The Last Time Her Sister Saw Her, She Gave Her A Ride To The School Bus Stop, And Then She Vanished
Last year, Leigh Scoggin went viral on TikTok after making a video to see if anyone in the world could somehow steer her family out of the “rabbit hole” they’ve been trapped in regarding the disappearance of her older sister, Brandee Canipe.
“She has completely vanished,” says Leigh in her TikTok video.
“So I need your help, guys. I really need your help.”
Brandee Hope Canipe was 29 when she was last seen in May 2006. Having been married twice, she was also known by the names Brandee Hope McCluney and Brandee Hope Rackley.
Brandee is the eldest of four sisters, the other three being Staley, Paige, and Leigh. All three of them are still actively searching for their big sister. Brandee and her sisters grew up in Shelby, North Carolina. Being 16 years older than her youngest sister, Leigh, Brandee began going off on her own once her sisters became teenagers.
Brandee moved away from home at a young age and was a free spirit. It wasn’t unusual for Staley, Paige, and Leigh to not hear from her or know where she was for months on end and only see her during the holidays or random visits home.
Brandee would stay in multiple areas of North Carolina, like Winston-Salem and Mocksville. Brandee also had three children, two daughters that lived with her parents in Shelby and a son that lived with his father. Her youngest daughter, Autumn, has fond memories of her mother but was too young to remember the last day she ever saw her.
Before her disappearance, Brandee moved back to Shelby and worked at a local bar named Rhythm and Cues to be closer to her daughter. The last time Staley saw Brandee was in that bar, one year before her disappearance.
Leigh was in the fifth grade when she last saw Brandee in 2006. Brandee had visited their home in Shelby with only a few small things on her, like her purse and a bag. She had arrived in her 4-door Buick sedan, the last car she allegedly drove before disappearing. The last time she saw her sister, Leigh remembers Brandee driving her to the school bus stop one morning in her Buick and dropping her off.
Facebook – pictured above is Brandee
Brandee’s family didn’t hear from her for months after but weren’t alarmed at first, considering her past behavior. But then those months turned to years, and her family became incredibly concerned when she didn’t come to town for an important funeral.
When one of Brandee’s former mother-in-laws passed away, her family was sure she’d attend the funeral because they were very close despite the divorce. Then, Brandee’s mother, Janice, passed away in 2010, and she was not present at her funeral either.
That’s when Staley decided to contact the police and file a missing person’s report for Brandee on April 19th, 2010.
The Davie County Sheriff’s Office began investigating Brandee’s disappearance and concluded that she was last seen in the Mocksville area on May 6th, 2006. The Sheriff’s Office discovered there was no activity shown in Brandee’s bank account past 2006.
Her driver’s license expired in 2008, but it was not renewed. Additionally, they have not been able to locate her Buick sedan.
Brandee’s case has been especially difficult for the Davie County Sheriff’s Office considering the four-year gap between her disappearance and the day she was reported missing.
The Davie County Sheriff’s Office investigated one of Brandee’s ex-boyfriends who lived in Mocksville. After thoroughly searching his home and conducting interviews, they found no evidence of foul play. They found some of Brandee’s belongings, including two pieces of jewelry, which have since been released to her daughters.
The Davie County Sheriff’s Office has also ruled out suspicions of Brandee leaving the country after having the Feds use facial recognition technology at airports and DMVs. There is also no evidence that Brandee has used a different name or identity in North Carolina.
There is one detail that detectives and officers have been looking into since Brandee’s mother presented it before she passed.
Just before Brandee was in Shelby to take Leigh to the school bus, her sisters remember staying with her in a Mocksville lake house she had lived in. Their family was facing hardships in the fall of 2005, so Brandee brought Paige and Leigh to live with her in a lake house she had moved into after breaking up with her boyfriend.
Brandee took care of her two sisters for a few months in that lake house on Belews Creek. Leigh remembers meeting a man there, who she figured was the alleged property manager. Paige and Leigh were picked up from the lake house by their parents one week before Brandee drove Leigh to the bus stop in May of 2006.
Police investigated the lake house but couldn’t find it due to Paige and Leigh’s inability to produce an address and new construction in the area. They also haven’t been able to properly identify the alleged property manager, but they have not entirely dismissed the lake house from their investigation.
To this day, Brandee’s story is one of the oldest unsolved missing persons cases in Davie County, North Carolina. Although she’s been missing for 17 years, her sisters refuse to give up searching for her.
In addition to her case gaining attention through Leigh’s TikTok, there is also a Facebook page, Help Bring Home Brandee Canipe, which has been made in an effort to gather further evidence.
At the time of Brandee’s disappearance, she was five foot seven and weighed approximately 140 pounds. She had light brown hair, brown eyes, a tattoo of a heart with wings on her right wrist, and a tattoo of a rose with a dagger on her shoulder. Brandee would be 46 years old today.
If you have any information regarding her case, you are urged to contact the Davie County Sheriff’s Office at 336-751-6238.
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