Brandon Swanson /// Missing /// Part 1

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4.7 • 35.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In May 2008, 19-year-old college student Brandon Swanson vanished without a trace after a late-night drive through rural Minnesota. In True Crime Garage Episode 332, Nic and the Captain dive deep into one of the most haunting and perplexing missing person cases in modern true crime history

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0:00.0	The Welcome to True Crime Garage, wherever you are, whatever you are doing.
0:43.5	Thanks for listening.
0:44.6	I'm your host, Nick, and with me as always, from behind the glass, he's a modern day warrior
0:49.3	with a mean, mean stride.
0:51.3	He is the captain.
0:52.2	All right, slap in the base, play the bass, big time, big time, man.
0:57.1	It's good to be seen and it's good to see you.
0:59.5	Thanks for listening.
1:00.7	Thanks for telling a friend.
1:09.0	Today we are drinking Hazy Jane by, well, I was going to say our friends, but the truth of the matter is we are in love with them.
1:17.4	Hazie Jane is by the king of craft beers, and that of course is Brew Dog in Scotland, and of course from right here in Ohio as well.
1:26.4	Garage grade four out of five bottle caps. Hacy Jane is a
1:30.3	juicy Vermont style IPA that features pineapple, stone fruit, mango, and hints of lime peel.
1:36.8	And just like the both of us here in the garage, it's full-bodied, baby. And today's beer was
1:41.5	brought to us and to you by these great garage guys and gals right here.
1:46.0	First up, super cheers to our boy Doc Holiday.
1:49.5	That's right, the Outlaw Doc Holiday up in Powell, Ohio.
1:53.4	And a big shout to Mindy in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
1:56.9	And here's some more of our friends.
1:58.1	We have Kirsten and her good friend, Taylor D. in St. John, Canada.
2:02.7	Now, big, we like your trip to Ferguson in Toronto. Let's give a cheers to Brian in Bloomington, Illinois.
2:08.2	And last but certainly not least, we have armchair detective, Kathy, all the way over in Melbourne, Australia.
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