Unfortunately, the case remains unsolved.
I am happy to announce that Investigation Discovery will air an hour-long episode of Disappeared about Brianna Maitland on Monday, December 5, 2011, at 9 pm.*
*Note: I corrected the time to 9 pm.
Producer Christopher Gidez and his associates have produced many quality programs regarding those missing and I am proud to have conversed with him multiple times as he studied this sad yet fascinating disappearance.
I was also thrilled to hear that two regulars here, guest blogger BobKat and content provider P., were able to make significant contributions to Mr. Gidez in his telling of Brianna's story.
It has been awhile since I wrote on the Maitland case, so for anyone interested, you can go here for my series.
This is the show's trailer...
Also, the following is a summary of the case:
On March 19, 2004 around 11:30 pm, 17-year-old Brianna Maitland left her dishwashing job at the Black Lantern Inn (now called the Montgomery House Bed and Breakfast) in Montgomery, VT.
It has been reported that Brianna had been invited to stay for a late dinner with coworkers, but she stated she was tired and had to work early the next day at a second job.
Maitland’s apartment was in a neighboring town and she was supposed to be headed there that night.
When she did not arrive that evening or the next day, her roommate was not specifically worried and had assumed she was staying back at her parent’s house. After not hearing from her for several days, the roommate called Maitland’s parents and it was then that they realized that she was missing.
Unknown to the family at the time, Maitland’s four-door green 1985 Oldsmobile had been found abandoned at an old abandoned farmhouse property--a location about a mile from the Black Lantern Inn.
Ms. Maitland's Car on the Morning of March 20, 2004
State police towed the vehicle on March 20 thinking it was related to a hit-and-run collision.
The Oldsmobile was found with minor rear end damage backed into an old barn on the property. Inside the vehicle were two of Maitland’s uncashed paychecks. Further, some of her belongings were found on the ground outside the car.
The family and investigators reported that she left behind her contact lenses, clothing, medicine, driver’s license, and other personal effects.
Authorities and volunteers searched the area of the farmhouse and other places in the region multiple times, but Brianna was never found.
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If you have an opportunity to watch, I think the Disappeared episode on Brianna Maitland will be worth your time.
My prayers are with Brianna's family in hopes that new information will be produced.
57 comments:
Uncashed paychecks inside the vehicle and belongings outside on the ground…
Looks like Brianna was approached as she left work, taken to the abandoned barn and possibly attacked.
i hope that the show and the awareness it raises not only helps them but also those that might be susceptible or find themselves sadly in similar situations...
That doesn't sound good at all. Sounds like she was a target, hopefully new light can be shed.
That trailer was very well done. I'm planning on watching the show when it's on. So sad. It sounds exactly like my life before I ran away at 17--crazy! I wonder what happened.
Brianna has disappeared under very mysterious circumstances: belongings outside the car, uncashed paychecks. Looks like someone attacked her and disposed of the body.
I am interested in watching this on t.v. It's a real life horror show/mystery. So sad...hopefully making it this public wil open new doors.
Slamdunk:
I remember this case...that barn and the car.
Good to see it's getting some air time.
I hope it manages to answer some of the many questions that still remain.
I'll have to watch this show.
Thanks for the update.
Stay safe out there.
So sad.
Such a sad case. The not knowing must be unbearable for Brianna's family. I hope the show manages to bring up some answers.
I hope the show brings about something good from all this.
I'm speechless. I can't imagine not knowing about my child.
Absolutely fantastic that they will be covering it.
I hope the show brings new leads that will lead to some peace for the family. These are always the toughest cases to face as a parent.
It is amazing how many unsolved cases there are. You always hear of certain ones that gain a following for whatever reason- but I had never heard of her before your blog. How sad. Wishing peace for them as well.
I hadn't heard about this case, but I'm going to go back and read your related post.
Very disturbing Missing Person case. Especially when it is someone so young. Will be watching for the special program.
