TX TX - Jason Landry Missing After Car Found Crashed Near Luling, Dec 2020 #7

[CandyKiss]

Agreed. The good samaritan probably volunteered to take the polygraph hoping the family will move on from him. Unless I'm misreading, a non-profit released this information, not LE. I believe the Laundry family believes foul play was involved. imo

I'm still of the opinion this poor young man was impaired, wrecked his car, walked off on foot, and succumbed to the elements. imo

Similar to the Idaho truckdriver David Schultz; not a wreck but he left a loaded trailer full of baby piglets on a highway and disappeared. Poof! His jacket was left outside the vehicle, if I remember correctly across the highway. Keys, wallet etc. left in the truck. Trained dogs indicated the scent just disappeared at the edge of the road. During several weeks of searching, they did find a missing person who drove out to a farmer’s field prior to Schultz missing. BAM! I believe it was late spring a farmer found him out in the fields. Autopsy results: meth user; area was known for drugs, but no one wanted to discuss it. Police weren't that interested in searching until his wife began posting everywhere and the Texas Equine Team arrived.
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Someone several posts back made a detailed timeline the unaccounted 67 minutes; stopping at a park – signing out of his GPS and jumping on snapchat (no digital footprint). Meeting people at 11:30 at night and continuing (without GPS) down the road makes sense for a drug deal. Someone jumps in, and whoever came with him followed in their vehicle. If I were following you and drove up alongside your car, and hit the driver’s front side in front of the tire, wouldn’t that pitch your car sideways and back off to the right of the road? The back-end damage of the car makes sense; it landed in a tree, but they said the driver’s side landed / hit a fence and post. If that is correct how could his dad enter the driver’s side after the wreck?

 

[Valiant]

There is zero evidence another car hit his. That’s my opinion based on the multiple photos posted of his car.

 

[ilovewings]

Watching this case again right now on iD-- I came away again with the idea that this was one of the worst investigated cases I have ever heard of. Jason's clothes including his shorts and socks were found scattered on the road: Those items were not collected by the police. WTH???? there was no effort to do any investigation at the time this happened. What a disgrace for that police department. Disgusting really. It's been five years with no answers. So sad for the family.

 

[dotr]

Dec 13, 2024
The search continues for a Texas State student who never made it home for the holidays four years ago. Jason Landry's family isn't giving up hope for closure.

 

[K9Enzo]

Watching this case again right now on iD-- I came away again with the idea that this was one of the worst investigated cases I have ever heard of. Jason's clothes including his shorts and socks were found scattered on the road: Those items were not collected by the police. WTH???? there was no effort to do any investigation at the time this happened. What a disgrace for that police department. Disgusting really. It's been five years with no answers. So sad for the family.

Imo This case has been investigated with extensive searches for JL to include several season changes. My theory remains JL was impaired and in psychological distress. He wrecked his car, and the small amount of blood on his clothing was from the barbed wire fence he came in contact with exiting his vehicle. In his compromised mental state he took off his clothing/shoes. I believe he succumbed to the elements, likely in a location he curled up in. The recovery of bodies, then remains, is super challenging.

I don’t blame the parents for being upset about the clothing but I don’t believe it’s an indicator of a faulty investigation. There was no evidence of foul play. Shows on ID do make cases seem more suspicious and suspenseful than they are. I still feel bad for the unfair public, imo, suspicion of the Good Samaritan who saw JL’s wrecked car. This case is sad, especially for young JL.

 

[ilovewings]

Imo This case has been investigated with extensive searches for JL to include several season changes. My theory remains JL was impaired and in psychological distress. He wrecked his car, and the small amount of blood on his clothing was from the barbed wire fence he came in contact with exiting his vehicle. In his compromised mental state he took off his clothing/shoes. I believe he succumbed to the elements, likely in a location he curled up in. The recovery of bodies, then remains, is super challenging.

I don’t blame the parents for being upset about the clothing but I don’t believe it’s an indicator of a faulty investigation. There was no evidence of foul play. Shows on ID do make cases seem more suspicious and suspenseful than they are. I still feel bad for the unfair public, imo, suspicion of the Good Samaritan who saw JL’s wrecked car. This case is sad, especially for young JL.

The scenario you describe makes sense, but please tell me why the police did not collect his clothes scattered on the ground? That is unconscionable and makes this police look like they did not give a crap about what happened to this young man. Sadly, it appears we will never know what really happened here, but the police come away looking pretty bad in this case.

 

[K9Enzo]

The scenario you describe makes sense, but please tell me why the police did not collect his clothes scattered on the ground? That is unconscionable and makes this police look like they did not give a crap about what happened to this young man. Sadly, it appears we will never know what really happened here, but the police come away looking pretty bad in this case.

I don’t disagree it looks poorly on how the scene was initially handled. However, I don’t think that misstep negates the entire investigation or shows lack of care. JL’s dad found the clothing searching the area himself and was wise to take pics & videos of the scene before collecting the items, if I recall correctly.

LE arrived at a rural crash site late at night, in darkness, with limited visibility and no immediate signs of foul play or injury. It appears they treated it as a single car accident rather than a potential high risk missing person case, which led to a limited perimeter search. JL’s clothes were scattered nearly 900 feet away, off the road and in terrain that’s easy to overlook without a coordinated daylight search.

Once the case was escalated, multiple agencies, including Texas Rangers and specialized search teams, were involved in extensive searches using dogs, drones, thermal imaging, etc.

I just don’t think the clothes themselves held any evidence, him taking them off absolutely spoke to his state of mind. That’s critical.

All my opinion