Deceased/Not Found TN - Marsha Brantley, 51, Cleveland, May 2009 *Arrest*

[folieadeuxnola]

WAS A MISSING TENNESSEE WOMAN MURDERED OR DID SHE WILLINGLY DISAPPEAR?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marsha...oman-murdered-or-did-she-willingly-disappear/

A 50-year-old woman vanishes and for months nobody reports her missing -- then a most unlikely amateur sleuth pushes authorities to look into the case

 

[Roselvr]

WAS A MISSING TENNESSEE WOMAN MURDERED OR DID SHE WILLINGLY DISAPPEAR?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marsha...oman-murdered-or-did-she-willingly-disappear/

Highly doubt she left. I wonder if they tracked her cell? I feel she's in the woods somewhere. Not sure if he killed her there or the house I hope one day he'll pay

 

[Snoopster]

WAS A MISSING TENNESSEE WOMAN MURDERED OR DID SHE WILLINGLY DISAPPEAR?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marsha...oman-murdered-or-did-she-willingly-disappear/

Parts of the show that I found new/interesting....

- the reaction of the 2 women from Marsha's writing group. They sounded a bit ticked when they presumed that Marsha "dumped" them. One of them isn't sure that Marsha is dead.
- the comments from the therapist indicating that Marsha was severely depressed at the time (and that this therapist has lost her license since...unrelated to this case)
- the video clips of Donnie, constantly pleading the 5th and saying he can't remember, during his police interview. He sure came across as guilty.

 

[little lulu]

Roselvr, her cell phone was in Donnie's possession, it never pinged away from the main tower, it was at the house the entire time. He used it to call a singles/dating site on June 3,? They think June 2 is the day he killed her. She didn't leave...she wouldn't have left the house her parents built for her, she wouldn't have left her car, phone or her precious dogs....

 

[little lulu]

The DA and Kelly Delude were interviewed this morning on a local station:

https://www.facebook.com/mymix1041/...STEwMDAwMTA2NTgyOTk1MToxODIwNzk2MDcxMjk5MjM2/

 

[PricklyPear]

It doesn't look like she's been ruled out for several unidentified bodies on NAMUS that at least loosely match (age and length of time missing).

 

[Atombudd]

Was a missing Tennessee woman murdered or did she willingly disappear?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[Molly Summerlight]

Was a missing Tennessee woman murdered or did she willingly disappear?

CBS' 48 Hours just showed this episode again this past Saturday. I don't recall having seen it previously. Yes, Donnie sure seems guilty with all of his "I please the 5th" and "I don't recall". The fact that her phone never pinged further away than near their home, his continually different stories that he told etc.

From the episode, at the very beginning, they told us that she was an avid hiker and he was a bicyclist. This never really came up again. I don't know that area at all, but I'm wondering if they went on a hike, he was taking a picture of her near some kind of a cliff, or other high spot, and pushed her off of it. He took the picture with her camera, which is how he obtained it from Marsha. Then took the phone back with him and used it to make it appear that she was still alive.