Brandi Wells: The Night She Vanished 24-year-old Brandi Wells walked into a Longview, TX nightclub alone on Aug 2, 2006—security swiped her ID at 10:30pm. She asked strangers for gas money, left solo around midnight… and was never seen again. Her car turned up 5 days later on I-20 with her purse inside—but the wrong cell phone and zero fuel checks by police.

Darrell rips into the botched investigation:

• Day 1–5: Texas trooper finds the car, sees purse/ID/phone, radios nothing, adds gas, drives it off. Evidence gone.
• 6 weeks wasted: Cops blast CCTV of the wrong woman on TV because timestamps were 10 min off.
• Phone screw-up: They grilled contacts from her ex-husband’s deployed phone for 2 weeks before pulling her records.
• 9 days later: Outgoing calls suddenly ping from Brandi’s real phone—found by a sketchy g ...