And I agree that whatever actually happened, it is a very sad situation. After Swansons disappearance, the Lyon County Sheriffs Department conducted searches for Brandon by ground, ATV, horseback, airplane and helicopter, but nothing was found. This is just my own theory, not saying this is actually what happened. However, it is not likely. The Disappearance. Appearance. I researched the phone, it was prone to battery problems. Thanks for your comment Ciara, and it definitely is a very strange case. 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. What they lived here at least 10 years maybe more and they dont know the area? Marisa loves conspiracy theories, Ethan knows nothing about them. What about alien abduction? Thats way more than 91 days. If you look at google maps, you see that al the rivers have an ending, so if he was drowned in the river they had find him already. At time of writing six years later there is still no evidence or even a trace indicating what happened. In the call he tells the operator that he has run out of gas and is in a field. @Scott..I have to agree with you..If Brandons parents were out looking for their son..Why would the mother want to stop and go home and the father having to turn around and go back out looking again?, especially since he wasnt supposed to be that far from home..Perhaps dad was taking mom home after she had left Brandens car on the side of the road..The cell phone info from Brandons phone would put you in a location of where he was that night..And dads cellphone would also tell you were he was that night..This is a great tool for investigators now..Dads story just makes no sense..Far to many holes in it..And nothing really said about anything.. Brandon Lawson was 26 years old when he went missing on August 9, 2013. I think his dad is the suspect. Being a native of Marshall, he graduated from Marshall High School in 2007. If Swanson had left his car there to walk towards Lynd to meet his parents, why didnt he close the car door? With that being said, I cant make it clear enough that I think this bill is excellent and Im amazed by the Swansons ability to channel their pain and tragedy into something that has undoubtedly helped others and will continue to help others. I agree with you that the odds are probably one in a million, but given the lack of hard evidence surrounding this entire case, this theory probably fits the facts as much as any other at this point. Brandon called his parents on his cell phone and asked them to come pick him up. Possibly. Swanson's mother describes him as an avid reader with many interests, and very devoted to his family. 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. Brandon Swanson has brown hair and blue eyes, stands 5'6" and weighs . The authorities received over seventy-five tips about Brandon, but none have borne any information that has led anywhere near to finding him. On May 13, 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson completed his first year at Minnesota West Community and Technical College. I quote: He further stated that he had encountered two fence lines and noted that there was water nearby. Forty-seven minutes into the phone call, Brandon suddenly exclaimed, Oh shit! and the line went dead. His car was found 1 1/2 miles from Rt. He hitchhiked (or attempted to) home with the wrong person, or B.) Reflecting on the last decade, however, those closest to the investigation and search efforts remain hopeful that concrete . Be safe all, Be Well! When I first heard about this story within the last year, it was tied in with other cases that had a supernatural aura around it (e.g., Elisa Lam). This week on the podcast, Ethan and Marisa discuss the strange and still unsolved disappearance of 19 year old Brandon Swanson. Any odd police reports that were located near by around the same time? No evidence. In spite of all the searches using state of the art equipment and techniques, and all of the theories and hours of investigations and searches, we are still no closer to knowing what occurred that night, or where Brandon Swanson is now. The ditch was shallow but steep and Swanson was unable to get the car unstuck on his own. Impossible as it may seem, a nineteen year old manseems to have literally disappeared without a trace. Its genuinely tragic for Brandon Swansons poor family and friends, and hopefully one day theyll have an answer. His dad tried calling back a number of times, but Brandon never picked up his phone. If his phone died he could have been walking for hours, thinking he was going towards a town, and either drowned or died of hypothermia or injuries in a field. At 11 AM things got even odder, when Melissa received a series of very strange text messages from Matthew. 3) The father says Brandon exclaimed Oh shit! and his phone then turned off. I grew up in a small town near where Brandon disappeared and remember seeing all the missing posters and people searching in fields for him. (LogOut/ I want to find the source. From my research, I have seen that theory posited as an explanation a couple of times, and I suppose to be fair theres no evidence that would contradict that idea. As he was unable to get his car ack on the road, he called him parents for a ride. After driving around and talking on the phone for around 45 minutes without locating him, Brandon proclaimed that he was just going to head to Lynd and crash at a friends place for the night. The lights he saw were probably car headlights in the far distance of drug dealers conducting business and he walked up on them not realizing it until it was too late. The oh sh*t is also a bit suspicious. Also, if someone had just offered to give him a lift home, why would he swear at all? I dont have the link, but if you google March 15, 2015 suv youll find some news reports for it. Source: https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jeff_Hase/Missing_Person_Case_Study__Brandon_Swanson. IntoxicationIts not believed that Brandon Swanson was drunk at the time of his disappearance. The conclusion of a Texas man's bizarre 2013 disappearance may have finally arrived, according to the family. Everything I say is a guess, of course, but in May in Minnesota, that river was probably freezing. (Thats not to rule it out though, coincidences happen every day). Was he with this friend he was celebrating with when the car went off the road ? Change). the minute brandon decided to walk on his own, the person/people start following him. December 11, 2014 angelomarcos crime, mystery, true crime. Swanson has never been heard from again. The car wasn't anywhere near the place Swanson said it was; he had been twenty miles away from there. 