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grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] thank you foreign [Music] we kept telling you that things in the
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timeline regarding the missing disappearance of Priceless Pizza we're going to get weird well here we go we're
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starting off in the wee hours of August 29th 2013 at 1am Bryce has a phone call with
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his mother this is one of several phone calls that he has with his mother Karen leading up to his disappearance now we
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do not know what they discussed on this phone call however we are later told that his mother Karen believed that
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Bryce would be calling from his apartment which is located in Rocklin California later we learn due to phone
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records that Bryce was actually calling from a location about an hour's Drive south of Rocklin now I'm going to go
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ahead and make the Assumption captain that Bryce was calling from his vehicle it would be really interesting to know
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what they discussed in this call lead leading up to this point in our timeline We Have Bryce who left his girlfriend's
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home Kim his girlfriend thought that he was going back to his apartment this after
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breaking up with her he speaks with his mother at Kim's apartment before leaving
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there and during that phone call and that conversation he has already told his mom that he has a lot of things to
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discuss with her now at 11 A.M we find out Karen finds out that the Toyota Highlander that Bryce is
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driving was in need of roadside assistance and the way that this goes down Captain is Bryce was sitting in his
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vehicle which they state was pretty much in the middle of nowhere for a couple of hours around 11 A.M
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Karen his mother received a call that at around 9 A.M two hours earlier Bryce in
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the Toyota Highlander needed roadside assistance so the way that this goes down and we talked about
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this on yesterday's show Bryce was driving a vehicle given to him by his parents
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his car insurance paid for by Mom and Dad his cell phone Mom and Dad he has a credit card which I'm assuming is for
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Necessities or emergencies that is in fact Mom and Dad's credit card makes sense so knowing that information and
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the little bits of information we have here I'm going to go ahead and make the assumption that the call received from
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Karen is from the credit card company saying hey there's a charge by the way on your card out of town and this is
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what it's for well the charge was for a company called Castro tire and truck which is located in button Willow
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California Captain button Willow was my nickname in high school so Karen either receives a phone call from her car
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insurance or from her credit card however she is notified of this information what we learn is that
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there's a charge for Castro tire and truck and button Willow California and around noon
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we have a situation where Bryce needed roadside assistance well what kind of assistance did he need he
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needed gas in the tank his tank had run out of gas while he was driving so a man goes out to where Bryce is
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delivering three gallons of gas to Bryce who's found sitting in his vehicle in what is called quote the middle of
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nowhere well the representative from Castro Tire called Karen and stated that Bryce ran out of gas and
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that after he went and helped Bryce Bryce went to go fill up his tank this is around noon
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and at that time Bryce had estimated that his arrival home so now Karen is a way that aware
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that Bryce is on his way to their home in Laguna Niguel his estimated time of arrival at their home would be 3 to 3 30
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p.m approximately on that day well unfortunately by 6 PM so now we have six hours that
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transpire between Karen knowing where Bryce is filling up the the tank with gas at noon six hours
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has gone by and Mom and Dad don't know where Bryce is he should have been home hours ago so
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what do they do they do the right thing here they call in to the authorities and Report their son missing so a
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missing person's report is filed on Bryce lest pieces behalf I mean maybe if you're trying to get to the next exit or
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something like that that you would miss that you're running low on gas or maybe there's something wrong with your gauge
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but especially when I'm driving long distance one of the things that I'm constantly checking is my speed and how
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much gas I have and when should I stop and it just seems like he was paying no attention to this
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or may not have cared for any number of reasons well again he could have been in
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a manic state but it's just difficult to think that he would be in a manic State
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when his mom is saying he's not acting any different and then maybe through the text messages the
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girlfriend would be like well he's not really acting that much different but he went to visit her and it wasn't like she
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is you know waving all these red flags saying he was acting like a madman so this is where
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things get incredibly wonky right so we have the person the missing persons report that's filed by his parents I'm
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guessing that they're able to put these things into action so quickly because these items belong to them or they're
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the ones making the payments on them so likely Bryce's phone is in their name the parents call at T and do an
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emergency ping on the phone the Ping showed that Bryce was still in button Willow right he's been he's been out of
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contact for long enough we're concerned that he's missing it's been about six hours or so since we've talked to him so
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we file a missing persons report yet when we ping his phone his phone is still in the general area where he was
