The last time Indiana mom Brandy Wilson saw her coworkers at a local factory, she left them with some chilling final words about her husband Kenny Wilson.

“She told us it had gotten really bad at home and she was scared,” Brandy’s coworker Clarissa Wessel recalled during Cold Justice’s Oct. 4 episode. “And if she didn’t show up tomorrow, that Kenny did something to her.”

Brandy never returned to work and, more than 20 years later, her case remains unsolved. 

Now, Cold Justice’s Kelly Siegler and Steve Spingola teamed up with detectives from the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office to take a new look at the cold case. 

“Was Brandy’s marriage so bad she ran away? Or was she murdered? And if so, can we prove it without her body?” Siegler asked. “That has been the case’s biggest hurdle for 22 years and the reason we were asked to help.”

At the time, Brandy—who was described by others as sweet, caring and a devoted mom—was married to Kenny Wilson, a man with a violent criminal past. 

“Years before he met Brandy, Kenny and his friend were charged in the 1987 robbery homicide of an elderly victim who was beaten to death and then disposed of in a freezer,” Spingola explained. “Kenny pled guilty to the robbery in exchange for the homicide charges to be dropped and spent 10 years in prison.”

After he was released, he met Brandy and the two embarked on a whirlwind romance. After they found out Brandy was pregnant, they got married. 

But by 2002, the love was beginning to fade and those close to Brandy reported that she may have been the victim of both verbal and physical abuse.

Then on June 4, 2002, Brandy failed to show up to work. Four of her coworkers went to the sheriff’s office to report her missing.

“This case has definitely haunted her friends,” said Lt. Dan Roudebush, of the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s definitely haunted her family. It’s haunted the officers that initially were involved in the case.”

Kenny Wilson admitted to “marital difficulties” 

When investigators spoke to Kenny, he admitted the couple were having “marital difficulties” and claimed that he sent the kids to stay at his parents’ house just a few days before Brandy disappeared so that they could work on the marriage.

The day she vanished, Kenny said they had breakfast together, made love and then went to bed. When he woke up around 2 p.m., he told detectives that Brandy was gone. According to his account, she’d taken $400 from their emergency fund and left her wedding rings on the counter.

“He let them come into the house, look at his car. There’s no struggle,” Siegler said. “There’s nothing broken, there’s nothing tossed around, there’s no blood anywhere.”

Despite extensive searches of the surrounding areas, Brandy never returned and has never been found.

Her brother David Taymon told Siegler that she would never leave her children behind, insisting, “She loved her kids.”

Brandy Wilson’s coworkers provided chilling details

Brandy’s coworkers believed that she was drawn to Kenny because she was desperate to find love. They described him as controlling and told detectives that she showed up at work with bruises and a black eye.

Coworker Sheila Whitten added that Brandy confided that Kenny allegedly “strangled her unconscious” about a month before she disappeared, adding “She said he was just so mad and his face was just like he wasn’t there.”

However, Kenny denied ever being physically abusive to his wife while speaking with the original detectives on the case.

To dive more into his past, the Cold Justice team spoke with some of Kenny’s coworkers. One recalled that on the night Brandy went missing, Kenny had joked that none of his coworkers would want to see what he had in his trunk that night. Others reported that he had been having an affair with a coworker. 

According to Brandy’s coworker Kim Pearcy, she’d told Brandy about the alleged affair just before the mom of two vanished.

“She confronted him then, after that things were really bad between him and her,” Pearcy said, adding that Brandy was too afraid to go to sleep at home.

To find out what Kenny had to say today, Spingola and Det. Mark Pinkard went to talk with him. Kenny claimed that he didn’t know what happened to his missing wife and didn’t care.

The witness accounts painted a compelling story for investigators, but the county’s prosecutor still felt there wasn’t enough evidence to proceed with any charges, especially because there was no body.

While Siegler made it clear she disagreed with the decision, for now, it seems the case remains uncharged.

“This case turned out good and strong,” she said. “The sheriff’s department never gave up and I know they never will.”

To keep up on the investigations the team will take on this season, watch Cold Justice Saturdays at 8/7c on Oxygen.