MOBILE, Alabama -- Since the search for Brittney Wood, now 20, started in June 2012, a number of twists and turns have left the public shocked and confused over the disappearance of the Mobile mother.

Since her disappearance, eight of her family members and three Wood family friends have been arrested on sex abuse charges in Mobile and Baldwin counties.

Among those arrested are Wood's brother and mother.

May 30 marked the one year anniversary of her disappearance.

May 30, 2012: Family members last see Brittney Wood, the mother of a 2-year-old who was then 19. She says she's going to the Styx River area in Baldwin County to visit her uncle, Donald "Donnie" Holland. He committed suicide on June 1.

June 2, 2012: A missing persons report for Wood is filed with the Mobile Police Department three days after she was last seen.

June 6, 7, 2012: Baldwin County deputies search the area around Water World Road. A family spokesman says the last cell phone transmission from Wood's cell phone was in the Styx River area in Baldwin County.

June 8, 2012: "We don't have anything to lead us to believe that she's in Baldwin County," says Maj. Anthony Lowery, spokesman for the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office.

June 11, 2012: Wood's family announces the Klaas Kids Foundation will be assisting in searches for the missing Mobile mother. The Klaas Kids Foundation helps organize searches for missing children, working in conjunction with local law enforcement officials.

Week of June 13, 2012: With the Klaas Kids Foundation's help, more than 70 volunteers search a 5-mile area in the Styx River Basin on Wednesday, June 13. Search and rescue units from Escambia County, Fla., and Monroe County assist in the search. On June 14, personnel from Southwest Panhandle Search and Rescue in Florida and North Baldwin Sheriff's Search and Rescue in Alabama joined the effort. Nothing of value is found.

Wood family arrests in Baldwin County sex abuse investigation

Between June 19, 2012, and Oct. 22, 2013, eight of Brittney Wood's relatives and three family friends were arrested on sex abuse charges stemming from a more than three-month long investigation in Baldwin County and alleged victims later coming forward.





Dustin "Dusty" Kent, 36, Brittney Wood's uncle

June 19, 2012, Baldwin County:

Charges of first-degree sodomy and second-degree rape

July 16, 2012, Baldwin County:

New charges of second-degree rape, incest and second-degree sodomy

Aug. 2, 2012, Mobile County:

Charges of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy

Oct. 22, 2013, Mobile County:

New charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, production of obscene matter of a person under 17 and sex abuse of a child less than 12

The charges involve victims who are between 12 and 16 years old.

Randall "Scott" Wood, 42, Brittney Wood's uncle

June 19, 2012, Baldwin County:

Charges of second-degree sex abuse, second-degree sodomy and incest

Oct. 22, 2013, Mobile County:

Charges of second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy and enticing a child into a building or dwelling

Derek Wood, 22, Brittney Wood's brother

July 13, 2012, Baldwin County:

Charges of second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy.

Donald "Paul" Holland Jr., 20, Brittney Wood's step-cousin

July 17, 2012, Baldwin County:

Charges of second-degree sex abuse, second-degree rape and incest

William "Billy" Brownlee, Holland family friend

July 22, 2012, Baldwin County:

Charges of second-degree sodomy and second-degree sex abuse

Oct. 22, 2013, Mobile County:

Charges of first-degree sodomy, sex abuse of a child less than 12 and two counts of first-degree rape

Wendy Wood Holland, 33, Brittney Wood's aunt

Aug. 22, 2012, Baldwin County:

Charge of endangering the welfare of a child

Nov. 29, 2012, Baldwin County:

Charges of first-degree sodomy, sexual torture and sex abuse.

