Bryce Laspisa /// Part 2 /// 612 | Forensic Files

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

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Brief Summary

Bryce Laspisa's disappearance remains a mystery after his car crash and strange behavior before vanishing.

Key points

The Mysterious Disappearance of Bryce. Bryce's strange behavior and disappearance raise alarming questions for his family.
Roadside Assistance Call. Bryce's mother learns he needed roadside assistance, but he was missing hours later.
The Shocking Accident Discovery. Police find Bryce's vehicle involved in a serious accident, but he is nowhere to be found.
Bryce's Mysterious Disappearance. After a horrific crash, Bryce vanishes without a trace, leaving behind his belongings.
Conflicting Accounts. Witnesses describe Bryce as fine, yet his actions seem erratic and impulsive.
The Ongoing Mystery. Nine years later, the case remains open with no solid leads on Bryce's whereabouts.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Can you imagine what's going through his parents' mind at this point?

Reflecting on the parents' reaction to the news.

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