017 - The Disappearance of Brandon Lawson

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On August 8th, 2013, twenty-six year old Brandon Lawson got into an argument with his longtime girlfriend, Ladessa Lofton. Frustrated and wanting some time to cool off, he placed a call to his father over three hours away in Crowley, Texas and asked to spend the night. His father tried to talk him out of it, but at 11:54pm,

Brandon began his drive. Forty miles later, he ran out of gas and called his brother Kyle for help. What transpired in the next thirty minutes is unknown, but when his brother arrived, Brandon was nowhere to be found. After searching for hours, there were no traces of Brandon. The family would later learn that shortly after calling his brother, Brandon made a call to 911. In the call, Brandon is clearly frantic and talking fast.

The interpretation of what he said would become hotly debated amongst the family, police and online investigators. The Coke County Sheriff’s Department was hesitant to treat it as a missing person’s case, and instead approached it from the perspective that Brandon has chosen to run off to avoid a warrant that had been issued for his arrest some eight years earlier. While the family searched exhaustively, believing that Brandon would never abandon his four children, authorities wouldn’t begin their first search until a week later.

A controversy of police disinterest or of a possible cover up begins developing. What happened to Brandon Lawson? Did he choose to flee from his warrant? Did he get lost alongside desolate Highway 277 and never find his way back? Did demons from his past come back to haunt him or did Brandon stumble upon something in the early morning hours for which he was murdered?

Join host Steven Pacheco as he examines one of the most highly requested cases and looks into the details of this strange mystery, the Disappearance of Brandon Lawson.

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0:00.0	Brandon Lawson was a 26 year old father of four living in San Angelo, Texas with his
0:13.8	common law wife, Ledessa Lofton.
0:16.9	The couple had moved their children to the new location just a year prior, and were living
0:20.9	just a few miles away from Brandon's brother Kyle.
0:24.5	On the evening of August 8, 2013, Brandon and Ledessa had an argument, and Brandon decided
0:30.6	to drive to his father's home, located several hours away in Crowley, Texas near Fort
0:35.6	Worth.
0:36.6	Brandon's father Brad tried to talk his son out of the trip as it was late at night and
0:41.4	he didn't want to make such a long drive.
0:44.4	Brandon persisted, though, and at approximately 11.54 pm, he left home and was soon driving
0:50.2	through a desolate area on Highway 277, first north towards Abilene before he would eventually
0:56.4	turn east.
0:58.1	Brandon would never make it as far as Abilene.
1:00.9	Some 40 miles down the road, he ran out of gas and called his brother for help.
1:06.3	Kyle and his girlfriend Audrey called Ledessa and asked if they could borrow a gas can to bring
1:11.0	to Brandon.
1:12.9	Brandon had taken the phone charges with him, so Ledessa placed her phone in the car to
1:16.8	charge, left the gas on the porch, and went to bed.
1:20.7	While driving down Highway 277, they received several phone calls from Brandon, but the calls
1:26.0	are dropped and have poor reception.
1:28.2	They think that he said he was bleeding.
1:31.1	They arrive at Brandon's abandoned truck at 118 am and find a Koch County Sheriff's
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