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Mountain State Mysteries contains adult content that may not be suitable for all audiences.

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The center of discretion is advised. All individuals mentioned in this episode

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are presumed innocent until proven guilty. I'm your host Mark Covey and I'm Courtney and this is

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Mountain State Mysteries.

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The case we're covering today is one of the most requested ones we've ever had.

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It's the story of a woman who disappeared on the night of her son's first birthday party.

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A case where her family has never stopped fighting for justice.

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Of course, I'm talking about the disappearance of Brenda Gale Lambert. I dailed deep into a case

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I thought I already knew inside and out, but what I discovered was just the tip of the iceberg.

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I've always had questions, the same ones I'm sure many of you have,

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and I finally got to ask them. I sat down with Brenda's sisters, Christie and Patricia,

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and filmed our conversation, which you can watch on the Mountain State Mysteries YouTube channel,

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and trust me, you won't want to miss it. But first, let us share Brenda's story in a way we

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never thought we could. A layer deeper than anyone has covered it before. This is the case

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of Brenda Gale Lambert. Brenda Gale Lambert was born on December 26, 1969, to Adam Rowe and Mary

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Christian in Wilmanson, West Virginia. Growing up, Brenda was the kind of person everyone loved to

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be around. In my interview with her sisters, Christie shared a memory of driving around with the

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windows down, blasting Bohemian Rhapsody, and headbanging like Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World.

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Christie also recounted a hilarious moment from their childhood. Around 3 a.m. when the whole

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family was fast asleep, Brenda woke everyone up, claiming a dog had been hit by a car and was lying

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in the road. Concerned, they all got up and went outside to look. But there was no dog and no Brenda.

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Little did they know, she was hiding behind a bush, waiting for the perfect moment to jump out

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with the water hose and spray them off. While started as a prank, quickly turned into an unforgettable

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late night water fight. Brenda attended Bramwell High School, but dropped out at the age of 16.

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Around this time, she met 20-year-old Raymond Lambert, who worked with her brother Tim at a

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chicken plant. It's worth noting that Brenda was 16 when she began seeing Raymond, which is the age

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at consent in the state of West Virginia. Not long after they met, Brenda became pregnant with their

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daughter, Christa Dawn, a name she chose in honor of her sister, Christie. Brenda and Raymond were

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married in 1986 in a small courthouse ceremony. The family lived on Wemmill Hill in the small

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community of Blue Whale, located in Mercer County, West Virginia. A few years later, the couple welcomed

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a baby boy, Raymond Jr., affectionately called Junebug, on July 26, 1991. In the months leading up

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to Brenda's disappearance, her relationship with Raymond had been on and off. In July of 1992,

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Brenda asked Raymond to leave, and he moved in with his parents on their 200-acre mountain property.

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It's been reported that Raymond had a tendency to lose control, which is said to have lead to

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instances of domestic violence. Brenda had actually filed a report claiming that Raymond

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had held her against her wheel, put a gun to her head, and threatened to kill her. Before her

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disappearance, Brenda was seen with red marks around her neck. Her family believed it looked like

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as though she had been strangled, which is considered the ultimate act of control.

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On July 10, 1992, Brenda dropped the domestic violence petition she had filed against Raymond,

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allowing him to attend their son's birthday party. On July 26, 1992, Brenda was hosting

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their son's first birthday party with her entire family in attendance. As we mentioned,

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she even allowed Raymond and his family to come during the party. During the party,

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Brenda's family noticed that something seemed off. They could tell she was uncomfortable.

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You might be wondering, how could Brenda possibly feel uncomfortable at her own son's birthday party

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held in her own home? Well, the reason is, her cousin Tammy Love Day decided to show up. Normally,

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having a cousin who'd just moved back to West Virginia at your party would be cause for a

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celebration. But when that cousin is having an affair with your husband, it's a whole different

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story. Shortly before 8pm, the party began to wind down. Originally, it was planned for Brenda to

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watch the kids that night, but according to Raymond, she changed her mind. Other party attendees

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recalled a conversation where Raymond told Brenda, quote, a mom's going to keep the kids for a couple

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of days, end quote. Brenda responded, quote, no, she ain't. It's my son's birthday, end quote.

