Strange Case Of Missing Brittney Wood NOT Connected To Her Pervert Family

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Brittney Wood, who lived in the Theodore area, remains missing, according to Mobile police. She is the mother of a 2-year-old girl.
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When she went missing, Brittney Wood had reportedly told her family that she was going to visit her uncle Donnie Holland in the Styx River area. Her cell phone was last used in that area.

Before he could be questioned about his missing niece, Holland killed himself in Fairhope, according to police.

Search parties scoured a five-mile area in and around the Styx River basin for a week last month, but found no trace of Wood.

Periodically, Mobile police have received tips from "several places in Mobile County" indicating that Brittney Wood might be at a house or other location, but those haven’t panned out, according to Levy. "We follow up on it every single time, but nothing seems to make anything," he said.

Levy said that Mobile investigators have been in contact with their counterparts in Baldwin County, but that her case is still being treated solely as a missing person situation.

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/07/miss...r_accused.html

On Thursday, May 31, Brittney Wood told family members she was headed to a house near Styx River, Ala. to see her uncle Donnie. Then Donnie Wood returned home near Fairhope the next day, and he committed suicide, shooting himself, heightening concern for Brittney.

"Her uncle has committed suicide and supposedly he was the last one she was with and so we're worried about that," says Hanke. "I'm hoping to God and I really don't think he would hurt my baby," says Brittney's mother.

In yet another strange twist, when Brittney left her Tillmans Corner home she left on foot for the 40 mile trip to Styx River, WKRG reported. Her family is sure someone gave her a ride there and they'd like to talk to that person as well.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...for-two-weeks/

Disaster & Victim Services Chaplain Tony Dickey said 19-year-old Brittney Wood's cell phone last pinged a phone at a Travel Centers of America truck stop located in Grand Bay.

Dickey said the signal came at 1:40 a.m. on May 31st; the morning after her disappearance.

"Based on their (Mobile Police Department) investigation, that was the last location the cell phone was being used," Dickey said.

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/...7LHKrZMqA.cspx


The Hometown search for Brittney Wood (family's Facebook group): https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-H...51298481547844


Four of her family members have been arrested on sex charges since she went missing.


Donnie Holland (cousin) / Randall Wood (uncle) / Dustin Kent (uncle) / Derek Wood (brother)

20 year old Donald Holland Jr is facing incest, rape and sex abuse charges, his alleged victim at the time of the abuse somewhere between 12 and 16 years old. Donald Holland Jr is the son of the man who committed suicide just two days following the disappearance of Brittney Wood on May 30th.

Baldwin County Sheriff's Major Anthony Lowery will not say much else about the charges or investigation to protect the identity of the victims. He does stress that 19 year old missing teenage mother Brittney Wood is not connected to this case even though Holland is Wood's cousin and two of her uncles Randall Wood and Dustin Kent are facing the same charges.

Brittney's brother Derek Wood is also facing rape and sodomy charges. Lowery says these four men preyed on multiple young victims and one more arrest could be coming.

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/...aR-Lpy_Lw.cspx

Holland’s father had been the subject of a sex-crimes investigation before he committed suicide in May, around the same time that he was supposed to be meeting Brittney Wood, his niece, in the Styx River area.
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For more than a month, however, her disappearance has taken a back seat to the arrests of several of her family members. In June, two of her uncles -- Randall Wood and Dustin Kent -- were arrested in Baldwin County on charges of incest, sodomy and sexual abuse.

Kent was arrested again on Monday on the same charges, this time involving another family member, according to Baldwin sheriff’s spokesman Maj. Anthony Lowery.

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/07/four...win_count.html

[MommysLosingIt]

This is all kinds of screwed up and wrong. Hoping she's just run off to start anew somewhere and get away from her crazy family, but I just don't think that's the case.

[cubby]

I hate to say it but this young lady is most probably dead.

The timing of the uncle's suicide, the phone pinging last at a truck stop, and almost the entire male side of the family being sex offenders, all of that adds up to nothing good.

