I don't know if that's rumor or fact. According to reports, Deputy Fox and Deputy Neal both responded to the stranded motorist call. One heading on 277 to the North of Bronte and one heading to the South. We heard that Deputy Neal reached B's truck at the same time K and A did. In MM's reporting (shown on the missingbrandonlawson page) she comments several times about deputies (with an s) arriving at the truck but in all other accounts we were only told that ONE Deputy arrived at the truck and that would be Deputy Neal.
She also reports that they were responding to a stranded motorist call by a passing trucker about a vehicle running out of gas. How would a passing trucker know B's vehicle was out of gas? And why wouldn't the trucker give the EXACT location of the truck? Why the need for TWO Deputies to be dispatched?
This is all basically outlining the discrepancies in MM (the Sheriff's wife reporting). Visit missingbrandonlawson.com for the full details. I am just paraphrasing here, but these are some valid questions IMO. And for me it has caused some confusion. As I've always said, the discrepancies seem to be coming from both sides. Not just LL's side.
I have finally registered and am now able to respond to your comments. Let me begin by introducing myself. I am MM. As to my owning the newspaper and my husband being the sheriff, he began as a deputy in 1988 and I went to work as a typesetter at the local newspaper in 1989. With God's blessings, we have been successful. We have also had a lot of practice in not crossing lines.
The missingbrandonlawson site which supposedly quotes my articles had many, many discrepancies. One of which is the headline of an article. My headline was "Law Enforcement Concludes Man No Longer in Coke County". I wrote that headline for the story about the TexSAR (cadaver dog) search. After interviewing the TexSAR commander and the Texas Ranger in charge, the headline was written from their responses. TexSAR put together the search area with information they obtained from LL about Brandon's condition the night he went missing. TexSAR determined it would be physically impossible for BL to have moved, under his own power, out of the search area. Due to the fact that nothing was found within this search area, they stated their conclusions. BL's condition is why law enforcement have told me they don't have trouble believing he called 911 and then told his brother he was hiding in the brush until the cop left.
CC drops the "Law Enforcement Concludes" part of the above headline on her site. Also, she has articles on that page which I did not write. Those are the articles talking about deputies. If you would like to read the articles printed in The Observer/Enterprise, please feel free to visit our fb page.
Also, I'm very familiar with sheriff's office policies. I dispatched for them at night and on weekends for years when my husband was a deputy. I will try to answer some of the questions I've seen here. Before I do, let me state that I interviewed both deputies dispatched to find the stranded motorist. I interviewed the sheriff's office dispatcher who took the call from the 911 dispatcher. I have interviewed LL. I will not interview the nurse or cna or whoever took the 911 call that night.
The SO dispatcher did not receive any information from 911 except that a stranded motorist had called in because they ran out of gas possibly on Hwy 277. After hearing the call, I can understand why the 911 dispatcher was unclear on the location.
The four deputies in Coke County work 24/7 for several days and then have a couple of days off. There were two deputies on duty that night, both of whom lived in Bronte and were home when the SO dispatcher called them. One went north on 277 and one with south on 277. In the meantime, a trucker called 911 and reported a vehicle parted partially in the roadway. Fortunately, he had better directions and the deputy who went north on 277 returned home. The deputy who went south found the truck and the brother and his girlfriend. Cell phone records received by law enforcement (interview with deputy) from Verizon showed KL was on the phone with BL (17 minutes after the 911 call) when the deputy arrived. Later that weekend, KL told the deputy that BL had told him in this conversation that he was hiding until the cop left.
Several Rangers, accompanied by one deputy, searched the "new" ping site on January 28, 2014. Searches were also done last week under the bridges in that area of the county. This is an ongoing investigation and law enforcement is continuing to interview people with regard to this case.
My husband and I both pray every day BL is found.
