TCVM.True Crime

09/04/2024

Nicholas Downey, 36, took a week off from his job in Bradenton, Florida, to visit his wife, Holly, at a rehabilitation center in Mississippi. He rented a Tesla in Tampa for the trip. On the night of February 26, 2023, while returning home, Downey stopped to recharge the car behind a McDonald’s in Marianna, Florida.
Security footage shows someone exiting the vehicle to charge it, then driving south on State Road 71 instead of rejoining Interstate 10. The car’s owner, tracking its location, grew concerned when it didn’t return to the interstate. He texted Downey, but got no response. Nick was due back at work on February 27th but never arrived.
On February 27th, 2023, the Liberty County Sheriff's Department (Florida) received information regarding an abandoned vehicle in a hunting lease near Turkey Creek Road.
A search of the area was conducted by Liberty County CI K9 Team and an aerial search was performed by Florida Fish and Game on the day the vehicle was located. The following day, Liberty County deputies and the Liberty County Search and Rescue Team deployed on foot while Florida Fish and Wildlife searched from above for the occupants of the abandoned vehicle.
The occupant of the vehicle is believed to be Nicholas Downey based on items found inside. Downey was later reported missing from Gulfport, Mississippi, on March 3rd, 2023. He remains missing to this day.
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09/03/2024

March 2021

Shannon Collins, 52, would return home on March 11, 2021, to his wife and adult son in Pottsville, Arkansas, (which is about 68 miles from Little Rock, Ark) from a trip to Tennessee to visit his mistress.

Shannon's wife would say that the Army Veteran was last seen leaving his residence on the morning of March 12, 2021, after the two of them had gotten into an argument.

But for reasons unknown, Shannon's wife did not report him missing. No one would report him missing until November 2021. This is when Shannon's brother would file a missing persons report with police, after returning to Arkansas from living out of state. Now his wife and son are refusing to cooperate with the police.

Shannon's extended family was never notified that Shannon had not returned home in over a month.

Shannon's younger brother Blake is convinced that some type of harm came to his brother.
''Two people, who allegedly watched Shannon leave his own house for the last time, tell police two completely different stories about how he left.
'Why are they lying? Why are they covering it up? At this point, my family and I have come to our own conclusions as to what happened to Shannon.',' Blake said.

Shannon's wife claimed that she had been in contact with her husband after he left for the last time. Yet, Shannon never responded to text messages sent from his parents or two of his siblings.

Blake said that once the police got involved in his brother's disappearance, Shannon's wife and her children stopped talking to the family.

Law enforcement has not ruled out the possibility of foul play. They continue to investigate leads and gather information in this case.

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09/01/2024

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"The neighbors told us that they (his roommates) left the other day, they took their things and left."

09/01/2024

Warning ⚠️ Contains Sensitive Content!
On the morning of September 24, 2011, 34-year-old Lena Lunsford, called 911 to report her daughter, 3, missing from her Weston, West Virginia home.

Lunsford allegedly told investigators that when she checked on her daughter around 6:30 a.m., Aliayah was safe and sound, asleep in her bed. She had been sick with the flu, the previous evening. Her nine-year-old sister saw her around the same time.

However, she said that when she returned to her daughter's room around 9:00 a.m., Aliayah was gone. Lunsford would wait until 11:30 a.m. to report her daughter missing. She claims it was because she was driving around looking for her daughter.

According to court documents, Lunsford was eight months pregnant at the time, and soon delivered twins, after her daughter disappeared.

For weeks following Aliayah's disappearance, law enforcement officials scoured the county in search of the missing 3-year-old.

There were no indications of forced entry to the house, and a nearby river was searched, but no sign of the child was found.

Nine days following Aliayah's four siblings, aged between nine months and eleven years old, were removed from the home and placed into foster care. No reason was given. As soon as the twins were born, they were also taken.

