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Road To Nowhere

posted 8 years ago by ForeverInBlueJeans
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So your 19 year old son, who has never exhibited any strange behaviour before, stays in his car in one spot for over 8 hours after you and the police have urged him to come home. Yet, you do not get your ass in a car and drive out there to go get him yourself? I can guarantee that if this was my mum, her son would've been home after the first 3 hours at least because she would go get him. This story just pisses me off so much and the parents casual explanations for not going to get him just makes me want to punch the parents in the face.

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[–] hilaryjrp 7 years ago

[Disclaimer: you'll probably get few responses on a predominantly American board if your signature claims you're superior.]

"Road to Nowhere" is one of the most disturbing stories "Disappeared" has ever aired. The families of victims endure enough anguish; that's something to keep in mind all the time.

[–] TVLander 7 years ago

Yes I feel sorry for the parents but at the same time you cannot dismiss the fact that if they had taken the time to drive three hours to get him this would not have been a missing person case.

The parents had his friends telling them about his drug use and that he was having problems but they ignored them. His parents were insisting that he had no problems and that he did drugs casually like other teenagers. They seemed to be in total denial.

Personally I think he committed suicide and that's why he hasn't been found.

[–] justKryptonite 7 years ago

I thought the same thing while I watched this episode but hindsight is 20-20. They had no clue that he would go missing. He convinced everyone he spoke to, including the cops, that he was fine and there was nothing wrong. If it's what it looks like and he has commited suicide then he would have done that even if they had picked him up.

[–] TVLander 7 years ago

I thought the same thing while I watched this episode but hindsight is 20-20. They had no clue that he would go missing. He convinced everyone he spoke to, including the cops, that he was fine and there was nothing wrong. If it's what it looks like and he has commited suicide then he would have done that even if they had picked him up.

There were enough clues given (such as him sitting in his car for hours and hours, his friends telling his parents that he had a serious drug problem) that he was mentally unstable and his parents should have come to get him. His drug use might have made him suicidal and if his parents had found him and taken him to a hospital he would most likely be alive today.

[–] justKryptonite 7 years ago

There was also just as much telling the parents that he was fine. He sounded completely normal to them, the girlfriends roommate told them he was fine. The cop said he was fine, the man who helped the parents get him on the road said he seemed fine. I'm not saying that it wasn't a situation where they shouldn't gone to get him I'm just saying that living through that when he had only been away from them for a couple weeks.., I think it's just you have the gift of hindsight as we all do now. I don't think people should pretend that it was as easy of a call to make. As far as the fact that he would be alive today if they had, please there is NO way you should or could predict that. If his parents had gone and gotten him they would most likely have taken him home not the hospital seeing as how he was acting normal towards anyone that he felt was trying or might eventually get him treatment. I'm not saying they weren't naive and that they didn't make the wrong call but I do think it's completely uncalled for to put all the blame on them as you sit here now knowing how everything turned out.

[–] TVLander 7 years ago

No there wasn't as much telling the parents he was fine. His parents said again and again that he was fine, but we know both his roommate and girlfriend said he was not fine. Sitting in a car for hours is not fine and I don't care if he sounded completely normal or not. Even the trucker didn't think he was fine.

His parents were only three hours away from him. It wouldn't have been that difficult to go to him and find out for themselves what is going on. I still stand by my statement that he WOULD NOT have disappeared if his parents had come to him. I agree, they wouldn't have taken him to the hospital. They seemed very reluctant to admit he had any kind of problem. But he would have been home and maybe there they would have had to admit there was a problem.

I don't know how everything turned out because we still don't know what happened to him. But I do know if I had my son's friends telling me he was mentally unsound and then on what is supposed to be a three hour drive back home he's sitting in his car for hours and hours I would have been way more proactive. But instead we had his parents insisting he was fine and that he took no more drugs than the average teenager, etc.

But at the same time I feel for his parents. I'm sure every day they regret their choices. So don't make me out to be this cold hearted person. I'm just stating what I believe to be true.

[–] leiastarkiller 7 years ago

Yes I also think they should've gone to get him. Between the drinking, the breakup with his girlfriend, him telling his mom they had lots to discuss, his loitering around for hours avoiding coming home, it all looks like he was having serious issues. It was only 3 hours. I just don't understand how they could be concerned enough to phone the police and have other people check on him but not hop in the car themselves to make sure he was ok?

[–] ra-allen2 7 years ago

I have followed the story of Bryce before it even aired on disappeared. It's one of the most heartbreaking stories. I check their facebook page at least once a week to see if they have found anything. It's terrible to see the pain these people are in all the time. They've gone through Christmases and birthdays without him. I don't think that they knew that him having a rough time would lead to them never seeing their son again.

[–] hilaryjrp 7 years ago

With the exception of Maura Murray, I can't think of another Disappeared episode I also follow online. Maybe because of gender and the southern location, the possibility he's alive...it must keep his poor family in agony.