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Brenda warned Raymond that if he didn't keep quiet, she would reveal something about him

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and their family that could lend them all in prison for the rest of their lives.

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We know that Brenda changed clothes and asked a few family members to stay with her that night.

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But unfortunately, no one was able to. Raymond and his family were the last to leave the party,

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taking the children with them. According to Raymond, around 9pm, he called Brenda's mom.

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Brenda's mom mentioned that she would try to call Brenda later that evening to talk with her.

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On the morning of July 27th, Brenda's family gathered on their mom's front porch,

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worried because they haven't seen or heard from Brenda. Brenda's mom decided to see

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in Patricia to check on her. Around this time, Tammy unexpectedly showed up at Brenda's mom's

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house, which was unusual since she rarely stopped to talk with him. When Patricia mentioned she was

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going to check on Brenda, Tammy offered to go along and got into the car with her. When Patricia

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approached Brenda's front door, she knocked softly, just in case Brenda was inside. When there was no

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response, Tammy said, quote, I know a way in, end quote, and went around to the back of the house.

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Tammy climbed onto the house, opened a window, and let herself in. The odd thing was that Brenda's

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sister had no idea that this particular window was never locked. You can hear more about this and

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much more in Mark's interview with Christie and Patricia. Later that morning, Raymond's mom called

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him to let him know what was going on. He went to Brenda's house and noticed her car was still there.

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The doors were unlocked and the windows were slightly open. When Raymond went inside, he saw

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the dishes from the night before were still sitting in the kitchen sink. On Tuesday, July 28th,

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Raymond reported Brenda missing at 5.21 p.m. The investigation into Brenda's disappearance

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was assigned to Deputy W. O. Lawson. Since neither her family nor Raymond could reach Brenda, Lawson

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decided to try for himself. On Wednesday, July 29th, he went to her house and there was still no answer.

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On July 30th, Lawson conducted a search of Brenda's home. Unable to contact Raymond for access,

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he had to crawl through the same window that Tammy and Brenda's sister Pat had to use earlier.

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Inside, Lawson observed that the downstairs was neat and clean, but the upstairs was in disarray.

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Clothes were scattered across Brenda's room and the shorts she had been wearing on the

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night of the party were on the bathroom sink. When Lawson interviewed Brenda's neighbors,

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they all reported the same thing. None of them had seen Brenda since 5.30 p.m. on Sunday. I want

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to take a moment to discuss one important detail, the suitcase. Lawson reported finding a suitcase

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next to the door stating, quote, the suitcase contained not only clothing and shoes, but also

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toothpaste and a toothbrush, end quote. Here's why the suitcase matters. Brenda's sister Pat

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said there was no suitcase by the door when she entered Brenda's home. Before the investigation

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began, Christie mentioned that too many people were running in and out of the house creating chaos.

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However, Pat said when it was just her and Tammy inside the house, the suitcase wasn't there.

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This led everyone to believe that Brenda was planning to leave everything and everyone behind.

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However, if you listen to Mark's interview with her sisters, you'll hear their perspective on what

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they thought about this theory. On July 30th at 10 a.m., Brenda was scheduled to meet with an attorney

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to discuss a divorce. Brenda's mom still had important papers for the meeting at her house,

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which Brenda needed to pick up. Later that day, Lawson was able to speak with Raymond

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over the phone and they scheduled an interview for the following morning. Unfortunately, we only

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have a few fragments of this interview between Lawson and Raymond. What time did the party start?

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Well, it started late. Trying to get everything fixed and stuff. And my wife, she made another

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tape of the little boy. She wanted, we wanted him, you know, just to do what we wanted to do with it.

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And she waited until he was finished. I don't know, maybe four or five or maybe even later than that.

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I'm really not sure. So the party was over or at? You and your mother was the last ones to leave?

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Or did your mother leave with somebody else or? No, my sister, my two sisters was getting the

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stuff together. I was getting my clothes together and then my little girl wanted to go. Let's see.

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It was me and the kids and mom was the very last ones to leave. Okay. After you left, you took,

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where did you go to when you left with your mom? And that's where the interview ends. Did you notice

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how nervous Raymond appeared during this interview? Of course, anyone might be nervous in that situation,

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but there's a reason I'm highlighting it. You'll understand why later. Like with many missing

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person cases involving a spouse, Raymond quickly became a person of interest. During his interview,

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Raymond mentioned a man named Mark Cook, who he claimed was Brenda's boyfriend.

