He had been out earlier that night and gone to a couple of parties before making his way home to Marshall, Minnesota. His vehicle was located the next day by law enforcement roughly 20 miles from where Brandon Swanson had indicated he had gone into the ditch. The major question that lingers on everyone's mind who hears his story . Dental records and DNA are available for comparison, though fingerprints are not. . Aside from the fact that Brandon was relatively sober, this was also a very familiar drive for him. Someone had to have picked him up or hidden him. The vehicle they were driving was found in "The Desert," shown here on this map. At the time of his disappearance Brandon was 19 years old, 5'6" and 120 lbs. Naturally curly Brown hair, blue eyes. Hoping this will be a faster plan, he tells his parents to pick him up in the parking lot of a local bar/nightclub. Distinguishing characteristics for Brandon include Caucasian male. Brandon was a 2007 high school graduate of Marshall Senior High School. They see darkness. Her books are available on Amazon. Monday is Brandon Swansons 28th birthday. Brian and Annette waited for their son to tell them what was wrong, but he never did. What happened to the Fort Worth Missing Trio? But Annette says her son was actually in a completely different place than he was telling them. The Yellow Medicine River is knee-deep in some areas and up to 15 feet deep in others (Weed, 2010, p. 2). Armed with this new information, the search moves to the area where they finally find Brandons car in Porter, stuck in a ditch. If anyone has any information about Brandon . The focus of the search moved to this area after bloodhounds led searchers there in March 2010. No physical evidence in his case has been uncovered. Kare 11 News. The trail with the river lined up with Brandon hearing running water nearby. Would Brandon really have run away as the police suggested? Around 12:30 a.m. Brandons car went into the roadside ditch and he placed a call to his parents, Brian and Annette Swanson, asking them to pick him up. The Night of the Disappearance We dont know. Brian and Anette arrive where Brandon has told them he should be, and they cant seem to find his car. Lyon County Sheriff Jeff Vizecky described the car as on sort of a sharp incline, nothing major but enough that the car would get hung up so the wheels are too high off the ground to get any traction (Weed, 2010, p. 2). Star Tribune. He was returning from a party when he crashed his car in a ditch and called his parents for help. Swanson, 19, disappeared in May of 2008 after running his car off the road in rural western Minnesota. While alcohol was being consumed at the gatherings, his friends indicated to law enforcement that he did not appear to be intoxicated when he left the party. VOICE OF ANNETTE SWANSON, MOTHER OF BRANDON SWANSON: Well, just very briefly, Brandon`s Law is Minnesota missing . Right off the bat, police were not convinced that Brandon was actually missing. Rosenblum, G. (2009, July 2). She writes about missing persons, unsolved murders, and human rights. (2007, November 20). Leaving the car and navigating dark fields, Brandon called his parents for help. He hasn t been heard from since. Its believed he died of exposure. According to Anette, one officer said directly As an adult Brandon has a right to be missing if he wants to be It took hours of Anettes begging, explaining about the disconnected call, before the police finally agreed to open the report. The dogs were unable to pick his trail back up on the other side. We were able to use the cellphone tower technology to have an idea of where his last communications or phone calls came from, so that put us on a cell tower up in that area, Wallen said. Retrieved Nov. 18, 2010, from [http://infoweb.newsbank.com%3c/span%3e%3c/a]http://infoweb.newsbank.com. 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. Citing the emotional toll of their sons disappearance and the accompanying difficulty of the holiday season Brian Swanson and Annette Swanson chose not to comment for this story. (2010, January 18). 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. Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson mysteriously vanished in Marshall, Minnesota. During the early morning hours of May 14, 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson disappeared under mysterious circumstances from a rural area northeast of Marshall in southwestern Minnesota. Unfortunately he would never make it there. Missing in Massachusetts: The Case of Neo Maximus AKA Charlie Allen Jr. Interestingly, they also picked up Swansons scent on a piece of farm equipment nearby, but the farmer to whom it belonged denied the request of the authorities to search his property. He and his wife began calling Brandons friends, who also rushed to the area to search for him in the dark night. What makes even less sense is the timing of it all. After nearly three years, those searches have yet to find any physical evidence of what may have happened to Brandon. . After a long night of searching, at around 6:30 a.m., the Swansons call the Lynd Police Department to report Brandon missing. . Hasse says Brandon hasnt been seen since. Brandons Law to the rescue. 1.7M Likes, 16.2K Comments. He tells his parents that he does not see or hear anything at all. From there, the canines lost the scent. Brian then drove Annette back home to Marshall so she could go to bed and then drove back towards Lynd to pick up his son. Eventually, Hasse was called to manage the search. "You know what were doing with Brandons situation says Annette Swanson. He was really outside of Porter, which is northwest of Marshall, more than 20 miles away. He attended what Ive described elsewhere as a party, but if you dig a little deeper you find that it was actually what Id call more of a get-together. I hear a maximum of maybe 6 people including Brandon, so nothing crazy. But when they didnt answer, he had no choice but to call his Dad at about 1:54 am to come assist him. His vehicle was found locked and abandoned the next day and eventually his laptop and the computer's hard drive were recovered from the nearby Susquehanna River. 