The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 30 - Brandon Swanson

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

May 14, 2008. Marshall, Minnesota. The parents of 19-year old Brandon Swanson receive a late-night phone call from their son, who claims that his car has become stuck in a ditch in the middle of nowhere. The Swansons leave to go pick Brandon up, but have trouble finding him. At one point, Brandon’s father hears him shout a swear word over the phone before the call abruptly cuts off, and there is no answer to repeated attempts to phone him back. Even though his abandoned car is eventually found on a rural road, Brandon himself is never heard from again. What happened to Brandon Swanson, and what could have prompted his final reaction during his final phone call? In our latest Halloween-themed extended minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we tackle one of the scariest, most baffling missing persons cases of the past decade. Special thanks to Joe from Thinking Sideways Podcast for popping in to share a theory. Be sure to check out their episode about this case. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brandon_Swanson http://charleyproject.org/case/brandon-victor-swanson https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jeff_Hasse/Missing_Person_Case_Study_–_Brandon_Swanson http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/18/grace.coldcase.swanson/index.html The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	May 14th
0:02.0	2008
0:04.0	Marshall Minnesota
0:07.0	The parents of 19 year old Brandon Swanson
0:10.0	receive a late night phone call from their son who claims that his car has become stuck in a ditch in the middle of nowhere.
0:17.0	His parents leave to go pick him up, but have trouble finding him.
0:21.0	At one point, Brandon's father hears him shout a swear word over the phone before
0:26.8	the call abruptly cuts off. When he attempts to phone him back, Brandon does not answer. Even though his abandoned car is
0:35.0	eventually found on a rural road, Brandon himself has never found. After that,
0:41.0	the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, and uh, and uh, uh, Yes. Hello everyone and welcome to a very special minisote of the trail went cold.
1:25.0	I am your host Robin Warder and today we will be chronicling one of the most baffling
1:30.0	missing persons cases of the past decade, the 2008 disappearance of Brandon Swanson.
1:37.2	As you probably know, for the month of October, our podcast will be covering creepy Halloween
1:42.4	theme stories.
1:44.2	While this particular case did not take place at Halloween, it still fits the theme, because
1:49.2	I featured it in a very popular Halloween article I published at crack.com three years ago
1:55.2	titled the six creepiest unexplained phone calls. I still remember when I first
2:00.4	stumbled upon this case. I thought the circumstances of how Brandon
2:04.1	disappeared sounded so frightening that I was surprised this mystery wasn't
2:08.4	more well known. I mean this is a scenario you would totally expect to find in a horror movie.
2:14.2	Can you imagine what it would be like to be speaking with your son on the phone, hear him yell
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