19-year old Brandon Swanson was heading back to his hometown of Marshall, Minnesota on the evening of May 14, 2008 when, while driving on a rural gravel road, he crashed his car into a ditch. (Im sure someone with more expertise than me in US law may well be able to give more information on this). But even that I have hunted the river bottom where he disappeared, every year, and have not found any way he could have drowned in that river unless it was flooded 4-5 feet. 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. Im pretty sure his Oh sh comment was made when he came to the realization that he was not where he thought he was, he probably didnt pick up the phone when his father called for the very same reason, justifying that his father would be mad if he found out hed been driving for almost three hours now looking for him in a spot where he wasnt, he tried to make his way home on his own, but being intoxicated with impaired judgement one of two things could have happened: A.) Brandon Lawson 911 call depicted last moments before he went missing Around 11:30 p.m. Aug. 8, Lawson called his father and mentioned he was heading to his parents' house in Crowley, about 3. Since that day more than five hundred volunteers have spent over one hundred and twenty days looking for Brandon or any evidence pointing to where he could be covering over one hundred square miles in the process. I dont feel that Brandon slipped into the river or fell into a well, instead someone may have knocked him out, taken him back to their farm; killed him or something. Listen to this episode to hear what happened leading up to the accident, his phone calls with his parents and the investigation that ensued after. Donations are accepted but not expected; the site remains free-access to all. Maybe he had a grudge, and that other person was not in the right state of mind? This has included over thirty dog handlers from nine different states. Brookelyn had made arrangements to stay at a friends house after the party, but the friend ended up going off to a boys house. I plan one day to go out there as I have had experience looking for lost folks. Pingback: Brandon Swanson Sleuth Be Told. His parents said that they couldnt anything either. I believe like most 19 year old college students he was drinking. Swanson, circa 2008; Age-progression to age 30 (circa 2019). We know that the phone call kept going until eventually Annette and Brian hung up to try to call Brandon back, would the sound of running water not have been picked up on the call, or the sound of something falling into the water? I dont think its that odd. It wont be a precise ping. Bodies do get overlooked, then found years later in the area already searched. Im not being funny, Im just trying to come up with an explanation. kidnappers knew this. There was no sign of him at the scene. In 2009, Brandon's Law was passed that expands the Minnesota state's missing children's law to include adults under 21 who go missing under dangerous circumstances. I really think this is all just an unfortunate accident. Was he lying about his location or was he just mistaken? So he wasnt on the dirt road. After parting ways with Melissa, he then apparently drove up to a rural, remote area in the Santa Monica Mountains, called the Malibu Canyons, near Rosas Overlook. | 3 Cold Cases of People Who Vanished Without a Trace- True Crime Mysteries . I think Brandons mom would do anything for Brandon. Its definitely a very odd, and sad, case. Let's take the case of Brandon Swanson. It has been named Brandons Law. Efforts to call back also reached a seemingly operational phone that was simply not being answered. The body found had gone missing 91 days before. Then, at approximately 12:54 Brandon Lawson would make a very odd call to 911. Or maybe there is a single cause of all this that we just dont know about yet? He was fixing to be in the dark by his self. This entry was posted in conspiracy theory, missing person, the skeptical folklorist, unsolved mysteries and tagged brandon swanson, conspiracy theories, missing persons, unsolved mysteries on September 8, 2015 by roianna. So he didnt crash it, he took a turn too hard skid and stopped. 