Hi I'm new here. I live in Santa Clarita and for some reason this case has me worried sick ever since it popped up on my FB feed. BL looks so much like my own nephew. I pray they find out something soon.
I've read almost every post and if I'm following all of this that would make 5 missing or deceased persons found in the vicinity since June. And I know some are listed as suicide but it wouldn't be totally out of the norm for a perp to stage a suicide and get away with it? I'm sure it's happened before? This could be why LE is taking longer to investigate and put the puzzle together. And more of a reason why I'm thinking serial killer -- MOO
I agree with everything but maybe not the hostage situation (MOO/JMO) but you could be right. It's possible that they examined the body once, found a negative match with Bryce, and have been doing multiple identifications. They want to be absolutely sure that it is not Bryce and perhaps that there is a serial killer in the area. It's possible that it was positive for Bryce and combining that with the evidence they found are being delayed with how to announced the possibility of a serial killer in the are. In any case, I think the delay is telling us there is something more going on, whether it is Bryce or not.
Unfortuntely, that's not the way it works. There are many bodies that visit the ME, under many different and questionable circumstances and they have their own procedure for how they handle the workload. I forget how many autopsies can be done in a day, and of course, there are other people who assist and help with these autopsies or can do them besides just the ME, I think.
I was pretty sure ME in LA prioritizes suspicious deaths first, and then homicides and then gets to deaths that are unexplained but not suspicious (weird health problems). I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure it is not a typical first-in-first-out queue. This is because the first two classes relate to a possible public safety issue.
Yes, there are a lot of deaths requiring ME support everyday, but there aren't *that* many. It should be between 24-48 hours based on past cases but there could be a backlog.
Yeah, but then why not stop at Castaic Inn, the Days Inn(which I've stayed at), or any of the other cheap motels right there instead???
As a college student he likely didn't have any money. Also, people that age tend to be low maintenance. Or if he did have money, would probably would rather sleep in car than spend money to get a hotel.
As a parent of a student that lived 10 feet away from Bryce Laspisa's dorm room. I was on that campus in that dorm on a weekly basis. I spent hours there. I knew Bryce. He was a normal kid like any other kid there. He was on the Dean's List for academics. He is wonderful. How dorms work is if you are too loud, even playing music, games, running around, talking too much after certain hours you can get in trouble. Many students have been in trouble or written up for that. My own daughter was too loud during quiet hours laughing. She was written up. He was there at the begining of last year and there at the end. I saw him. This fall my daughter moved out of the dorm. Bryce did also. So speculation of anything that he did SO bad that anyone is saying. Is absolutely NOT true.
That's good to know. I feel like he was sheltered and naive. Not a crime or bad trait by any means, just needed some growing up. You are right, it is easy to get written up but very difficult to get evicted; more difficult than an apartment.
I've tried thinking of anything he would want to talk to his parents about: a drug problem, sexuality, wanting to drop out of school, a mental problem. You just ruled out my school theory. It might be true that parents/family say that there is no way their kid uses drugs or is gay, but I tend to disregard that because it is so easy to be biased. Having a non-family member say that he is a good kid and that he even made Dean's list makes me rule out the dropping out of school possibility. I also don't think this is a matter of him being gay. I tend to not think this is drug related, at least not at the "addict" level. That does leave open the possibility of sexual experimentation or something that he may have been ashamed of, but shouldn't have been. I don't know. I just hope he didn't succumb to emotions that he doesn't understand just because of age. I am a softy, so I find nothing wrong wrong with the text exchange between Bryce and his roommate (except the soul finding part makes me wonder what he was talking about), but many might say that is something more intimate.
Thank you! I wonder what prompted his old roommate to say those things... I know not to sleuth him since he's in no way a suspect if this is even a crime, but that's kind of an odd thing to say in a MSM interview if it's not true. I would think the eviction thing would be pretty easily proven one way or another if LE went to the college to ask. I sincerely hope they've done so.
That roommate cast Bryce in a pretty unfavorable light, not just regarding being evicted. If any part of what he said publicly on camera is untrue, I would hope pressure from friends who know would urge him to at least post a public fb comment apologizing and correcting his statement.
Bryce sounds like a good kid, but very sheltered. It seems like he surrounded himself with some people that may not be trustworthy out of no fault of his own. Not only did the ex-roommate make a comment that may be incorrect, his roommate/friend didn't seem concerned that he disappeared -- that he just needed time to escape for himself. The ex-roommate should be ashamed of himself if he is lying.
they don't often think about others or how their words will effect others, at least that's been my experience with that age group...