Lunsford was arrested on federal charges of welfare fraud. She and her husband, Ralph Keith Lunsford, who is Aliayah's stepfather, both had prior criminal records for various charges for minor offenses. Lena's mother, who occasionally cared for Aliayah, died in early 2012. In February 2013, while Lena was in jail, she lost her parental rights to her other six children. Ralph, who is the father of five of the children, also had his parental rights terminated.

Court documents noted that Lunsford and Ralph the stepfather had "vaguely accused" each other of involvement in Aliayah's disappearance; the court believed Lunsford knew more about her daughter's disappearance than she disclosed. Lunsford maintained that she knew nothing about what had happened to Aliayah and only hoped she was still alive. She was released from jail shortly after losing her parental rights, but later re-incarcerated for a series of probation violations related to her welfare fraud conviction.

At Lunford's trial in 2018, Ralph testified that they had taken bath salts the night their daughter disappeared and he didn't know what happened to Aliayah. Two of Aliayah's older sisters testified against their mother. The girls, who have since been adopted by another family, were nine and eleven years old when their sister disappeared.

The older siblings said that their mother had always treated Aliayah more severely than any of the other kids. Sometimes forcing her to drink salt water.

On September 23, she hit Aliayah in the head with a wooden bed slat. Afterward, Aliayah's head was ''squishy'' and swollen when she was put to bed. She was also forced to stay in the corner that evening and could not stand on her own. The oldest sibling said that Aliayah said that she felt like her head ''was going to expl0de."

Then about twelve hours later, the three-year-old was found unresponsive in her bed. Lunsford attempted to revive her but didn't call 911 right away.

She then put the child in a laundry hamper, put the hamper in the family car, and took it, Aliayah's sisters and her infant brother to a wooded area known as Vadis. This was in a rural area of the county, off a dirt road without road signs.

The siblings watched as Lunsford carried the hamper into the woods and then returned with the basket. They say that Mommy had dirt on her clothes.

Once they returned home, Lunsford bleached down parts of the house before calling 911. The siblings say that when police arrived, Lunsford told them to help look for their sister, even though they knew she wasn't there.

The stepfather was not home that morning. Prosecutors contended that he didn't have anything to do with Aliayah's de@th. The siblings would ultimately tell Keith what happened and where their sister could be found. They kept their secret for five years.

Justice would come and Lunsford would be arrested, charged, and then convicted in April 2018 of mur/der of a child by refusal or failure to provide necessities, guilty of de@th of a child by child ab/use, child ab/use resulting in injury, and concealment of a deceased human body. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder, plus 40 years for the other charges, to be served consecutively.

Aliayah's body has yet to be located; searches of the Vadis area turned up no evidence as to her whereabouts. Authorities believe the child's body was buried in a shallow grave in a ravine that floods frequently, and that no trace of it may be left now.

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08/31/2024

March 25, 2004, would be the last day that anyone would see Jennifer Wix, 21, and her 2-year-old daughter Adrianna, who disappeared from Robertson County, Tennessee, just north of Nashville.

Jennifer and her daughter were last seen together between 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. At the time of their disappearances, they were living with Jennifer's boyfriend, Joey, and his parents.

On the day Jennifer disappeared, she called her aunt, saying she didn't want to live with Joey anymore. She also said that if Joey didn't agree to let her and her daughter leave, she would go to her aunt's house. But she never showed up.

Joey would initially say that Jennifer had left with an unknown individual. He would later say that he and Jennifer had an argument and dropped her and Adrianna off at an Exxon gas station near Exit 112 off Interstate 65 in Cross Plains, TN. He said that Jennifer and Adrianna got into a white four-door, early 1990s, model mid-size car.

Joey claims that the following day, Jennifer showed up at his home driving the same car that she had gotten into the day before. She collected her belongings and said she needed some space. She allegedly asked for her tax return, but Joey said his parents weren't home to give her the money.

Authorities have not been able to verify Joey's story.

In March of 2024, twenty years to the day that Jennifer and Adrianna were reported missing, authorities executed a search warrant on Joey's home. A twenty-year-old image of a child in the family engaging in s3xual activity was found during the search, along with expl0sives and we@pons.