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. Row One. Searchers work an area just west of Taunton along Highway 68 and to the north, June 21-22, 2008. Facebook gives people the power. Its the same case police have been studying for nearly four decades: the unsolved murder of Kathy Kolodziej. They continued to search for him on their own throughout the morning. Disappearance: 05/14/2008. Although it is possible that Brandon disappeared of his own accord and is alive and well, living in another location perhaps under an alias this scenario is extremely unlikely; there is no evidence that Brandon was planning his disappearance and it takes a high level of sophistication to plot your own disappearance and relocation. Brandon Lawson was 26 years old when he went missing on August 9, 2013. The temperature the night Brandon disappeared was around 40 degrees Fahrenheit with light winds hardly conditions under which one would perish of exposure within a matter of hours. Madison Grove. He wasnt hurt, and there wasnt any damage to the car- everything was going to be fine, he just needed a little help to get it back on the road. "But I believe all our physical clues are probably located within a 15 foot radius, said Hasse. Scientifically speaking, if his body were in the river, local authorities feel it should have turned up. The farmers pretty much have this thou shalt not between this time and this time, and we still work it out as best we can, but it has exacerbated our search abilities, Anderson said. When police obtained Swansons cell phone records, they discovered that he had actually been near Porter that night, which is roughly 25 miles away from where he told his parents he was. Brian attempted to call his son back several times but Brandon never answered again (Divine, 2010; Weed, 2010). If a person passed by, they would think it was just parked there, or broken down and stuck.. Brandon's Law requires police to make a report whenever a person, of any age, is reported missing, and an investigation must start immediately. Is it possible that Brandon met with foul play? Your brain is in a constant state of trying to figure it out, but you dont have anything to go on. Annette, tell us about Brandon`s Law. According to official statistics, in the US alone 2,300 people go missing every day. Numerous searches have been conducted since then, primarily relying on the time and effort of local volunteers. He had a love for learning, especially science, so when he graduated from Marshall high school in 2007 he chose to stay home with his parents for a year, and get a certificate in renewable energy and wind turbines from Minnesota West Community and Technical College. They will not allow us on their property. The temperature at the time of his disappearance was 46 F, or 8 degrees Celsius, and dropped to 39 F, or 4 degrees Celsius. "They know their property, and they search it and look around as well," he said. At the time of his disappearance Brandon was 19 years old, 56 and 120 lbs. They searched the river high and low, but still, no sign of Brandon. Unsure of what else to do, they hung up and tried calling him again multiple times, each time getting no response. The bloodhounds picked up a 3-mile scent trail that went along field roads to an abandoned farm, and then carried on along the Yellow Medicine River to a point where it seemed like Brandon entered the stream and then got back out. The likelihood that an offender especially one with homicidal fantasies happened to be driving in rural Minnesota at 3 a.m. on the same road Brandon was on is remote, but still needs to be considered. I have also heard rumors, though nothing to verify, that there may have been a bowl in his car- a cannabis pipe. Brandon Swanson was 19 years old when he went missing from rural roads near Marshall, Minn. in the early hours of May 14, 2008. It is also not likely Brandon drowned because it was reported that until May 16, 2008 Brandons cell phone remained turned on. He was carrying his black Motorola SLVR cellphone, his wallet with identification and his keys. Photo courtesy . So what happened in the time that is unaccounted for? An investigation must also be done to determine what that persons status is. It takes effect July 1, 2009. Though they hear it through the phone, they hear nothing locally. Cadaver dogs have indicated a scent in the area, which is evidence enough, Hasse stated, for the search to continue (The Search for Brandon blog). Sheriff running out of answers in disappearance of Marshall teen. During the conversation, Brandon described his surroundings to his father, at one point stating he was walking along a fence line and could see the lights of town in the distance. The present search is now focusing on another body of water in the area, Mud Creek. The professional search manager on the case, Jeff Hasse, who writes the blog titled The Search for Brandon Swanson, updates the blog with information on the search and believes Brandons remains will be found in time. It is not plausible that he drowned, because they would have found his body somewhere downstream. Although he obviously had a license and this didnt impair his life, at night in the darkness this really could have affected his depth perception. Why was he on gravel roads? Neither party was able to see the others flashing lights and because of mounting frustration an argument ensued. Brandon s parents, Brian and . David Paulides and his Missing 411 series . He had just finished up his last day of classes for the spring semester at the Minnesota West Community and Technical Colleges Canby campus, where he was studying wind turbines. When Emergency Support Services initially took over the majority of search efforts for Brandon Swanson in late 2008, they ran into the