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six hours prior right where the car broke down where it ran out again yeah so the police go out there looking for
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Bryce and they find him in a location that is reported to be only eight miles away away from where he was at noon the
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deputies say that Bryce was he seemed pretty Lucid now they were a little reluctant
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they're wondering why he's been reported missing yet he's pretty close to where he was
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last time he spoke to anybody right and so they do submit him to a field sobriety test to make sure everything's
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fine but he passes this test and they're telling him hey you need to call your parents let them know where
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you are at because they we're only out here looking for you because they are so worried that they filed a missing
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person's report about you well I like this you know I know a lot of parents will use owning the cell phone and
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owning the car and things like that to their benefit as far as we can take this away from you if you don't want to act
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accordingly to what we want but it just seems like he has really good parents really good family really good friends
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you got a friend that's calling your mother nobody wants to call your friend's mother you got really good
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friends he takes off this doesn't make any sense but they're they're they're smart intelligent
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individuals growing hey we have these are our phones we can use this technology to our advantage because he's
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so far away it but it just doesn't make any sense that like you said what he's eight miles away
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from where he originally was six hours prior doesn't make any sense unless unless he told the officers I pulled
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over to take a nap or something well and obviously during all of this time the parents are trying to get a hold of him
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he's not answering his phone we don't know why Bryce is not here unfortunately to tell us why he was choosing not to
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answer his phone maybe the phone was dead I don't know but they report him missing the police find him he's only
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eight miles away where he was the the general story is this captain that he travels about eight miles in the course
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of nine hours he was driving very slow I think I could push a Toyota Highlander on foot maybe that's what he decided to
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do I don't want to use any of this gas I'm going to get out and play eight miles in about nine hours and then just
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be shredded for the rest of my life but he doesn't want to talk to his parents according to the police they make him
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speak with his parents via his cell phone during this he agrees that he's going to be coming home
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now the story here gets a little weird because we have a lot of people kind of coming in and out of the story and
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whatever Bryce is up to nobody seems to really know what he is up to because again eight miles traveled in the course
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of nine hours he gets help from this Christian Fellow from Castro who gives him three gallons of gas he fills up his
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tank and he's only three hours away from his parents home yet he doesn't seem to
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be making any Headway to getting there nor does he seem to care to get there at this point and then again Christian goes
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back out from the Castro tire and truck and he finds Bryce once again now tell me he's made it more than eight
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miles I believe this is in the same location as before where he was located before
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the the exact same come on man this is freaking bizarre and so Christians talking to Karen yeah on the phone
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Bryce's mom saying look he he's in the same spot it just doesn't make sense he's here almost 10 hours now after the
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first time that he needed roadside assistance again the police had talked to him earlier there were no they didn't
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see any signs of drugs or alcohol so is he just on the side of the road he passes a field sobriety test for my
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understanding Captain he's just sitting in his car sitting in his Toyota Highlander on the side of the road when
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he is approached by Christian this time Christian this guy he's seems like a very good guy he's this is above and
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beyond when it comes to roadside assistance I've had tow trucks drive right past me when I'm clearly the only
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person on the road in need of the roadside assistance yeah but I think look the True Crime community in the
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last five years have looked at cars on the side of the road or you know abandoned vehicle or somebody in their
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vehicle on the side of the road completely different than the normal population so this guy could be a a true
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crime Community guy and knows that a story like this goes from a kid acting strange to we haven't seen him in the
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last 10 years so Bryce tells the police he's just you know they want to know why what are you
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doing just sitting here he says I'm blowing off some steam again he didn't want to talk to his
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parents they make him talk to his parents then hours later a few hours later when Christian the the roadside
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assistance guy finds Bryce again still sitting on the side of the road Christian's the one that calls Bryce's
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mother to let her know hey he he's still here and so Christian speaks with Bryce
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and Bryce tells Christian everything's okay I'm going to get a soda at a nearby gas station get some caffeine in me and
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then I'm going to continue my drive and head home so approximately depending on what timeline you look at where anywhere
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from 10 to 13 and most timelines put this more at the 12 and 13 hours later 12 to 13 hours after Bryce arrived in
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this General location he's finally on his way home I mean it makes absolutely no sense and
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we can say that it it appears that he is finally on his way home because Christian agrees or maybe he comes up