Oct. 22, 2013, Mobile County:

Charge of second-degree sodomy

Chessie Wood, 38, Brittney Wood's mother

June 27, 2013, Mobile County:

Charges of sodomy and child sex abuse

Mendy Wood Kent, 33, Brittney Wood's aunt

Oct. 22, 2013, Mobile County:

Charges of second-degree sodomy and sex abuse of a child less than 12

Nelton Morgan, 47, Wood family friend

Oct. 22, 2013, Mobile County:

Charges first-degree rape and sex abuse of a child less than 12

James Cumbaa, 32, Brittney Wood's uncle

Oct. 22, 2013, Mobile County:

Charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and sex abuse of a child less than 12

Jennifer Moore, 32, Wood family friend

Nov. 1, 2013, Baldwin County:

Charges of second-degree sexual abuse and production of child pornography

June 19, 2012: Brittney Wood's uncles, Randall "Scott" Wood and Dustin Kent, are arrested and charged with sodomy after nearly three months of investigations in south Baldwin County. Kent is also charged with rape while Scott Wood is charged with sexual abuse and incest.

July 13, 2012: Brittney Wood's older brother, Derek Wood, is arrested and charged with rape, incest and sodomy. Derek Wood was described as Brittney Wood's "protector." Lowery said on July 16 that Derek Wood's arrest was not related to Brittney Wood's disappearance.

July 16, 2012: Kent is arrested and charged with rape, incest and sodomy in connection with another family member, Lowery said.

July 17, 2012: A fourth relative of Brittney Wood, step-cousin Donald "Paul" Holland Jr., is arrested and charged with rape, sexual abuse and incest. Lowery says the victims of Scott Wood, Kent, Derek Wood and Paul Holland were between the ages of 12 and 16. He reiterates that the arrests did not appear to be related to Brittney Wood's disappearance.

July 19, 2012: A $1,500 reward is offered by Brittney Wood's family for information leading to her recovery.

July 20, 2012: The gun used in Donnie Holland's suicide is reported to belong to Brittney Wood, however, Lowery has since denied the connection.

July 22, 2012: William "Billy" Brownlee -- a close family friend of Donnie Holland and his wife, Wendy -- is arrested in connection with the sex abuse investigation in Baldwin County. He is charged with sodomy and sexual abuse.

July 29, 2012: Brittney Wood's family question law enforcement officers' insistence that the teen's disappearance isn't connected to the sexual abuse investigation in Baldwin County or Donnie Holland's suicide.

Aug. 2, 2012: Kent is arrested on sex abuse charges again, but this time in Mobile County. He faces one count each of rape and sodomy. Mobile police got information on the Mobile County charges during their investigation into Brittney Wood's disappearance, according to MPD spokesman Cpl. Christopher Levy. However, Brittney Wood was not the victim in the case, Levy said.

Aug. 16, 2012: Derek Wood, Scott Holland and Brownlee appear in a Baldwin County Circuit Court for a hearing in their sex abuse charges. A BCSO sheriff's investigator testifies a girl told deputies in January 2011 -- when the girl was 12 years old -- that the three men had sex with her.

Aug. 22, 2012: Brittney Wood's aunt and Donnie Holland's wife, Wendy Wood Holland, is arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the sex abuse charges against other family members and friends.

Oct. 12, 2012: Deputies with BCSO are on the lookout for Derek Wood, who ran from police and ditched his required ankle monitor after his bond was revoked in the sex abuse case.

Oct. 18, 2012: Derek Wood turns himself in to law enforcement officials. He has been held in the Baldwin County Corrections Center without bond ever since.

Oct. 22, 2012: A Mobile police officer testifies in a Mobile County District Court that a victim said she was 13 years old when her uncle, Kent, raped her while her father, Donnie Holland, watched.

Nov. 19, 2012: The Klaas Kids Foundation helps organize a 30-acre search in Tillmans Corner, looking for signs of Brittney Wood after Derek Wood fled BCSO in the area. However, nothing is found. Brad Dennis, national search director for KlassKids, could not specify what prompted the search but did say it stemmed from a tip from MPD.

Nov. 29, 2012: Wendy Holland arrives in court for the trial on her child endangerment charge. However, the trial is delayed and she is arrested on an additional charge of sodomy, one count of sex abuse and one of sexual torture.

