandy's disappearance, Donna has become active in missing person advocacy. She does it for the right reason, to help. When the newspaper dispatches a photographer for a new picture of her, she asks that we just run a photo of her daughter instead. She wants no publicity, no fame, no attention. She just wants Brandy back or to at least know what happened.
Not knowing is perhaps the hardest part.
Donna wakes up every morning and goes to sleep every night thinking about Brandy. She has had to go through something no parent ever should — she has seen her daughter become a face on a billboard, a story on missing persons Web sites. She endures it as part of her fight to make sure that no one forgets.
This is something you wouldn't wish on anyone, especially not a kind-hearted, generous soul like Donna. It's a miracle she holds up as well as she does, and has even gotten strong enough to allow the occasional joke to slip out — she laughs that the idea of Brandy being 36 makes her feel old.
Donna has added two new grandchildren to the family in the last couple of years, and they provide her a lot of joy. But even playing with them reminds her how much Brandy would enjoy her new nephew.
This is never far from her mind. Every time another body is found, every time the phone rings, she feels a cold chill. That has become her life. A few months ago, police thought they had found her in Calhoun County. It wasn't Brandy, just another false alarm, but it brought on another period of unbearable waiting for Donna.
Today will be no different, vigil or not, birthday party or not. But by now Donna knows that there are people out there who will not forget, who will not give up until she has found her daughter. Since it's her birthday, maybe some of them will even light a candle for Brandy.
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Still searching
December 29. 2008
ALBION -- In the photos, one woman is wearing a floral blouse. Another has blue eyes that sparkle. A third, his red hair cut short, is wearing a suit and tie for his class photo.
They're all smiling.
They're all missing.
"They've all got a heartbreaking story," said David Lohr, 34, who is surrounded by posters of missing people at his office in Albion.
Lohr writes from his office about the missing and the dead on a blog called "Criminal Report Daily" for ID: Investigation Discovery, a 1-year-old digital cable channel that features true crime programs.
He spends his day researching and investigating unsolved cases.
Many of the stories catch at his heart. Which is why he's taken his interest in writing and researching crime a step further to involvement with the group Texas EquuSearch, a team that has aided in high-profile searches for missing teen Natalee Holloway and, more recently, for toddler Caylee Anthony, whose remains were recovered this month in Florida.
Lohr traveled with Texas EquuSearch to Florida to aid in the search for Caylee.
He was among the searchers who came close to the little girl's body, only to be turned away by knee-high water that had covered the wooded region.
"She was just 300 feet to the left of us," he said.
His interest in crime dates back to childhood.
"When other friends were buying GI Joe magazines, I was buying True Detective," he said.
After graduating from Northwestern High School, Lohr joined the Army. When he was discharged three years later, he returned to Albion and began his own Web site featuring serial killers.
In 1999, the Web site caught the eye of Marilyn Bardsley, then the executive director for Court TV's Crime Library. She asked him to write for Court TV's Web site. He worked for the Web site until 2007.
"He's a very good researcher," Bardsley said. "He's smart, he's determined, and he's clever. Plus he's good at writing. It's a good combination."
On some days, Bardsley said Lohr could ante up 300,000 hits on his blog.
"He's just good at getting people engaged," she said.
Lohr said some of his favorite subjects are the missing people that don't garner the attention of the likes of Nancy Grace and the morning news shows.
"A lot of them don't get the ongoing attention, the publicity that keeps their cases alive," he said.
That's why he keeps the pictures of Corrie Anderson, Jesse Ross, Linda Little, Ahren Barnard, Carlos Diaz, Brandy Hanna and Branson Perry posted in his office.
They remind him of who is still out there.
Still searching
December 29. 2008
ALBION -- In the photos, one woman is wearing a floral blouse. Another has blue eyes that sparkle. A third, his red hair cut short, is wearing a suit and tie for his class photo.
They're all smiling.
They're all missing.
"They've all got a heartbreaking story," said David Lohr, 34, who is surrounded by posters of missing people at his office in Albion.
Lohr writes from his office about the missing and the dead on a blog called "Criminal Report Daily" for ID: Investigation Discovery, a 1-year-old digital cable channel that features true crime programs.