[Icy]

I think she probably dead as well, given the circumstances and the timing of the uncle's death, just screams no good.

[malq]

The timing of the uncles death cannot be a coincidence, but in no way am I
writing her off as dead. The fact she made a 40 mile trip, by any means possible means she she could be anywhere to me.
If she was wearing flipflops when she left, she didnt walk 40 miles.

[AZPistonsGirl]

been following this case. I am thinking that she is in witness protction. She turned on all these guys, that's why the cards are falling and arrests keep coming. Maybe dead uncle had just learned that his son and his counsins and cronies were diddling these kids (the charges include incest) and offed himself. Either that or a trucker picked her up and killed her. She has a daughter... so sad...

[MommysLosingIt]

been following this case. I am thinking that she is in witness protction. She turned on all these guys, that's why the cards are falling and arrests keep coming. Maybe dead uncle had just learned that his son and his counsins and cronies were diddling these kids (the charges include incest) and offed himself. Either that or a trucker picked her up and killed her. She has a daughter... so sad...

I never thought about it that way, that's pretty plausible if she was privy to the lewd activities going on with her relatives. I don't think so, though. She was supposedly visiting that uncle, and she left her daughter behind. I wouldn't leave my daughter behind, no matter what, particularly not in the hands of that crazyass family. I think Uncle Donnie made a pass at her, she turned him down, then he raped her and killed her, then offed himself.

[ScribbleMuse]

I never thought about it that way, that's pretty plausible if she was privy to the lewd activities going on with her relatives. I don't think so, though. She was supposedly visiting that uncle, and she left her daughter behind. I wouldn't leave my daughter behind, no matter what, particularly not in the hands of that crazyass family. I think Uncle Donnie made a pass at her, she turned him down, then he raped her and killed her, then offed himself.

The articles say that the original charges occurred before the uncle's suicide (and hence, before her disappearance). Of course this is only a guess based on the details that are printed/known, but it sounds like this family has a very widespread depravity and the types of charges combined with the facts that there was at least one shared victim among some of the accused and also different others, this would have been a long-term investigation and the asshats have probably known for a while that the hammer is coming down.

The scenario of a sudden pass being made at Brittney doesn't make much sense to me. Even her brother is apparently arrested in this group, which makes me think that not only was Brittney connected to the major molesters, she had been a long-term connection and a very attractive girl. So I imagine a couple scenarios and none of them really make me take the investigators' public statement that they're not connected. I would imagine that even if there is no ironclad evidence connecting this all, the cops are looking pretty strongly toward Occam's likely conclusion...

Possible Theories:
1) Brittney had been a long-term victim and with the uncle being formally charged earlier, the entire truth was coming out and she went to confront him with that righteous frame of mind, "Ha, now you'll get it, you asshole!" Threatening him with her own potential testimony, he freaks and kills her, then kills himself.

2) Brittney had perhaps not been or even remembered that she was a victim and came to the knowledge of the upcoming charges with a terrible realization that her daughter had been exposed to this perv. She goes to confront him and he kills her in anger or perhaps b/c he HAS attacked her daughter and wants to cover up potential testimony.

3) Brittney was not victim and did not have a reason to fear for her daughter but was close to the family member who WAS victimized. Many of the above wastes were charged with incest, which makes the victim a family member of Brittney also. Perhaps it was someone she felt protective toward and went to confront the assholes, leading to anger/killing/suicide.

One thing that gets to me is that these charges WERE "old" enough that at the time of her disappearance, the man had been charged already and the investigation had been occurring. Common sense says that the investigative techniques would have included questioning family/friends and therefore causing knowledge of the crimes to spread from the official realm, and would have caused instant reactions. Those reactions would have included the additional suspects and charges that would be brought up later after the disappearance, but though those were afterward, the uncle was charged BEFORE the disappearance. I'd say that this family has been not only a cesspool of freaks who are harming innocents, but also has been under a huge disruption as they all learn the darkness that has been happening--regardless of guilt/innocence and the final hatred that may be turned toward these guys, they are loved by people and originally the charges will be a huge upheaval, no matter how much hatred forms.

