Putting the pieces Of the puzzle together wasn't going to be easy unless they opened up a tipline and offered a cash reward. Zelda offered any kind of help that she could if it meant finding her older sister Emily hopefully alive. They had the local news put Emily Smiles, Brother Matthew Thomas. and a picture of Brandy Scott's tattoo without her face.. Brandy's picture didn't have a name with it They stated do you know this person. Within hours the real Brandy was located in a hospita. She had been beaten so badly that she had spent almost six months in a coma
At the hospital she was listed as Jane Doe. For the time being she would be safer to keep it that way. Detectives McGill and Gilbert wasn't sure if it had been Elvin or somebody else who had done this terrible thing to her.The detectives explained to the staff to keep her as a Jane Doe and to bandage up the tattoo area for awhile.It had been a long night but their jobs wasn't over just yet.
Detectives McGill and Gilbert rang the doorbell at the house of Brandy's parents at seven thirty. They sat in the livingroom while Joesph and Amelia Bell was getting dressed along with their daughter Brenda. They had some good news and some bad news for them. The good news was that Brandy was alive and the bad news was just barely.They waited until the family was ready to go to the hospital to identify her.