As a result Joey's father, Joseph Benton Sr., was charged with unlawful possession of dozens of we@pons, expl0sives, and s3xual exploitation of a minor. As a convicted felon, he was not to have any we@pons.

Jennifer and her daughter Adrianna have never been heard from again.

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08/28/2024

Missing!!
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08/24/2024

On August 22, 2024, police were called to an apartment complex on Sollie Road, just after 8:00 p.m. in Mobile, Alabama. When they arrived officers found one person unalived due to st@b wounds, who was identified as 33-year-old, Taylor Rawlings.
Just hours later, police would arrest 31-year-old Jennifer Cain, who also goes by Jennifer Heathcoe, for the crime. According to police, Cain had st@bbed Taylor, in front of three children, after the two had an altercation.
From what I read, not all the children were hers. Taylor had children with another woman. It's just incredibly sad, that these children had to witness this horrific crime.
Cain was a former Registered Nurse, Labor & Delivery at University of South Alabama Children and Women's Hospital.
Cain is currently being detained at the Metro Jail.
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08/24/2024

On July 28, 2012, police sent a disturbance call to Kortne Stouffer, 21, apartment in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, around 9:00 p.m. A neighbor of Kortne's had seen alc0holic drinks taken inside the apartment. He knew that Kortne's boyfriend was on probation and that Kortne was the only one at least 21 years of age.

After police arrived, Brad Herr was taken into custody by Adult Probation for a violation. Out of the seven other people police found inside, two were cited for underage drinking and released. Kortne was the only person left in the apartment when the police left.

July 28, 10:07 p.m.- Kortne received a text from Cody Pruett and Milton Rodriguez, asking her to join them and a few others at a gas station in Hummelstown, PA. Kortne would leave her car there and ride with the others to Harrisburg, PA.

July 29, 1:50 a.m.-- Kortne got into an altercation with a female at a bar in Harrisburg, and she was asked to leave. The others catch up with her and they go to a nearby pizza shop before returning to the car.

July 29, 2:45 a.m.-- The group returns to Palmyra. Pruett is the driver and is driving Rodriguez's car. They drop a couple off, then Rodriguez at his home. Pruett then takes Kortne to retrieve her car and follows her back to her apartment.

July 29, 3:00 a.m.-- Kortne gets into a verbal altercation with her neighbors.

July 29, 3:12 a.m.-- Police are called by the neighbors. Kortne goes inside her apartment with Cody Pruett.

July 29, 3:15 a.m.--Police arrive at the residence. Kortne reported the neighbors came out and began to yell at her while she was walking her dog. The neighbors reported that Kortne was being loud and unruly. All the subjects appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and were told to go into their homes.

July 29, 4:11 a.m.-- Neighbors contact police and report that Kortne is screaming through the walls and stomping on the floor, slamming doors, and making threats to the neighbors.

July 29, 4:31 a.m.-- Police arrive and are met by the neighbors who say that Kortne was stomping on the floor to aggravate them. Police did attempt to make contact at the door without a response. They could see into the residence through a patio door and nearby window.

There was nothing out of place or unusual. The dogs barked from deep in the residence when they knocked.

July 29, 4:36 a.m.-- There was no response from within the residence, and without grounds to pursue the matter further, the Palmyra Police left.

July 29, 7:30 a.m.-- Neighbor Todd Saksek appeared at the police department to make a formal complaint and file charges against Kortne for kicking him during a prior incident.

July 29, 7:56 a.m.-- Cody Pruett claims that he slept inside Kortne's apartment. When he woke up Kortne was not there. He drives to the Sheetz Store and makes a purchase, he is seen on surveillance camera. He then sends Kortne a text message "Hey what happened to you?" Cody then goes to Rodriguez's house to return the car. He is then taken to his home in the Hummelstown area. He sends Kortne another text message at 12:36 p.m. and another at 1:58 p.m. He never receives a response.