Hi Slamdunks,
A correction - the Brianna Maitland episode of Disappeared premieres on December 5th at 9pm ET/PT - not 10pm. Hope everyone gets to see it. Thanks for watching.
Chris
Thank you guys for keeping the pressure on this case. I live in northern VT and sometimes feel these cases do not get the attention they deserve.
Read thru the whole blog and comments and can clarify one thing- At the time of disappearance (March 2004), there was little if any cell coverage on RT 118 in Montgomery. You could get reception up near Jay Peak and in Berkshire near Enosburg, but it's been poor until very recently (like 2009 or 2010). Brianna wouldn't have been able to use her phone if she had it and neither would any persons of interest.
Wonder why the owners of the Black Lantern Inn would have been "uncooperative"? Could there have been more to the story that took place at the Inn? I'm sure the police could get the phone records easily, but you would think they would want to help as much as possible. The Inn has since closed.
I worry this case is mired in a mix of small town politics and secrecy.
Hope the airing of this show turns up the heat on "CB" and others that know more and persuade them to come forward.
Robert
Thanks for the comments everyone.
@ Chris: I appreciate the info. I corrected the time in this post and made an announcement in Monday's post.
@ Robert: Thanks for leaving a comment and for reading my old posts. I am not from that area and it is helpful when someone local chimes in about cell conditions or whatever. Good stuff.
I saw the show. Well my hunch is that her dissapearence have to do with what she saw outside the mall while she was shopping in the mall with her mom. It makes sence everything happend on the same day. According to her mom statrment she was nice a bubbly, enjoying her day. All of a sudden she see's something outside the window of the store in where she was in and tell her mom she'lll be back just like that, her mom waitrd for and looked for her on the parking lot and whe she finds she is not the same she seems nervice shaky and quiet, police should be looking fot surveilance camera, on that same day , what did she see outside the mall that got her so nervice. And how about her ftiend the one that punch her. I think the remark she made was very unsettling. Brianna aunt ask the girl about what happend between the and the report, and all she answered is well brianna is not around, so there's nothing u can do. Pls give meere a breack. I think police should really look in to it. The best piece of evidence are those two insidence the jeolouse friend and the mall insident. I hope they find her.
Sad, I worked with Brianna at another restaurant. She was such a nice person. I remember that people kept breaking into her car and one day she came into the restaurant very upset. Her things were on the ground in the parking lot, sort of like how her car was when she turned up missing. Looks like someone was looking for something but they never found it. When she went missing the rumors among her peers were that she was caught up with the wrong people and owed them money. The problem is, there are too many of the "wrong people" and it would be hard to narrow without more info.
have they considered maybe she was trying to run from somebody? her car was backed against the dutchburn place so hard that the rear wheels came off the ground and got stuck on the foundation of the house. i dont know why anybody else would have done this (her killer would have had no motive to back the car into the building) i understand this info might not help solve the case but it may help get the story together. also i have done some research to locate cbcklr ( the person who posted some vicious details about this case) i believe this person to be cindy buckler from morrisville vermont. maybe somebody should ask her how she knows so many details.
what about ramons cell? he was a drug dealer, he definitely had a cell phone or pager or something. if the police got his phone records maybe it would turn up something. i am from (st. albans) northern vermont also, and every story or anything i have ever heard about this case involves ramon. i think that is the ticket to solving this, put the squeeze on him and it'll turn up something im sure of it.
i think that the lime on the back of her car came from whoever was involved in her disappearance. limes can be used to break down crack cocaine to make the crack a liquid so it can be injected intravenously. (at this point id like to point out that ramon was a well known crack dealer and user). maybe somebody (that uses iv drugs) contacted her and told her to grab a couple limes from work and meet them somewhere. limes are not the preferred method (vinegar is usually first choice) to use but in montgomery vermont at 1130 at nite it can get pretty hard to find an open store for vinegar. the police ought to take a better look at ramon and another name that keeps coming up around here in connection with this is shaun gagne (who at the time was also an iv drug user). i dont think the police investigated any of these things well enough.
cant you fingerprint a lime peel? since it would have been squeezed between a thumb and forefinger, it seems like it would have been an obvious place to start. does the peel still exist? in evidence somewhere? maybe frozen? how about dna off the lime? seems like the local police dropped the ball on this one big time.