He spends his day researching and investigating unsolved cases.
Many of the stories catch at his heart. Which is why he's taken his interest in writing and researching crime a step further to involvement with the group Texas EquuSearch, a team that has aided in high-profile searches for missing teen Natalee Holloway and, more recently, for toddler Caylee Anthony, whose remains were recovered this month in Florida.
Lohr traveled with Texas EquuSearch to Florida to aid in the search for Caylee.
He was among the searchers who came close to the little girl's body, only to be turned away by knee-high water that had covered the wooded region.
"She was just 300 feet to the left of us," he said.
His interest in crime dates back to childhood.
"When other friends were buying GI Joe magazines, I was buying True Detective," he said.
After graduating from Northwestern High School, Lohr joined the Army. When he was discharged three years later, he returned to Albion and began his own Web site featuring serial killers.
In 1999, the Web site caught the eye of Marilyn Bardsley, then the executive director for Court TV's Crime Library. She asked him to write for Court TV's Web site. He worked for the Web site until 2007.
"He's a very good researcher," Bardsley said. "He's smart, he's determined, and he's clever. Plus he's good at writing. It's a good combination."
On some days, Bardsley said Lohr could ante up 300,000 hits on his blog.
"He's just good at getting people engaged," she said.
Lohr said some of his favorite subjects are the missing people that don't garner the attention of the likes of Nancy Grace and the morning news shows.
"A lot of them don't get the ongoing attention, the publicity that keeps their cases alive," he said.
That's why he keeps the pictures of Corrie Anderson, Jesse Ross, Linda Little, Ahren Barnard, Carlos Diaz, Brandy Hanna and Branson Perry posted in his office.
They remind him of who is still out there.
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My Space Bulletin from Brandy's mother
From: ♥MISSING BRANDY HANNA 5/20/2005 ♥
Date: Jan 1, 2009 4:54 PM
I pray 2009 will see Law Enforcement and Media taking missing Adults serious. I pray they will act quicker as far as codis and investigating instead of taking months and years. We all need to pray for a change for the Missing ..s Families and their rights. We did not ask for any of this but it is our Lives and the burden of not knowing where our children,mothers,fathers brothers,sisters,aunts uncles are is what we live with every day. I wake up every day praying today will be the day i find out what happened to Brandy and so far 1322 days have passed and i still do not know. I love my daughter just as each of you love your children. Law Enforcement can detach themselves and forget I can..t Could you ? When i post Brandy's flyer please repost someone somewhere may see it and know something and it could be our day .
Thank you Donna
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Lowcountry Mother Talks about Missing Child
05/07/09 6:22 pm | reporter: Shawn Smetana producer: Joelle Head
North Charleston, SC - The pain of a missing child is all too real for a North Charleston mother.
The last time donna parent saw her daughter was back in 2005.
Donna Parent worked side by side with her daughter brandy at Alex's restaurant.
For close to four years now, Donna has lived with the fact she has no idea what happened to her.
She works six days a week to try and pass the time, but even behind the counter or at a table, the memories of Brandy's disappearance are right in front of her.
Lowcountry Mother Talks about Missing Child
05/07/09 6:22 pm | reporter: Shawn Smetana producer: Joelle Head
North Charleston, SC - The pain of a missing child is all too real for a North Charleston mother.
The last time donna parent saw her daughter was back in 2005.
Donna Parent worked side by side with her daughter brandy at Alex's restaurant.
For close to four years now, Donna has lived with the fact she has no idea what happened to her.
She works six days a week to try and pass the time, but even behind the counter or at a table, the memories of Brandy's disappearance are right in front of her.
Kelly Murphy, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
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Nightmare might lead to change
By Brian Hicks
The Post and Courier
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
It's been five years now since Brandy Hanna disappeared, and to this day her family has no idea what happened.
In fact, they know little more than they did in those first few terrifying days, when they found her money, her clothes -- all of her belongings -- still locked in her North Charleston apartment. They still remember those desperate hours when they called her cell phone repeatedly, only to be routed straight to voice mail.
Brandy's trail went cold long ago and, in that respect, she shares a sad kinship with many missing adults.
