Brandee Canipe was last known to be alive on May 6, 2006. At the time, it’s believed that Canipe was living in Mocksville, North Carolina, in Davie County. She was just 29 years old when she vanished. Brandee’s younger sister spoke with Dateline and stated, “She was a free spirit,” Leigh said. “It would be sometimes a month or so without contact with her when we were younger.”
According to the same news article by NBC News, “The family knew Brandee would bounce around from place to place and go without communicating sometimes, but when she didn’t show up to a funeral, they believe she would never have missed — they decided they needed to report her missing. That was in April 2010.”
The Davie County Sheriff’s Department determined that the exact date of her disappearance was May 6, 2006. It was also stated in the same article that the family had recently learned that parts of Canipe’s car had been located at the 109 U-Pull It in Winston-Salem.
However, Captain Smith stated, “There wasn’t anything remarkable about the car at all,” Smith said. “So it’s not like we had a car with a crime scene.”
It is also believed that one of the last places where one of Brandee’s family members last saw her was in the Belews Creek area, near Winston-Salem. They were able to find the residence successfully.
The article later stated, “This was the correct house, but it’s not where she disappeared from,” the captain said. It is just one of the last locations where Leigh saw Brandee. “We’ve been to the house, we found the current owner, the past owner, all of that has been followed up on.”
It has been 19 years since Brandee Canipe mysteriously disappeared. She is described as having brown eyes and, at the time, had long, light brown hair and a slim build.
Someone knows what happened to Canipe, and maybe that person is you. If you have any information about this case, please call the Davie Sheriff’s Office at 336-751-6238
Data collected for this cold case: NBC News article, March 18, 2025.
