It brought a lot of hope and it still does bring a lot of hope because it’s another person out there fighting for baby DeOrr. I still expect to see baby DeOrr as that same two and a half-year-old little boy. And I’m still not giving up that hope because I know that there’s more to come. Is that where you went when he told you this news?ĬLEGG: Absolutely. It kind of gave a lot of people hope that there might finally be closure. The sheriff’s office hasn’t said what that hit was. He went public and said that his dogs hit on a spot at the campground. He is a private investigator from North Carolina who came to Leadore a month or two ago with his cadaver dogs. Sorry that he took his eyes off that baby and he just kept telling Jessica that he was so sorry.ĮATON: You mentioned David Marshburn. He just kept telling Jessica that he was very sorry. I had someone close to me say, ‘Does it scare you that you may never find the answers?’ That was a really big reality that as a grandparent, we’ve lost the two great-grandparents and that was a little rough thinking I may never find the answers.ĮATON: I’m sure people have asked if your father had anything to say about DeOrr before he passed.ĬLEGG: No. It doesn’t mean we don’t but I thought for sure we would know something and then my dad passed away. When Marshburn came in and gave us some new information, I thought we had it. I wanted the answers so much before Dennis Kunz died in January and then I said, No, we’ll get the answers before my dad dies. I feel like I haven’t had a chance to grieve for my father because there was so much going on so it’s really still very difficult. We had (private investigator) David Marshburn come in and do some new searches and then my father passed away. There’s just been so much over the past three weeks. How are you doing since he died?ĬLEGG: Rough. Your father (Robert Walton) passed away and we’re sorry to hear about his death. Go to floridatoday.EATON: It seems like a lot has happened over the last year but yet not a lot has happened. Support local journalism and become a subscriber. Staff writer Jeff Gallop contributed to the reporting.Ĭontact Torres at 32 or at You can follow him on Twitter or on Facebook at. Also, Richmond's then-wife, Ann-Marie was also in the vicinity, working that night at Palm Bay Hospital, finishing her shift right around the time Brandy left the fire station. She and Brandy had engaged in a shouting match earlier that year at the Grant Seafood festival. Richmond and his then-wife have denied any involvement. It is believed by many that Brandy met up with Richmond though he had always denied that. and they spoke for 10 minutes and 46 seconds until 11:17 p.m. They texted or spoke on the phone more than 80 times before Brandy left the fire station that night of her disappearance at 10:51 p.m.īrandy texted Richmond at 10:53 p.m. More: Brandy Hall detective, Vietnam veteran Sid LaDow dies at 79 More: Torres: Brandy Hall's disappearance no longer cold as police 'run hard' with case I analyzed those records a couple of years ago and Richmond and Brandy were communicating a lot. Richmond eventually changed his story, likely realizing the police would subpoena Brandy's phone records. He initially lied, denying having spoken with Brandy for weeks before she went missing. He is also the last person known to have spoken with Brandy. She was also having an affair with then-married fire Capt. Randall Richmond at the time of her disappearance. Brandy's truck, with her blood inside the cab, was discovered the following day submerged in the pond. Her children were 10 and 5 years old when she disappeared. Brandy was arrested as well and fired from Palm Bay Fire Department. Serious charges against her were eventually dropped and she was volunteering as a firefighter in Malabar as she sought to win her old job back. Brandy's husband Jeff Hall was due to be sentenced the day after she disappeared for running a marijuana grow operation.
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