July 30, 2:42 p.m.--Scott Stouffer, Kortne's father, reports his daughter missing to the police department.

August 8, 2012-- Ground searches are conducted within a two-mile radius of the apartment with K-9s.

August 9, 2012-- Forensic searches were done of Kortne's apartment and searches of the neighbor's residences and vehicles.
To this day, Kortne is still missing!
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08/17/2024

⚠️ Warning ⚠️ This Story Is Graphic And Disturbing In Nature
In July of 2021 would be the last time anyone would see 33-year-old, mother of six, Cassidy Rainwater alive. She would be reported missing on August 25, 2021, by family.
Two men 58-year-old James Phelps and a 56-year-old Timothy Norton, would be accused of kidn@pping Cassidy from Windyville, Missouri. Which is 54 miles from Springfield, MO, or 160 miles from Kansas City, MO. In what people hoped for a good outcome for Cassidy, would learn just how ev!l this world could be.
Details would start to come to light early in this case that would say that Cassidy was being held against her will in a cage partially clothed on Phelps's property. Police would be contacted by the FBI with this anonymous tip that was given to them about the property on Moon Valley Road. Police would investigate the claim and execute a search warrant which would uncover photos of Cassidy in the cage. Other photos depicted Cassidy's b0dy t!ed to a gantry crane, commonly used for deer processing. Norton would ultimately confess to police that he had helped in the unaliving of Cassidy. He said that Phelps had him join him in the living room where Cassidy was sleeping at the time on the floor. Norton admitted that he held her legs down while Phelps str@ng!ed her then placed a bag over head. He then went on and explained that Phelps had then b0und her to the crane and d!smem/bered her. Police would find items in a freezer that appeared to be human f!e/sh. The packages were marked "7-24." Then in October of 2021, the house on Moon Valley Road, burned to the ground. Authorities would find a tripwire and a "live incendiary device" on the property. Phelps would admit that Cassidy did live on his property at one time but said that she had left sometime in late July after saying that she was going to leave for Colorado. Phelps also claimed that he had let Cassidy stay with him so that she could get back on her feet. But messages found by police showed that Phelps and Norton had been planning on mur/dering Cassidy from the get-go.
Both men have been charged with first-degree
mur/der. Norton's attorney has said that he plans on pleading not guilty. It is unclear if Phelps has an attorney.