issue of landowner permission, particularly among cattle farmers who took issue with search canines present on their property. A 19 yr old makes a call to his parents after a crash and then disappears. They got a hold of Brandons cellphone records, which revealed something intriguing. On the law enforcement investigation end of the case, Wallen said tips continue to come in. On Wednesday, May 6, 2009, Gov. After two years and innumerable searches of the river it is highly implausible Brandon drowned in the river, because his body likely would have surfaced by now. Brandon Swanson was 19 years old when he went missing in the state of Minnesota. And you cant find it. Any person with disabilities who needs help accessing the content of the FCC Public File may contact KSTP via our online form or call 651-646-5555, This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area. He would be 33 years old today. Its important to note that this particular river is not one thats notably deadly. Background Brandon Victor Swanson was born on January 30, 1989 in Marshall, Minnesota, to parents Brian and Annette Swanson. Then, at around 2:30 a.m., 47 minutes into the phone call, Brandon suddenly interrupts himself on the phone, exclaiming, Oh, s***! and goes silent for the remainder of the call. This particular night however was May 13th 2008 and it was the LAST day of classes at Minnesota West, meaning that Brandon was officially DONE with his certificate program. A Deputy arrived at Brandon's truck around 1:10 am, after a 911 call reported Brandon's F-150 obstructing traffic on U.S. 277 by being over the white line. It is possible a possible hit-and-run driver panicked and in fear of going to prison took and disposed of Brandons body to avoid detection. We dont dispute the reason why. Annette says that was a problem in Brandons case because his car was found right where three counties come together. Thats only about 10 minutes away, well be right there. Also, if Brandon was actually planning his disappearance, getting his car purposefully stuck in a ditch and trying to reach out to multiple people to get help seems like a strange way to carry out such a plan. It should also be considered that Brandon was on the phone with his father while attempting to walk towards a location so his father could pick him up hardly the behavior of someone staging his own disappearance (Seifert & Immelman, 2007). Belt certainly knows that feeling. This is a trip that he made practically daily, considering he would drive from Marshall to Canby and back for classes all the time. 19-year-old Jason Jolkowski went missing during a half-mile walk to the nearby high school on June 13, 2001. Numerous searches have been conducted of the area and bodies of water surrounding the location where Brandon's car was found. Now, geographically speaking it makes perfect sense that Brandon and his car would be in Taunton. Shortly after stating his intentions, Brandon Swanson expressed with an expletive that he might be in trouble and the line went silent. MARSHALL Ten years have gone by and Brandon Swanson is still missing. The roadblock to access has come down to landowner permission. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); https://medium.com/the-shadow/vanished-in-the-dark-where-is-brandon-swanson-d5d99bfde9a7 , https://charleyproject.org/case/brandon-victor-swanson, https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/5185dmmn.html, https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/2471?nav, https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/brandon-victor-swanson, Murdered in Kansas: The Case of AlonzoBrooks, Murdered in Kansas: The Case of Alonzo Brooks, Missing in Minnesota: The Case of Brandon Swanson, Murdered in DC: The Case of the Freeway Phantom, Unsolved in California: The Case of the Keddie Cabin Murders. Tim Pawlenty signed the bill into law. The couple remained on the phone with their son until they heard him yell a swear word, followed by silence. It was cold. The call didnt end at that point, though. Brandons family played a big role in changing state law to make law enforcement more responsive to reports of missing people. The problem is that as time goes on, it becomes much more complicated to fulfill the search because you need to have canines that have experience in aged scent, Anderson said. He disappeared outside of Marshall when he was 19. He brought in expert handlers with trailing dogs. "But he wasnt on it. A hastily abandoned vehicle, a 911 call placed by a panic-stricken man, and a disappearance spanning 6.5 years. There are no known personal, economic, or social motives that plausibly may have driven someone to murder Brandon; however, there are individuals who murder strangers because of a deep-seated usually sexual fantasy. Brandon Swanson was 19 years old when he went missing from rural roads near Marshall, Minn. in the early hours of May 14, 2008. You can find out more information about the Jacob Wetterling Resources Center here. Helicopter and ground searches commenced, covering all the fields and areas Brandon may have attempted to make his short cut going toward what he incorrectly assumed was Lynd. Birthday: 01/20/1989. 5 talking about this. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. His parents stay on the phone with Brandon the entire time, but he is starting to get aggravated. Thats a troublesome issue for those leading the search party. Thanks to the Crawlspace podcast, which interviewed Kyle Lawson, we now have a lot more details than we did when Brandon first went missing. Brandon thought he was near Lynd but he was north of Taunton. Investigating Agency Lincoln County Sheriff's Department 507-694-1664 Source Information "So weve got huge amounts of scent in here, said Hasse as he points at a map. Nevertheless, drowning was the immediate fear, and so two miles of the river and the riverbank were thoroughly searched for 30 days. 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