You see, when a grown-up disappears, there is no immediate manhunt, no automatic investigation, no Amber Alert. Adults have the right to check out and not contact anyone.
Nightmare might lead to change
By Brian Hicks
The Post and Courier
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
It's been five years now since Brandy Hanna disappeared, and to this day her family has no idea what happened.
In fact, they know little more than they did in those first few terrifying days, when they found her money, her clothes -- all of her belongings -- still locked in her North Charleston apartment. They still remember those desperate hours when they called her cell phone repeatedly, only to be routed straight to voice mail.
Brandy's trail went cold long ago and, in that respect, she shares a sad kinship with many missing adults.
You see, when a grown-up disappears, there is no immediate manhunt, no automatic investigation, no Amber Alert. Adults have the right to check out and not contact anyone.
Kelly Murphy, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Please help us in our mission as a 501 c 3 nonprofit: http://projectjason....y-campaign.html
If you have seen any of our missing persons, please call the law enforcement agency listed on the post. All missing persons are loved by someone, and their families deserve to find the answers they seek in regards to the disappearance.
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Project Jason announces the featured missing persons in the May 2010 issue of the CDLJobs.com Online Magazine, which can be viewed at http://www.cdljobs.c...azine/MAY10.htm This month's ad is on page 12. The site receives thousands of visitors per day.
Each month, CDLJobs.com publishes a full color ad in their popular online magazine which will feature 5-6 of Project Jason's missing person cases from across the country. The ad has clickable links which take the reader to additional information about the missing person, and a link to their printable poster. Readers are encouraged to sign up for the AAN program and help with poster distribution. "You can be a Hero" is the theme of the joint venture.
Awareness Angels Network (AAN). AAN, begun by Project Jason in 2008, provides a way for the public to assist the families of missing persons. Missing persons posters designed specifically for the AAN program are disseminated via email to those enrolled in the program. Participants can then upload the posters to websites, print and place the posters in public areas, and forward them to their contacts. The program helps spread the word and increase the chances of finding the person.
In the May 2010 issue, the following missing persons were featured:
Jennifer Andersen, missing from Omaha, NE since 3/3/2010
http://projectjason.....php?topic=8383
Walter Brawner, missing from Shepherd, TX since 7/10/2008
http://projectjason.....php?topic=3652
Casey Berry, missing from Alamosa, CO since 2/14/2007
http://projectjason....x.php?topic=930
Shoshana Geiser, missing from Sylvania, OH since 2/19/2009
http://projectjason.....php?topic=8491
Brandy Hanna, missing from North charleston, SC since 5/20/2005
http://projectjason....x.php?topic=232
Steven Koecher, missing from Henderson, NV since 12/13/2009
http://projectjason.....php?topic=7657
Laura Nimbach, missing from Clearwater, FL since 2/17/2009
http://projectjason.....php?topic=5896
You can read more about this program at
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NamUs - National Missing Persons Data System-Brandy Hanna # 269
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Family hope shoe will lead to remains of missing person on old Navy base
By Brad Franko
Published: May 20, 2011
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC --
UPDATE:
Family of missing person Brandi Hanna held a vigil Friday night to commemorate the sixth anniversary of her disappearance.
The come together in the midst of news a detective found a new clue in her case that could lead to the discovery of her remains.
"If it is Brandi that would be a good thing, and it would end our nightmare," says Donna Parent, Brandi's mother.
She says in February a detective called her and asked if it would be okay if he re-opened her case.
"He has been a God-send," says Parent, "he's re-interviewed people and really put his heart and soul into finding her."
His investigative work lead to the shoe in a secured area of the Old Navy base.
Parent says the shoe is an exact match to what Brandi wore around May 20, 2005 when she disappeared. Police cannot confirm through physical tests.
Friday night's vigil was at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Avenue in North Charleston. Parent is the manager there and Brandi worked as a server there for several months before her disappearance.
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A search team is being put together to start a strategic examination of a portion of the old Navy Base, looking for the remains of Brandy Hanna.
According to emails sent to qualified forensic searchers, and obtained by News 2, "at this point there isn’t any question that she is dead".
Hanna was last seen May 20th, 2005 at her home on Florida Avenue in North Charleston.
Since then the search for Hanna has yielded very little, until very recently.