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. Although, as Ive said earlier, its such a mysterious case with so many unanswered questions, that its probably best not to assume anything including my assumption about finding a well. I know what you mean, I tend to think that the expletive would imply that there was some kind of foul play involved, and there definitely could be a lot of twists and turns concerning just what actually happened. If something dangerous was imminent, it seems unlikely that Brandon would actually hang up the phone. we all need to realize one thing, brandon is 55 and around 130 pounds. And I hope answers can be found too, for the sake of Brandon Swansons poor family. Even a stranger couldnt mix up with those directions, let alone a local who knows the area. Finally we have the mysterious case of 29-year-old Michael McClain, of Manchester, New Hampshire, in the United States, who on the evening of April 20, 2019, went out to one of his usual haunts, the Tropical Lounge nightclub in Nashua, along with a group of friends. Brandon Swanson was last seen in the early hours of May 14, 2008 leaving a friend's house in Canby, Minn. . The authorities received over seventy-five tips about Brandon, but none have borne any information that has led anywhere near to finding him. Some parents can be so mean. He said that he knew which direction to head in as he could see what looked like the lights of a town. What were the contents? Police were able to find the young mans car, but it was nowhere near where he had told his parents it had been. Why did he crash, that to me is the greatest mystery. 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. After getting to the location which he had described, they started flashing the cars headlights so that Brandon could start walking towards them. My name is Julie Fidler. In this podcast Marisa shares her favorite theories with you (and Ethan). 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. I was thinking exactly what Shannon was thinking. The law requires authorities to conduct a preliminary investigation without delay when a missing persons report is received. What was the meaning of those cryptic last messages? What happened to Brookelyn Farthing? I couldnt imagine the pain of that. I live in Minneapolis. Hypothermia can set in very fast. After doing research on this (along with some other weird and true events) I found this but ONLY ONE TIME, it was the same story I had read at least 10 times about Brandon but this was the conclusion along with a pic of his vehicle: March 15, 2015 they found the boys body inside his SUV submerged in a retention pond. At time of writing six years later there is still no evidence or even a trace indicating what happened. He then went off and met Melissa at approximately 12 AM, after which they were reported as having partied together and done a good amount of drugs. There was no sign of Brandon Lawson, but the truck seemed to be in good condition, with no signs of having been in an accident. 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. I know its 2008 technology, but was he and his parents familiar with the area? It was released in 2019 and as of the time of writing is only 2 years old so still an extremely useful tool for us to have. I believe the likelihood of Swansons disappearance as a result of foul play is slim and the only thing that makes me doubt this is the car door being open. But if his dad ran him off and Brandon had left..Then he wouldnt have any fear in calling his mom, at least to let her know he was ok.. Who ever is taking those pictures with him frustrated, hes not happy with that person. I can not believe that during the 47 minutes he did not understand that he was not in the place of which his father says. A few hours later at around 6.30am they notified the police. By the time he got close enough to see that it was light from headlights, he would have said that to his dad. Celebrating in the context of the description indicates alcohol intake and possibly some recreational drugs. On August 11, at 12 AM, things got odder when two hikers in the area where Matthew had last been seen reported that they had heard screaming from the wilderness, and what sounded like a man and a woman calling out for help. Like i said i dont want to make my judgement by being offensive, but the only evidence whe have is the 47 min phone call with Brian Swanson the fatherbut i find it hard to judge suspects, but in this case it seems everybody in that area (including the parents) is a suspect to my calculation by now. I came across this case a few months ago, and it never did make any sense to me. Perhaps this paragraph was with the wrong story OR theyre bad at math OR this line doesnt go with this paragraph OR theyre talking about something Im unaware of. When Brookelyn did not show up for an appointment the next day and did not answer any calls or texts they contacted authorities. Updated 7 times since October 12, 2004. As stated above, Swansons phone records showed he was 25 miles away from where hed told his parents he thought he was. At around 2am Brandon and his father were on the phone to each other, with Brandon desperately trying to direct his father to where he was, and Brandons father equally desperately trying to locate his son. Has that ever been discussed? It takes effect July 1, 2009. If he really dropped it, I feel like it would have been found, especially with how crazy the search was. Though their is a third option to bear in mind. An equally spooky case also comes from 2013, and concerns 26-year-old oil worker Brandon Lawson, of San Angelo, Texas. and also, hes in teh middle of nowhere, midnight, lost. There was no evidence found that the man had had anything to do with the disappearance and he was not held as a suspect, although the fire, which had started on the couch, was deemed suspicious. Police would launch a massive search for the missing woman, scouring 16,000 acres in three Kentucky counties with dogs, drones, and aircraft, but no sign of her was ever found. 14th May 2008Midnight (approx) Swanson left the get-together in Canby shortly after midnight. His car was found abandoned in a ditch with the car doors open and keys missing. My first thought when I heard the initial story was that he was walking toward lights and then said, Oh Shit, I thought it was aliens/extra-terrestrials. 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. In May of 2008 Brandon Swanson went missing after driving his car off the road into a ditch. 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