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Speaker 1: In mid August twenty thirteen, Mike and Karen Lost Pisa
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Speaker 1: helped their beloved only child, nineteen year old Briceless Pisa,
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Speaker 1: get all of his things packed up and into the
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Speaker 1: family car. Bryce had just spent the summer with his
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Speaker 1: parents in their home in Laguna Miguel, cal which is
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Speaker 1: one of the nicest places to live in the entire country.
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Speaker 1: But now that the summer was coming to an end,
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Speaker 1: it was time for Bryce to head back to Sierra
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Speaker 1: College in Rockland, California, where he was set to start
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Speaker 1: his sophomore year. Once all of his things were packed
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Speaker 1: inside the trunk of the car, all three of them
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Speaker 1: hopped inside and then made the seven hour drive north
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Speaker 1: to his campus. Once his parents had moved him into
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Speaker 1: his apartment, they gave him a hug and a kiss
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Speaker 1: and wished him luck, and then they left. On their
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Speaker 1: ride back home, Mike and Karen talked about how well
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Speaker 1: their son seemed to be doing. He loved his school,
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Speaker 1: he loved the program he was in. He was in
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Speaker 1: graphic design. He was a very gifted artist. He had
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Speaker 1: lots of friends, he had a wonderful girlfriend. It just
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Speaker 1: seemed like he was living his best life and he
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Speaker 1: was on the path to success. So nothing could prepare
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Speaker 1: them for what their son did. Two weeks later, just
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Speaker 1: a couple of days after getting dropped off at school,
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Speaker 1: Bryce's very close friend and roommate Sean and Bryce's girlfriend Kim,
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Speaker 1: noticed Bryce was acting erradically. Specifically, he was drinking a
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Speaker 1: ton of hard alcohol. Now Bryce was no saint, He
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Speaker 1: liked to drink can party like many other kids his
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Speaker 1: age did, but the amount of alcohol he was consuming
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Speaker 1: was concerning. Also, Bryce began experimenting with a drug called
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Speaker 1: by Vance, which is a very powerful stimulant that's normally
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Speaker 1: used to treat attention deficit disorder. Now Bryce didn't have
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Speaker 1: attention deficit disorder. He was taking it in order to
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Speaker 1: stay up late at night and play video games. But
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Speaker 1: between the heavy drinking and the drug use, it seemed
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Speaker 1: like Bryce's personality was starting to change. He was becoming
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Speaker 1: anxious and skittish and kind of paranoid. And so finally
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Speaker 1: Sean and Kim confronted him about his substance abuse and
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Speaker 1: asked him, you know, like, what's going on, what's causing
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Speaker 1: you to act this way? And Bryce would say nothing, guys,
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Speaker 1: I'm fine. I'm just you know, drinking and doing whatever
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Speaker 1: I want to do. It's not a big deal. But
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Speaker 1: Sew and Kim they weren't buying it. They were convinced
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Speaker 1: that something bad had happened to Bryce, and the way
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Speaker 1: he was coping with it was by drinking really heavily
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Speaker 1: and taking this drug. On August twenty eighth, so about
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Speaker 1: two weeks after Bryce has been dropped back off at
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Speaker 1: school by his parents, Bryce and his roommate Seawan were
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Speaker 1: alone in their apartment together, and at some point, as
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Speaker 1: they're sitting there just kind of mining their own business,
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Speaker 1: Bryce says to Sean, hey, I want to give you something,
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Speaker 1: and he takes his diamond earrings out and he gives
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Speaker 1: them to Sean. And Shawn's looking at these earrings and
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Speaker 1: he's like, you know, didn't your mom give these to you?
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Speaker 1: Aren't these important to you? These are expensive? And Bryce
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Speaker 1: just says no, I want you to have them. And
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Speaker 1: so Sean is looking at these earrings, looking back at Bryce,
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Speaker 1: wondering what's going on here. And then before he can
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Speaker 1: even refuse the gift, Bryce is grabbing his Xbox and
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Speaker 1: putting it on the table and telling Sean, I want
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Speaker 1: you to have this too, take my xbox. And so
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Speaker 1: Sean is like, I can't accept these two things. These
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Speaker 1: are expensive, these are valuable to you. You know what's
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Speaker 1: going on here. But Bryce would just say, look, man,
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Speaker 1: I want you to have these things. You're important to me,
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Speaker 1: and I want to give these to you. And so,
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Speaker 1: as Seawan is sitting there wondering how to handle this
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Speaker 1: very strange offering, he watched Bryce pull his phone out
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Speaker 1: and begin really aggressively texting somebody. And then after a while,
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Speaker 1: Bryce looks up from his phone and he tells Sean, Hey,
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Speaker 1: just so you know, I broke up with Kim. At
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Speaker 1: this point, Seawan knows, okay, something is definitely wrong here.
