Topic : 03/16 Cheerleader Scandal

I was going to email you, but thought I'd post here instead on the chance you'd reply for any others like myself who may check in here for "updates".   I wondered if you'd try to answer some questions...

 

1.) Will anyone from your family be attending Brandi's upcoming parole hearing?

 

2.) Has anyone from your family made the Parole Board aware of Brandi's statements on this show and the negative effect (if any) it's had on your your family's healing?

 

3.) Do you think this show is going to hurt or help Brandi's chances for early parole?

 

4.) Assuming you've reviewed Stephanie's posts, was there anything she posted that you don't think was factual?  (I believe Steph thought Brandi had given Daniel both skates and mentioned only the necklace being found on the hill.  By her diagram I thought the hill was where Brandi sat revving the engine while Daniel & Stephanie watched her and wondered why she wasn't leaving.)

 

5.) Does your family have any contact with Daniel's child by Stephanie? 

 

6.)  Did you think it odd that Brandi's family didn't mention on the show that Brandi didn't even have a driver's license? 

 

I'm really sorry your family not only had to go through your private sorrow of losing Daniel, but that your family was so poorly portrayed on the show due to omission of the fact that Stephanie was right there beside Daniel when he was hit.   The show implied only Daniel and Brandi really knew what happened that night, when you knew Stephanie's eyewitness testimony would have lead to a conviction had Brandi not made a plea bargain.   Had Brandi not participated in this show I'd have probably been on the side of those who said "enough already".  The self-serving attempt by Brandi's family to re-write history and Brandi's willingness to participate in it without any concern for the addidtional hurt inflicted upon your family in the process should, in my opinion, be just cause for the parole board to deny Brandi's early release.   In my eyes she's more culpable today than she was at 16. 

This one is for you Brandi, Everyday we miss you and can't wait for the day when we can see you again we are so happy when we come visit you the sad thing is when we have to leave. One day you'll be able to read this but what I really feel is no matter what we know how much this has changed you and how remorseful you really are. I'm sorry that you'll have that pain for the rest of your life but we are always here for you. Everyone has there own belief on this but we know that you would never want anyone hurt or even lose there life. You have showed me so much about life and to never take things for granted. You've been so great to everyone that knows you. Your family has treated me like family and I know that its all love. We all make bad decisions in life and some of us have to pay harder
then others and if you could change it you would in a heart beat but now the only thing to do is try to look forward I wish that people can see the real you but life doesent work that way.
You have such a big heart and a great soul and I want you to know that we all pray for you and you are always in my heart
We love you!

I want to explain a lot of things that should be said on here what I want to say first is Brandi has a huge heart she is someone that I'm grateful to have in my life she really means everything to me and to everyone that knows her and I couldn't ask for anything more she is very remorseful for what has happened and that is truly the truth she can never change what has happened if she could she would in a minute but all she can do now is deal with the pain of all of it and grieve the lost of Daniel she never meant to hurt anybody she was young at the time yes she should of thought about what she was doing at the time before she even went there but all she wanted to do is bring his stuff back to him and move on I went to the trailer park where it happened and I couldn't believe what I saw the distance between where the hill starts and where the trailer is there is no way that she could go as fast as 65 I would really suggest you to go there and see there is a tree to of where they say she swerved in she would hit it or a trailer she would of lost control of her car being not that experienced driver she should of been hurt herself if that was the case. The car she was driving the head lights you can't turn them off the only way you can is to go under the hood find the plug and being 16 at the time would never know how to do that there is a lot of things that just don't add up with the stories that where told we all tried to do it the way it was said but we can't its impossible. She missed where you exit if you make a wrong turn you have to go back around again and that is why she went back that's when she saw that she forgot to give him the rest of his stuff so she was gonna give it to a neighbor down Daniels street instead she was driving down the street and she hit Daniel. When she got home she fell on the ground crying she was crying so loud that it woke up the neighbors she didn't know for sure that she hit him at the time until the police came later that night and told her all she knew is that there was damage to the car. The reason why his dad is so quiet on the show is because his car was parked in the street in front of the trailer at the time when brandi was there and that's where he parks it he moved it across the street so it can go with there story. The reason why brandi says she sorry is because she is taking the blame for the whole thing and she is apologizes to Daniel for hitting him with the car and she is not the one that is keeping this going her mom and dad are because they know she is innocent not a angel. Brandi is very thankful for all the support that everyone has given her and she appreciates everything. God bless you all