In a string of emails from Dr. Jon Leader - head of the Office of the State Archaeologist - to searchers, he indicates a shoe was found on the Old Navy Base.
Leader also tells potential volunteers, "this is a homicide and it’s the chain of evidence that will undoubtedly be the deciding factor."
Due to the search area being intertidal, they will get underway at 7:45 a.m. Monday.
The North Charleston Police Department isssued this statement:
The North Charleston Police Department is committed to pursuing any information as it pertains to investigations that have not been resolved through arrests or other means. There are numerous cases that detectives are assigned to review and investigate and one of these cases is the Brandy Hanna missing person case. Following investigative information in the search for Brandy Hanna, detectives began searching the area of the old Navy Base and located an item, a sneaker, that interested detectives. Recently, detectives and the State Archaeologist, Jonathan Leader, Ph. D., searched the area with scientific instruments.
Next week, the archaeologist and team of volunteers will travel to North Charleston to conduct a more thorough search of the area, which is within a secure location of the old Navy base.
The search is based on investigative information and there is no physical evidence confirming that it is Brandy Hanna’s shoe that was found.
Family hope shoe will lead to remains of missing person on old Navy base
By Brad Franko
Published: May 20, 2011
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC --
UPDATE:
Family of missing person Brandi Hanna held a vigil Friday night to commemorate the sixth anniversary of her disappearance.
The come together in the midst of news a detective found a new clue in her case that could lead to the discovery of her remains.
"If it is Brandi that would be a good thing, and it would end our nightmare," says Donna Parent, Brandi's mother.
She says in February a detective called her and asked if it would be okay if he re-opened her case.
"He has been a God-send," says Parent, "he's re-interviewed people and really put his heart and soul into finding her."
His investigative work lead to the shoe in a secured area of the Old Navy base.
Parent says the shoe is an exact match to what Brandi wore around May 20, 2005 when she disappeared. Police cannot confirm through physical tests.
Friday night's vigil was at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Avenue in North Charleston. Parent is the manager there and Brandi worked as a server there for several months before her disappearance.
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A search team is being put together to start a strategic examination of a portion of the old Navy Base, looking for the remains of Brandy Hanna.
According to emails sent to qualified forensic searchers, and obtained by News 2, "at this point there isn’t any question that she is dead".
Hanna was last seen May 20th, 2005 at her home on Florida Avenue in North Charleston.
Since then the search for Hanna has yielded very little, until very recently.
In a string of emails from Dr. Jon Leader - head of the Office of the State Archaeologist - to searchers, he indicates a shoe was found on the Old Navy Base.
Leader also tells potential volunteers, "this is a homicide and it’s the chain of evidence that will undoubtedly be the deciding factor."
Due to the search area being intertidal, they will get underway at 7:45 a.m. Monday.
The North Charleston Police Department isssued this statement:
The North Charleston Police Department is committed to pursuing any information as it pertains to investigations that have not been resolved through arrests or other means. There are numerous cases that detectives are assigned to review and investigate and one of these cases is the Brandy Hanna missing person case. Following investigative information in the search for Brandy Hanna, detectives began searching the area of the old Navy Base and located an item, a sneaker, that interested detectives. Recently, detectives and the State Archaeologist, Jonathan Leader, Ph. D., searched the area with scientific instruments.
Next week, the archaeologist and team of volunteers will travel to North Charleston to conduct a more thorough search of the area, which is within a secure location of the old Navy base.
The search is based on investigative information and there is no physical evidence confirming that it is Brandy Hanna’s shoe that was found.
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North Charleston police find shoe in search for woman who disappeared in 2005
By Brian Hicks
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Six years to the day after Brandy Hanna disappeared, North Charleston police said they have found perhaps the most significant clue yet in the case: a shoe.
Donna Parent, Hanna's mother, said Friday that a tennis shoe found by detectives near the old Navy base almost certainly belonged to her daughter. It is a white Nike with a light blue stripe, and it is Hanna's size.
It is the first break in the mysterious missing persons case, which detectives have called bizarre for the startling lack of evidence associated with it.
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By Brian Hicks
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Six years to the day after Brandy Hanna disappeared, North Charleston police said they have found perhaps the most significant clue yet in the case: a shoe.