08/13/2024

On December 7, 2000, Trevor Deely, 22, From Dublin, Ireland, attended his office Christmas party at Buck Whaley's nightclub, which was located just down the street from the bank. Almost everyone had shown up for this party despite the weather conditions outside, which had been cold, rainy, and windy. The party lasted well into the early morning hours of December 8th. Trevor left around 3:30 a.m. but due to taxi workers being on strike, Trevor was stuck walking in the elements. He would actually walk to the bank where he worked and go inside. There was one IT employee there who was working the night shift. Trevor logged into his computer briefly, it's been assumed to check his e-mail. Then he had tea and talked with the worker, Karl for a bit. Before grabbing an umbrella and leaving around 4:00 a.m. to make the 20-minute walk back to his apartment. He would make a phone call to a friend of his, Glen, as he exited the building. Glen would later say that he missed Trevor's call. Saying usually he kept his phone on the nightstand by the bed, but that night he had plugged it in the kitchen to charge. Something he says he regrets. This would be the last time anyone would hear from Trevor. Detectives would confirm that the last activity on Trevor's phone was at 4:06 a.m. on December 8th. The next day a Friday, Trevor failed to show up for work, which was out of character for him. But considering what went on the night before, his boss didn't think much of it. The weekend would pass with no one heard from him. Monday would roll around and when Trevor missed work yet again, alarm bells started going off. The boss would get ahold of Trevor's mother, who would call his brother Mark. Mark dropped everything and rushed to Dubin from Castlebar (about a three-hour drive) to help search for his younger brother, leaving behind his newly pregnant wife, not returning for more than two months. Despite the missing persons report that was filed. It was Trevor's friends that started searching for him. One of the friends worked with a company that sold and installed surveillance cameras. This friend would be the one to find a business along the route Trevor took that night that still had CCTV footage of him.
A Timeline OF Trevor's Last Night
At 3:05 a.m., a man wearing all black was seen approaching the bank’s gate. He stood behind one of the pillars of the gate as if trying to hide and remained there for approximately 30 minutes. Was he trying to hide from the weather?
At 3:34 a.m., the man in black answered his cell phone. It was at this point that Trevor started to walk by. Trevor doesn’t appear concerned.
Arriving at the second gate--roughly 20 feet away from the first, a second man wearing black stepped out of the shadows beside the gate. Trevor spoke with the unidentified man, still appearing calm.
The mysterious man in black, with whom Trevor spoke before entering the bank, eventually walked away and out of view of the camera.
Trevor left the bank around 4 a.m. and walked in the direction of his apartment building.
At 4:14 a.m., Trevor was seen passing an ATM near Haddington Road and Baggot Street Bridge. At this point, he was about 15 minutes away from home. Approximately 30 seconds after Trevor walked by, a man in black was seen quickly walking in the same direction. This is the last time Trevor can be accounted for. Just two days after Trevor disappeared, U.S. President Bill Clinton visited Ireland and his security team did a sweep of the area, cleaning up and disposing of trash, where Trevor had last been seen. Some believe that the team may have unknowingly disposed of clues about what happened to Trevor. Although police were four days behind, they searched the area around where Trevor was last seen, including the water under the Baggot Street Bridge and the nearby canals, but nothing was found. However, the Grand Canal Basin couldn't be searched thoroughly because draining the basin would have threatened the structural integrity of the surrounding buildings.
Some seem to think that Trevor could have fallen into the water, due to the partying he was doing that night, while others think that he could have unalived himself, but there's nothing to support these theories. Most believe the unidentified man in black, seen following Trevor is the key to finding Trevor, however, he has never come forward and remains unknown.
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08/11/2024

