CA CA - Bryce Laspisa, 19, Castaic, 30 Aug 2013 - #3

[beshasmyheart]

the search is called off? that is a really strange quote, I can't quite wrap my ehad around it.
What if Bryce was found, but doesn't want to be found, what then? are police obliagted to tell the family?

O/T but I love your avatar!

That's a great point, and I wonder as well...

 

[Jillybean78]

O/T but I love your avatar!

That's a great point, and I wonder as well...

Seriously?! :/
Where did you guys see this?

 

[Jillybean78]

the search is called off? that is a really strange quote, I can't quite wrap my ehad around it.
What if Bryce was found, but doesn't want to be found, what then? are police obliagted to tell the family?

Sorry, meant to respond to this post. Where did you read this?

 

[gitana1]

Just a FYI - TES has more than one chapter (TX, OH, and I believe FL)...they are really not just for TX anymore. They will travel anywhere they are asked/wanted/needed/invited by LE and/or family...It is for this reason I donate. They are really awesome, well trained, up-to-date equipment, and have a great track record.

I can't remember the case, but a woman (with a thread here) was missing (for months) and was found by them after (x amount of) months, in about 1/2 - 1 hour of TES searching...something like 100 yards from her house...

I know. But I have followed what they are able to do in other cases and their resources are limited. They can't conduc searches in every
Missing person case. Also, like I said before, while they may have better equipment, they basically do the same thing as Team Amber. Thy go to a location and train volunteers there and utilize the equipment and resources of the people in the area.

This family has help right now from various sources including Marc Klaas. I don't think they are being negligent at all. And although the police are no longer searching the lake, they continue to work this case and look for him. I just don't think TES will get involved until LE gives the go ahead and I dont share the opinion that this family is lost without TES.

Many aspects of this case are beginning to sound like the Linnea Lomax case. JMO

Me too. Since the beginning. I have hope now, however, that he outcome will be different.

Local Ca news had a small piece about a missing Asian gal. Nothing zero about Bryce. No media, or PC's really strange for a local missing person case of this calibre. Shouldn't team Amber be handling this? or have a designated media spokesperson for the family? This case seems to be going cold quick.

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If you mean cold in the media well I don't think this case has ever garnered much attention. But no way is this case cold from an investigative standpoint, IMO.

Although my faith in Los Angeles LE is not great, I'm certain they are working this case hard.

I see WhiteOrchids beat me to it (thank you!). But in a very brief nutshell, she was 19. Her parents noticed a dramatic change in her behavior, and her Mom went to see her. Linnea was in her dorm room looking at sites about suicide and had an open bottle of ibuprofen (never in a million years did I think you could kill yourself with that stuff, but apparently you can... she didn't, but it sounds like she tried or thought about it). She went to a mental hospital and then was in outpatient treatment. At lunch break in outpatient she walked to the nearby American river and hung herself. I think she was probably deceased before her parents even realized she was missing.

Her Mom found her months later... she described it as a "pretty place," but I still have a very hard time getting over the horror her Mom must've felt seeing her partially decomposed daughter hanging in a tree. Linnea lived not that far from me, went to the same college I did, and the place she was last seen is really close to where I live, so I just connected with her immediately. She was rumored to have been seen all over the place, including near where husband and I go boating, so I was really looking for her. The family shared a video/tribute type thing of her and she seemed like such a sweet, friendly, sunny person, one of those people who is nearly always upbeat. It was the first time I finally understood how relatively common it is for mental illness to set in or show itself at around that age. (ETA for those interested here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbPRY5dBIc0. Grab Kleenex.)

I so, so hope for a better outcome in Bryce's case. I know we all do. The similarities keep nagging at me, but I keep hoping.

Darn it. I watched it. Really teared me up. such a precious girl.

the search is called off? that is a really strange quote, I can't quite wrap my ehad around it.
What if Bryce was found, but doesn't want to be found, what then? are police obliagted to tell the family?

They would have to tell the family he's been located and okay and that he wants to be left alone. That's it.

 

[gitana1]

Seriously?! :/
Where did you guys see this?

To my knowledge, the LE lake search concluded and people are taking that to mean no one is looking for Bryce anymore. But from what I gather, LE continues to investigate and multiple searches have been conducTed by private search teams organized by Team Amber, since the LE lake search ended.

 

[BluePoppy]

To my knowledge, the LE lake search concluded and people are taking that to mean no one is looking for Bryce anymore. But from what I gather, LE continues to investigate and multiple searches have been conducTed by private search teams organized by Team Amber, since the LE lake search ended.

This has been my understanding as well.

 

[lillygator]

FB just posted no search for tomorrow. Family is meeting with LE. Finally...maybe some answers!

this is the pst I thought said the search was called off.

 

[MomTo2Boys]

this is the pst I thought said the search was called off.