Omg you so need to get your damn facts straight... I mean really. First of all there isn't any tree accept on the other side of the trailer that is up on railroad ties and it lays a couple feet away from the curb. Second she did not go around the damn street to give someone else his belongings I have a eye witness that is a security guard that came home and saw her sitting there and then sped off. As far as my dads car he parks it in front of the trailer under his bedroom window so he can see it at night not on the street. How much more BS do you want to try and come up with give me a break. You all want to sit there and bash my brother and tell the wold that he was so abusive to her yet how does that make since. A man that "threatens her life" and she steals her mom and dads car when she had no license and drives the 30 to 45 mins to the house where the supposed accuser resides at around midnight to 1am to give him back his stuff by herself but yet she was so scared of her own life. WTF ever. LMAO give me a break really. ave your guys BS for someone else who cares.

           Oh not to mention the fact that you mentioned she came home and fell to the ground and balled loud enough for the neighbors to hear. What a load of crock. It states that she stuck a tree branch through the windshield and climbed through the bedroom window and told her mom and dad that someone vandalized the car. And that was also said by her own parents and she was questioned that on the show. So really maybe you might try to read the reports on what happened and if you cant read you can get someone else to read it for you.

              The last thing I have to say on here is to everyone who reads this stuff. I hope you all understand why I can be so upset over this. My family and I have moved on to the best that we can and try not to look back. But I get on here and read more bashing about my brother and I'm so tired of it. No one can get their facts straight and they want to get on here and say how wonderful Brandi is and how innocent she is when they don't tell you the truth on what happened. What they tell you are made up stories to make her look good.Well You can tell your stories I don't really care anymore. I know the truth and so does my family and friends. Not much else I can do. I let the truth be told I leave the rest up to god in the end she will get her judgment.

              As for everyone else please be safe...God Bless!

I never bashed your brother and you need to get your facts straight thank you very much the street and the front of the trailer are pretty much the same thing the trailer does not sit far from the street and thats pretty much what I meant thank you you just cleared it up for me thats what everyone has been saying we knew he moved it. You are the one that keeps bringing up the violence of Daniel not me, you are so busy trying to protect your brothers name that you are making him look more quilty than anyone.  Why did your dad move his car after the accident and before the police got there?  What does he know that he doestn't want to be told?  Why is he so quiet about the whole thing, because he knew how abusive Daniel was.  David he was your twin, you would think you would want the honest story to come out and the real truth told.  How can you live with yourself helping to cover a lie, yes Brandi did hit him, she did take his life but it was a horrific accident that she will have to live with for the rest of her life but your  family needs to tell the truth so all the real facts can come out and it can be put to rest, and your family can finally accept the facts and move on so you can start healing.  Brandi has had a very good therapist who is helping her deal with the  taking of Daniels life and is helping her to move on.  She will always have the quilt that someone she loved very much died at her actions but stretching the truth and lieing doesn't help yourself or anyone else, if you all would just face the honest to god truth you could heal faster.

God Bless you and your family and may your family start healing as the bible says to do, and may you find forgiveness to make your quality of life much happier.

God Bless all who support Brandi. God has forgiven her and she is slowly forgiving herself.  Her family and friends pray for Daniel, and his whold family and may God please take some of the anger and pain and replace them with comfort and joy of knowing Daniel and loving him.

