The Final Signal

0:00 Speaker 1: August ninth, twenty thirteen, San Angelo, Texas. It was just

0:04 Speaker 1: after midnight when a phone call came in that would

0:07 Speaker 1: become one of the most mysterious missing person cases in Texas.

0:11 Speaker 1: A man named Brandon Lawson was driving down a remote

0:14 Speaker 1: highway outside San Angelo. He was twenty six years old,

0:18 Speaker 1: a father, a brother, a man with a complicated life

0:22 Speaker 1: who was trying to make changes. But that night, somewhere

0:25 Speaker 1: along a dark stretch of road, Brandon disappeared, and the

0:29 Speaker 1: final phone call he made would leave investigators with more

0:33 Speaker 1: questions than answers. Brandon Lawson had grown up in Texas.

0:37 Speaker 1: Those who knew him described him as someone who loved

0:40 Speaker 1: his family. He had children, he worked hard, but like

0:44 Speaker 1: many people, Brandon had struggled with personal issues throughout his life.

0:49 Speaker 1: In the months before his disappearance, his family said he

0:52 Speaker 1: had been trying to get his life back on track.

0:55 Speaker 1: He was focused on his future, on being there for

0:58 Speaker 1: his children, on moving forward. But on the night of

1:01 Speaker 1: August eighth, something changed. Around midnight, Brandon left his home

1:06 Speaker 1: after an argument with his girlfriend. He got into his

1:09 Speaker 1: pickup truck and drove away. According to reports, he was

1:13 Speaker 1: traveling on US Highway two seventy seven, a lonely road

1:17 Speaker 1: surrounded by fields and darkness. Then suddenly, his truck ran

1:21 Speaker 1: out of gas. Brandon called his brother, Kyle. The conversation

1:26 Speaker 1: was strange. Brandon said he was stranded. He asked for help.

1:30 Speaker 1: Kyle agreed to come get him, but before Kyle arrived,

1:34 Speaker 1: Brandon made another call, a call to emergency services, and

1:39 Speaker 1: that call became the biggest mystery of the case. During

1:42 Speaker 1: the nine to one one call, Brandon sounded frightened and confused.

1:47 Speaker 1: He told the dispatcher he was in trouble. He mentioned

1:50 Speaker 1: that someone was chasing him, but parts of the call

1:53 Speaker 1: were difficult to understand. The audio was unclear, his words

1:57 Speaker 1: were broken, then the call in. No one knows exactly

2:02 Speaker 1: what Brandon experienced during those final moments. When Kyle arrived

2:06 Speaker 1: at the location, he found Brandon's truck, but Brandon was gone.

2:10 Speaker 1: The vehicle was still there, his belongings were inside, his

2:14 Speaker 1: phone was no longer with him, but there was no

2:17 Speaker 1: sign of where he had gone. Police searched the area,

2:21 Speaker 1: dogs searched nearby fields, Volunteers looked through the surrounding land,

2:26 Speaker 1: but Brandon was never found. The case became more confusing

2:30 Speaker 1: because of the details surrounding that night. Why did Brandon

2:33 Speaker 1: leave his truck, who was he talking about when he

2:36 Speaker 1: said someone was chasing him, Why did the search fail

2:39 Speaker 1: to locate him in an area that had already been examined,

2:43 Speaker 1: And what happened after the final phone call. Years passed,

2:47 Speaker 1: theories continued. Some believed Brandon became lost after leaving the road.

2:52 Speaker 1: Others believed something more serious happened. Some questioned whether another

2:57 Speaker 1: person was involved, but without physical evidence, every possibility remained

3:02 Speaker 1: only a theory. The last known moments of Brandon Lawson's

3:06 Speaker 1: life were captured through a few minutes of phone communication,

3:09 Speaker 1: a frightened voice, a dark highway, a truck left behind,

3:14 Speaker 1: and a family still searching for answers. Because sometimes the

3:18 Speaker 1: most haunting mysteries are not the ones with no clues.

3:21 Speaker 1: They are the ones where the clues exist, but the

3:24 Speaker 1: truth remains hidden. What really happened to Brandon Lawson? That

3:28 Speaker 1: question remains unanswered.