Hello everyone. I would like to know what theories you believe, about forgotten facts that also make a difference in this case. By the way, if he disappeared (according to the smell the dogs smelled, how did they smell him in the tractor? Did he teleport? lol)
Fell in the river, lost his phone, walked out and died on one of the properties the police weren’t allowed to search, most likely the one with the tractor his scent was on. Here’s why:
He was talking with his dad pretty much the whole time he was walking up until the final scream. He was describing his surroundings. He mentioned fields and fences and there was a sound of rushing water, but he never said “dang I just walked into a river.” However, the police dogs found his scent going into the river and then coming out the other side. So we can assume that him going into/going out of the river happened after his final correspondence with his father, meaning that him screaming and going silent wasn’t the sound/result of him falling into a hole or getting hit by a car. I think what his father heard was him stumbling into the river and dropping his phone, damaging it. It was pitch black outside, the guy was without his glasses, tipsy, I doubt he would have been able to wade through the water and find the phone. Instead, he would’ve crossed over the other side and kept walking. The scent trail indicates this. Clearly at some point he died and it was probably from hypothermia. I don’t think he was abducted or hit by a driver. I think he made his way to a farm, maybe tried to take shelter under the tractor and at some point met his end somewhere on the property. Depending on the size of the property, the owner might not even have known or even know now. I’d bet that if someone went to that property with a metal detector they’d end up finding his silver chain and potentially what’s left of his remains.
I think this theory is the most likely. But the one about drug trafficking or that he fell somewhere and was not seen (or even that he faked his own disappearance) is also interesting. But this is the one that makes the most sense to me. I confess that if I were drunk, cold and wet, I would ask for help at some farm or property. Maybe he passed out when he arrived, or was so drunk that he fell asleep right there.
Honestly, drug trafficking makes zero sense to me personally. He was in the middle of absolute nowhere in the dark in dodgy terrain. It’s just about the least likely place to become a victim of drug trafficking. A person is more likely to fall victim to drug trafficking getting kidnapped out of their own house than in the middle of rural nowhere. It’s not a horror movie. He had some kind of accident.
I’m sure this is a stupid question, but what exactly is drug trafficking?
If you don’t mind educating me, pretty please? 🥺
Regarding the dogs - there are different types of dogs used for search and rescue (SAR).
Right away after his car was found, tracking dogs would've been used to follow his scent from the vehicle. These dogs allegedly followed his scent to an unoccupied farmhouse property and to the river. Tracking dogs can follow the scent of a specific person, from samples of their clothing, etc.
There are also cadaver dogs, which are used to detect human remains. These types of dogs were used in the search for several years after Brandon went missing. Cadaver dogs allegedly detected remains on or very near a tractor at some point in the search. However, Cadaver dogs only detect the presence of decomposition of human remains. They wouldn't be able to detect if it was Brandon or not.
Hypothermia and inadvertently ploughed into a field early the next day, sadly. It makes by far the most sense IMO.
fell into the river, phone got lost somewhere in the river, possibly suffered a concussion and succumbed to hypothermia in a field. I think his body was damaged by farm machinery shortly after and deliberately covered up by the farmer who didn’t want to be involved. Farmer could’ve had a dodgy past of his own, and didn’t want to be pinned. I think most honest people would admit to a farm accident if it were a true accident but we don’t know what the farmer was doing behind the scenes unrelated to Brandon’s death. Maybe he just didn’t want police all up in his business which is why he didn’t consent to a search. So in essence I think the death was an accident but the disposal of Brandon was deliberate as the farmer had some unrelated incentive to avoid law enforcement search. The farmer knew if he admitted to any accident related to Brandon they’d have to examine him as a suspect of foul play and search his property/computers/look into his history. I think the guy had more to hide than the fact some teenager died on his farm and Brandon’s body was collateral damage in protecting some unrelated crime/illegal images on his computer/idek. Purely speculation but it just makes sense to me.
I also can entertain theories of him falling into a well or sinkhole, it’s fitting for the area and without his glasses in the dark it’d be easy to accidentally fall. Although I lean less towards this because I believe the dogs would have sniffed this out even if it was a small opening. If you’ve ever smelled the top of a manhole to a sewer or a dried P trap you know that omitting fumes from a small hole can stink pretty bad even to human noses, I think the dogs would be sensitive enough to detect this if they were searching in the right location. Regardless, error exists and this the theory I believe second-most.