Search underway for missing Fort Myers fishermen after boat found adrift
Authorities and family members are searching for Randall Spivey and Brandon Billmaier, who went missing after their boat was found adrift off the coast of Fort Myers. The family of Spivey are asking for help from boaters in the search.
Updated: 5:36 AM EST Dec 21, 2025
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding 57-year-old Randall Spivey and 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier, who went missing after leaving for a fishing trip from Fort Myers.Spivey is a white male, 6’1”, 245 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, last seen wearing khaki pants and a dark-colored shirt. Billmaier is a white male, 6’2”, 250 pounds, with strawberry hair and brown eyes.The family of Spivey tells Gulf Coast News the two men left early yesterday morning on a 42-foot Freeman Catamaran boat from a residence along Intracoastal Ct in Iona.”We’ve gotta find them. Please. Please, please find them,” Tricia Spivey, Randall’s wife, said. “They’re amazing people. I mean, I, I don’t know, I just I just need him back. He needs to come back to us.”The U.S. Coast Guard is on the scene, having deployed a helicopter from Clearwater that found the boat adrift 70 miles offshore with no one on board. Family members are calling for community assistance, with 100 boaters set to head out at noon, organized through the Coast Guard. They tell Gulf Coast News they are asking any and all boaters and volunteers to help coordinate the search today.”We want the largest armada in the history of Florida’s west coast, seeking boats and volunteers to help coordinate the search today,” Scott Smith, close to the missing.“We got to act right away. We’ve got people that that need help. And I got to tell you, I mean, this is to me, it’s like, so touching,” said Michelle Siedel, friend of Randy. “When you see the community come together like this, they drop everything in the middle of all their crazy chaos with the holidays and everything else, just to provide whatever resources they have planes, boats, human energy.”Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Spivey and Billmaier is asked to contact the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at 239-477-1000, or 911 if applicable. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to SWFL Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS.
FORT MYERS, Fla. —
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding 57-year-old Randall Spivey and 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier, who went missing after leaving for a fishing trip from Fort Myers.
Spivey is a white male, 6’1”, 245 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, last seen wearing khaki pants and a dark-colored shirt. Billmaier is a white male, 6’2”, 250 pounds, with strawberry hair and brown eyes.
The family of Spivey tells Gulf Coast News the two men left early yesterday morning on a 42-foot Freeman Catamaran boat from a residence along Intracoastal Ct in Iona.
“We’ve gotta find them. Please. Please, please find them,” Tricia Spivey, Randall’s wife, said. “They’re amazing people. I mean, I, I don’t know, I just I just need him back. He needs to come back to us.”
The U.S. Coast Guard is on the scene, having deployed a helicopter from Clearwater that found the boat adrift 70 miles offshore with no one on board.
From WBBH
Families of missing fishermen seek help locating Randy Spivey and Brandon Billmaier off the coast of Fort Myers
Family members are calling for community assistance, with 100 boaters set to head out at noon, organized through the Coast Guard. They tell Gulf Coast News they are asking any and all boaters and volunteers to help coordinate the search today.
“We want the largest armada in the history of Florida’s west coast, seeking boats and volunteers to help coordinate the search today,” Scott Smith, close to the missing.
“We got to act right away. We’ve got people that that need help. And I got to tell you, I mean, this is to me, it’s like, so touching,” said Michelle Siedel, friend of Randy. “When you see the community come together like this, they drop everything in the middle of all their crazy chaos with the holidays and everything else, just to provide whatever resources they have planes, boats, human energy.”
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Spivey and Billmaier is asked to contact the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at 239-477-1000, or 911 if applicable.
Anonymous tips can also be submitted to SWFL Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS.