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607 // Brandon Lawson - Search & Recovery w/ Jason Watts & Ryan Lawhon

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

3.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this new episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Jason Watts and Ryan Lawhon about the disappearance and recovery efforts of Brandon Lawson. Brandon went missing on August 9th, 2013 between Bronte and San Angelo, Texas. His remains were located in 2022 and later recovered. Follow the Help Find Brandon Lawson Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/helpfindbrandonlawson. Official family site: https://missingbrandonlawson.com/. If you have information in Brandon's disappearance please call the Coke County Sheriff's Office at 325-453-2717. Check out Uncommon Goods: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://uncommongoods.com/MISSING⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code MISSING for a great deal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://happymammoth.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Mood and use my code MISSING for a great deal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mood.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Bioma Health and use my code MISSING for a great deal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gobioma.com/missing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/⁠. TT:⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠. FB:⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠. X:⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠. Spotify:⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠. Youtube:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠. Apple:⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing and please donate if you can: ⁠https://investigationsforthemissing.org/⁠. ⁠http://piftm.org/donate⁠. ⁠https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing⁠. ⁠https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/⁠. ⁠https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The In today's new episode of missing, we speak with return guest Jason Watts and new friend Ryan Lahan.

0:45.6

Today we are speaking about the disappearance of Brandon Lawson from Brunt, Texas on August 9th, 2013.

0:55.0

Now, in the past few years, Jason and Ryan led a search team out to attempt to recover the remains

1:02.8

or locate the remains of Brandon, and they actually did that, as well as many other people

1:08.4

on the search team.

1:10.1

So in this conversation, we're going to talk a

1:12.1

little bit about that, but Jason also wanted to answer some of the questions from the community.

1:18.2

And most of the questions that we ask are from the help find Brandon Lawson Facebook page.

1:23.8

Lance, what did you think of this conversation? Well, I thought it was a great conversation,

1:27.2

not because we were talking about the disappearance of Brandon Lawson. We were mostly talking about Lance, what did you think of this conversation? Well, I thought it was a great conversation.

1:30.7

Not because we were talking about the disappearance of Brandon Lawson.

1:35.3

We were mostly talking about the recovery of Brandon Lawson and the efforts that went into that.

1:37.8

And at this point, we have the remains.

1:46.2

Jason, Ryan, the entire team worked tirelessly to find them to bring some answers to Ladesa, her kids, Brandon's kids,

1:51.6

Brandon's parents. And as far as we know, these are actually his remains. So we are talking about a definitive recovery effort and so cool to get somebody on like Ryan and hear his perspective

1:58.7

and understanding the seemingly insurmountable obstacles that went

2:04.9

into this with the terrain and with the landownerships and locating people who own land

2:11.7

who don't even live there and just going at it as much as they can and asking them like why you do this.

2:20.3

And Ryan gives some really good answers as to why he does this.

2:23.7

We know why Jason does it.

2:25.3

And to see it from Ryan's perspective is really insightful.

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