I did some research on Brandi, and yes, it seems she took her own life in April of this year.
Brandi Hawbaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also, upon doing my research, it seems Brandi's ex-boyfriend (or someone claiming to be him) wrote a long a nasty post in another forum about her just 3 months before she took her life. There were some disturbing responses, too.. though, knowing the nature of some people, I shouldn't be so surprised. After her death, apparently many posts were deleted and many banhammers were given out in that forum (I'm not going to post the link to the forum on here). Sad.