A few things about this story make no sense to me.
(1) Brandon is in enough trouble to call for the police despite having an active warrant. Okay. Must be pretty bad for him to do so. Yet for some reason he mentions nothing to his brother or his brother's girlfriend about what this trouble is? Yeah, not buying it. Either this supposed trouble never existed or the brother and the brother's girlfriend are holding back information. Why?
(2) A police officer and Brandon's brother are at his (Brandon's) vehicle together. According to Brandon's brother, Brandon is hiding in the bushes and communicating with him. Yet somehow neither the police officer nor Brandon's brother see or hear anything. If he's being chased down, grabbed or murdered surely there would be something visible or audible, right? Or was Brandon "ten minutes up the road"? You can't eat your cake and have it too. Either he's nearby hiding in the brush or he's "ten minutes up the road" but if he's nearby then there's no way he gets chased without either the officer or Brandon's brother seeing or hearing something. Sorry.
(3) I've read that the area is supposed to be rife with old wells and such things that Brandon could've fallen into. Fair enough. Still, you'd think that the landowners would have knowledge of these things being located on their property. They may not have a map showing the locations but surely they could shed some light on whether these actually exist in the immediate area.
(4) The 911 call. This might be a lot simpler if anyone could actually decipher what Brandon said. I've seen multiple transcripts and opinions here and elsewhere but I don't think anybody's got it quite right. Maybe Brandon was so panicked that he was speaking gibberish to a degree. I don't know. He sounds impaired to me. I hear "threw some guys over" while most here seem to hear "pulled some guys over." I hear "shot the first guy" while a lot of folks hear "got the first guy" or "not the first guy." I can't decide whether I think Brandon says "Yeah... no, I need the cops" or if someone else is saying "Yeah" and then Brandon says 'no, I need the cops." I lean more toward Brandon says "Yeah" and then changes his mind and says "no, I need the cops." Then there's the odd use of "we" when he says "we're out here going towards Abilene..." Sure, he could be referring to himself and his alleged pursuers but, to me, it would be odd that he would group these pursuers in with himself. Either he wasn't alone when he ran out of gas or maybe it was a Freudian slip? And at the beginning of the call, I don't hear anything close to "state trooper" or even just "trooper." IMO, there's a definite S sound there but other than that I've no clue.
Of course all the above and the following is JMHO. I started out believing that Brandon was ridiculously unlucky and ran afoul of some ne'er do wells which led to his demise. Now? I think he's in hiding/on the run. Too many aspects of the murdered theory don't make sense to me. How did he even run out of gas? The linchpin of the entire story. Who doesn't notice well in advance that a vehicle is almost out of gas? I understand that he was supposed to have left upset but I still think Brandon would've noticed that his truck was near empty, especially if he was supposed to be driving to his father's house.
(1) Brandon is in enough trouble to call for the police despite having an active warrant. Okay. Must be pretty bad for him to do so. Yet for some reason he mentions nothing to his brother or his brother's girlfriend about what this trouble is? Yeah, not buying it. Either this supposed trouble never existed or the brother and the brother's girlfriend are holding back information. Why?
(2) A police officer and Brandon's brother are at his (Brandon's) vehicle together. According to Brandon's brother, Brandon is hiding in the bushes and communicating with him. Yet somehow neither the police officer nor Brandon's brother see or hear anything. If he's being chased down, grabbed or murdered surely there would be something visible or audible, right? Or was Brandon "ten minutes up the road"? You can't eat your cake and have it too. Either he's nearby hiding in the brush or he's "ten minutes up the road" but if he's nearby then there's no way he gets chased without either the officer or Brandon's brother seeing or hearing something. Sorry.
(3) I've read that the area is supposed to be rife with old wells and such things that Brandon could've fallen into. Fair enough. Still, you'd think that the landowners would have knowledge of these things being located on their property. They may not have a map showing the locations but surely they could shed some light on whether these actually exist in the immediate area.
(4) The 911 call. This might be a lot simpler if anyone could actually decipher what Brandon said. I've seen multiple transcripts and opinions here and elsewhere but I don't think anybody's got it quite right. Maybe Brandon was so panicked that he was speaking gibberish to a degree. I don't know. He sounds impaired to me. I hear "threw some guys over" while most here seem to hear "pulled some guys over." I hear "shot the first guy" while a lot of folks hear "got the first guy" or "not the first guy." I can't decide whether I think Brandon says "Yeah... no, I need the cops" or if someone else is saying "Yeah" and then Brandon says 'no, I need the cops." I lean more toward Brandon says "Yeah" and then changes his mind and says "no, I need the cops." Then there's the odd use of "we" when he says "we're out here going towards Abilene..." Sure, he could be referring to himself and his alleged pursuers but, to me, it would be odd that he would group these pursuers in with himself. Either he wasn't alone when he ran out of gas or maybe it was a Freudian slip? And at the beginning of the call, I don't hear anything close to "state trooper" or even just "trooper." IMO, there's a definite S sound there but other than that I've no clue.
Of course all the above and the following is JMHO. I started out believing that Brandon was ridiculously unlucky and ran afoul of some ne'er do wells which led to his demise. Now? I think he's in hiding/on the run. Too many aspects of the murdered theory don't make sense to me. How did he even run out of gas? The linchpin of the entire story. Who doesn't notice well in advance that a vehicle is almost out of gas? I understand that he was supposed to have left upset but I still think Brandon would've noticed that his truck was near empty, especially if he was supposed to be driving to his father's house.