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with the idea when he's talking to Bryce's parents he says look I'll even follow him South on
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Interstate 5 for a few miles a handful of miles to make sure that he is heading in the
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right direction that he is in fact going home well at this rate he's going to get
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home in time for Christmas we're going to fast forward here just a little bit in the timeline Captain because the next
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morning at roughly 8 A.M the police show up to the list piece's house this is to ask about their vehicle a
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2003 Toyota Highlander they wanted to know if they owned one if the vehicle had been stolen if so why didn't they
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report it stolen why do you ask well because we found it it's been involved in a pretty serious car accident
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and found a considerable distance away from their home the Las pisas explained to the police no that car that vehicle
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is being driven by our son who is off and away at college and in fact he called us last night saying he's driving
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home to our house we haven't heard from him in several hours we were up on the phone with him late last night he had
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been reported missing he needed roadside assistance and now you're telling us that our son has been in a major car
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accident I mean can you imagine what's going through his parents mind at this point I mean this would be awful
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you you just feel so helpless for them well and when you hear about this you go okay well we kind of knew that it was
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going this way this doesn't seem so shocking and surprising to us listeners but to the less pieces it completely
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jars them it's it's completely shocking to them because one thing that we did not include yet in the timeline was a 2
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A.M phone call so at 8 A.M roughly the police are there saying hey there's a problem with the vehicle and just six
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hours prior the less pieces were on the phone with their son so he finally calls
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them he calls them yeah heading towards his house he ends up calling his parents
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again this look I'm not the kind of kid or I wasn't the kind of um child to my parents that after the
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first day of college especially sophomore year maybe your freshman year you're going hey Mom this is what's
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going on but sophomore year he just spent all summer with him he's a good kid they have a good relationship he
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calls his mom to let her know hey I'd like my first two classes things are going well and then there's
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this time period where he's traveling home but not traveling home and he's not talking with his parents and his parents
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are trying to call he's not answering and then he finally makes contact with them yes and this is weird because his
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vehicle is found it's it's on its side it's been in a major car accident it's a single vehicle accident okay Bryce is
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not located anywhere near the vehicle not in the vehicle not around the vehicle the vehicles found abandoned air
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quotes abandoned it at Castaic Lake which is roughly about two hours north of Laguna nagoil where the parents live
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and roughly about an hour south of button Willow California where we know he was when he needed the roadside
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assistance so he did travel 60 miles ish before this accident took place now what's interesting though is that we
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know that at 2 A.M here's the 2 A.M phone call from Bryce to his parents we know this based off of a report from the
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local news there and it says quote he took a detour at 208 a.m and got off of the Interstate 5 in a suburban area and
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was going to sleep in his car his mother told Santa claretta news she says I told
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him to call me when he got up the next morning so basically the story is this captain that he says he's too tired to
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drive which makes a lot of sense based off of everything we know in the timeline so far
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he's going to need to pull over get a little bit of rest this is going to extend the period of time that he will
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be on the road it will extend the period of time till he gets back to Mom and Dad's house well let's be clear on that
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for a second this guy needs sleep most people would need sleep just driving through the night or sitting at one spot
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for hours upon hours we have no clue what he was doing during that time period or why he was doing that but what
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we also don't know is that he was taking some kind of prescription medication that he wasn't
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supposed to be on and we don't know the last time he actually did sleep exactly and to add a little more detail to the
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wreckage it states that the reports are that the vehicle was found around five fifteen a.m that morning
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and the vehicle had tumbled approximately 15 feet down a Ravine and landed on its passenger side off of
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main ramp Road just a few hundred feet from Lake Hughes Road Bryce's cell phone wallet laptop and clothing were found in
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the car this report states in the car some of the reports I've reviewed Captain state that some of those items
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were in fact located at the scene but were located and found outside of the vehicle
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and of course Bryce is nowhere to be found his family would later say there the back window was was smashed out now
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think about this this wreckage the way that it's described here 15 feet down a ravine landed that that implies that the
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vehicle was Airborne at some point right it landed on its passenger side off of Main ramp road if you look this
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thing up and this was awfully disappointing and I'm not going to stick on this topic for too long but it was rather
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aggravating I could find pictures of the Highlander after the fact after it had been towed
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from the scene I could not find any pictures of the Highlander at the actual wreck scene
