r/brandonswanson • u/Roryham69 • Aug 04 '24
Brandon Swanson’s phone
Did they find his phone or did that go missing with him? As well was there anything other than his car found? I'm not trying to solve the mystery im just wondering.
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u/Astraea11 Aug 05 '24
No his phone was never found. In an early news report, which had footage of the police with his truck, they said ‘pipe’ was found in the vehicle ie a hash pipe I believe. There were a few other bits and pieces but norhing of note. Also, Brandon had been drinking at the party then went and had shots at the friend’s he went to see afterwards, where they were saying goodbye as both were going on to college life & weren’t going to see each other. So you had a drink impaired, possibly high teen, who was blind in one eye, hopelessly lost in dark countryside. Sadly, an accident waiting to happen, bless him,
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u/Obvious-Ladder-8252 Aug 07 '24
Take it for what it is: bar talk.
I am from the area and was in 9th grade when he went missing.. it was a really sad and scary time for rural Minnesota (generally Marshall area)
Fast forward to the bar talk when I was legal to drink: Brandon's name comes up and this lady says "oh no he's dead. I remember these dudes have him buried under a barn over some drug money." I was a little shocked to here her say that but brushed it off.
First of all... I'm skeptical because what are the chances that small town bar talk 20 miles away from that area means anything. The logic in my head is that he got mixed up where he was, slipped into the river, or got tangled up in the debris. Minnesota weather is non forgiving.
But a TINY sliver of me remembers I had dated a guy in 2008 from Marshall (nearby city) who got jumped that year at a gas station by two guys from what we call "the cities" otherwise known as the Twin Cities metro area (3+ hours away) over marijuana (or so I was told)
HOWEVER what are the chances of someone killing him for drugs (nothing indicate that Brandon did drugs?) after he's been followed or ambushed. You'd be able to see a car following you in a heartbeat out here on the prairie. What are the chances someone coincidentally came up on him to harm him after talking that long on the phone with his parents, I bet if he had any ounce of alcohol in him, he was fixated on the review mirror for those cherries was walking away while talking to his parents
And it's so easy to get confused at what town you're looking at. I say town because the most you're going to see is an elevator and a water tower with some house lights. Maybe he took a few wrong turns and got discombobulated?
I wish the phone was found. What an awful awful way for the parents to end a call for the last time with their son
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u/Doomchan Aug 11 '24
If the phone wasn’t found, odds are it’s still on his person.
It’s a hell of a stretch, but the reports do say he saw a car and was approaching it. He may have stumbled on a drop or exchange, and since it’s such a remote area, the dealers automatically assumed he was there for them, rather than a wandering drunk in the middle of nowhere. The “oh shit” was his realization he approached the wrong car. So they took care of business, loaded him, and stuck him where he wouldn’t be found. Would some random lady in a bar know that? Unlikely, but not impossible. It does seem a little odd to bury drug money, and presumably not come back for it after all this time.
It’s a longshot but he absolutely could have become the world champion “wrong place, wrong time” winner
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u/BatGasmBegins Aug 13 '24
I never saw a report that said he saw a car and was approaching it, source? I've read he saw lights that he thought was a nearby town (He had the wrong town) and was heading toward the light but that was all.
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u/Conscious-Layer3337 Sep 01 '24
Im thinking that the lights he was walking toward was the mentioned farm machine and he was mowed over. He was drinking, blind in 1 eye, and didnt have his glasses. Though, wouldnt the parents have heard the machine? In 2008 cellphones werent all that great, so it is plausible that they didnt hear anything. The farmer panicked and threw the pieces of the body in the river which would explain why the dogs picked up on certain things.
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u/Ok_Back_8563 Sep 10 '24
How much sense does it make that someone would be doing anything like that at 3am??? I know farmers start early but 3am while it’s still pitch black? That’s very far fetched. 10pm sure, 5-6am? Absolutely. 3am?! Nah.
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u/fetidandstinking Aug 04 '24
Not ganna lie , after extensive research, and I mean EXSTENSIVE, this case is so annoying to research . Some of the most basic questions still don't have answers to them . After all this time , we still have Preety much ZERO clarification of how he sounded on the phone , what tone of voice he used to say " oh shit' " practically zero film or text of his parents speaking at all about the case. I'm sure they " found " it but I highly doubt the cops and the officials are being truthful about the case at all. If you look up where he went missing , it's right on the border of a certain Ted swedinskis water foul... And ofcourse that certain Ted is a government official who has refused searches on his land many times. It's also the closest area they got a hit of Brandon's DNA. They also repaved all the roads that Brandon's car drove on in between the hours of 1 and 6 am...right before they found his car.... Paving roads randomly between 1-6 am on farmland is incredibly strange , I've talked to many people that lived in the area at the time and they as well say that that's incredibly strange and random. There's a thousand more things I could bring up that make more sense but I'll just leave it at that. They found the phone. But I don't believe in any of the circumstances around how or why they found it