Quoting above from an earlier thread. I didnt realise that the police were at his car within an hour of him having the crash. Wow. HE could only have walked around 3 miles in that time, not sure about if in a car. But they were on it pretty quick!
3 miles would have taken him back to the residential area, truck stops and freeway. It was only 2.6 miles by road. 3 miles can be quite a distance.
Delurking to comment on something that I read last night and has been bugging me ever since. When I was looking at the transcript that rosegarden posted, I came across an entry for August 31st in Laguna Niguel that said someone reported two men in their late teens, one pale with freckles and strawberry blonde hair and one Hispanic, walking in a residential area. The Hispanic man was reported to have a gun, and the men were acting somewhat suspicious. Something about this just strikes me as odd. Could it be Bryce? Maybe in the sunlight his hair looked lighter than it really is? At that point, no one was looking for him anywhere other than around the lake. Maybe he wasn't even on LE's radar in that area yet. The area where they were reported is about 6 miles driving distance from Bryce's parents' home, but this has just nagged at me ever since I read it.
Nice catch. Hair as short at Bryce's could look strawberry blond, so I hope they have spoken to the officer who responded.
If we can't take the police report as fact, then what can we take??? MSM often gets things wrong, yet so much of what we have discussed here has come from that source.
The police report said that the officer talked to Bryce AT THE HOTEL. If we throw that information out, then we throw out a whole lot of other stuff. Like all the things his friends said, all the things his parents said. And then we are back to square one.
The police officer made a formal, legal statement of the facts as they occured. I don't think anyone is reaching or making up things by standing on those facts of the case and discussing the possibilities of what that could mean.
Bryce was in Buttonwillow 10-14 hours. Why? Where was he? What was he doing? He had to be doing something. The place stinks, it's a small town just before entering Bakersfield. There is nothing there. Yet Bryce managed to do SOMETHING there for 10-14 hours. I don't see him sitting in his car in the baking California desert sun, listening to his car radio and just watching people. Not when he had some place to go. Something made he stop and stay there. The police report said he was at a hotel. Not a motel, a hotel.
That's more solid a clue then some of the other things we've run with here. JMO, IMO, MOO
JMO, hotel and motel are often used interchangeably (not by me). However, EconoLodge and Knights Inn (formerly Super 8 and bought out by Wyndham) both call themselves HOTELs (Motel 6 obviously cannot do so), and both are right by Lagoon Dr. I, personally, have no problem believing he could have been sleeping (I don't discount the other possibilities, either). ETA: for the $40.00 the hotel/motels cost in that area, I have stayed there to get some shut eye when I was only a few hours from my destination. So for me, it just doesn't sound unusual.
So ... Mom didn't talk with BL between 12:30pm when Mom hears from the road service man that BL eyes "look a little red" until after the parents request a LE wellness check including a drug search where BL is found "at a hotel" after 9pm ???
Come on!!! There had to have been some communication between 12:30pm and 10pm! That doesn't pass the smell test even in smelly Buttonwillow. JMO
His parents DID call for a wellness check when they could not reach their son. While it does not say that they tried to call and were unsuccessful, you can extrapolate from the fact that they called for a wellness check that they had tried to call and got no answer (possibly for several hours), otherwise why be worried?
From Buttonwillow to Laguna NIguel takes about 3 hours to drive(2 hours and 51 minutes by Google maps). The first report of Bryce being missing shows up at 19:27:59 (7:27pm) The report also states "LAST HEARD FROM SUBJECT AT 1230" Working with those numbers, I come up with this:
3 hours travel time
1 hour stopping (food, bathroom break, whatever)
At 4:30 he should have been home, but was not. Most parents would give an extra 1/2 hour. At 5:00 pm, start calling his cell phone. No return call with an hour (in California, if you don't have hands-free, you aren't supposed to talk on the phone when you drive-LOTS OF PEOPLE DON'T HAVE HANDS-FREE-just had to say that), contact phone service to see about pinging cell. Takes at least a half hour to get that sorted out (Yes, I've had to do it). This brings us to 6:30. That hour could have been eaten up by his parents trying to call several times, trying to figure out whether to start driving up, trying to find out how to ping the phone, dozens of things (Yes, I have done that, too)
So IMO, there did not have to be any communication during that time. I am sure there was attempted communication, though.
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