Have you looked at a map and seen where he was, where he was going and where he thought he was? On the theory that Brandon might have drowned, boats from the state's Department of Natural Resources were deployed along the river, and gates were installed. Im not sure whether a photo of his car at its location exists. In the call he tells the operator that he has run out of gas and is in a field. On a personal note as a firefighter, if you or a loved one ever have a stuck car, ALWAYS stay with the vehicle. How close was he to his family? Brandon Lawson has not been seen since, and there have been no suspects, no clues, no activity on his bank account or further activity on his cell phone, nothing. Police came to break up the fracas, but according to his friends Michael was nowhere to be seen, and at the end of the evening he was still missing. Pepper, and the "Paul is Dead" Conspiracy Theory. At the time he went missing, he was 185 pounds. Thanks for your comment. Maybe there are multiple explanations? 14th May 2008Midnight (approx) Swanson left the get-together in Canby shortly after midnight. I think his dad is the suspect. Or for that matter his parents couldve taken upon themselves to contact his carrier and start a trace/ping on his phone. This story is about Douglas Swanson Jr. Hi my name is Chris, and I was looking for feedback on Brandon Swanson case. Around 91% of all cases are closed within 48 hours, and 99% of cases are solved completely within one year. If true, he could have said, Oh shit, when he realized what he was walking towards (little green men). However, Brandons dad said that after the call ended, he kept trying to call Brandon but that he wasnt picking up the call, which means the phone was in working condition but not being answered. That wouldve at least told what cell tower the phone last hit. The son couldnt have been sober if he didnt know the area he was in if he lived there his life. However, Brandons dad said that after the call ended, he kept trying to call Brandon but that he wasnt picking up the call, which means the phone was in working condition but not being answered. Your email address will not be published. His father dropped Brandons mother back at home, then began driving again to find his son. The vehicle was stuck in a shallow ditch as Brandon had claimed. Police were able to find the young mans car, but it was nowhere near where he had told his parents it had been. I think there has been discussion about how those last words were actually said, but nothing conclusive has ever been decided unfortunately. Jeff Haase is the founder of Midwest Technical Rescue Training Associates, a nonprofit organization that teaches technical rescue skills to public-safety providers.. He hid in some out of the way place/makeshift shelter that became his final resting place by accident. Any pictures of the area where they found his car? The map below shows the main geographical locations in the timeline outlined. The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson. I think he could have suffered a head injury in the crash and became very confused about what was happening. But he had struggled with substance abuse issues in the past and had recently relapsed shortly before his disappearance. IntoxicationIts not believed that Brandon Swanson was drunk at the time of his disappearance. The disappearance of Brandon Swanson. I dont live in the area (or in the states) but after looking on google maps, about where his car was found (Lyon Lincoln road, Porter/Taunton highw 68). And with difficult weather it must be hard to find a body in the mud after a while. The beeping can only be disabled by putting the phone in silent mode, vibrate, switching it off, or plugging it in for battery recharging. Everything I say is a guess, of course, but in May in Minnesota, that river was probably freezing. I live in Minneapolis. Submit a Tip: Those type of backroads beside highways are a VERY SCARY place to be alone at night without any light. Even a stranger couldnt mix up with those directions, let alone a local who knows the area. The disappearance. And the names of the villages are all different (Canby, Lynd, Taunton, Porter), so no one can mix up those names no matter how drunk or high one is! If something dangerous was imminent, it seems unlikely that Brandon would actually hang up the phone. In 2008, in a rural area especially, its unlikely that pinging a cell phone would help. I couldnt imagine the pain of that. Swanson stayed on the phone to his parents whilst they were on the way to collect him, with Swanson flashing his lights on and off and Brian and Annette doing the same in hopes of locating each other quicker. Generally speaking, one doesnt go missing from a road with no signs of struggle without eventually being found unless there is an actual intention of keeping that person hidden. Alternatively, maybe something surprising did happen which explains the oh shit, but which was unrelated to the disappearance, but has now drawn more attention to it? Why would they just disappear like this and who is responsible? I would like to know how exactly the call was ended. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Why/How could the mom just go home? For instance: What were the lights he might have seen was it a town? In this podcast Marisa shares her favorite theories with you (and Ethan). But instead somebody pushed end on the phone. Look at all the pictures online, Brandons smiling in all them but three. If it was a flip phone, the call may have ended had the phone closed due to a possible slip and fall. At the time of Swansons disappearance, the water had been around 10 feet high but had reduced by the time the search started.Later searchesAfter the initial searches yielded no sign of Swanson or his whereabouts, the investigation hit a block with no real direction to move forward in. It would be even worse out in the middle of nowhere where there are no lights, it is literally black all around when you are out in the area where he was. Here we will look at some cases of the mysteriously vanished who made sinister mysterious calls and messages right before they stepped off into oblivion to never be seen again. Using circle area formula, Area equals Pi times r squared, that is a search radius of 50km squared. Actually the river and road intersect several places around where his car was found, Hence the reason why authorities came to that conclusion to begin with, however he walked for at least 40 mins and the fact he walked for at least 40 minutes and did not manage to figure out he was not near Lynd is a little disturbing, I just can not understand how Brandon came to the conclusion he was near Lynd, If he really was on Lyon Lincoln County Rd and walked to MN68. The only thing that has ever been found is Brandons car, which was discovered around twenty miles away from where he told his parents he thought he crashed. since that phone is not touch screen, it would be VERY EASY to end the call after snatching the phone from him. View the profiles of people named Brandon Swanson. David Francis also was pivotal in the passage of Minnesota's "Brandon's Law," named after 19-year-old Brandon Swanson, who disappeared in southwestern Minnesota in May 2008. He ended up instead heading over to stay with his brother Kyle after getting a call from Ladessa and arguing some more. The result? Curiously, the house where she had been was found to be on fire not long after this, and some of Brookelyns belongings were recovered from the blaze, such as her cowboy boots, purse and some clothing, but there were no bodies or injuries. He said that he knew which direction to head in as he could see what looked like the lights of a town. Could the dad call Brandons phone and then answer it himself to make it appear as if Brandon answered the call? Brandon Swanson's disappearance mystery has now not been resolved after 13 years of his disappearance. I want to find the source. While his friends observed him consume a few alcholic drinks, they said it was not eough to mae him appear intoxicated. Aleister Crowley. It was learned that Brandon might have been hiding from police since he had an outstanding warrant, but if that were the case then why did he call 911 and then specifically ask for the cops? Brandon told them he couldnt see the lights at all, so he got back into his car and started flashing his own headlights in the hope that maybe they would see him. Brandon Swanson, 19, was last seen on 5/14/08 in Canby, Minnesota. Call me cynical but I just dont feel this matches up. Also that authorities search in the wrong direction, and his missing probably is a staged and a false flag. It is possible that Brandon was murdered in some way, possibly by another person from the party? My bet is that an intoxicated/somewhat drugged Brandon stumbled into water and drowned. This is just my own theory, not saying this is actually what happened. I dont know where you read what you typed but it is all wrong, he stayed with his car at first and then at 2:23am his dad called him back and spoke to him for 47 minutes, that is when he said he would walk to what he thought was the town of Lynd. Join MU Plus+ and get exclusive shows and extensions & much more! 6.30 am Brian and Annette Swanson attempted to report Brandon as missing to local law enforcement but were advised to wait as this type of behaviour was not unusual for young men. But David doesnt put forth any theory as to what is causing all these people to simply vanish into thin air. The alien theory has come up before, and the fact is there is so little evidence for what actually did happen that its very hard to rule anything out. I guess its possible that there may be some link between what caused him to crash and what happened later on, although again it would really only be speculation at this point. I havent read all the comments and dont know if it was previously mentioned. It could well be a fatal accident, but as you say it is strange that so far there hasnt been any evidence found to suggest this. Search efforts were focused on this 5-mile radius, which included part of the Yellow Medicine river, and so the Yellow Medicine county authorities were part of the search party. Lots of open ends and no one seems to be addressing them. Its been years since I looked at the maps but remember from the SAR report Brandon was driving in a downward zig zag way off the highway taking access roads (gravel) when he turned left out of a field onto LCLRd and put his Chevy lumina high centered. It was determined that there was no evidence at all that he had met with foul