Just watched the show and can't really say it answered many questions raised here.
While the random stranger/serial killer scenario is possible, considering the girl disappeared in NH a couple weeks before. These are very small towns where outsiders would be quickly noticed. That could mean a local creep tho....and there's no shortage in these towns.
Didn't know about the lime/crack correlation, but that could be something. To get the car up on the house like that it had to be a pretty good impact. Which lessens the odds the lime was there before the car hit it...frozen or not.
I have a feeling more info could have been collected from the 4 living at the drug house in Berkshire. Maybe not the 2 dealers, but the other 2 were locals and would probably fold more easily.
The fact that so much time passed before she was even noticed missing and the further delay until the police seemed to take it seriously, may have been the undoing of this investigation.
The saddest part of this whole thing is knowing the way things work around this area. I bet there are plenty of people that could provide more info on the case, but just won't......like CB in Morrisville. Shame.
I'd be interested to know more about the gentleman full of emotion confronted by one of the posters and the girls father? Was this the boyfriend James?
Robert
this case stinks of drugs-----im convinced she owed some small time drug dealer some money---and because she coulnt pay, she was eliminated.....she was probably trying to get away from whom ever she owed, probably more than 1 person, which would explain the car backed into the house...
i hope they solve this case soon give her mother some peace...i mean somebody knows something
I saw the Disappeared on Brianna Maitland and have now become obsessed with this case. I am originally from Vermont and actually lived in Mongomery Center until I was a preschooler--then moved to another VT town. There are several things that bother me about this case. The first is that Brianna was 17 and appears to be a high school dropout (although it looks like she did get her GED). I'm going to go ahead and say that from my expereience it is not too common for Vermont kids to drop out of high school, nor is it common for a 17 year old to be living outside of their parents' home. The towns are so small and everyone knows each other, so someone who doesn't finish school becomes stigmatized by the locals to a certain degree. Then, there,s the problem of her close friends admitting that Brianna was a drug user, but not getting too particular about the extent. Once again, this reeks to me of scared small town kids who don't want to get their friend or themselves in trouble. One friend mentioned that Brianna had "smoked crack a few times", as if this is the same thing as smoking a joint. It isn't. Now, most Vermont teens do drink booze and smoke marijuana. It's true. However, for a teen to smoke crack even a handful of times in Vermont is really hardcore. My heart breaks for the Maitlands, but I have a feeling that they are in denial that their daughter may have been tied up with some nasty people and a possible growing drug habit. My gut says that Brianna may have wanted to move out to enable this type of behavior. I am not, in any way, saying this makes Brianna a bad person. In fact, I am so bothered by this case because she seems like she was just such a gentle soul. The name Ramon Ryans keeps coming up wherever you look. It also appears that he is a member of some sort of New York drug ring that decided to bring crack into naive Vermont. My theory is these guys preyed on the young people who already liked to drink and smoke and got them into crack. There is evidence of urban hard drug rings infiltrating Vermont since around 2000, when Burlington (which used to be so safe we were allowed to walk around by ourselves at age 8) all of a sudden became laden with heroin. Anyways, back to my theory. I think Brianna left work, went to the farmhouse property to meet Ryans or affiliates of his to make a quick drug deal on the way home, and it went bad. I agree with you, slamdunk, that there was a second car there. Brianna tried to jump in her car to get away, she shifted into reverse by accident and it rolled into the farmhouse. Sometime during these few seconds she was foricbly removed from the driver's seat. I think they need to keep talking to those fellows from New York. They're close.