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Interestingly, none of the documents previously referenced Mark Cook. And there's no history

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between Brenda and Mark other than the fact that they knew each other. However, there's no way to

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discuss Brenda's case without bringing up Mark Cook. We'll revisit him in just a bit.

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As the investigation unfolded, police discovered that Brenda had filed a domestic violence order

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against Raymond on July 7, 1992. However, just three days later on July 10, 1992, Brenda called the

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police and requested that the petition be dropped stating, quote, we came to an agreement and settled

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the dispute between us, end quote. On August 2, 1992, local newspapers, newspaper,

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local newspapers, news stations, and radio outlets began reporting on Brenda's disappearance. Soon

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after, there were reports of sightings of Brenda in Mercer County. She was allegedly seen at a pawn

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shop in the local grocery store. However, all of these sightings were later dismissed as cases

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of mistaken identity. Unfortunately, after that, the case began to grow cold. Six months later,

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another resident went missing. Mark Cook, the man Raymond claimed Brenda was dating,

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grew up in Bramwell, but moved to Florida in the 1980s. He returned to West Virginia in the 1990s

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and was living with his mother and her boyfriend in Bramwell. Mark's Florida driver's license

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had expired and he didn't have a car, so he relied on hitchhiking, getting rides from friends,

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or simply walking to places like Burger King. One night, he disappeared. Mark was at Pedro's bar.

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Around 3 a.m., he was seen leaving the bar and walking towards the main road. He was never seen

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again. Four days later, on January 18, his mother's boyfriend reported him missing to the Mercer

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County Sheriff's Department. It's alleged that Mark had been involved in an argument while at

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Pedro's, though the details and the identity of the other party remain unclear. On October

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22, 1994, the headlines on the Bluefield Telegraph read, quote, Disappearances Still Probed,

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end quote. In it, Daryl Bailey suggested that the Disappearances might be connected. From that

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point on, the cases were linked. However, Brenda's family was certain that they weren't connected.

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Nine years passed before any new lead emerged. On February 14, 2003, an unidentified female

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called the police, claiming that she overheard someone saying that both Brenda Lambert and Mark

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Cook were in a pond behind coal motors on Route 52. Bailey was able to get permission to search

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the property and drain the pond. The first attempt took place in April of 2003, with help from the

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Blue Whale Volunteer Fire Department. Unfortunately, due to water flowing into the pond, law enforcement

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came up empty handed. A second attempt occurred in August of 2003, this time with the assistance

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of a diver who tried to search the pond. Sadly, this search also yielded no answers regarding

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the disappearance of Brenda and Mark. Some believe that Brenda isn't in the pond,

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but rather somewhere on the Lambert property. In September of 2022, Brenda Gale Lambert was

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declared legally dead. In March of 2023, Brenda's case was featured on an episode of Cold Justice.

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Unfortunately, it's not available to watch online at the moment, but we do have the key

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interviews for you. Kelly and her team were able to secure interviews with Bonnie, Tammy's mother,

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Tammy and Raymond. During Bonnie's interview, she was asked about Tammy being at the party. She

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responded, maybe an hour, and she came on down to my sister's where I was at. We didn't see Raymond

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that night and he calls about 11pm. That night, wanting to know if we had heard from Brenda.

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She didn't take her car, no purse, no shoes, no ring, not nothing, and a woman ain't leaving

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without her car and purse. So Raymond called an hour before he showed up to her sister's house,

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wanting to know where Brenda was. Kinda sounds like he was crafting his alibi. When Bonnie was asked

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what she thought when you couldn't get a hold of Brenda, she said, I was worried and Raymond's

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daughter told me daddy came up here and got grandpa and they was on and off the mountain,

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almost all till daylight. And she was only five years old when she told me that. Bonnie was asked

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if Tammy thought Raymond killed Brenda. Tammy's too scared to ask him any type of thing. He hit

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Tammy upside the head with a gun. Tammy said he took her up the holler one time and he was beating

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on her. She got out and ran through the bushes until he calmed down because she was afraid he

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was going to kill her. But she finally left for good and I was so glad when she got away from him.

