From Whispers to Roars

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It is hard to believe I have not seen or heard from Brandy in almost 2 years. I am still not any closer to finding the truth. I still think about Brandy constantly and wonder if I will ever know. One thing I do know is I will never give up. Brandy will be Missing 2 years May 20,2007. The days are not any eaiser and the nights are longer.
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Searching for Brandy Hanna

http://missingbrandyhanna.com

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I will be holding a candlelight vigil for Brandy Hanna on May 19,2007 @ Alex`s Restaurant 3713 Dorchester Road N. Chas. South Carolina . Everyone is invited 7:30 p.m. Please join us as we continue to try to get the word out Brandy Hanna has been missing since May 20,2005 it`s time we find some answers.No parent should have to go through what I have been thru for almost 2 years.
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Searching for Brandy Hanna

http://missingbrandyhanna.com

[GiaPooh]

You are still in my thoughts and prayers.
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WooHoo!!!

[Gaia]

Missing woman hasn't been forgotten
By Brian Hicks (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Tuesday, June 19, 2007



A North Carolina-based missing persons center is coming to North Charleston today to remind folks of Brandy Hanna.

Hanna, then 32, disappeared from her North Charleston apartment on May 20, 2005, and the CUE Center for Missing Persons has added her story to the long list of cases it tries to keep in the public spotlight.

"After so many years, these cases fade from the public's radar, but for the families and friends of the missing, the nightmare continues — every minute of every day their loved one is missing," said Monica Caison, founder of the CUE Center. "We are traveling across the country to make sure no case fades from memory."

Hanna's mother, Donna Parent, knows all this all too well. When too much time passes without a lead in the case, without a news story about her daughter's disappearance, she finds people who are surprised that Brandy hasn't been found.

And for two years now, police have found few leads in the disappearance, not even dead-ends to travel down. There are now no official suspects in the case, no prevailing theory to build a case around. Hanna caught a ride home from work that Friday with big plans for the weekend. She spoke with her mother by phone from her apartment that evening. A few hours later, she vanished.

Caison, who founded the CUE Center in 1994, said there are far too many cases like Brandy's. Her tour to stir memories and interest in these cases is her fourth. When the 10-day tour ends this week, the CUE Center will have covered 2,400 miles, making 22 stops in 11 states to highlight 75 missing person cases.

The rally for Hanna will be at 3:30 p.m. today at Alex's Restaurant at 3713 Dorchester Road. Parent said she is appreciative of the help she's gotten from the CUE Center since her daughter's disappearance.

"I just have to thank them for revisiting old cases and reminding people that Brandy's still missing," Parent said.

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

http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/19/missing_woman_hasnt_been_forgotten/
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Mahatma Ghandi
"This is our moment, this is our time, this is our chance to stand up for whats right" Bono
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand up for much." Marian Wright Edelman

"Until They Come Home"

[Gaia]

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 Hanna’s family remembers her and celebrates.




On the day when Brandy Hanna would have turned 35, her mother holds a special celebration.

She’s 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.” Brandy’s mother, Donna Parent, said. “And until I know she's dead I'm going to keep hope that she's alive.”

It’s that hope that has kept Parent going these past two and a half years, from the moment she felt something wasn't quite right. That’s 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 didn’t just walk off. I'd bet my life on it,” Parent’s 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.

“It’s 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.

That’s the promise made from a mother to her daughter on her birthday.

In a few months, another search team will comb through Adam’s Run looking for Brandy.


http://www.wciv.com/news/stories/1107/473493.html
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Mahatma Ghandi
"This is our moment, this is our time, this is our chance to stand up for whats right" Bono
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand up for much." Marian Wright Edelman

"Until They Come Home"

[Gaia]

Vigil marks 3rd anniversary of woman's disappearance
By Brian Hicks (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Tuesday, 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."


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



If you go
The family and friends of Brandy Hanna will hold a candlelight vigil in her honor tonight at Alex's Restaurant, 3713 Dorchester Road. The vigil begins at 6 p.m.


http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/may/20/vigil_marks_rd_anniversary_womans_disapp41472/
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"This is our moment, this is our time, this is our chance to stand up for whats right" Bono
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand up for much." Marian Wright Edelman

"Until They Come Home"

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Another sad birthday
By Brian Hicks (Contact)
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.


http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/nov/16/another_sad_birthday61896/
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"I hear them saying you'll never change things.
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing.
But it's not the world that I am changing.
I do this so this world we know
Never changes me"

[Themis Eternal]

Happy Birthday Brandy,wish you were here...


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"I hear them saying you'll never change things.
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing.
But it's not the world that I am changing.
I do this so this world we know
Never changes me"

[Themis Eternal]

Vigil for Brandy Hanna, Missing 4 Years
Added by Delilah/Co-Founder

Event Details
Time: May 23, 2009 from 5pm to 8pm

Location: 2521 RESCUE RD OFF DORCHESTER RD. TURN BY KNOLOGY

Street: 2521 Rescue Rd.

City/Town: North Charleston, SC

Contact Info: 843 460-0304

Event Type: vigil, and, fundraiser

Organized By: Brandy's Mom, Donna Parent


Event Description
BBQ DINNER & CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
PLEASE JOIN US IN CELEBRATION AND KEEPING EVERYONE AWARE OF * BRANDY HANNA * WHO IS MISSING BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
BRANDY T- SHIRTS WILL BE ON SALE

10.00 FOR BBQ DINNER ALL YOU CAN EAT TIL GONE

http://peace4missing.ning.com/events/vigil-for-brandy-hanna-missing
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"I hear them saying you'll never change things.
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing.
But it's not the world that I am changing.
I do this so this world we know
Never changes me"

[Themis Eternal]

NamUs National Missing Persons System:
https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/269
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"I hear them saying you'll never change things.
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing.
But it's not the world that I am changing.
I do this so this world we know
Never changes me"