Donna Parent, Hanna's mother, said Friday that a tennis shoe found by detectives near the old Navy base almost certainly belonged to her daughter. It is a white Nike with a light blue stripe, and it is Hanna's size.
It is the first break in the mysterious missing persons case, which detectives have called bizarre for the startling lack of evidence associated with it.
Read more: http://www.postandco...a-clue-at-last/
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No DNA found on latest clue in Brandy Hanna case
Posted: May 23, 2012 4:58 PM MDT
Updated: May 23, 2012 6:29 PM MDT
By Valencia Wicker
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- For seven long years Donna Parent has searched for her 32-year-old daughter Brandy Hanna. She thought the discovery of an old, dirty sneaker would lead to answers.
Instead, the opposite happened.
"Unfortunately, we don't have any updates," Parent said.
Hanna went missing on Friday May 20, 2005 after getting off from work at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road.
"This day is no harder than every other day. Sunday was the actual anniversary of seven years. But, you live it every day. Not just the anniversary, the birthdays. You live it every day."
Time after time detectives searched for Hanna. They found nothing until 2011. Around May 23, 2011 police found a size 10 Nike sneaker with mud on it near Brandy's old apartment.
"We believe we found her shoe over by where she lived, but the DNA came back neither for it or against it. So, we're still in limbo," Parent said.
Parent says she still has faith, knowing she has people in her corner.
"I have a detective… He came and started on the case in February 11, 2011. This gentleman calls me at least once a week, if not more. He's stops by to see me."
Parent is calling on the help of her community to find her daughter in hopes of finally bringing closure to a cold case.
"Brandy has been missing seven years. Somebody out there knows something. We just want them to tell us," Parent said. "There's at least one person. I know they know something. Just to end this. More than anything, that's what I want."
No DNA found on latest clue in Brandy Hanna case
Posted: May 23, 2012 4:58 PM MDT
Updated: May 23, 2012 6:29 PM MDT
By Valencia Wicker
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- For seven long years Donna Parent has searched for her 32-year-old daughter Brandy Hanna. She thought the discovery of an old, dirty sneaker would lead to answers.
Instead, the opposite happened.
"Unfortunately, we don't have any updates," Parent said.
Hanna went missing on Friday May 20, 2005 after getting off from work at Alex's Restaurant on Dorchester Road.
"This day is no harder than every other day. Sunday was the actual anniversary of seven years. But, you live it every day. Not just the anniversary, the birthdays. You live it every day."
Time after time detectives searched for Hanna. They found nothing until 2011. Around May 23, 2011 police found a size 10 Nike sneaker with mud on it near Brandy's old apartment.
"We believe we found her shoe over by where she lived, but the DNA came back neither for it or against it. So, we're still in limbo," Parent said.
Parent says she still has faith, knowing she has people in her corner.
"I have a detective… He came and started on the case in February 11, 2011. This gentleman calls me at least once a week, if not more. He's stops by to see me."
Parent is calling on the help of her community to find her daughter in hopes of finally bringing closure to a cold case.
"Brandy has been missing seven years. Somebody out there knows something. We just want them to tell us," Parent said. "There's at least one person. I know they know something. Just to end this. More than anything, that's what I want."
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HICKS COLUMN: A seven-year wait for answers for the friends and family of Brandy Renee Hanna
By Brian Hicks
Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:55 a.m.
UPDATED: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:09 a.m.
Wednesday evening the friends and family of Brandy Renee Hanna gathered at Alex's Restaurant in North Charleston to release balloons in her honor.
They prayed, had cake and talked about Brandy. They caught up on family news and made promises to see each other again soon.
Which means they will likely meet again at the next ceremony — because unfortunately there is no end in sight.
It's been seven years now.
Brandy went missing on May 20, 2005. She worked her shift at Alex's, caught a ride home with a customer, then talked to her mother by phone later that evening.
And then, nothing.
Brandy's is one of the most baffling missing-persons cases North Charleston police have ever seen. They never really found even one useful clue. She just vanished, leaving behind all her belongings. Not to mention a mother to suffer through these ceremonies every year.