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Speaker 1: There's no reason Bryce would break up with Kim. They
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Speaker 1: were such a loving couple. They do voted on each other,
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Speaker 1: they were very close, they had just seen each other
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Speaker 1: earlier in the day. Nothing seemed to be wrong, and
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Speaker 1: so now Bryce is text breaking up with her. It
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Speaker 1: didn't make any sense. Plus Bryce is now trying to
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Speaker 1: give him all these valuable things. It just wasn't really
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Speaker 1: adding up, and so Seawan decided he needed to get
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Speaker 1: in touch with Bryce's parents because clearly someone needed to intervene,
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Speaker 1: and so Seawan waited until Bryce left. Bryce actually left
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Speaker 1: to go talk to Kim, and at that point, Shawn
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Speaker 1: got his phone out and he looked up Bryce's parents
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Speaker 1: and he called them. Bryce's mother, Karen. She picks up
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Speaker 1: the phone and Sean explains that, you know, your son,
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Speaker 1: he's acting strangely. He's abusing drugs and alcohol, and I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing this unless I thought there was a problem,
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Speaker 1: Like I'm not trying to get him in trouble. I
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Speaker 1: want you to reach out to him and see what's
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Speaker 1: going on, because I think there's a problem. And so
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Speaker 1: Karen was alarmed by this. She had no idea any
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Speaker 1: of this was going on, and she says, okay, now
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Speaker 1: I'll reach out to my son. Thank you for telling me,
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Speaker 1: and so they hang up, and before Karen can even
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Speaker 1: call Bryce, Bryce is calling her, and so Karen answers
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Speaker 1: the phone, but it's not Bryce, it's Kim, his now
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Speaker 1: ex girlfriend, and she says to Ki Karen, Hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry to just call you like this, but your son
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Speaker 1: he just showed up at my apartment and he's acting
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Speaker 1: so strangely that I actually took his keys. I don't
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Speaker 1: want him to drive. There's something wrong with him. It's
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Speaker 1: hard to describe, but he just seems totally off. And
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Speaker 1: so now Karen's really concerned because just seconds ago, Sean
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Speaker 1: has told her basically the same thing, and so Karen asked, Kim,
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Speaker 1: would you please put my son on the phone. Bryce
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Speaker 1: picks up the phone and he says, hey, mom, and
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Speaker 1: he sounds totally normal, and she asked him, you know
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Speaker 1: what's going on? I keep hearing that you're acting strangely,
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Speaker 1: and you know, what are you doing over at Kim's apartment?
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Speaker 1: What's going on here? And Bryce would tell his mom that, look, mom,
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Speaker 1: I just broke up with Kim. It's a very messy breakup.
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Speaker 1: That's why she's calling you. She's upset, and you know
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Speaker 1: that's why I'm over here. We're talking about it. And look,
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Speaker 1: at this point, I just really want to go home.
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to my apartment, but she
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Speaker 1: has my keys. Can you please tell her to give
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Speaker 1: me my car keys back so I can leave? But
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Speaker 1: Karen wasn't really buying it. She knew her son really well,
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Speaker 1: and it just seemed totally strange that two of his
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Speaker 1: very close friends in his inner circle would say the
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Speaker 1: same thing independent of one another. And so she says,
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Speaker 1: you know what, Bryce, Look, I want you to just
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Speaker 1: stay there, and I'm gonna fly out there first thing
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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, and I'm gonna just see what's going on
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Speaker 1: out there. And at this Bryce immediately says, no, mo,
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Speaker 1: I have a lot to talk to you about. And
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Speaker 1: until I talk to you about it, I don't want
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Speaker 1: you coming out here. And so Karen's like, what do
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Speaker 1: you mean you have a lot to talk to me about.
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Speaker 1: What is it that you have to talk to me about?
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Speaker 1: I don't really understand. But Bryce refused to elaborate over
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Speaker 1: the phone, which Karen thought was very odd because Bryce
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Speaker 1: was remarkably forthcoming with his parents that had a very
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Speaker 1: open relationship. They were very honest with each other. So
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Speaker 1: for him to not even give a hint at whatever
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Speaker 1: it was that was on his mind that in some
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Speaker 1: way had to do with what was going on here,
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Speaker 1: it just seemed very odd and unnecessarily cryptic. And so
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Speaker 1: Karen gave up trying to get more information out of
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Speaker 1: her son, and instead she put her husband on the phone,
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Speaker 1: and he asked, Bryce, Hey, you know what's going on here?
