Missing woman Kelley Brannon’s mother passes away
Brannon has been missing since Summer of 2020 after she vanished from a Live Oak motel.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - The mother of Kelley Brannon, who vanished from a Live Oak motel in 2020, has died.
Christine “Chris” Brannon passed away suddenly in Charlestown, New Hampshire, on October 7 without ever learning the fate of her daughter, according to a news release.
Kelley Brannon, then 36, has not been seen or heard from since she declared on a voicemail that she was getting into a vehicle three years ago. The musician and activist had allegedly been locked out of her motel room by her boyfriend after an argument.
Her boyfriend, Eddie Emmerson, said he had taken Brannon’s car keys from her during an argument and then went to bed at the Sunshine Inn. She allegedly left without her credit cards or IDs and has not been seen since. Emerson is one of six persons of interest in the case along with several other people who were staying at the motel that night, according to investigators.
UPDATE: Emmerson maintains that while he had the only set of keys to the room, which consisted of a key lock that deadbolted from the inside, he would have let Brannon inside if she had knocked on the door. Text messages from the time of the argument show Emmerson had tried to coax Kelley into the room the night of their argument. A voicemail from Kelley from the same night stated she was “locked out” by Emmerson.
The key to the case could be finding her rare guitar- a left-handed Fender Stratocaster with a sunburst finish. It has a unique feature in that the branding was sanded off the headstock. Kelley reportedly had the instrument with her when she was last seen.
A coalition of friends of Brannon, who have kept attention on the case, released a statement to WCTV on Monday confirming the news.
Christine and Kelley Brannon were said to have been close. According to friends, Chris was tormented by her only daughter’s disappearance and would wait by the phone hoping for a call from Kelley.
The Kelley Brannon case was chronicled in Katie Kaplan’s Unsolved series for WCTV and has since garnered national attention on network television shows and true crime podcasts.
Anyone with information related to Kelley Brannon’s disappearance is asked to call Captain Jason Rountree of the Live Oak Police Department at 386-362-7463. Anonymous tips can be made through Suwannee Valley Crimestoppers at 386-208-8477 (TIPS). A cash reward is being offered in the case.
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