Taking off "on foot," even if it did turn into a ride given by friend, family, or stranger, is a pretty dramatic action to take. She had to have had some major reason to approach him at a time that he was obviously unhinged and desperate and I'm thinking that with the sadly wide web he ends up being just part of, the visit was in regards to something that already has happened.

If this continues and shows her to be alive and willingly disappeared just by running away, I'll be much less surprised than foul play NOT connected to her widespread evil family.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Police have arrested Dustin Kent for the third time in three months over allegations of sex abuse.

Dustin Kent, 36, who is the uncle of missing Alabama teen Brittney Wood, was charged with first-degree rape as well as first-degree sodomy for a crime he allegedly committed three years ago on a girl no older than 12. His bond was later set on $25,000.

Authorities said the current charges against Kent do not appear to be related to Ms Wood’s disappearance.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...pe-sodomy.html

FOX10 News has uncovered new information in the case of missing teenager Brittney wood.

Wood was last seen May 30 heading to Baldwin County and the Styx River area with her uncle, Donald Holland.

Deputies said Holland was found two days later with a self-inflicted gunshot wound on June 1. He died in the hospital June 4.

Investigators confirm the Raven .25-caliber handgun Holland used in the suicide belonged to Wood.

We spoke with Wood’s mother about the discovery.

Chessie Wood said she felt her daughter's disappearance was mysterious since the beginning. However, she is unsure how Holland may have gotten Brittney’s gun.

"We believe we have missed something that is hollering our name, and maybe it was so obvious,” said Chessie.

At first, some relatives thought Brittney may have skipped town.

"We as a family do not see how she had the means to run,” said Chessie. “We’ve covered every friend, every one of them are accounted for. I mean if she had to run because she's that scared, I would really believe that she would have [taken] her daughter with her.

“It just really does not look good that she went missing May 30 and two days later he commits suicide.”
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Brittney’s relatives told deputies that the teen normally only had two bullets in her gun. FOX10 confirmed the weapon did have just one bullet left, after Holland shot himself..

http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/loca...-reward-fliers

[cubby]

I still think she was headed over to his house with her gun to confront him about something and he killed her, took her gun and then killed himself because of it. It's possible that he might have molested her daughter and she wasn't having it, and I don't blame her!

Since she's not been seen since that day, I'm pretty sure she's dead.

[Northernspark]

Just my take on it. I think she's alive and well. Probable pattern of previous abuse, and having a kid of her own made her act. Think it's highly plausable that she confronted the uncle, then either killed him, or made him realise he'd be better off taking his own life. Then contacted the Police with a plea bargain and promise of safety if she names the other perps, still keeping her Kid safe because the nasty men would be locked up, and her Granny would finally have to face the reality and protect the bairn and hopefully hand her back to her mum once the twats have all been sentenced. Still get the feeling she would have offed the uncle before he even had the opportunity to touch her Daughter.

[4Cats]

I don't know what happened to her, but I would like to think she wouldn't have left her daughter behind. If I was her, there'd be NO-ONE in that family I'd trust with my child, not my mother, an aunt, no-one.

[Northernspark]

I don't know what happened to her, but I would like to think she wouldn't have left her daughter behind. If I was her, there'd be NO-ONE in that family I'd trust with my child, not my mother, an aunt, no-one.

Patterns of abuse are pretty complex, but the kids so young that she'd still need caring for if her mum turned vigilante. No idea what granny went through either, I wouldn't have left my kids, rather tell them to hide in the boot of the car! Mine are only left with one set of G-Parents. But we don't have the facts and maybe the nipper was safer with her granny for awhile. Hope this all works out for the best, but someone kicked ass on these scumbags, and if it turns out to be a joint effort from Granny and daughter, they deserve a huge pat on the back, a big cuddle and a bunch of interflora.