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Speaker 1: You okay? And your mom tells me there's some problem,
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Speaker 1: like what's going on here? And Bryce again just reiterates, look, Dad,
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Speaker 1: I just broke up with my girlfriend. That's all that's
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Speaker 1: going on here. There's no need to be concerned. I
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Speaker 1: just need one of you to tell Kim to give
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Speaker 1: me my keys back so I can go back to
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Speaker 1: my apartment. That's all I need right now. And so
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Speaker 1: Mike felt convinced that his son was totally fine, even
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Speaker 1: though it did seem odd. That two of his friends
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Speaker 1: had said he was acting erratically, but from Mike's perspective,
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Speaker 1: Bryce seemed just fine, and so he said as much
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Speaker 1: to Karen and thought, you know, let's just get Kim
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Speaker 1: to give him keys back and he can go back
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Speaker 1: to his apartment and we can talk to him later
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Speaker 1: about whatever it is that's going on. And so reluctantly
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Speaker 1: Karen gets back on the phone and she asks to
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Speaker 1: speak with Kim, and she says, hey, Kim, would you
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Speaker 1: mind giving our son his keys back? He'd like to leave,
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Speaker 1: And so Kim says, okay, I'll give him his keys,
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Speaker 1: and then they hung up, and then Kim got the
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Speaker 1: keys out, she gave him to Bryce, and Bryce left.
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Speaker 1: At about eleven thirty pm that night, Bryce was in
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Speaker 1: his car. He was getting ready to leave when his
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Speaker 1: mom called him back and said, Okay, look, I want
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Speaker 1: you to go home, but as soon as you get there,
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Speaker 1: just give me a call so I know you're safe,
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Speaker 1: and Bryce said, no problem, I'll give you a call.
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Speaker 1: About an hour and a half later, at one am,
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Speaker 1: Bryce called his mom back to let her know that
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Speaker 1: he was home safe at his apartment. And Karen and
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Speaker 1: Mike are totally relieved, and they tell their son, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk to you tomorrow morning. Ten hours later,
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Speaker 1: at eleven am on August twenty ninth, Karen received an
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Speaker 1: automated phone call from her car insurance company letting her
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Speaker 1: know that roadside assistance had been used on their two
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Speaker 1: thousand and three Toyota Highlander car. That was Bryce's car.
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Speaker 1: And so Karen's totally confused because the last she spoke
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Speaker 1: to her son, he was at his apartment. He was
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Speaker 1: home safe, he did not have any car problems, and
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Speaker 1: so she's thinking, you know, did he get up early
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Speaker 1: this morning and get into an accident and call roadside assistance,
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Speaker 1: or maybe last night he got into car problems and
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Speaker 1: just didn't tell her about it, but they were minor,
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Speaker 1: And so she calls Bryce, but Bryce doesn't pick up,
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Speaker 1: and so she dials his roommate, Sean. Sean does answer
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Speaker 1: the phone, and she says, hey, would you mind putting
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Speaker 1: Bryce on the line, but Sean says, Bryce isn't here
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Speaker 1: and he didn't come home last night. Considering the general
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Speaker 1: weirdness around their son's recent behavior, this really shocked Karen
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Speaker 1: and Mike. At first, they thought, we need to call
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Speaker 1: the police because something horrible has happened. But then they thought, well,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, let's go into his bank statements because
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Speaker 1: he has a credit card that we gave him, and
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Speaker 1: let's see if there's any recent purchases that will allow
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Speaker 1: us to track where he is. And so they pull
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Speaker 1: up his bank statements and his most recent charge was
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Speaker 1: only a few hours earlier, and it was at a
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Speaker 1: car repair shop in Button Willow, California, which is the
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Speaker 1: small desert town right off of the I five Highway,
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Speaker 1: located about halfway between his school campus and their hometown
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Speaker 1: in Laguna Nequel. And so Karen and Mike assume their
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Speaker 1: son last night must not have gone to his apartment
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Speaker 1: but instead just kept on driving south in an attempt
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Speaker 1: to drive all the way back home to his hometown
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Speaker 1: of Laguna Nicel. I mean, after all, he did tell
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Speaker 1: his mom he had a lot to talk about and
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Speaker 1: he didn't want to talk about it on the phone,
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Speaker 1: and so they assumed he must be driving here to
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Speaker 1: talk about whatever it was in person. And perhaps he
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Speaker 1: ran into some car problems in Button Willow, California, that's
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Speaker 1: why he pulled over. That's why there's this charge at
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Speaker 1: this auto repair shop, and so Karen calls the auto
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Speaker 1: repair shop in Button Willow and a man who worked
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Speaker 1: there named Christian answered the phone, and so Karen asked him,
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Speaker 1: you know, have you seen my son. He's got red Harry,
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Speaker 1: he's got a tattoo in his arm. He's driving a
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Speaker 1: two thousand and three Toyota Highlander. And Christian says, oh, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we saw him a couple of hours ago. We responded
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Speaker 1: to his roadside assistance call. He ran out of gas
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Speaker 1: on the I five Highway. He pulled into a rest
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Speaker 1: stop and we drove to that rest stop and we
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Speaker 1: gave him gas, and so Karen asked Christian, you know,
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Speaker 1: did my son indicate where he was going next? And
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Speaker 1: Christian said, no, he didn't. We just gave him the
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Speaker 1: gas and then we left. But if you'd like, I'd
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Speaker 1: be more than happy to just drive over to the
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Speaker 1: rest stop. It's only about fifteen minutes away and see
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Speaker 1: if he's still there. It's unlikely because it's been a
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Speaker 1: couple of hours, but you know, maybe, And Karen and
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Speaker 1: Mike are like, oh my gosh, thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Would you do that, that would be great, And so
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Speaker 1: Christian hops in his car and he drives the fifteen
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Speaker 1: minutes over to this rest stop, and he's not really
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Speaker 1: expecting to see Bryce in this parking lot. It had
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Speaker 1: been almost three hours. But he pulls into the lot
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Speaker 1: and there is the two thousand and three Toyota Highlander
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Speaker 1: with Bryce sitting inside of it. He's just sitting behind
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Speaker 1: the wheels, staring out into nothingness, and so Christian walks
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Speaker 1: up to the driver's side and he looks down to
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Speaker 1: get Bryce's at tame and Bryce kind of snaps out
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Speaker 1: of it and looks up and he's surprised to see
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Speaker 1: Christian again. He rolls the window down and Christian says
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Speaker 1: to him, Hey, I just talked to your parents. They're
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Speaker 1: really concerned about you. You got to talk to him.
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Speaker 1: And so Christian actually pulls out his phone and he
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Speaker 1: calls Karen and says, hey, he is still here. Here
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Speaker 1: he is, and he hands the phone to Bryce. And
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Speaker 1: as soon as Bryce puts the phone to his ear
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Speaker 1: and he says hello, Karen's like, what are you doing?
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Speaker 1: What are you doing just sitting in this restop in
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Speaker 1: the middle of Button Willow, California. We're so worried about you.
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Speaker 1: And Bryce didn't really have an answer. He just kept
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Speaker 1: telling his mom, I'm not doing anything. I'm just I'm
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Speaker 1: just sitting here. And so finally his mom stops trying
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Speaker 1: to get information from him and just says, look, please
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Speaker 1: just fill your car up with gas and comes straight home, please.
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Speaker 1: And Bryce says, okay, yeah, that's what I'll do. I'll
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Speaker 1: do that right now. And so Bryce hands the phone
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Speaker 1: back to Christian. Christian pulls it up to his ear
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Speaker 1: and he says, hey, Karen, it looks like he's leaving now,
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Speaker 1: so I'm going to take off. Karen thanks him, and
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Speaker 1: they hang up. Christian goes back into his car. He
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Speaker 1: leaves the lot, and as he's driving, he looks over
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Speaker 1: at Bryce and it didn't really look like Bryce getting
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Speaker 1: ready to leave. It looked like he had just gone
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Speaker 1: back to sitting and blankly staring out of his car.
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Speaker 1: But Christian figured, you know what, he just talked to
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Speaker 1: his mom. He said he was going to go home.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's what he's going to do. The drive
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Speaker 1: from button Willow, California, south to Laguna Neguel, California, where
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Speaker 1: Bryce's parents were, was about a three hour trip, and
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Speaker 1: so those pizzas were expecting their son to arrive around
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Speaker 1: three pm. By three point thirty pm, when he still
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Speaker 1: hadn't shown up and he still hadn't called, Karen began
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Speaker 1: calling her son, but he wasn't answering the phone. And
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Speaker 1: as much as Karen and Mike wanted to believe their
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Speaker 1: son had just gotten stuck in traffic or something like that,
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Speaker 1: they knew deep down something was wrong, something was off
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Speaker 1: about his behavior. They just didn't understand what it was.
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Speaker 1: For the next several hours, they continuously tried calling their
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Speaker 1: son and he never answered the phone, and so finally,
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Speaker 1: by six pm that night, when he still hadn't shown
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Speaker 1: up and they still couldn't get in touch with him,
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Speaker 1: they called the police and they filed an official missing
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Speaker 1: person report. The police began their search by contacting Bryce's
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Speaker 1: cell phone provider AT and T, and they asked them
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Speaker 1: to use their cell phone towers to king Bryce's cell phone,
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Speaker 1: basically triangulate where his phone is located. And once they
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Speaker 1: did that and they had the actual location of his phone,
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Speaker 1: the police and Bryce's parents were shocked at where it was.
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Speaker 1: It was still in Button Willow, California. It was located
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Speaker 1: just a couple of miles down the road, from that
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Speaker 1: rest stop where Christian had last seen Bryce. It was
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Speaker 1: now in this parking lot of this hotel, and so
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Speaker 1: the police around Button Willow were alerted to the fact
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Speaker 1: that Bryce was a missing person and his phone was
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Speaker 1: apparently in this parking lot, and so police were sent
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Speaker 1: over there to see if Bryce was there too. And
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Speaker 1: so the police arrived in this hotel parking lot and
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Speaker 1: sure enough, right in the middle is the two thousand
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Speaker 1: and three Toyota Highlander with Bryce sitting behind the wheel,
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Speaker 1: just sitting there staring out the front. And so an
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Speaker 1: officer walks up and he knocks on the glass and
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Speaker 1: Bryce rolls the window down, and the officer would say,
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Speaker 1: Bryce acted totally normally. He was friendly, he was lucid.
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Speaker 1: He answered all their questions when he got out of
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Speaker 1: the car, and they conducted field sobriety tests. He passed
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Speaker 1: all of them. He even said, hey, if you want
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Speaker 1: to search my car, go for it. I'm not doing
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Speaker 1: anything out here. And so the officers did search his
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Speaker 1: car and there were no drugs, no alcohol, There was
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Speaker 1: nothing suspicious in his car. And when they asked him,
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Speaker 1: you know, what are you doing out here? Your parents
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Speaker 1: are so concerned about you. Bryce would tell them that
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Speaker 1: he was just sitting there. He didn't really have much
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Speaker 1: of an answer, but he told them he planned on
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Speaker 1: going home soon, and so one of the officers said
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Speaker 1: to him, hey, you really need to call your mom.
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Speaker 1: You need to call home and let them know that
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Speaker 1: you're okay. And when they told him to do that,
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Speaker 1: Bryce suddenly became really apprehensive, like he did not want
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Speaker 1: to call home. And the officer picked up on it
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Speaker 1: and he said, hey, you've got to tell your family
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Speaker 1: what's going on. They're the reason we're out here. They're
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Speaker 1: concerned about you. So get out your phone and dial
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Speaker 1: your mom. And so Bryce reluctantly pulled his phone out.
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Speaker 1: He dialed his mother's number and he hit call, and
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Speaker 1: the officer said, give me the phone. So Bryce hands
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Speaker 1: over the phone. The officer picks it up. Karen answers
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Speaker 1: the phone, and the officer tells her, Hey, look, I'm
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Speaker 1: with your son. He's just fine. He's sober, there's no drugs,
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Speaker 1: there's no alcohol. I don't really know what he's doing,
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Speaker 1: but he says he's going to go home pretty soon.
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Speaker 1: But there's nothing wrong about the situation that I can tell.
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Speaker 1: You need to talk to your son and figure out
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Speaker 1: what's going on. And so he hands the phone over
15:04
Speaker 1: to Bryce. Bryce picks it up, and Karen says to him,
15:08
Speaker 1: what's going on. Why are you still in Button Willow.
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Speaker 1: It's been like nine hours. And Bryce really didn't give
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Speaker 1: her an answer to any of her questions. He just
15:16
Speaker 1: kind of deflected all of them and said he'd be
15:18
Speaker 1: home soon and don't worry about it. I'm just sitting here.
15:20
Speaker 1: There's nothing to worry about. And so finally Karen just
15:23
Speaker 1: stopped trying to pull information out of her son. She
15:26
Speaker 1: could tell that again he was not going to tell
15:28
Speaker 1: her what's going on, and so she changed her tactic
15:31
Speaker 1: and she told her son very gently, Bryce, please just
15:34
Speaker 1: go get a bite to eat, get a cup of coffee,
15:36
Speaker 1: kind of get yourself together here, and then please just
15:39
Speaker 1: drive home. It's only a few hours away. Drive home,
15:43
Speaker 1: and we can talk about whatever problems you have, but
15:45
Speaker 1: you just got to drive home. You got to leave
15:47
Speaker 1: Button Willow. You've got to come home. And at this
15:49
Speaker 1: Bryce says to his mom, you know what, Okay, I'm sorry,
15:52
Speaker 1: I'll be home in a few hours. And so they
15:54
Speaker 1: hang up, and the officer, who was kind of eavesdropping
15:57
Speaker 1: intentionally on this conversation to make sure everything was fine.