I just left the previous comment-- I think this case will break if any of her circle of friends gets brave enough to come forward. The problem is that they are probably afraid. My theoretical drug related murder was probably committed by someone who is a member of an organized drug ring, and they have a lot of power. I see that even here, in your forum, people who knew her are agreeing that she was probably caught up in something bad. It makes me sad that people slinging highly addictive drugs are robbing Vermont of its safety and serenity. It also makes me sad to see that Brianna's parents seem to be deadset in denying her drug use. I think it will break the case right open when people stop keeping their secrets. It also bothers me that the affadavit given by the Colchester woman whose sister murdered Ryans' addict "girlfirend" seems like its being laughed at by the police. Now that I live outside of VT (and had a good, kind, naive person very loved by me tied up in hardcore drugs and die of an overdose) I see how evil the world can be. I think the naievity of people and police officers in a state which has only recently been exposed to organized crime and highly addictive drugs is getting the better of the investigation. While the witness whose credibilty has been questioned due to her own checkered past sounds horrific for VT, she has a link to Ryans, who we have established, knew Brianna Maitland. The crime of killing someone over a drug debt and disposing of the body in a very gruesome way is extreme for VT, but isn't so much for seedy parts of New York City, where these guys are originally from.....
Alright, it's me again, author of the last two posts. Now, I have been taking a long, hard think about this lime wedge on the trunk of the car. I have a few questions- was this lime wedge there when the police showed up or was it just in the first photos taken by the passersby? I think that some of the people on here may be overthinking the lime wedge--I think it's far fetched to say that it was used to process crack---but I DO think that it was probably from a Corona or someone with an alcoholic beverage. Brianna was only 17 and probably still needed people who were of age to buy her booze.... Maybe she arranged to have someone meet her at the farmhouse to give her some alcohol? I do still think that it was a drug deal, but lime slice screams Coronas to me (epecially due to the popularity of the drink amongst young drinkers) or cocktails. What happened to the lime wedge? If it had beeen stuck in the neck of a beer or in a drink, it would've had saliva on it...or if she had stopped at the farmhouse to make a quick deal maybe they had a few drinks there and someone was cutting the limes on the back of the car. Was the car fingerprinted?? WTF!
I totally agree with the previous comment. These men Ryan something and his cousin were mentioned alot and they definitly seem to have motive since she were using drugs. With the statment from the "not so reliable" woman the was enough to bring him in to scare him. The police state that they did take evidence out of the vehicle but are yet to do anything relavent with it. She was pulled out of the car somehow so there must be forensic evidence with technology these days i hope they do something to bring justice to yhr family. I do understand that it may be a small town but something must be done to bring brianna home. God bless her family and i hope they have closure one way or the other
I totally agree with the previous comment. These men Ryan something and his cousin were mentioned alot and they definitly seem to have motive since she were using drugs. With the statment from the "not so reliable" woman the was enough to bring him in to scare him. The police state that they did take evidence out of the vehicle but are yet to do anything relavent with it. She was pulled out of the car somehow so there must be forensic evidence with technology these days i hope they do something to bring justice to yhr family. I do understand that it may be a small town but something must be done to bring brianna home. God bless her family and i hope they have closure one way or the other
I totally agree with the previous comment. These men Ryan something and his cousin were mentioned alot and they definitly seem to have motive since she were using drugs. With the statment from the "not so reliable" woman the was enough to bring him in to scare him. The police state that they did take evidence out of the vehicle but are yet to do anything relavent with it. She was pulled out of the car somehow so there must be forensic evidence with technology these days i hope they do something to bring justice to yhr family. I do understand that it may be a small town but something must be done to bring brianna home. God bless her family and i hope they have closure one way or the other
Well lets see there are only just a few options that can be.
1 She was carjacked (unlikely) There are too many things that would have had to have taken place and there would be evidence of it.
2 She met someone to get some drugs there and there was another vehicle there and something did go wrong and she tried to get away quick and was scared - this would explain backing up into the building - notice the way the tires are turned.