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I think that saved Tammy's life. During the Cold Justice episode, they also had one source who spoke

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to them that said Raymond didn't kill Mark Cuck. Well, Raymond and two other people were standing

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around talking and I think someone mentioned killing their woman and someone said, Raymond,

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you know all about that, don't you? Raymond said, shut up. Don't be saying crap like that. I didn't

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have nothing to do with that. Daddy did it. The person said, well, if daddy did it, you just might

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as well did it. The source said Raymond walked off and that was the end of the conversation. He

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also told them that he thought she was on Coldell Mountain. Said they had a sawmill up there and said

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they heard that that they threw Brenda's body at the sawmill up there. Now, one interview I've been

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waiting to tell y'all about is Tammy's interview. Tammy said quote, I mean, yeah, I know y'all are

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thinking like this is a married man and woman here you come in the picture and then you probably sit

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there and kill her over him and stuff. No, I'm not that type of person. I'd never hurt nobody over

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a man. They had problems way before I even came into the picture. I'm not making excuses for me,

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believe me. I'm living with it every day that I got with a married man, end quote. She said, I remember

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one time Raymond telling me he said that she went to go she was going to vow for divorce and there

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was no way that he was going to let her have the house or kids. Raymond was the type of man that

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what's his is his and what's mine was his. At the time, I thought she actually ran off. But then

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when things are going by like her kids graduating and her mom passing and she didn't come back,

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then I started thinking, well, she didn't run off. Tammy said she didn't ask Raymond any questions.

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I was scared to death to ask him anything because he was abusive. He would smack you.

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He would choke you. He would backhand me with his hand and black my eye. He was taking women to

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the house. I called him at work with a hooker. When Tammy was asked if she tried to figure out

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what happened to Brenda, she said Raymond's sisters said that Raymond and his dad left the

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mountain that night and went to the sawmill. I just remember him telling me in the state of

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West Virginia, it's the law that you have to have a body to commit someone, which for one,

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that's not true. When asked if Tammy thought Raymond did it, Tammy said quote, I think he's

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capable of it to tell you the God's truth. End quote. There was one thing mentioned in Tammy's

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interview that shocked me. She told Kelly and her team that when Raymond would lie, he would get

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restless. There was one interview that completely shocked me. Court, could you read Raymond's

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interview? Yeah. So detectives went to talk to Raymond. He said he hasn't heard from Brenda.

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When my kids grow up and they became teenagers, I would have hundered her up with everything I could

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just to say, here's your turn. You take the teenagers now. I've had my half. He said he

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thought it was funny. Brenda ran off leaving the kids in him with no money. He said his marriage

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was like an on and off thing. Quote, I married Brenda because I got her pregnant. And that's the

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only reason end quote. He said on the day that she disappeared, quote, she is, you know, in a bad mood.

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End quote. When asked if he thought if her mood had anything to do with Tammy showing up, and if

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he had already had a relationship with Tammy, he said, quote, I had sex with her a couple of times

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before. End quote. He said nothing was hit from Brenda. He said him and Brenda were having sex at

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the time. Brenda went missing on a Sunday. He said the last time he had sex with her was on Friday.

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He said him and his parents were the last to leave the party because we had to go pick the kids up.

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Now, Tammy did say when Raymond lies, he gets restless and stretches, which when he was talking

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to the police, he started to get restless around this time. He said there was no domestic violence

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that the DVP was to keep him away from the house. He said he never choked, pointed again, or hit

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Brenda. When asked if his family still owned the sawmill, he went, uh, that sawmill? No. That his

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brother lived up there. When asked if they could search the property for Brenda, he said it was

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overgrown and didn't look the same. Since Brenda's disappearance, her mother, father, and daughter have

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all passed away. One thing that I truly admire about Brenda's family is that they haven't stopped

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searching for answers. Brenda's sister, Christy, has been actively working with the Aware Foundation.

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It's been 32 years since the disappearance and murder of Brenda Gale Lambert, and her case remains

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unsolved. If you or anyone know any information about the disappearance of Brenda Gale Lambert,

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please contact the Mercer County Sheriff's Department at 304-487-8364.

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