16:00
Speaker 1: The officer was satisfied that everything was fine, that Bryce
16:03
Speaker 1: was sober that he would head home, and so he says, okay, Bryce,
16:06
Speaker 1: you know, best luck head home to your parents, and
16:08
Speaker 1: the officer left. An hour later, Karen received a call
16:11
Speaker 1: from Christian, the car repairman, who had checked on Bryce earlier,
16:15
Speaker 1: and he was actually returning one of Karen's calls. She'd
16:18
Speaker 1: called him some time and he didn't get back to her,
16:20
Speaker 1: and so he was calling back and he wanted to know,
16:22
Speaker 1: you know, had Bryce made it home safely, because now
16:23
Speaker 1: it's been several hours from when he saw him last.
16:26
Speaker 1: And Karen would tell Christian, actually, no, after you left,
16:30
Speaker 1: my son did not leave Button Willow. He just went
16:32
Speaker 1: down the road to a parking lot. But you know,
16:34
Speaker 1: the police actually were just over there that checked on him,
16:36
Speaker 1: and now I'm certain he's making his way home. Christian,
16:39
Speaker 1: who felt kind of invested in what was happening with Bryce,
16:42
Speaker 1: would say to Karen, Hey, I don't mind driving over
16:44
Speaker 1: there and just confirming he has left this parking lot.
16:47
Speaker 1: But Karen would say, you know what, I'm confident he's
16:49
Speaker 1: on his way. Don't worry about it, You're too kind.
16:52
Speaker 1: So they hang up, and afterwards, Christian, even though he
16:54
Speaker 1: didn't have to, he decides, I'm going to go over
16:57
Speaker 1: there and make sure Bryce really has left, because obviously
16:59
Speaker 1: something is going on here, and you know, if there
17:02
Speaker 1: is some problem, maybe I can assist. And so he
17:04
Speaker 1: drives over to this hotel parking lot and he really
17:07
Speaker 1: was not expecting to see Bryce there, but he pulls
17:10
Speaker 1: into the lot and who's still in the middle of
17:12
Speaker 1: the lot but Bryce in his two thousand and three
17:15
Speaker 1: Toyota Highlander, just staring out the front of his car,
17:18
Speaker 1: And so this time Christian pulls up right next to him.
17:20
Speaker 1: He parks the car, he walks right up to the window,
17:22
Speaker 1: and he's a little bit more forceful, friendly, but forceful
17:25
Speaker 1: with Bryce. He has n't rolled the window down, and
17:27
Speaker 1: Bryce obviously is very surprised to see Christian again. It's
17:29
Speaker 1: the third time he's seen this car repairman. And Christian
17:33
Speaker 1: says to him, Hey, Bryce, you need to go home.
17:36
Speaker 1: Your parents are so worried about you. You need to
17:39
Speaker 1: leave right now. In fact, I'm gonna watch you leave
17:42
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna follow you onto the highway to
17:44
Speaker 1: make sure you're going home. And so Bryce was a
17:46
Speaker 1: little bit taken aback and how forceful he was being,
17:48
Speaker 1: but he would ultimately say, okay, yeah, all right, let's leave.
17:51
Speaker 1: And so Christian gets back in his car and he
17:53
Speaker 1: goes right behind Bryce, and after a few seconds, Bryce
17:56
Speaker 1: pulls out of the lot and he starts driving onto
17:58
Speaker 1: the road and Christian follows him. For the next hour,
18:01
Speaker 1: Christian would just remain behind Bryce and watch him drive
18:04
Speaker 1: towards Laguna Noguel. And while he was driving, Christian would
18:07
Speaker 1: actually call Karen and Mike back and he would say
18:10
Speaker 1: to them that, you know, your son had not left,
18:11
Speaker 1: but now he's good. He's on the highway. I'm right
18:14
Speaker 1: behind him. He'll be home soon. And so when Christian
18:16
Speaker 1: and Bryce made it to the last leg on the
18:19
Speaker 1: way to Laguna Noguel, Christian was confident that Bryce was
18:22
Speaker 1: fine and he would get home under his own steam.