[VAS1326]

My initial thoughts are this woman did not leave on her own. If she were afraid and had to disappear she would have taken the 2 year old with her.

I'm thinking since so many family members were involved both committing the horrible rapes and as victims, that maybe Britney was a victim herself and that her uncle was the one who hurt her. Then as more and more comes out she finds out that he not only molested her but others as well. Molestation victims can be very secrative about their abuse especially when they feel they are keeping the secret and endure the abuse to protect others. She finds out her silence and endurance bought nobody safety. This may have sent her into a rage where she decided enough was enough. Maybe he touched her child but since according to the article it appears the girls molested were between the ages 12-16 it makes me think probably not. Seems they like them young but not that young.

So either way she went to her uncle's and she had a gun. That gun had two bullets. She didn't fire at him since he used one to off himself and the other was still there. The fact remains he had her gun. How did he get that gun? I highly doubt even if she did tell him to go off himself she handed a loaded gun to the person she was confronting. No he did something to her and he took it when she was unable to stop him.

I think he may have killed her and then found the gun. At that point he was already in trouble for molestation. Now he had a murder on him and decided it was better to end it. The gun was a matter of convience. He probably used a more barbaric means to kill her. Think about it, if she went to confront him and he attacked her before she could grab her gun he was probably full of rage, and I'm thinking he used his two hands to kill her. Then he moved her and found the gun either on her or in her bag (which he would have left with her body) After he hides her he stews a while and then off's himself cause he ain't going to jail for murder.

[Obsolete]

been following this case. I am thinking that she is in witness protction. She turned on all these guys, that's why the cards are falling and arrests keep coming. Maybe dead uncle had just learned that his son and his counsins and cronies were diddling these kids (the charges include incest) and offed himself. Either that or a trucker picked her up and killed her. She has a daughter... so sad...

When police place you in witness protection they tell your family (they just don't tell the family where you're going). They don't just whisk you away into the night and let your family worry and they certainly wouldn't make her leave her daughter behind.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

When police place you in witness protection they tell your family (they just don't tell the family where you're going). They don't just whisk you away into the night and let your family worry and they certainly wouldn't make her leave her daughter behind.

And they certainly don't waste the time of other LE agencies by letting everyone think you're missing.

[Obsolete]

And they certainly don't waste the time of other LE agencies by letting everyone think you're missing.

I meant to say that but I forgot :)

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I meant to say that but I forgot :)

I'm surprised I remembered... me being all elderly and all.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

FIFTH family member arrested!


Wendy Wood Holland / William Brownlee

A sixth arrest has been made by Baldwin County sheriff’s deputies in conjunction with an ongoing sex-abuse investigation into family members, and one family friend, of missing Mobile teen Brittney Wood.

According to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Maj. Anthony Lowery, 33-year-old Wendy Wood Holland, of the Marlow community in south Baldwin County, was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child, a class-A misdemeanor.
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Holland is the sister of Brittney Wood’s mother, Chessie Wood, and wife of Donnie Holland, who killed himself near his home just days after Brittney disappeared on May 30. The 19-year-old mother has not been heard from in nearly three months, and her family maintains that Donnie Holland was the last person to see her prior to her disappearance.
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Her two grade-school-age children were turned over to the Department of Human Resources on Wednesday, he said.

To date, four members of Holland’s family have been arrested as part of the investigation into sex-abuse charges: her brother Randall "Scott" Wood; brother-in-law Dustin Kent, married to her twin sister Mendy; her stepson Donald Holland Jr.; and her nephew Derek Wood, Brittney Wood’s brother.

William Brownlee, described by family members as a friend of Donnie Holland, was also arrested on charges related to sex crimes.

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/08/sex-...on_nets_f.html

[cubby]

Just WOW!

I am near certain that Britanny was killed by the uncle and that is the reason he committed suicide.

Almost the entire family is in jail now.

