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[Music] crime we kept telling you that things in the timeline regarding the missing
disappearance of bryceless pizza were going to get weird well here we go we're starting off in the we hours of August
29th 2013 at 1:00 a.m. 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 Rockland California later we learn due to phone
records that Bryce was actually calling from a location about an hour's Drive south of Rockland 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 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 OPP 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 11:00 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 11:00 a.m. Karen his mother received a call that at
around 9:00 a.m. 2 hours earlier Bryce and 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 in 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 in button Willow California and
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 away that aware that Bryce is on his way to their home in lagona aguil
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 6 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 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 Les piece's 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 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 an 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 person's 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 6 hours or so since we've talked to him so
we file a missing person's report yet when we ping his phone his phone is still in the general area where he was 6
hours prior right where the car broke down where it ran out of gas where yeah so the police go out they're looking for
Bryce and they find him in a location that is reported to be only 8 m 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 habah habah and they're
telling him hey you need to call your parents let them know where you are at because they we are 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 going 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 6 hours prior doesn't
make any sense unless unless he told the officers well 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 8 m away where
he was the the general story is this captain that he travels about eight miles in the course of n 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 push 8 miles in about 9 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 9 hours he
gets help from this Christian fell from Castro who gives him three gallons of gas he fills up his tank and he's only 3
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 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 mhm 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
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 we 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 8:00 a.m. the police show up to the LP's
house this is to ask about their vehicle a 2003 Toyota Highlander they wanted to
know if they own 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 home the Les Pisa 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 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 Les 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 8:00 a.m. roughly the police are there saying hey there's a problem with the vehicle and just 6 hours prior the
Les pesas were on the phone with their son so he finally calls them he call them heading towards his house he ends
up calling his parents and 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 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 made 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 vehicle's found abandoned air quotes abandoned it at Castaic Lake which is
roughly about two hours north of lagona Nyle 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 milish before this accident took place now what's interesting though is that we
know that at 2 a.m. here's the 2 amm 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 20 8 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
515 a.m. that morning and the vehicle had tumbled approximately 15 ft 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 ft
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 picture
of the Highlander at the actual Rec 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's 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 enforc ment and the local authorities the fire
department what have you they're doing all the necessary searches right we're searching via land sea 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 he should have died at the scene or 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'd think he'd at least take his 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 talked to
him he seemed fine he seemed okay but then why are all his actions so [Music] confusing
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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- ft embankment before smashing onto the road below just to describe this 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 Mi 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 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 learn 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 429 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 429 a.m. and then we do know that the vehicle was found by 5:30 a.m. 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 and all likelihood he was racing toward AQ so they determined that
Bryce had drove up the hill on Lake Hughes Road and then entered an access 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 CR 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 100t from Lake Hughes Road
near Castaic Lake the location is about 40 Mi north of Los Angeles 90 Mi 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 and
several people have said that it looked like somebody had looked through it his clothing and wallet were inside the
bag again 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 oh you know I
got some gum in there or 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 did he 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's scent 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 I
thought that maybe he went up to that Dam Area and jumped in maybe it was his goal to crash the vehicle into the lake
and after being unsuccessful he went about it 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 zent 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 Bryce piece has
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 Bryce L pie 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 Bryce L Pisa they confirm 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
Bryce laspisa 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 sleep deprived and again how much of this
medication was still in him and how much of this alcohol was still in him in his
system you know we look at these cases and there's a lot of people that say bryceless 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 911 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 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 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 a
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 a 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 mara
mura case too well yeah somebody driving get in a wck 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 aide and start a new life and maybe 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 fall 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 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 and started a new life you don't owe her anything you're
not going to 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 a vehicle into the lake and when that didn't work work that's when he decided
to walk away yeah okay so I'm going to say this and uh no laughing at me okay I'm going to you brought up some cases
this reminds you of and some that it didn't remind me of um but no laughing at this one and let me explain it before
you make any judgment calls here to me this is very similar to Alisa lamb we have all these actions that we
know happen because we can track them through they're documented right they're just done 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
what whatever your gut is telling you and whatever evidences leading you to that outcome there's no gut filling 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 person's 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 seem 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 bryceless Pisa at the time of his
disappearance he was 5' 11 in tall 170 lbs with bright red hair uh some descriptions say green eyes
some say blue eyes 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 Bullhead 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 Los Angeles County
Sheriff's department at 323 8955 his parents have never discontinued their search for him and H 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 I just feel so bad for his family and his friends and people that were trying to help him especially 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 cuz 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 9 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 bryceless piece of Facebook page again anyone with any information from 2013 or
more recently that can help investigators locate Bryce please call 323 8955 or to provide information
anonymously call Crim Stoppers at 80022 2 2 tis which is 8477 or use your smartphone and download
the Crimestoppers tips mobile app or go to the website www.ac [Music] want to thank you so much for joining us
here back in the garage we want to hear from you go to True Crim 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
paing 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
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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 vanished in 2013 after a series of bizarre events leading to a car crash; his whereabouts remain unknown.

Key points

Bryce's Disappearance Timeline. The timeline of Bryce's disappearance reveals strange and unsettling events leading up to his vanishing.
Police Find Bryce. Police locate Bryce only eight miles from where he was last seen, raising questions about his behavior.
Major Car Accident. Bryce's vehicle is found in a serious accident, but he is missing, leaving his parents in shock.
Conflicting Evidence. Surveillance footage shows Bryce driving at odd hours, raising questions about his whereabouts.
The Search for Bryce. Despite extensive searches, Bryce remains missing, leaving investigators puzzled.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Bryce Laspisa. Bryce's vehicle was found wrecked, but he was nowhere to be seen. What happened?

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