18:24
Speaker 1: He wasn't driving erradically. Everything seemed normal, and so Christian
18:28
Speaker 1: pulled up alongside Bryce. He kind of waved to him
18:30
Speaker 1: to say, you know, I'm leaving, and then he turned
18:32
Speaker 1: around and he headed back to Buttonwillow. Shortly after this,
18:35
Speaker 1: Karen called Bryce. Bryce picked up the phone. He's still driving,
18:38
Speaker 1: and Karen tells him, Okay, you're gonna give me landmarks
18:41
Speaker 1: of the things you're seeing as you're driving, so that
18:44
Speaker 1: I know you're actually driving home. But Bryce refused to
18:47
Speaker 1: give them to her. He would say, oh, I can't
18:50
Speaker 1: see anything out my window. It's too dark, and I
18:52
Speaker 1: don't know where anything is. And so despite Karen and
18:55
Speaker 1: Mike getting so frustrated with him saying, come on, tell
18:58
Speaker 1: us something, give us a sign, a road, anything, tell
19:01
Speaker 1: us anything around you, Bryce didn't give them any information.
19:04
Speaker 1: And so finally, at about two am, when Bryce really
19:07
Speaker 1: should have been in Laguna Neguel or very close, he
19:10
Speaker 1: tells his parents over the phone that he's too tired
19:13
Speaker 1: to continue and he needs to pull over and take
19:15
Speaker 1: a nap. At first, his parents urged him to just
19:17
Speaker 1: keep on going, come home. You can sleep as long
19:20
Speaker 1: as you want when you get here. But as they
19:21
Speaker 1: were saying it, they realized their son had been awake
19:24
Speaker 1: for nearly twenty four hours at this point, and it's
19:26
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, so it does kind of
19:28
Speaker 1: make sense for him to pull over and take a nap,
19:30
Speaker 1: and so they say, okay, pull over, but as soon
19:32
Speaker 1: as you wake up, you need to call us so
19:35
Speaker 1: we know you're back on the road. So Bryce says,
19:37
Speaker 1: no problem, I'll do that, and they hang up. Several
19:39
Speaker 1: hours later, at eight am, Karen and Mike have still
19:43
Speaker 1: not heard from their son, and they're telling themselves that
19:45
Speaker 1: he's probably just sleeping. He's totally exhausted. I'm sure he's fine.
19:48
Speaker 1: And then they hear their doorbell ring and they're immediately
19:51
Speaker 1: so relieved because they're thinking Bryce is here. He's finally arrived,
19:54
Speaker 1: Thank goodness. They run to the door, they open it
19:56
Speaker 1: up and it's not Bryce. It's a police officer or
20:00
Speaker 1: asked them, do you own a two thousand and three
20:02
Speaker 1: Toyota Highlander car? And so Mike and Karen's heart sank
20:05
Speaker 1: and they say, yes, our son Bryce drives that car.
20:08
Speaker 1: The officer told them that the car had been located
20:10
Speaker 1: a few hours earlier at the bottom of a twenty
20:13
Speaker 1: five foot cliff near Castaic Lake. The Staic Lake is
20:16
Speaker 1: about halfway between Button Willow and Laguna Noguel. They told
20:19
Speaker 1: the parents that there was no sign of a driver.
20:22
Speaker 1: Bryce was not there. They did find two small drops
20:25
Speaker 1: of blood inside the vehicle, but beyond that, there was
20:28
Speaker 1: no indication that Bryce had sustained life threatening injuries from
20:31
Speaker 1: this crash. They said the back window of the vehicle
20:34
Speaker 1: had been broken from the inside, indicating that Bryce had
20:37
Speaker 1: escaped the wreck by punching out that window. His laptop
20:40
Speaker 1: and phone were still in the vehicle, and his wallet
20:43
Speaker 1: and duffelbag were outside the vehicle on the road and
20:46
Speaker 1: looked like they had been rummaged through before they were
20:49
Speaker 1: left there. After an examination of the damage to the car,
20:52
Speaker 1: the final tire tracks that led down to where it
20:54
Speaker 1: had been found, and traffic cameras in the area, it
20:57
Speaker 1: was concluded that Bryce had actually intention driven off this cliff,
21:01
Speaker 1: and he had actually hit the accelerator right before he
21:04
Speaker 1: went over the edge. After Mike and Karen headed out
21:07
Speaker 1: to the crash scene and had a chance to talk
21:09
Speaker 1: to some of the investigators that had been looking for Bryce,
21:12
Speaker 1: they informed the parents that most likely what they were
21:15
Speaker 1: looking at with this crash was a failed suicide attempt,
21:18
Speaker 1: But Mike and Karen they just couldn't buy that. That
21:21
Speaker 1: was not like their son, and just two weeks earlier
21:24
Speaker 1: when they dropped him off, he was happy. He was
21:26
Speaker 1: excited to be at school. He was talking about the future.
