Brenda Sue Murdock was 47 years old when she was last reported to have had contact in the Williston, North Dakota area in November 2015. NamUs lists her as missing from Williston, with a date of last contact of November 1, 2015, and identifies the investigating agency as the Williston Police Department. She is described as a White female, 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 160 pounds, with blond or strawberry-blond hair and brown eyes.
She has also been known by the name Brenda Romero, and other sources report that she may have used the last name Rodriguez as well.
Before she disappeared, Brenda had been living and working in the Williston area, taking jobs at places such as hotels, a gas station, and a grocery store. Accounts of her life describe her as someone who sometimes traveled or wandered, but not as someone who would simply cut off her family without contact. That detail is important because sources note that she normally stayed in touch with her mother, making the silence after November 2015 especially alarming for those who loved her.
Brenda was not reported missing immediately. According to available case summaries, she was reported missing to the Williston Police Department in late February 2016, after several months had passed without contact. NamUs and other missing-person listings describe the circumstances as Brenda last being seen or heard from in the Williston area in November 2015, with the report to police made on February 21, 2016. Because some official and secondary listings differ on the exact “last seen” date, the safest summary is that she was last known to be in contact in the Williston area around November 2015, with November 1, 2015 listed by NamUs as the date of last contact.
One of the most significant reported developments came from Rapid City, South Dakota. On February 24, 2016, two women reported that they had picked up a hitchhiker who resembled Brenda. The woman reportedly said she was traveling to North Dakota for a job, and the women gave her a ride across Rapid City. Afterward, they saw Brenda’s missing-person information and believed the woman they had helped may have been her. However, this possible sighting has never been confirmed.
Investigators reportedly obtained footage of the woman from the Rapid City sighting, but the images were not clear enough to confirm whether she was Brenda. That uncertainty left the sighting as a painful possibility rather than an answer. If the woman was Brenda, it could suggest she was alive months after her last confirmed contact in Williston; if it was not her, then the timeline remains centered on the Williston area in late 2015.
Brenda also had ties outside North Dakota, including connections to Colorado, where her twin sister lived. Sources note that despite those ties, there has been no confirmed indication that she contacted family there after she disappeared. Her known aliases, her history of traveling, and the possible Rapid City sighting have all remained relevant points in efforts to understand where she may have gone and what may have happened.
As of the available public information, Brenda Sue Murdock’s whereabouts remain unknown, and her case remains listed as a missing-person case. The attached case data does not list a resolution status of Alive or Deceased, and no reliable online source located here indicates that she has been found. Anyone with information is directed by North Dakota’s missing-person listing and other case sources to contact law enforcement, specifically the Williston Police Department.Last Seen: Nov 1, 2015