Thank you all for your support to Brandi, and the engineer from Austrailia, this is pepsimom, I am Brandi's mother, just to let you know some of the facts, we drove out there before we could hire her an attorney, I didn't automatically believe she was innocent, she did lie when she first put the lumber through the window but you can hear her on the 911 call telling the truth and stating she lied, she just didn't want her daddy mad at her because she wrecked the car, Frank and Jo the neighbors stated how she feel out of the car and to the ground crying she was so upset,  When Brandi does come home we are hiring people HONEST people to do a real crime scene re-enactment to get at the real story.  Brandi wouldn't let us do that before, she felt like she had taken a llfe and didn't deserve the right to live, it is in the Psychiatric letter to the judge that she had attempted suicide 3 times before pleaing quilty, because she didn't feel she had the right to live, she was advised she could get 2 life senteneces if she didn't plea, and that if she did fight it she would be shown pictures of Daniel deceased and that was more than her heart and mind could face, she felt she took a life and should go to jail.  Please go out and read the court documents and make your mind up after that, drive the scene late and night and see how you would do, we have, we almost hit a lady that walked out infront of us and  we almost hit her, the lighting out there is terrible, and we were trying to drive very carefully.  We went on the doctor Phil show to get the story out because as parents we felt that the story was being told in to many ways, and the reason I didn't fight for myself more was because I was fighting for my daughters life, I would lay down my life to change what she went through.  And David Brandi is not making stories up, she doesn't talk about the abuse, John told us the first story of abuse when he came to our home to help support Brandi, and what he had seen, then her brother starting talking about some of the abuse and how Daniel had held a knife to Brandi saying if he couldn't have her no one would, and then another time that if he couldn't have her she had to kill him with a butcher knife, then some of their other friends started coming up and telling us about the abuse.  Brandi does talk to her thereapist now but that stays between them.  She doesn't know that this message board is still active we don't tell her, she wants all of this to just go away so she can move on with her life doing her time.  She now is ready to come home for the first time in all these years, she feels she has paid for her wrong. 

Brandi plead quilty because she did not want to see the pictures of Daniel in a hearing she still very much loved Daniel and the idea of having to see him hurt and dead was more than she could take.  She felt she had taken a life a deserved to die, so first she tried commiting suicide 3 times before court.  Then she decided that she needed to go to jail to pay for what she did.  But it is me and her father that are fighting now, more facts in this case have came out and yes, what Brandi did was wrong but it was a horrific accident, not an act of intentional murder, Brandi was 16 she made some wrong decisions that night, but how many of us can say at the age of 16 we were making the right decisions, we thought we were adult enough to make decisions, and of course later down the road found out how wrong they were, but we were lucky and nobody got hurt, at least not physically.

First let's get it clear, Brandi and Daniel were sitting in the car talking and crying, Stephanie was in the yard trying to get Daniel to come with her, she was not involved in the conversation.  They had agreed to stop seeing each other, even though they still loved each other, but she couldn't take the abuse and he couldn't control it, it was what he knew, how he was brought up.  So they did still love each other but had to go seperate ways, so she didn't react out of anger she reacted on what was happening.  Stephanie and Crystal started throwing rocks at the back of the car telling Brandi to get out of there, so she left, she was still crying and took a wrong turn, she sat on the hill crying lights on head down, then she seen he had left a few things in the car and so she was going to drive on past were Stephanie and Crystal were staying and up to Daniels friend Johns to leave the stuff, that is when it happened, Daniel stepped out from between 2 trucks and she swerved trying to miss him, got to Johns and threw his stuff out.  And then drove home, she fell to the ground crying so loud she woke up our neighbors, whose say then she got up crying very hard and placed the railroad tie through the window and came in the front door and told us someone had vandalized the car, I got on the phone called 911 and she told the truth right then and there, it is on the recording her telling the truth.  In the police officers statement the state how her Dad was yelling at her for taking the car and things, obviously we didn't think she was an angel.  And she was appointed a public defender at first, and we wouldn't hire her an attorney if she had knowing down what they were saying she had done, several nights later we went out to the trailer park and the same time of night tried to drive the scene that the witness stated, there was no way, we couldn't go the speed we couldn't have swerved in like they stated, that is when we started believing out daughter and fighting for her.

