Brandi Reynolds: North Carolina mom murdered while delivering mail, convicted of drug trafficking; caught selling drugs from home
Brandi Reynoldsa longtime postal worker and mother of two kidnapped and murdered When delivering mail North CarolinaCourt records show he is a convicted drug dealer, the Daily Mail reported. Her husband, Brent Reynolds, also a convicted drug dealer, was killed in a car crash last December, leaving their two young daughters orphaned.
Brandi Reynolds and Brent Reynolds were both arrested in 2022 for selling drugs out of their homes in rural Wilkes County, according to records obtained by The Daily Mail. According to the criminal complaint, Brandi allegedly used her house to “keep and sell controlled substances,” including “marijuana and fentanyl.”
Brandy was previously charged with “trafficking in opium or heroin” in excess of 4 grams but less than 14 grams with intent to sell and conspiring with her husband to sell marijuana. Police found “drug paraphernalia, bags, wax rubber containers, plastic tote bags and scales used for packaging and repackaging” at the home, according to the complaint. Both of them were convicted.
In May 2023, Brandy was sentenced to 30 months of supervised probation. Brent, on the other hand, was sentenced to 36 months of supervised probation, according to records.
Two days before Christmas in 2020, Brent died in a car accident while still serving his sentence. He was reportedly not wearing a seat belt when the 2014 Ram truck he was driving veered off the road, struck a tree and rolled over. Brent was pronounced dead at the scene.
Brandi Reynolds murder case
Brandi, 35, was found dead after calling authorities in Hays, North Carolina, for help, the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation said in a statement, NBC News reported. She was allegedly killed by William Craig Durham, 56, of the Roaring River community. He was charged by Wilkes County prosecutors with first-degree kidnapping and murder. He was arrested the day of the murder and remained in the Wilkes County Jail on Tuesday, according to a third-party inmate information service used by Wilkes County.
An arrest warrant filed in district court claims Durham committed kidnapping “by unlawfully restraining the victim and moving the victim from one location to another without the victim’s consent.” It added that Durham carried out the alleged kidnapping “with the intent to intimidate” Reynolds and “inflict grievous bodily harm” on her.
