Overview

Brandi Wells, 23, disappeared on August 3, 2006, after leaving a nightclub in Longview, Texas. Her car was found abandoned along Interstate 20, with her purse inside. Despite CCTV showing her leaving the club alone, police suspect foul play. She was just weeks from starting college, aiming to become a teacher.

Brandi entering a nightclub called Graham Central Station on McCann Road–now Electric Cowboy–around 10:36 p.m on August 3rd, 2006

Brandi walking alone out toward the parking lot around 12:30 a.m.

(Above) Pictures taken by locals of I-20 just passed the overpass with Mile Marker 591 and the I-20 Access Road that leads onto I-20 West

Google Maps 2019 photo of the same Access I-20 Access Road

Location of Brandi’s Car Via Google Maps. (Above) Taken 2023 and (Below) Taken in 2007 about a year after her disappearance.

Comparing the two photos, the trees are significantly smaller. The Access I-20 Road is just passed this tree line as shown in the Smaller Google Map on the bottom left hand corner.

Detailed Case Breakdown

Went to a night club in a neighboring town 45 minutes away and was last seen leaving the club alone after 12:30. She was not intoxicated. Her car was tagged the next morning by law enforcement officials along the side of I-20 with her purse still in it.

It’s reported that her seat was pushed all the way back, as if she wasn’t the one driving it.

Brandi was just weeks away from starting classes again at Trinity Valley Community College in Brownsboro, Texas. She wanted to become a teacher.

But first, she visited her mother in Tyler, Texas. On the evening of August 2, she went out to meet some friends. “She came in, she changed clothes, and said she was going to the club with some friends,” Brandi’s mother, Ellen Tant, told NBC affiliate KETK. She assumed Brandi was going somewhere in town. Little did she know that Brandi was heading to Longview, about 45 minutes away.

According to KETK, security footage shows Brandi entering a nightclub called Graham Central Station on McCann Road – now Electric Cowboy – around 10:36 p.m. and checking in at the counter. People inside would later tell police that Brandi was asking for money for gas. She was inside the club for nearly two hours and was seen on tape walking alone out toward the parking lot around 12:30 a.m.

According to KETK, Brandi’s purse and a gas can her family believed did not belong to her were found in the trunk. They also reported that the driver’s side seat of the car had been adjusted for someone taller than Brandi, but because it took days to link the car to her disappearance, authorities didn’t know if that happened before or after the car was abandoned.

Brandi was around 5’ tall and weighed 125-130 lbs. at the time of her disappearance, with blonde or strawberry-blonde hair and blue eyes. She would be 42 years old today.

Police suspect she is a murder victim but there is no direct evidence tying that assumption to a murder aside from her being missing since 2006

If you have any information about Brandi’s disappearance, please contact the Longview Police Department at 903-237-1199

Further information listed on the Doe Network site:

On the night she vanished, Wells drove to what was Graham Central Station (now Electric Cowboy) on McCann Road in Longview in her black 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix coupe with Texas plates. She had arrived with her fuel tank almost at empty and was asking people for gas money. She was not intoxicated. There is surveillance video indicating she left the club alone.

Wells’ car was found abandoned the next day by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper along Interstate 20 about 300 yards west of FM 2087 with her purse still inside the vehicle. Her car had front passenger damage above the front wheel. Longview police didn’t identify the car as belonging to Wells until five days later. There were no signs of a struggle. Wells’ cellphone was found later at another location.