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where it was found and in the state that it was found the thing that was aggravating about that
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not because we couldn't describe it to you because those pictures aren't available or at least I couldn't find
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them is that the there are several websites that give the impression that those pictures are in fact available and they
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are not take a closer look at those pictures that people are claiming to be Bryce's vehicle lying on its side
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first off the scene is not as described in the news and second of all that's not an SUV
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that's a car and thirdly that car appears to be a Honda so I don't know why people were trying
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to pass that off as some kind of scene footage or scene picture taken from the wreckage scene but my
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eyes tell me that that is not Bryce's vehicle his family say that it looked to them
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like Bryce had used a tool to break out the back window of the vehicle before crawling out which would make sense that
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would be if the vehicle is lying on its side that would be one of the more easier ways to get out provided that he
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couldn't access the doors maybe the doors are jammed or couldn't get or was not in a state to pull himself up
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and through one of those doors After figuring out how to open it the tool here I wish that we had a better
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description of what that tool was or the name for it other than just a tool but one report that I did find stated that
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they believe the tool was something that was located in the center console so it
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sounds like a an Emergency type situation tool that was purposely kept in the vehicle now the other troubling
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thing here though too is they go out they being law enforcement and the local authorities the fire department what
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have you they're doing all the necessary searches right we're searching via Lan C
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and Air looking for this guy what happened to this dude there's nothing at the scene
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it's a pretty horrific crash for a vehicle to be found on on its side but there's nothing at the scene that's
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indicating to those experts to those who unfortunately have to deal with this type of situation
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and see this kind of wreckage there's nothing at the scene that tells them that oh this guy he should have died at
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the scene or or did die or something happened to him here that would cause him to expire soon there was not enough
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blood or anything like that that they found at the scene that they were overly concerned it had looked to them like yes
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this was a bad crash yes this was a bad wreck but this dude probably got out managed to get out and walk away now why
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he left all of his personal belongings here we don't know yeah you think he'd at
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least take a cell phone to make the call but maybe he got out of the vehicle and
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just didn't feel safe trying to go back into it I mean there's so many things that just don't line up they don't make
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a lot of sense but then the other thing like we said he had these prescription pills we don't know if he had any of
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these pills still on him if he was still taking these pills or not and so we really don't know what kind of state of
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mind he was in because we have conflicting stories all around of of what demeanor he's in even though
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I think you would have to want to I want to believe his parents and I want to believe the girlfriend I want to believe
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law enforcement that when we talk to him he seemed fine he seemed okay but then why are all his actions so
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Holiday Inn cheers to you all cheers to you Colonel cheers to you captain now another report that I have here states
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that it was obvious that the vehicle had plummeted down a 25-foot embankment before smashing onto the road below just
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to describe the scene the best I can I've never been to this location but the way that it's described to me is
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and this is based off of some evidence that the police would later release so the police say
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that the place where his vehicle was found the Castaic area is located right off of Interstate 5. about 90 miles
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north of where his parents lived Vehicles traveling can get off of the interstate exit onto Lake Hughes Road
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which leads up a hill to Castaic Lake Recreation Area there is a surveillance camera that takes a photo of every
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license plate of the vehicles that drive by this camera is going to provide us with some evidence here and fill in some
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of the blanks but not all of them unfortunately what we learned from this surveillance footage is that at 2 15 a.m
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Bryce drives by this camera takes his picture this is just a few minutes after he's telling his mother that he was
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tired and he was going to find someplace to park so he could sleep for a little bit and then continue the drive but then
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oddly enough at 4 29 A.M Bryce is seen on surveillance footage driving by the same location again it's just so bizarre
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we have no idea nobody can piece together where Bryce was from the time that that surveillance camera took the
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picture of his vehicle at 2 15 a.m and then took the picture of his of his vehicle again at 4 29 a.m now there are
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no cameras tracking cars going down the hill to where his vehicle was eventually
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found so we can't say with any level of certainty how long the vehicle was there
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before it was found wrecked on the road so the exact time of the accident remains unknown to this day but we do
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know that the surveillance camera spotted Bryce driving at 4 29 a.m and then we do know that the vehicle was
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found by 5 30 am so it doesn't appear like a great amount of time passed before the vehicle was located but
