{"id":275506,"date":"2013-09-03T09:54:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T14:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=275506"},"modified":"2013-09-04T08:32:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:32:53","slug":"east-texas-cold-case-re-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=275506","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Cold Case Re-opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=275507\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-275507\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/09\/vlcsnap_2013_09_02_19h18m19s236-150x150.png\" alt=\"vlcsnap_2013_09_02_19h18m19s236\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-275507\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Authorities re-open an East Texas cold case. Brandi Wells, Tyler, went missing 7 years ago after leaving a Longview night club. According to KETK, because of the time and no evidence, the case went cold. Her family still wants answers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And investigators think her disappearance might be linked to a growing problem here in East Texas, sex trafficking. We&#8217;ve suffered long enough and so as she,&#8221; said Wells&#8217; Godmother Michelle Cole. Family members of Wells describe her as a caring, and trusting young woman.<\/p>\n<p>On August 3rd 2006, her family tells KETK Wells went to a club in Longview alone. Shortly after midnight, Wells went missing. Police found her car on Interstate 20, a couple miles down from the club, with an empty gas tank, her ex-boyfriend&#8217;s cell phone and her purse.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI and Longview police eventually closed the case.<\/p>\n<p>But Cole, from the beginning, had a strong feeling Wells became a victim of human trafficking. Cole said an agent from the Department of Homeland Security is now re-opening Wells&#8217; case. If you have information on Brandi Wells please call Longview Police at 903-237-1110, Crime Stoppers at 903-236-stop or call the Laura Recovery Center at 281-482-lrcf(5723) or 866-898-5723.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Authorities re-open an East Texas cold case. Brandi Wells, Tyler, went missing 7 years ago after leaving a Longview night club. According to KETK, because of the time and no evidence, the case went cold. Her family still wants answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 11:09:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275509,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275506\/revisions\/275509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}