21:29
Speaker 1: He was not someone that was suicidal, and so what
21:32
Speaker 1: situation could he have possibly gotten himself into in just
21:35
Speaker 1: those two weeks that was so bad it would lead
21:38
Speaker 1: to something like this. It made investigators and the parents wonder,
21:42
Speaker 1: you know, was Bryce hiding something? What did he mean
21:45
Speaker 1: when he said he had a lot to talk about?
21:47
Speaker 1: Did that have something to do with this thing he
21:50
Speaker 1: was hiding. A huge search was launched in and around
21:53
Speaker 1: the area where the car had been found, with hundreds
21:56
Speaker 1: of people on horseback, on atv, on foot. There were
21:59
Speaker 1: helicopters in the air. They put divers in the lake.
22:01
Speaker 1: I mean, they looked everywhere for days and days and days,
22:05
Speaker 1: but nothing was found of Bryce. On the ninth day
22:09
Speaker 1: of the search, they brought a bloodhound out to see
22:11
Speaker 1: if it could pick up Bryce's scent, and sure enough
22:14
Speaker 1: it did right at the crash site, and the dog
22:16
Speaker 1: followed the scent all the way down to the lake.
22:18
Speaker 1: It walked around the lake to this bridge was actually
22:21
Speaker 1: a dam that went across the lake. It followed his
22:24
Speaker 1: scent right across the bridge to the other side, and
22:26
Speaker 1: then it kept on following it up this small access
22:29
Speaker 1: road until it reached a truck stop and then a
22:31
Speaker 1: scent just stopped. And so police and the parents and
22:34
Speaker 1: everyone involved in this investigation was really surprised at this discovery,
22:38
Speaker 1: and so police got another bloodhound, a separate bloodhound. They
22:41
Speaker 1: brought it out to see if it could do the
22:43
Speaker 1: same thing to prove that this really was his scent trail,
22:47
Speaker 1: And sure enough, the bloodhound picked up his scent and
22:49
Speaker 1: went down to the lake and went around to the bridge,
22:51
Speaker 1: went over, went to the truck stop, and then it
22:53
Speaker 1: just stopped. But after the cent trail was discovered, there
22:56
Speaker 1: was no other leads for anyone to follow, and so
22:59
Speaker 1: after three weeks of looking everywhere for Bryce, the search
23:02
Speaker 1: was called off. Some say Bryce was suicidal, that's why
23:05
Speaker 1: he drove off the cliff. That was a suicide attempt,
23:08
Speaker 1: and despite the bloodhounds picking up his scent, Bryce was
23:11
Speaker 1: most likely in the lake somewhere. Others disagree and say
23:14
Speaker 1: Bryce is still alive. That after this crash, he gets
23:17
Speaker 1: out of the car and he walks down to the lake,
23:19
Speaker 1: he walks around to that bridge, he goes up to
23:21
Speaker 1: the truck stop, and then he hitches a ride with
23:23
Speaker 1: someone and vanishes, and now he's living off the grid somewhere,
23:26
Speaker 1: and still others believe Bryce's drug and alcohol use caused
23:30
Speaker 1: a psychotic break and that was what was causing all
23:32
Speaker 1: this strange behavior, and that was what led him to
23:35
Speaker 1: drive off the cliff, and perhaps when he landed, he
23:38
Speaker 1: sustained a vicious head wound that caused him to forget
23:40
Speaker 1: who he was. And so now he's just kind of
23:43
Speaker 1: wandering around somewhere, not knowing who he is or knowing
23:46
Speaker 1: that he's a missing person. As for his parents, they
23:48
Speaker 1: say he would never do this on purpose. He would
23:51
Speaker 1: never cause this much pain to the people that love him,
23:54
Speaker 1: and so he must have been a victim of foul play.
23:56
Speaker 1: But regardless of what you believe happened to Bryce, something
23:59
Speaker 1: happened to him, and it's probably connected to whatever it
24:02
Speaker 1: was he said he needed to talk to his mom
24:04
Speaker 1: about that thing that he couldn't discuss on the phone
24:07
Speaker 1: that potentially he was trying to drive home to talk
24:10
Speaker 1: to his mom and dad in person about. But unless
24:12
Speaker 1: we find Bryce Andy's still alive, it's unlikely we'll ever
24:15
Speaker 1: know what it was. Since August thirtieth, twenty thirteen, when
24:19
Speaker 1: Bryce went missing, no one has heard from him and
24:22
Speaker 1: no one has seen him. If you think you have
24:23
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24:28
Speaker 1: them know what you know. Because his parents volunteers the police.
24:32
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24:34
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24:37
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24:40
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