[astr0kitty]

I have important information from sources that are verified as insiders. I don't feel comfortable posting it, as I'm not the one that gathered the information and I know many here do not agree with the conduct on the website that has these members and I don't want to ruffle feathers. Feel free to PM me what the TOS are (mods, please) and I'll shed some light.

LE at this point is doing 100% nothing to look for Brittney and has actually denied FBI's involvement. So if you can, please contact me so I can try and help. Its vital to get Brittney home. She has little to no online support other than another website that's dedicated to finding her. Thank you for bumping this up.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Derek Wood on the Run After Removing Ankle Monitor

The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office is looking for Derek Wood, brother of missing teen Brittney Wood, after he removed his GPS tracking device.

Wood was due to report to deputies in Bay Minette Friday morning, but failed to show. Deputies tracked his location to his home via his ankle monitor. There, deputies found Wood in a car with a female driver. When deputies attempted to stop the car the suspects took off, resulting in a short pursuit. After the suspects wrecked their car, Woods fled on foot. His ankle monitor was later found cut off in the weeds.

Derek Wood has been out on bond on 2nd degree sodomy charges. His bond was immediately revoked.

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/...Goa-e4d4g.cspx

Friday, October 12, authorities confirmed they found a meth lab while in the Tillmans Corner area while police were on the hunt for Derek Wood. Wood has been out on bond since his earlier arrest on second degree sodomy charges.
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Investigators said while at the residence, officers asked if they could look inside for Wood. They said that’s when they found the meth lab.
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Victoria Phillips and another female suspect were arrested at the scene and charged with manufacturing and trafficking drugs. Officials said Wood is still on the loose.

http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/loca...ds-to-meth-lab

[Icy]

Testimony: Mobile Man Raped Daughter While Her Father Watched

MOBILE, Alabama – The uncle of missing Mobile teenager Brittney Wood forced a different relative to have sex four years ago while the victim’s father watched, a police detective testified today.

Sgt. Scott Congleton of the Mobile Police Department, testified at a preliminary hearing in Mobile County District Court that the sexual abuse occurred in 2008 when the girl was 13 years old. Congelton testified that the victim, now 17, did not come forward until the death of her father this summer and a subsequent high-profile search for Wood.

“She was very credible,” Congleton testified.

Mobile County District Judge George Hardesty determined that prosecutors had enough evidence to send first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy charges against Dustin Alton Kent to a grand jury. He allowed Kent 36, to remain free on bail but ordered that he have no contact with the victim or children younger than 16 except for immediate relatives.

Kent also faces sodomy and sexual abuse charges in Baldwin County. Authorities there allege that he molested multiple victims, including the niece from the Mobile County case. Another uncle, Randall Wood, also faces charges in both jurisdictions.

Police have downplayed any connection between the disappearance of Wood and criminal charges that since have been filed against six relatives or family friends. Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson said today that the matter remains under investigation.

Kent’s lawyer, John Beck, said the charges against his client and Wood’s disappearance are unrelated.

“I know there’s been a lot of speculation. My client had absolutely no involvement in that case at all,” he said after the hearing.

Congleton recounted the victim’s harrowing account of the 2008 incident. She told investigators that it occurred in September or October of that year, the detective said.

He testified that the girl’s father, Donnie Holland, picked up his daughter and told her they would go to a pet store to buy a hamster. Instead, Congleton said, Holland drove to Kent’s workplace. The three of them then went to Shipyard Road near Rangeline Road off Interstate 10.

They went to an industrial park that never was developed and, Congleton testified, Holland turned onto a dark trail at dusk. During the ride, he testified, the girl had a headache, and Kent was rubbing her head. He started to kiss the girl, but she pulled away, the detective testified.

After the Chevrolet Tahoe came to a stop, Kent took the girl’s clothes off, performed oral sex on her and then raped her, Congleton testified. He said that Holland watched the entire time.

“She kept telling him to stop. He did not,” he testified.During cross-examination, Congleton testified that the victim confided in the defendant’s sister but no one else. Beck asked about other accusations that the girl made against other family members, but

Hardesty ruled that such questions were improper under Alabama’s rape shield law.