⚠️Warning ⚠️ Sensitive Content ❗

On January 15, 2023, Madison Brooks, 19, night out of fun would turn de@dly.
The LSU sophomore would arrive at Reggie's Bar in Tigerland a lively in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:06 p.m.
10:18 p.m. Casen Carver, 18, Kavion Washington, 18, Everett Lee, who is Washington's uncle, 28, and an unidentified 17-year-old are seen arriving at the bar.
Inside the bar the unidentified 17-year-old could be seen hugging and dancing with Madison.
1:00 a.m. Madison is seen sitting on a stool at Reggie's when she stands to readjust her pants and stumbles backward. Three individuals would help her get back on to her feet.
1:34 a.m. Madison falls again while standing up from a bench near the entrance of Reggie's bar. The unidentified 17 year-old approaches Madison, removes her baseball cap, then takes her hand helping her back to her feet.
1:49 a.m. Madison leaves the bar with the four men.
1:51 a.m. Madison is seen crossing the street with the men. Walking towards the location of their parked vehicle.
2:50 a.m. A call would be made about a fatal crash on Burbank Drive. Madison is ultimately struck by a truck. She is rushed to the hospital, but could not be saved. The driver who hit her was not impaired and does not face any criminal charges.
Carver would tell police that he and the other three, went to the bar where they consumed alcohol. He denies ever seeing Madison prior to that night. Carver tells police that Madison walked with them as they were leaving the bar. He also stated that Madison was very unstable on her feet and was not able to keep her balance. She was unable to speak clearly without slurring her words. He says that Madison had asked for a ride home. He would agree saying that he didn't want to leave her while she was very intoxicated and the bar was closing. Carver says he asked her about her friends, but that she was 'drunk' and didn't know where her friends were. According to statements Carver drove the vehicle that night, while Lee sat in the front passenger seat. Washington and the 17-year-old sat in the back seat with Madison. He says when they asked her for her address. Madison fell over and didn't answer him. So Carver drove for a short distance, before pulling over. Carver then tells police he heard the 17-year-old ask Madison five times if she wanted to have s*x with him. he allegedly says that Madison "gave verbal consent" According to Carver the 17-year-old and Washington took turns having s*x with Madison. Carver says that he and Lee were in the vehicle at the time all this took place and that it made him feel uncomfortable and that he hated it.
After the s*xual acts were done, Madison was then dropped off onto the side of the road of a four-lane highway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Where she would be hit by a truck.
Two samaritans Beau Adams, 21, and Kathryn Devillier, 21, were on their way home when a truck hit what they initially thought was a deer. The driver of the truck was just standing there in the road, so Beau pulled over to see if he could help. As he got closer to the scene that is when he realized that it wasn't a deer that had been hit, it was a girl. Beau immediately got on his knees and asked Madison if she was okay, but got no response. Realizing then that she wasn't breathing he started CPR. Kathyrn took it upon herself to dodge the traffic and retrieve any of Madison's belongings and identification. She found Madison's purse on the other side of the highway. The driver of the truck who was cleared of any wrongdoing and said that Madison was walking in the middle of the road. The two would go to the hospital to check on Madison, and there they would learn her fate. Madison's mother calls Beau and Kathryn "Madi's Guardian Angel." Although Madison didn't survive her injuries, Madison's mother believes that Beau's life-saving measures prolonged Madison's life long enough that her family could say their goodbyes and doctors could preserve her organs for donation, which was important to Madison.
The lives of all involved had forever been intertwined. Beau and Kathryn both got winged tattoos on their arms to honor Madison.
Casen Carver, 18, was charged with third- and first-degree r*pe, and video voyeurism, as he recorded Madison that night and shared the video without her consent. Desmond Carter, 17, was indicted on third- and first-degree r*pe charges. Despite his age, Carter will be tried as an adult. Kaivon Washington, 18, was charged with third-degree r*pe. Everette Lee, 28, was charged with third-degree r*pe, and video voyeurism for allegedly recording the last night Madison was alive.
Third-degree r*pre charge generally involves a victim who is "incapable of resisting or of understanding the nature of the act by reason of a stupor or abnormal condition of mind produced by an intoxicating agent or any cause and the offender knew or should have known of the victim's incapacity. This charge carries a fine up to $500 and/or a maximum sentence up to six months.
At the time of her de@th Madison Brooks had a bl00d alc0hol content of .319 which is considered alc0hol poisoning and 16 times the legal limit for anyone under the age of 21. THC was also found in her system.
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08/09/2024