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within that short window of time Bryce disappears now once all of the evidence was
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analyzed from the wreck the police realized this was no accident Bryce had sped down the Ravine with the
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accelerator down all of the way they're basing this off of the tire tracks that they found they could
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determine that he was not trying to prevent a wreck in all likelihood he was racing toward
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a wreck so they determined that Bryce had drove up the hill on Lake Hughes Road and then entered and accessed and
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then entered an access area for a cell phone tower they followed his tire tracks past that
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Tower which is located at the top of a steep embankment then they're basing off of the evidence found at the scene that
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his vehicle then sped downhill until it crashed onto the access road people that
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have been to this scene has said that they believe that Bryce's intentions may have been to drive into the lake
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that from where from his vantage point it would appear that if he drove at that speed that he may crash into the lake
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rather than the road below because you would not be able to see the road below from that elevated area
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right again this is based off of people that have said that they have been there
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and described it as such we do know that the police find the 2003 beige Toyota Highlander on its side on
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Main ramp road again about 100 feet from Lake Hughes Road near Castaic Lake the location is about 40 miles north of
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Los Angeles 90 miles south of button Willow which we know he was there earlier one of the
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back windows had been smashed out from the inside according to police the family says they believe that Bryce used
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a tool that was stored in the console to bust out that window Bryce's cell phone
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and laptop were found inside the vehicle his duffel bag was found on the ground not far from the broken window the
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duffel bag was found unzipped and several people have said that it looked like somebody had looked through it
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his clothing and wallet were inside the bag police felt like this was a violent crash but they did not think that Bryce
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would be seriously injured and they found no drag marks to suggest that he could not walk
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well that's tough too because sometimes when you're traveling and you have your travel bag you'll be going through it as
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you drive oh you know I got some gum in there I got a drink in there or whatever
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so it's hard to know was the bag did he go through the bag before the crash or do you go through the bag after the
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crash of course not finding Bryce at the scene they speak with his parents notify
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them about the vehicle being wrecked notify them about Bryce being missing they go out and do all of the normal
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detective work right they interview all the people that spent time with Bryce recently leading up to his disappearance
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and they tell a lot of the same stories that we told here today one piece of evidence that's awfully interesting to
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me here Captain is that we do know that they used dogs to try to track a scent Bryce is sent from the vehicle and the
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scent LED them to two different spots it led them to the lake Castaic Lake but it also LED them down a trail to a
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dam on the lake and then it continued they continued to follow Ascent or track something
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to the top of the dam and then South on a Spillway on the western side of the lake before heading towards a truck stop
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once we get to the truck stop the dogs aren't signaling that they're tracking anything anymore
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so people have looked at this a couple different ways a thought that maybe he went up to that damn area and jumped in
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maybe it was his goal to crash the vehicle into the lake and after being unsuccessful he
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went about in a different manner they did search that Lake they've searched that Lake quite a bit
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and been unsuccessful finding anything related to Bryce the truck stop is really interesting to
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me too again unfortunately these dogs they're tracking Bryce's scent or so we are to believe but they can't tell us
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exactly what they are tracking this really led to several weeks of Investigation by police and I know it's
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still an open case to this day but two weeks in police had to scale back the search
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because they had searched all the areas that they could think of that he could be based off of statements from people
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that they interviewed based off of the movements of his vehicle based off of cell phone tower pings
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and after two weeks they had no evidence pointing them in any direction in particular of where to look next
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like we said yesterday last week marked nine years since briceless pieces last been seen now police have received
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several calls from several people saying that they have seen him but they have been unable to confirm any
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of these actual sightings I do know of one situation where the police went to another state
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they're told hey Priceless piece is there he's living there this is years later they send a detective out there they
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find the man that they believe is the man that was reported as being bryceless Pisa
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they confirmed that man's identity he's not Bryce the detective basically tells the news
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I interviewed that man he's not Bryce but I will tell you that he could be Bryce's twin
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that's how close he looked like bryceless pizza so here we sit nine years later and this is all a big mystery
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there's so much speculation out there as to what happened to Bryce where could he
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be there are people that say maybe this was some kind of drug deal gone wrong that maybe he was sitting there waiting