In an interview, Beck declined to discuss his line of questioning. “I’m just trying to gather information now,” he said.

Wood, the mother of a 2-year-old girl, disappeared May 30 after saying that she planned to visit her uncle, Donnie Holland, in Baldwin County.

Holland fatally shot himself in the head June 1 in the Styx River area in Baldwin County, authorities said.

At the time of Holland’s death, Congleton testified, he was under investigation for molestation but had not been charged.

​http://blog.al.com/live/2012/10/test...incart_m-rpt-2

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Police have downplayed any connection between the disappearance of Wood and criminal charges that since have been filed against six relatives or family friends. Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson said today that the matter remains under

investigation.Kent’s lawyer, John Beck, said the charges against his client and Wood’s disappearance are unrelated.

I refuse to believe there is no connection. The only connection may be to shut her up but that still is a connection.

Fucking sick bunch of fucks.

[cubby]

This whole family seems to be nothing short of disgusting. He's ordered to stay away from children except for close relatives? Seems to me that it's been his close relatives that have the most to fear from him, they all seem to want to keep it in the family. Unbelievable!!!!!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

After searching about 30 acres of land in Tillmans Corner, search crews found no sign of missing mother Brittney Wood, 20, on Monday.

"At this point, it's all about the investigation until they uncover something that would lead to another search," said Brad Dennis, national search director for the Klaas Kids Foundation.
[...]

The search was prompted by a tip from the Mobile Police Department. Although Dennis didn't know what exactly the tip was, the acres searched included the area where Brittney Wood's brother, Derek Wood, led authorities on a chase in October.

Derek Wood is one of five of Brittney Wood's family members charged with sex-abuse crimes. A friend of the family has also been arrested on sex crime charges.

Authorities maintain the arrests are unrelated to Brittney Wood's disappearance, although family members have publicly said they believe her disappearance and the crimes are related.

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/11/sear...sign_of_m.html

[zwietracht]

BAY MINETTE, Alabama November 29, 2012--

After being arrested in August, Wendy Holland showed up for court Thursday morning expecting to go to trial on misdemeanor child endangerment charges but a grand jury changed everything according to assistant district attorney Teresa Heinz.

"The grand jury met and has indicted her on the child endangerment charge as well as sodomy on a child less than 12, sex abuse on a child less than 12, as well as sexual torture."

Her trial never happened. Instead she was re-arrested on felony charges and led to jail in handcuffs. "Any time we have child victims things come out in piecemeal. That's been the case here."

The sex abuse investigation started at the first of the year and so far five relatives and a friend have all been arrested on numerous sex abuse charges involving children 12 and under.

Wendy holland now joins her stepson Donald Holland, Jr., her nephew, Derek Wood, Dustin Kent, Randy Wood and William Brownlee with charges ranging from incest and rape to sodomy and sexual abuse.

"It's going to be a long road, and unfortunately I believe it will be an even longer road ahead and for us and for our victim," says Heinz.

And then there's the Brittney Wood connection. The teenaged mom missing since May after Donnie Holland, Wendy's husband, killed himself. The investigation into her disappearance continues.

"I think bits and pieces are separate and bits and pieces are tied together," says Heinz.

Both investigations are not over yet and prosecutors say there could be even more twists and turns ahead.

Holland is jailed on 200 thousand dollars bond. If she is able to make that bond and is released she will have to wear an electronic monitor and stay away from children.

http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2012/nov/29/br-ar-5075693/

[cubby]

Is this shit with this family ever gonna end, is everybody in this family bad? Good Grief!!! (I'm trying to stop cussing, not being very successful)

[LoKi4778]

I haven't seen it addressed in any of the other posts, but given the ENTIRE family's predilection for incestuous sex, does anybody know if Brittney's child was fathered by any of these sick fucks? Have they even checked? IDK what it may or may not have to do with the case, but it could very well be why she is missing and a possible reason for leaving the kid behind if she did, in fact, run off. Just a thought...