On August 26, 2013, four days before Bryce Laspisa, 19, from Laguna Niguel, California, would disappear his girlfriend Kim Sly would notice that Bryce didn't seem like himself. She thought he was acting a bit erratical. Kim had discovered that Bryce who was a college student at Sierra College, in Chico, California. Had allegedly been using an ADHD medication, which had not been prescribed to him, to help him stay awake to play video games all night with his roommate. This roommate would also say that Bryce had been drinking more than usual. Days after this, Bryce gave away a pair of diamond earrings that his mother had given him. As well as his Xbox and other possessions. He would also end his relationship with his girlfriend Kim.
August 28 - Bryce called his mother and told her that he was at Kim's house, but that she wouldn't give him his keys back. Kim spoke to Bryce's mother, Karen, and explained that she was concerned for Bryce's well-being and that she was just trying to keep him safe. Bryce's roommate would also make a call to Karen telling her that something wasn't right with Bryce. After talking with her son and having him reassure her that he was fine and would head back to the apartment, Karen told Kim to give him his keys back, which she did. Karen offered to fly out and see her son, but Bryce told her to wait, he would see see her soon and that he had a lot to talk about with her. Bryce would leave, but he wouldn't go to the apartment as he had said he would. Instead, he began to drive south on I-5 towards Laguna Niguel.
August 29th, 1:00 a.m. - Karen missed a call from Bryce, at this time he was an hour from his apartment.
11:00 a.m.- Karen received a voicemail from their auto insurance company saying that Bryce has used the road side assistance around 9:00 a.m. Not able to make contact with Bryce, they call his roommate, Shawn, who stated that Bryce never came home the night before. His parents would then check the credit card statements and see that Bryce had charged $20 in gas from Castro Tire and Truck in Buttonwillow, California. About three hours from their home.
Karen calls but can't make contact with Bryce. Not sure what to do, Karen calls the local tire shop, where Bryce had bought gas and talks with Christain. Basically just asking him if he had seen Bryce recently. Christian says no, but offers to go back to the place where Bryce ran out of gas. When he does, he finds Bryce sitting in his suv in the same spot he had delivered gas to him hours earlier. Around 12:30 p.m. Christian calls Karen and tells her Bryce seemed okay, although his eyes were a bit red. Karen speaks with Bryce and he says he should arrive at their house around 3 p.m. Around 6:00p.m. when Bryce still hadn't made it to his parents house and wasn't answering the phone. Karen calls and makes a missing persons report. Police pinged Bryce's phone and found out he was still in Buttonwillow. They go to his last known location and find him still sitting in his car. Moreover he had moved just 8 miles from where Christian had delivered him gas. Police made contact with him and Bryce told them that he was just blowing off some steam. Police search his SUV and find nothing alarming inside. They asked him to call his mother and leave. When he talks with her, he tells her that he putting things in his car. When she asked him why he had been in Buttonwillow so long. He says that he was waiting to meet with some friends. But no one knows who these friends could have been. As Bryce has no ties to the area and didn't know anyone there.
Later that evening, Christian calls Karen after seeing that he has missed a call from her a few hours before. She explained what was going on and he offers to go check on Bryce again. Karen was sure her son was on his way home by now. But Christian went to check anyway. He would find Bryce sitting in his car, in the same spot. This time Christian decided to follow Bryce onto the freeway, seeing that he got his start driving home. After half an hour, Christian turned around and headed back to his place, leaving Bryce to make his way to his parents house.
August 30th, 2:00 a.m. - Bryce calls his mother. He tells her he is on the I-5 and is driving to her house. A few minutes later he would call back and say that he was just going to pull over and get some sleep. At this point, it is thought that Bryce had been awake for around 24 hours. Bryce didn't pull over and go to sleep. Instead, he continued driving for over an hour, until he reached Castaic Lake.
Around 8:00 a.m. there was knock on the Laspisa's front door, it was the California Highway Patrol. Then sometime between 4:20 a.m. and 5:15 a.m. Bryce's car was found at the lake by law enforcement who had arrived for a training exercise. The beige 2003 Toyota Highlander was located at the bottom of a 25-foot embankment. But there was no sign of Bryce. The back window had been broken from the inside, and bl00d was found on the passenger side and on the back of the seat. But it was small enough in nature that police believed that Bryce would have survived the crash. Everything that Bryce had with him was still in the SUV, Including his wallet, clothes, phone, and laptop.
Police obtained some CCTV footage from the area. The CCTV showed the car in the area. At 2:15 a.m., the SUV drove along Lake Hughes Road near Caustic Lake. The SUV drove up the same road again just before 4:30 p.m. The track pattern, from the top of the embankment down the bank to the Castaic Lake, led police to believe that the suv went down the bank at a high speed and no brakes were used. Police conducted a thorough and extensive search of the area. The Castaic Lake was searched for a number of days and nothing was found. Dogs, helicopters, and volunteers took part in the search. Scuba divers searched the Lake about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. They searched an area where the dogs, the search/scent K-9 dogs, picked up a scent. They tracked a path that seemed to suggest that Bryce got out of the car and walked away near a gas station. This is where the case goes cold. To this day Bryce is still missing.
Bryce was described as 5 feet 11 inches tall and 170 pounds, with red hair and blue eyes. He has a tattoo of a Ta**us bull head with a Roman numeral on his left shoulder.
He was last seen wearing white cargo shorts, a blue-and-white checkered shirt, and white-and-red Nike shoes.