Brenda Bratschi

 

 

Brenda Bratschi

 

 

Brenda Bratschi

 

 

Brenda Bratschi

 

 

Brenda Bratschi

 

 

Brenda Bratschi

 

 

Brenda Bratschi sits in a courtroom Monday, April 16, 2012, during a pre-trial hearing in her trial.
(Patricia Burkett / WBTW News 13)

 

 

Brenda Bratschi sits in court as her murder tial gets under way on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Florence.
(Morning News/John D. Russell)

 

 

Brenda Bratschi sat in a chair after breaking down and sobbing during the sentencing phase
of her murder trial inside a Florence courtroom. A judge sentenced Bratschi to life in prison
in the murder of her husband, Randy Bratschi.

 

 

Brenda Bratschi's defense attorney, Lee Herron, comforts her after she began crying while listening
to her family members make pleas to the court on her behalf. While those family members
asked a judge for mercy during Bratschi's sentencing phase, he cited a previous confession
Brenda Bratschi made to investigators regarding the murder, and sentenced her to life.

 

 

 Brenda Bratschi prison photo 2012.

 

 

Brenda Bratschi's son, Frankie Miles, invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify in his mother's
defense, as the case against her wrapped up in a Florence courtroom. Miles still faces an outstanding
 charge of misprison of a felony for what investigators say was his role in the death and
disappearance of his step-father, Randy Bratschi.

 

 

Florence County sheriff’s investigators process the scene where skeletal remains were found July 16
at 2100 N. Old Georgetown Road near Coward. Randy Delyn Bratschi, 54, who was reported missing
in late 2004, once lived on the property. 

 

 

The victim

 

Randy Delyn Bratschi, 54, was last seen by friends and family, alive, according to police reports
 leaving his job at Smurfit-Stone Container in Florence the morning of Nov. 26, 2004 
On July 16, 2009 his skeletal remains were recovered in Coward, South Carolina.