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on a ride for somebody to pick him up maybe he was sitting there waiting for a dealer to show up
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to me I look at this situation and I'm very concerned I'm very concerned for this man's well-being
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I see a situation a series of events where I don't think he knew exactly what he was doing
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I think he felt like he needed to make some change and maybe that change needed to be drastic
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but I think he was kind of winging it and he was kind of making it up as he went along
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yeah as he's sleep deprived and again how much of this medication was still in him and how much
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of this alcohol was still in in his system you know we look at these cases and there's a lot of people that say
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Priceless pieces his disappearance is as mysterious or as much of a mystery as these other ones a lot of times people
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say Brandon Lawson I that to me the comparison makes zero sense Brandon Lawson's movements for the most
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part make a whole lot of sense leading up to the 9-1-1 call Bryce's movements and actions seem to
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make zero sense at least they make zero sense to me that's why I think he was behaving erratically acting impulsively
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he wanted to make some drastic change he just didn't know what that was or how to
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go about doing it it was a young man confused stressed out tired feeling the effects the after effects of
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drug and alcohol and I don't know I think I can go along with the idea that maybe he did try to
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crash his vehicle into that Lake unsuccessfully yeah but um here's the twist is he was only in this state really for
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maybe a week and a half two weeks leading up to this point from every person's account before he
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went back to school everything was fine he was back at home visiting friends visiting family family never said he was
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odd during the summer friends never said he was odd during the summer and he took this extra class
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and it seems like there was it's almost like the weirdness once he got back on campus the weirdness it like turned on
00:39:18
like turning on the light it happened that fast it's very confusing if you want to make comparisons to other
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cases that we've covered again this case often gets compared to other missing persons cases
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I think it reminds me a little bit more of Jonathan Luna who was in fact they found Jonathan Luna there's a debate did
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he die by Suicide or by murder I personally think it was a murder we reviewed that case that very bizarre
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case in episodes 572 and 573 his body was discovered in December of 2003 but just like Jonathan's case to me
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Bryce his movements and his actions make little to no sense leading up to Bryce's
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disappearance or Jonathan Luna's murder in fact the actions and behavior leading
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up to both of those situations only raise more questions than providing answers it reminds me a lot of the maramura case
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too well yeah somebody driving and get in our wreck now I tend to I want to be a glass half full person here and I
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think that there is some evidence to suggest that this might be the case you know Captain I rarely rarely ever
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say this when we review these types of cases but here I I just feel like maybe this
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is one of those cases where this dude took off he went off somewhere for whatever
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reason and he decided to start a new life and I think if that if that is the case
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if that could be the case then maybe leaving all those personal belongings there at the scene of the wreck
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is all a part of it right these were all ways that Mom and Dad his old life was tracking him
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leading up to that point the car the car insurance the cell phone the credit card
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the roadside assistance they were all able to keep tabs on him even when his movements and travels made
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no sense and so he decided to leave those items right where he wrecked the car walk off
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head over to that truck stop thumb a ride and start a new life it may be out there somewhere there's
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some trucker that drove Bryce to greener pastures or what he hoped to be greener
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pastures and he knows the reasons why he or she the driver of that truck know the
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reasons why Bryce decided to leave it all behind well there's the statement that he makes to his mother
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there that there's some things that he needs to discuss with her and maybe there was
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something that he learned about himself or something he knew about himself that he knew it was time to share with
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the rest of the world so then when he gets back to college he doesn't really know how to do that
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and decides to drink and take these prescription pills to kind of just put that on hold for a minute
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and then when there's that call when his friend makes the call to the mother this is maybe the moment where
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Bryce is realizing I I can't just run away from life I can't just push this off I can't keep going down
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this uh this dark Rabbit Hole let me deal with this stuff now and that's where it makes no sense on
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him starting a new life because you broke up with your girlfriend through text if you're interested in
00:43:07
starting a new life you don't owe her anything you're not gonna feel like you owe her anything you
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gave her the answers through the text message you could just leave the next day again I don't think it was planned
00:43:20
that's why I said I think that his actions were erratic and impulsive I think he tried to crash the vehicle
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into the lake and when that didn't work that's when he decided to walk away yeah
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okay so I'm gonna say this and uh no laughing at me okay I'm gonna you brought up some cases this
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reminds you of and some that it didn't matter um but no laughing at this one uh let me