Dec. 17, 2012: Chessie Wood, Brittney Wood's mother, and Dennis hold a press conference pleading with hunters to keep their eyes peeled for signs of Brittney Wood as Christmas approaches and hunting season continues.

Jan. 26, 2013: Brittney Wood's family holds a vigil for her and others reported missing in the Mobile area.

May 10, 2013: Dennis vowed Klaas Kids will be on the ground again should further information on the whereabouts of Brittney Wood be uncovered.

May 30, 2013: The one-year anniversary of the day Brittney Wood was last seen.

June 27, 2013: Wendy Holland is released on a reduced bond from Baldwin County Corrections Center. Chessie Wood is arrested, charged with child sex abuse and sodomy.

Oct. 8, 2013: Bayou La Batre police arrest Brownlee and two others unrelated to the sex abuse investigation after officers said they found Brownlee stealing several stainless steel pipes from a business. He was charged with first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree burglary.

Oct. 21, 2013: Mobile police arrest Brownlee's brother on an unrelated rape charge involving an underage girl.

Oct. 22, 2013: Mobile police, Saraland police and Mobile County deputies attempt to locate and arrest seven Wood-related suspects after a girl tells authorities she was sexually abused. New charges come down for Scott Wood, Wendy Holland, Brownlee and Kent. Authorities also charge 32-year-old James Cumbaa, who married in to the Wood family, 47-year-old Nelton "Butch" Morgan, a Wood family friend, and Wendy Holland's 33-year-old sister, Mendy Kent, on sodomy, sex abuse and other charges in relation to the ongoing investigation. All seven suspects, expect Morgan, were apprehended.

Oct. 29, 2013: Chessie Wood tells reporters she believes her daughter was killed by Donnie Holland during a confrontation over sex abuse. She believes her sister, Wendy Holland, knows what happened.

Nov. 4, 2013: Jennifer Gonzales Moore, 32, is charged in Baldwin County with second-degree sexual abuse and production of child pornography in connection to the ongoing investigation.

Nov. 14, 2013: Six defendants in the investigation appear in a Mobile County court for preliminary hearings: Brownlee, Morgan, Cumbaa, Dustin Kent, Mendy Kent and Wendy Holland. Prosecutors said the group is accused of victimizing two underage children -- a boy and a girl -- although they admitted the cases hinged on victim testimony and lacked physical evidence.

Nov. 17, 2013: News breaks that police executed a search warrant at Brittney Wood's home, however, police would not immediately comment on reason for the warrant or their findings. It was later discovered the warrant was executed at Wendy Holland's home in Irvington, where electronic storage devices believed to hold child pornography were recovered.

Nov. 19, 2013: For the first time since Brittney Wood's disappearance, investigators say that case is linked with the ongoing sex abuse investigation.

Nov. 25, 2013: A Mobile County judge denies a request to reduce the bonds set for Wendy Holland and Mendy Kent. Prosecutors say more evidence continues to flow to police officers each day and additional charges are possible.

Jan. 1, 2014: Klaas Kids volunteers, police officers and sheriff's deputies search 5 acres in Theodore for signs of Wood but come out empty-handed.

May 15, 2014: Brownlee, Cumbaa, Wendy Holland, Dustin Kent, Mendy Kent, Morgan, Chessie Wood and Scott Wood are arraigned on the charges against them in Mobile County.

July 1, 2014: In a closed door hearing, a Baldwin County judge grants youthful offender status to Derek Wood.

July 31, 2014: Before a Baldwin County judge, Dustin Kent pleads guilty to charges of second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy. Other charges against Kent were dropped as part of his plea deal, according to prosecutors. His charges in Mobile remained.

Aug. 6, 2014: Brownlee rejected a plea offer on the charges levied against him in Baldwin County. Scott Wood pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sodomy. Baldwin County prosecutors dropped charges of incest and sexual abuse as part of his deal. A judge grants youthful offender status to Paul Holland.

Aug. 7, 2014: Dustin Kent pleads guilty to charges of second-degree rape and sodomy in Mobile County.

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