Galveston, Texas news: Bridgette Gearen murder case update [Video]

GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas — Cold case investigators in Galveston County said they’re getting closer to bringing justice to the family of a woman who was killed on Crystal Beach 17 years ago.

Bridgette Gearen was on vacation at the beach in 2007 with her daughter, Kyra, who was 2 at the time, and her co-workers. Kyra’s dad, Bridgette’s fiancé, Brandon Portie stayed home. She was from Orange and worked for an attorney’s office in Beaumont, according to files from our sister station, KBMT in Beaumont. 

Portie said Bridgette and some of the others decided to go for a walk on the beach one night. She was the first to leave the beach house.

“By the time she left the beach house and went downstairs, within like a minute, she was gone,” Portie said.

The others looked for her throughout the night but to no avail. Her body wasn’t found …