play or that he had had any desire to want to suddenly run away. Naturally curly Brown hair, blue eyes. He has never been seen or heard from again, and the lack of evidence in his mysterious vanishing has puzzled family, friends, authorities, and websleuths alike. Paul McCartney. Not only was Brandon in contact with his brother, Kyle, moments before he disappeared, but they were also in the same area, possibly yards apart. Swanson was on his way home to Marshall when he accidentally drove his car into a ditch, where it got stuck. The Disappearance. then yea he was kidnapped, murdered, disposed of in who knows what way. As has been asked so many times in this case- why? An interesting note about the phone is that their have been criticisms about the phone, when the battery is low: The Slvr emits a loud beep every few minutes, causing problems when people are sleeping or in business meetings. (LogOut/ My biggest concern is why would all the doors be open to his car? A number of other theories have been considered, including the idea that Brandon might have hidden in an abandoned structure to escape the cold and then succumbed to hypothermia, or that he was attacked by an animal and taken away. Yet again, the main problem with these theories is that of evidence or, more specifically, the big fat lack of it. The man she had been with, whose identity has been withheld, was questioned and he told authorities that he had stepped out, leaving Brookelyn alone on the proch smoking a cigarette, and that when he had come home at 7AM the living room was on fire. These are questions that taunt us, without any answers and their ultimate solutions just as murky as these last calls and messages. However what are the odds, of the phone being fully charged when he had left? Monday is Brandon Swanson's 28th birthday. [], [] happened with Brandon Swanson, it happened with Elisa Lam, and now its happened with a man named (by the British Journal of []. What actually happened that night is still a real mystery, and as more time passes it seems to be increasingly unlikely well ever know. The temperature at the time of his disappearance was 46 F, or 8 degrees Celsius, and dropped to 39 F, or 4 degrees Celsius. Isnt that possible as well though if theres no evidence of anything else. No age progression image can be 100% perfect but it does help us to imagine the missing person as they could possibly present now and makes us aware that they wont look exactly like the pictures first used after their disappearance. Perhaps he had lost phone reception and seeked a place with better phone reception. Maybe Brandon is in an entirely different location than we know. . Brandon Swanson was 19 years old when he went missing from rural roads near Marshall . Also, if someone had just offered to give him a lift home, why would he swear at all? On August 9, Matthew stopped by his fathers home to pick up a paycheck, after which the two chatted and he mentioned that he was going to go out with a female acquaintance that evening, a young woman by the name of Melissa Sanchez. He would be more likely to drop the phone, and his parents would then hear anything that was going on (such as a struggle, or the whooshing of the river, or the impact of a car). To me James the father left a lot of information out..Him and mom should be checked out more thoroughly.. In some areas in Lincoln County, the water had been 10 feet (3.0 m) deep on the morning of the . Wish we knew what he said to his dad about walking to the town. Was he part of the smiley face murders? Though their is a third option to bear in mind. Anything that seemed off? The oh, shit makes you belive he was taken by surprise or a sudden realization struck him. On the night of 14 May 2008, after celebrating the last day of college classes with a friend, he was driving home along a gravel road, and somehow crashed his car into a ditch. The circumstances of Brandon Swanson's disappearance remain unclear and his case is currently classified as missing. Brandon Lawson had a lot to live for. (Thats not to rule it out though, coincidences happen every day). . Even more recently still is the 2018 case of 21-year-old Matthew Weaver, who at the time had just moved to live on his own in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles, California, where he worked as a linesman for his fathers telephone pole construction company. Check us out on: https://t.co/eSyiKT5d4I The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Lincoln County Sheriff's Department Both sides got increasingly frustrated, and Brandon eventually said that he was going to start walking towards the town of Lynd, to a friends house. 