Episode 340: Brandon Roberts: Pretext To A Text

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Brandon Roberts was a 39 year old from Portland, OR. He was the father of 3 and had worked to help the homeless. On June 7, 2021, Brandon was due to talk to his oldest son on the phone. However, when that time came, someone texted back on Brandon's phone saying Brandon wasn't there. He was never seen again. As of Feb. 2, 2023, Brandon's disappearance is not on the Charley Project or NAMUS. Website: http://theunfoundpodcast.com/2023/01/31/brandon-roberts-pretext-to-a-text/ If you have any information concerning Brandon Roberts' disappearance, please contact the Portland, OR Police Department at 503-823-4000. --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: [email protected] --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Unfound is brought to you by the generous listeners at Patreon, PayPal, and YouTube, along with
0:08.0	our gracious advertisers.
0:11.7	Brandon Roberts was a 39-year-old from Portland, Oregon.
0:16.0	He was the father of three and had worked to help the homeless.
0:20.8	On June 7th, 2021, Brandon was due to talk to his oldest son on the phone.
0:27.2	However, when that time came, someone texted back on Brandon's phone saying Brandon wasn't there.
0:35.9	He was never seen again.
0:41.2	I'm a dancer, and this is Unfound.
1:11.8	There was a joke I heard some years ago.
1:14.8	Was it by Jerry Seinfeld?
1:16.8	It had to have been within the 21st century that humans really didn't realize how much they hated
1:23.0	talking to each other until emailing and messaging came along.
1:28.4	Think about it.
1:29.6	You probably know everything that is going on in your friends and family's lives,
1:34.5	but you aren't quite sure the last time you heard any of their voices,
1:38.8	except when you were in the same room as they were.
1:42.4	This is a big deal in disappearances because one of the ways we best gauge when exactly a person
1:48.1	went missing is when was the last time somebody who was trusted heard that person's voice
1:55.2	in a live setting.
1:57.1	Yet, because all of us, myself included, take for granted that the people on the other end of
2:03.4	the messages are who we think. This is caused disappearances to not be noticed for days,
2:11.2	weeks, even months. The best example Unfound has is the disappearance of Eric Franks,
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