My heart does and always has gone out to the family, especially David, and Crystal, they loved him the most, Brandi from the first day ask her attorney to apologize to them she has always been so remoreseful and regretted what happened.  She didn't bring up the abuse of Daniel, his best friend John started telling us about some times he had seen Daniel abuse Brandi, and then her brother started telling us things that he had seen happen, then some of Brandi's friends started coming over and telling us stories, we never brought it up to Brandi, but she was seeing a pyschiatrist out in jail, and things started coming out about the abuse, he pyschiatrist ask to meet with us and he began telling us about some of the abuse that she had blocked out.  Brandi was a good kid, and kid being the key word, she did wrong kid things but she would never purposely take a life, one time she called her dad home from work because a baby mouse had climbed up the outside pipes into the bathtub, but she made her dad swear not to hurt him and take him out to the woods and get rid of him, and she even went and watched and made sure that is what he did.  If she couldn't hurt a baby mouse how do you think she could purposely take a life.

She went to church every sunday and she felt that morally she had to go to jail, she didn't know about the 120 days until she went for her first parole hearing and his family stated she was supposed to get 120 days shock time, but the talked the prosecutor out of it.  She has been in there for 7 years, her grandmother passed away and she didn't get to say goodbye to her, she'll pay for Daniels death and being in jail for her sins and not being there to tell her grandmother how much she loved her and how proud she was of the life and the strength she had.

 

God Bless everyone I pray you nor anyone in your family ever go through anything like this, we are just trying to put our lives back together and mend the damages done to it, Brandi is just trying to go on with her life, she still loves Daniel today, and when she comes home she wants to go to his grave so she can greive for the loss of him and so she can tell him how sorry she is for taking his life so soon.

I assume this was posted by Brandi's mom.   You do realize, don't you, that you were not there that night so everything you assume happened that night is based on what others have told you or what you've observed  and heard "after the fact".   

 

If Brandi and Daniel had ageed to stop seeing each other, she wouldn't have to worry about any abuse, would she?  Unless, of course, she wasn't ready for the relationship to be over. 

 

The fact that it took you so long to begin to buy your own daughter's version of the story, that she didn't have a driver's license and was willing to steal your car and sneak out of your home at night tells me she's probably lied to you many times before - as you put it, she wasn't an angel.   If Daniel was such a hoodlum, why on earth did you let her accept an engagement ring from him at age 16?  

 

Surely you realize she wasn't hurt and mad at the mouse like she was hurt and mad at Daniel that night! 

 

I stand by my opinion that you've probably harmed your daughter's chances for parole by going on the show and through your posts here.   Her suicide attempts and feeling that "morally she had to go to jail" tells me that at one time she truly acknowledged responsibity for what she had done.   Thank God you couldn't recreate the way she swerved that night!  I think a parole board will think twice about granting her an early release into the care of family and friends who refuse to acknowledge what she plead guilty to and who are gullible to her self-serving manipulations.   Brandi seems to be pretty selective about what she chooses to bring up to you and others.   Which is a shame because normally I'd have thought 7 years would have been enough time served.  

 

 

Some 12 years ago a female doctor went to a island called Bornholm in Denmark with a backpack. She had a male lover who was married. While she was at the island she drugged the wife and burned the house down with the children inside it. All died. She was released after serving 11 years.

 

When such a horrible crime does result in 10-12 years in prison surely the death of 1 person should result in less time served. Also, you can argue whether there is a life for Brandi when she comes out or she just have to settle for a life as part time nurse for family members, when she has been away from society for so long.

 

I think that her sentence will continue whether she is released or not. Most people can tell that you only get one chance in life and she certainly blew it when she did not take enough interest in her trial. She is too old for starting any type of career and in our society she would be put on early retirement pension. The only difference is that the society won't have to pay for her imprisonment, it is now up to her family to bear this burden.

 

Free her or change her state to house arrest. I am not taxpayer in this state but I was, I would prefer, that the state spend the money on a foot-bracelet and let her work in some hopeless McJob career, when she is not confined to her home.