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explain it before you make any judgment calls here to me this is very similar to Elisa lamb
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we have all these actions that we know happen because we can track them through they're documented right
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they're just not on video footage for us to all these actions that she made in the in the elevator that seemed to make
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no sense to us we have the same thing happening with Bryce I think he walks away from that
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vehicle and he probably is deceased somewhere we just haven't found him yet and where
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basically the whole highway and that whole area was basically Bryce's Hotel where he was losing it
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and and I think that's what this case reminds me of and it's it's one of the most confusing cases
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and perplexing cases I think we ever covered because I can't say that you're wrong whatever
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your gut is telling you and whatever evidence is leading you to that outcome there's no gut feeling in my body other
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than he's probably not with us anymore his parents are of the belief or at least they've been vocal about this
00:45:13
in the past saying that they believe there's a chance he sustained a a pretty violent head
00:45:20
injury during the the course of that crash and maybe he walked away with severe Amnesia not really knowing
00:45:30
who he was where he was uh or what was going on or who or who's to say how that works what he would
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believe at that point you know I remember those stories on Unsolved Mysteries when I was a kid and always
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thought well this seems impossible to me but the the older I've got I can't rule that out I can't rule that
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possibility out now some good things here to keep a little light on for everybody to keep a little light on for
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Bryce his information has been entered into the national missing persons database
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his fingerprints dental records and DNA are on file in databases months after his disappearance the family hired a
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private investigator the investigator states that they believe that Bryce intended to return
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home and bases that theory on Bryce's GPS coordinates so this investigator must believe that something happened
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something interfered with him making it home that night the police seemed to believe that he did walk away and that
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had he passed away that they would have found him and that maybe he did walk away to start a new life
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Priceless pizza at the time of his disappearance he was five foot 11 inches tall 170 pounds with bright red hair
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uh some descriptions say green eyes some say blue eyes but one very distinctive mark
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one very distinctive identifier that Bryce has is this tattoo it's a rather large tattoo it's a tattoo of a Taurus
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bull head and Roman numerals of his birthday which is located on his left shoulder he was wearing white cargo
00:47:19
shorts and a blue and white checkered shirt and red Nike tennis shoes at the time if anybody has any information at
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all please call the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department at 323-890-5500 his parents have never
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discontinued their search for him and hope to know what happened to their son one day his parents still post to a
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Facebook page devoted to finding their son maybe someday soon we can all discover what happened or we will know
00:47:54
the truth if he should come back or if Bryce is ever located and I just feel so bad for his family and his friends and
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people that were trying to help him especially is his mother staying up trying to
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communicate with him we don't know exactly what was said but if he did walk away
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it's like you have a lot of people that love and care about you you could come back no matter what you know no matter
00:48:20
what happened and at least tell your family that you're okay and not I mean because no matter what
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happened you your friends and family don't deserve to be put through this if you're the one
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putting them through it my gut doesn't lean that way but or my thoughts don't lean that way but
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that would be my message to Bryce earlier this year on April 30th it would have been Bryce's 28th birthday as we
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said last week it's been nine years since he went missing yet Twitter and other social media sites are still full
00:48:58
of his missing post with so many asking the same question where is bryceless pizza
00:49:04
and remember there is a find Priceless piece of Facebook page again anyone with any information from 2013 or more
00:49:13
recently that can help investigators locate Bryce please call 323-890-5500 or to provide information
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anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-t-i-p-s which is 8477 or use your smartphone and download The Crime
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Stoppers tips mobile app or go to the website www dot la crimestoppers.org [Music]
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and make sure you leave your thoughts and opinions on the blog Colonel do we have any recommended reading for the
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beautiful listeners yes we do Captain last week and the week before we spent so much time talking about the still
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unsolved case of Nancy eagleson up in Paulding Ohio which is rather close to Michigan the great state of Michigan and
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got me thinking about the old serial killer case from the late 60s and the best book that is on that case is called
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the Michigan murders this is by Edward keys this is an award-winning book from back in the day we may have even
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recommended this one a long time ago before we even started putting the recommendations on the website but this
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is a great book it's a true crime book that should be on everybody's bookshelves that's called the Michigan
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murders it's about a Serial case out of the University of Eastern Michigan check
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that out you can find that great recommendation that title and many others on our website on the recommended
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page yeah and until next week be good be kind and don't matter [Music] [Applause]
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