They were just saying that the volunteer search wouldn't occur today because the family was meeting with detectives...not that the search was called off for good.

 

[DocBrew]

At this point, I feel he's either in the lake or he concocted a fairly elaborate scheme to disappear. If he was deceased and on land, I'm confident he would have been found by now. Unless of course foul play is involved, but I'm just not seeing that at the moment.

 

[ButForFortune]

Sadly - I really believe Bryce is still in the Lake Castiac area of the crash. I do not think he has made it out of the recreation area. I believe he hit his head and was confused at the time of the accident and did wander off and get lost. I hope I am wrong.

I live in Trabuco Canyon where the two hikers went missing for several days. I kept asking my husband (an avid mountain biker in the area) during the several days of searching for them how they could possibly still be missing. They had obtained a wilderness permit at the general store and hiked from there. This is hardly a remote area - it is full of hikers, mountain bikers, campers, fire roads and less than a mile away from the general store are thousands and thousands of suburban homes. Ultimately they were not found by the searchers. They had become separated and were found at separate locations by two different sets of day hikers who heard them calling out. Rescue workers were then called in (one had tumbled down a ravine).

Sorry to ramble - my point is - (and it is just my opinion) it can be startlingly difficult to find someone, even in this type of topography, with large populations nearby. A lot of resources went into finding these two college kids, but at the end of the day it was ordinary citizens (heroes) who stumbled upon them.

I really, really, hope Bryce is okay. Keeping the faith.

 

[Blueheron5]

I am brand new to this forum, but constantly checking on hits case. I am wondering why they only searched to a depth of 80 feet in the lake. Is that standard procedure or something?

 

[ButForFortune]

At this point, I feel he's either in the lake or he concocted a fairly elaborate scheme to disappear. If he was deceased and on land, I'm confident he would have been found by now. Unless of course foul play is involved, but I'm just not seeing that at the moment.

Just wanted to say - my post following this was not in response to your post - I must have been composing mine when you posted. Don't want to offend anyone.:blushing:

Although I do agree with the lake being a possibility. I so hope not.

Gave DH a brief synopsis of this case - his kneejerk reaction was carjacking. He is often right. I hate to even mention it.

 

[ButForFortune]

I am brand new to this forum, but constantly checking on hits case. I am wondering why they only searched to a depth of 80 feet in the lake. Is that standard procedure or something?

Good question - I don't know but maybe someone who knows about this type of thing will answer soon.

 

[ButForFortune]

Good question - I don't know but maybe someone who knows about this type of thing will answer soon.

Oh - and welcome to Websleuths!!

(Jeeezz - I just noticed I quoted my own post. This welcome is meant for you BLUEHERON5!)

 

[RoseGarden]

I caught up this morning, reading the posts and the helpful answers from dragracerz among others. What struck me this time was the mention that blood was found outside the vehicle. For some reason that set off my spidey-sense. I skimmed the posts again and can't find that at the moment to quote it, but I read it here this morning, and it made me go "hmmmm." IMO, makes another scenario possible, that being that another person or was there, helped Bryce as he got out of the vehicle, and led him away (struggled?) before Bryce could retrieve any personal belongings. All this from "blood found outside the vehicle." Sad sigh here... still envisioning Bryce is okay, dazed, walking... ((Hugs to all of his family)).

 

[2Hope4]

And we truly don't know how the back glass got broken. The family theorized he could have used a tool to break the glass since there was one in the console, but it's never been stated as a fact.

 

[RoseGarden]

Found the statement about blood on the ground - it was post #494, I don't know how to quote and bold the part :/ but here goes... This is from the quoted Placerville Herald interview with Karen, describing the situation, thus:

The Laspisas were told the back window of the vehicle had been broken, and blood had been found on the ground. Bryce Laspisa’s wallet, cellphone and laptop remained in the vehicle. Search dogs were able to follow a scent to the entrance into the recreation area, but then it dropped off.

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Until I found that again, I thought I might be hallucinating!
Just something about that pings for me.... IMO....

 

[2Hope4]

Still praying the detectives gives the family something today. The results of the DNA, or whatever facts they have, what they've ruled, etc. Doesn't matter whether we know or not, just give this family some hope!!

 

[2Hope4]

I am brand new to this forum, but constantly checking on hits case. I am wondering why they only searched to a depth of 80 feet in the lake. Is that standard procedure or something?

Don't know anything as fact. Only thing I could think of visibility further down made it so they couldn't find anything, or the diver's life would be in jeopardy due to trees, debris, etc in the bottom of the lake. Don't need their gear, or anything getting caught and endangering them. Otherwise, I don't know.

 

[cluciano63]

Car jackers would have taken computer, phone...not to mention car or at least parts of it. JMO
In fact any foul play, items would have been stolen I think.