Brandi Natasha Cole was 17 and living a transient lifestyle in Tifton, Georgia, when she disappeared in early July 2007. She and her mother had a pact that Brandi would check in at least once a week; she failed to make the expected contact after not showing up to spend the night with her mother and young daughter on July 6. The last confirmed sighting was July 7 in the Puckett Park area on Tifton’s south side, where witnesses say she got into a white four-door king-cab pickup occupied by four Hispanic men and one Black woman.

At disappearance Brandi wore a black lace tank top and blue jeans. Distinctive features include a mole on the right side of her mouth, crooked teeth, a tattoo of the letter B on her ankle and a carved or tattooed letter A on her left hand. Investigators have pursued leads and local theories — including tips she might have gone to Mount Olive, North Carolina, or been buried near a pond on Lower Brookfield Road — but none are substantiated. The Tift County Sheriff’s Office is handling the case and her family continues to seek answers.

If anyone saw Brandi in Tifton in July 2007 or remembers the pickup and its occupants, please share what you know.