Randall Spivey, 57, and his 33-year-old nephew, Brandon Billmaier, were reported missing after failing to return from a planned day-long deep-sea fishing trip off Fort Myers on December 20, 2025. The two attorneys left early that morning aboard a 42-foot Freeman boat named Unstopp-A-Bull. Family alerted authorities that evening when they could not be reached.

In the early hours of December 21, the U.S. Coast Guard found the Unstopp-A-Bull about 70 miles offshore adrift with its engines running and no one aboard. A multi-agency search covered roughly 6,700 square miles with manageable weather reported—10 mph winds and three-foot seas—before the Coast Guard suspended active searching at sunset on December 22. The FBI later took over the investigation.

Spivey was the founder and president of the Spivey Law Firm in Fort Myers, and media reports noted he had been a key witness in a federal inquiry into Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno that concluded a month earlier with no charges. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Lee County Sheriff’s Office or SWFL Crime Stoppers.