507-694-1664. Homes? The problem with this theory however, is that there would be some trace if he had fallen in, and so far nothing has been found at any point of the river. She continued to party anyway, and was last seen leaving the party after midnight with two men, one of whom was dropped off and the other with who she went to his house in the nearby town of Berea, just off US Highway 421. Im actually planning a blog post about them too. He would be more likely to drop the phone, and his parents would then hear anything that was going on (such as a struggle, or the whooshing of the river, or the impact of a car). Brandon was last seen on May 14, 2008 leaving a friend's house. I of course do not know the dynamics of the family, but Brandon was underage drinking, out very late at night, and his father was the last person to see or hear from him. He was a loving father of four, but he stormed out of his house in a rage on the night of Aug. 8, 2013. In this podcast Marisa shares her favorite theories with you (and Ethan). In some areas in Lincoln County, the water had been 10 feet (3.0 m) deep on the morning of the disappearance, but . Detectives are still looking into whether this was a homicide case or just teenage folly, either way, our hearts go out to his family members who were left hanging for 91 soul crushing days after the night of the mysterious phone call.. After looking into some theories, I have come up with my own. Where did he go and what were the meanings of those last calls? I dont want to be rude or anything, but all over the internet i only came acros the searching that took over years from volunteering. Required fields are marked *. [] 2. Brandon Lawson, 26, vanished along a desolate stretch of State Highway 277 outside of San Angelo, Texas which is about 250 mile southwest of Dallas on Aug. 9, 2013, according to the San Angelo Standard-Times.On Friday, those closest to Lawson announced that a private team of . That makes no sense, even if he was lost. I would like to take a mathematical, logical approach. IMO, these facts add up to one possible explanation: Brandon disappeared before his car was crashed in the ditch, his father lied about the context of the phone conversation, and therefore he and the mother seem like very likely suspects. Wouldnt Brandon have closed the door automatically when exiting the vehicle? Thats why he said oh shit. What Happened to Brandon Swanson? But I really feel in such cases as these most of these wind up revealing foul play. And Im guessing the landowners doesnt wants police with search parties destroying their crops? During all of this, Kyle and Audrey had dutifully retrieved the gas canister and were going to deliver it when they found Brandons abandoned truck. It is not plausible that he drowned, because they would have found his body somewhere downstream. The conclusion of a Texas man's bizarre 2013 disappearance may have finally arrived, according to the family. I was thinking exactly what Shannon was thinking. Donations are accepted but not expected; the site remains free-access to all. Heres another report on the net. Source: https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jeff_Hase/Missing_Person_Case_Study__Brandon_Swanson. No one had any idea of where he had gone off to, until at 2 AM Michaels boss got a rather disturbing call from the missing man, in which he says, They are following me. Thanks for your comment Ciara, and it definitely is a very strange case. If he hung up, that says a lot. He walked according to the average walking speed/hour. Eventually, Brian and Annette hung up the call and tried to call their son back the phone would ring but nobody answered, sending the calls to voicemail. And that was the last time anybody heard anything from Brandon Swanson. I havent read much about that angle of investigation either to be honest. The most prevalent theory is that Brandon must have fallen into a river or creek possibly the Yellow Medicine River which is fifteen feet at its deepest point, and would have been running incredibly fast at the time he disappeared. As his parents were on their way to help, the cell phone connection went dead at 3:10 a.m. Usually in a situation like this close relatives would be the first to be questioned/ruled out, so I assume that his father was, although as you say there isnt much information on this at all so its not actually that clear. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window). He called his parents asking for help, and they set out in their pickup. This requires police in Minnesota to begin immediate searches for missing adults under the age of 21, as well as any older adults who have been reported missing where there are suspicious circumstances. Swanson's case remains unsolved. Brandon Swanson would never be seen again. May 12-15, 2011 Searches: The plan for the May 12-14 searches was to detail - search by HRD canine as many fields as possible in the area surrounding Mud Creek. It is unclear whether she knew these men before the party, but her sister Paige would later state that she had known everyone there. From open car doors to all the rivers he drowned in having an end point yet his body was never found, to (like the comment with the math and walking radius) how that massive search was done in a relatively small walking area yet again nothing found, to the Mom saying take me home even though shes having trouble finding her son? What was the meaning of those cryptic last messages? This has included over thirty dog handlers from nine different states. Brandon's Law, named for Swanson, was passed later in 2008. I recently read a news story on the net where a couple of teenage girls who disappeared in the mid sixties were recently found (their skeletons) in the car they were in when it ran into a fairly deep running stream (out West, the drought had lowered the stream and the remains of the vehicle surfaced). 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