Strength in adversity
Brandy's mother, Donna Parent, keeps all this going.
She has hosted all the balloon releases and candlelight vigils, which are scheduled around Brandy's November birthday and the date of her disappearance. Parent handles all this with grace and courage. She is a rock.
For years she has lived through the false clues and false promises of people who say they will help. But every time there's been a glimmer of hope, it quickly fades.
“It's like a nightmare you never wake up from,” she says.
These days, her grandchildren keep her going — all of them boys, all of them born since Brandy disappeared. Now she has a granddaughter on the way, and her son and daughter-in-law will give the baby Brandy's middle name.
Parent cried when they told her.
A legal quandary
Parent was hopeful last month when “America's Most Wanted” aired a segment on Brandy, but she heard nothing from it.
It's just another frustrating element of this case. Could something have happened without anyone seeing anything? But in seven years, no one has said a word.
The trouble with a case like Brandy's is that the trail goes cold quickly. And Parent was upset that police did not move fast enough when she first reported Brandy missing.
State Rep. David Mack has been trying to pass “Brandy's Law” to set new guidelines for when police should begin a missing-persons investigation. The bill has languished in the Legislature while law enforcement types debate it.
A missing adult is a touchy subject for police, something that treads into privacy rights. It's hard to tell who is in danger and who just wants to be left alone. Police will tell you that if they went looking for every adult reported missing, they'd do little else.
Still, that leaves one important question unanswered.
“At what point do you declare someone missing?” Mack asks.
For Donna Parent, the answer is: not soon enough. She has to live with that every day. “I'd give anything just to know where she is, what happened to her,” she says.
Donna Parent, and Brandy, deserve that much.
HICKS COLUMN: A seven-year wait for answers for the friends and family of Brandy Renee Hanna
By Brian Hicks
Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:55 a.m.
UPDATED: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:09 a.m.
Wednesday evening the friends and family of Brandy Renee Hanna gathered at Alex's Restaurant in North Charleston to release balloons in her honor.
They prayed, had cake and talked about Brandy. They caught up on family news and made promises to see each other again soon.
Which means they will likely meet again at the next ceremony — because unfortunately there is no end in sight.
It's been seven years now.
Brandy went missing on May 20, 2005. She worked her shift at Alex's, caught a ride home with a customer, then talked to her mother by phone later that evening.
And then, nothing.
Brandy's is one of the most baffling missing-persons cases North Charleston police have ever seen. They never really found even one useful clue. She just vanished, leaving behind all her belongings. Not to mention a mother to suffer through these ceremonies every year.
Strength in adversity
Brandy's mother, Donna Parent, keeps all this going.
She has hosted all the balloon releases and candlelight vigils, which are scheduled around Brandy's November birthday and the date of her disappearance. Parent handles all this with grace and courage. She is a rock.
For years she has lived through the false clues and false promises of people who say they will help. But every time there's been a glimmer of hope, it quickly fades.
“It's like a nightmare you never wake up from,” she says.
These days, her grandchildren keep her going — all of them boys, all of them born since Brandy disappeared. Now she has a granddaughter on the way, and her son and daughter-in-law will give the baby Brandy's middle name.
Parent cried when they told her.
A legal quandary
Parent was hopeful last month when “America's Most Wanted” aired a segment on Brandy, but she heard nothing from it.
It's just another frustrating element of this case. Could something have happened without anyone seeing anything? But in seven years, no one has said a word.
The trouble with a case like Brandy's is that the trail goes cold quickly. And Parent was upset that police did not move fast enough when she first reported Brandy missing.
State Rep. David Mack has been trying to pass “Brandy's Law” to set new guidelines for when police should begin a missing-persons investigation. The bill has languished in the Legislature while law enforcement types debate it.
A missing adult is a touchy subject for police, something that treads into privacy rights. It's hard to tell who is in danger and who just wants to be left alone. Police will tell you that if they went looking for every adult reported missing, they'd do little else.
Still, that leaves one important question unanswered.
“At what point do you declare someone missing?” Mack asks.
For Donna Parent, the answer is: not soon enough. She has to live with that every day. “I'd give anything just to know where she is, what happened to her,” she says.
Donna Parent, and Brandy, deserve that much.
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