3) Someone was looking to rob someone or just be a serial killer and randomly waived the car down. Once she realized there was trouble she started to back up to turn around real fast and then was extracted from the car when it backed up into the house or she got out and ran and was caught and taken away in another vehicle.
4) Crack is not something you just do here and there. That earlier in the day incident I think was she saw someone or preplanned the meeting there with someone and got some drugs and actually did some of it (hence the nervousness in her moms car) Is it possible she got some drugs from someone and was to drop the drugs off to someone after work and that was the meeting place. Of course she couldn't hang out after work if she was meeting someone. Maybe she took some out of the drugs and the person she was delivering to got mad and then she backed up into the house trying to get away. She was definitely a troubled girl and hang out with some seedy characters. Whenever there are rumors there is usually some truth to it although distorted. I would look at the drug dealer from New York.
It is most definitely someone she knows!
* The guys from NYC did it.
* Check into the girl who punched her, she might have arranged something with the drug dealers.
* She probably did have a debt, met with them outside the store that day. She was scared into meeting with them, something went wrong (she couldn't pay or meet demands) and they killed her. The sworn affidavit is likely true.
* The police screwed this up, for one, who doesn't call the owner of an abandoned car when it's found? The police were either paid off by the drug dealers, or incompetent.
* Either way, the family needs to sue the law enforcement agencies involved.
* I'd start to offer lie detector tests to persons involved, those who refuse know more than they're telling.
i believe this girl and the casino girl is one of the same! but has the casino girl ever came fwd? and if not Who is she...is she out there...does she know ppl think and see it looks like BRI! the eye brows look different but we all know that is possible to do
I am enjoying this blog tremendously. I recently saw the case on the Investigation Discovery Disappeared episode. I am fascinated with this case. What in the hell happened to this girl? A couple of questions.
How was it that employees saw her drive off in the car? Were they outside? If they were inside how was it that they were able to see her in her car outside?
Thanks for checking. I have some more questions and comments as well.
1.The vomit on the passengers side was it fresh?
2. The boyfriend. I am having a problem with the ex boyfriend being on the scene. Does his alibi hold up?
People know what happened but are not coming forward because they are afraid. Why? Afraid of just one person? I think they are afraid because of the reach the person has. The people in the drug game have a far reach. Do I think it was a deal gone bad, no. Someone was after her that is for sure. Also, the people that she hung around were very shady drug people. I would look at the two Black males, the ex boyfriend who happened upon the scene, and confirm the roommates story about whether or not she ever came into contact with Bri at any point during the four days.
Why did she leave the roommate a note? Did she normally do that? If she works at night why would she feel the need to have to leave her roommate a note? Has the note been checked to see if it’s her handwriting?
Someone posted on another blog that they had worked with her at another restaurant and that someone had broken into her car a few times as if they were looking for something. She was distressed about this many times.
The paychecks together totaled less than 150 dollars. Perhaps she owed them more money if that was indeed the issue.
Ok...I'm from troy ny...not far from vermont...and if she was in 2 crack n other narcotics well she could've definatly gotten in 2 sum sh.t....they could've doped her up n sold her 4 prostitution...where I'm from that's not abnormal...I hope I'm wrong but she was involved with sum bad elements.let's hope she is out there alive n well...I pray 4 all of the missing ppl in this world..n there family
Its just so so very sad. . God willing everyone goes through their "teenage years" of life. . Some get more involved with substances than others. .For some it is just a simple phase, and for others it cant take time or rehab, and then there are those who make it an everyday part of their life and dont ever kick it. .Not to say that i know what actually happened in this case because i totally dont, but if her dissapearance or possibly death had anything to do with being involved with drugs or the wrong crowd its an absolute shame. . This beautiful girl had her whole life ahead of her. . Yhis could have been an instance where Brianna was just being a teenager going through a phase and got caught up with low lifes. .PRAYERS GO OUT TO BRIANNA AND HER FAMILY
Possible closure for one family, either Brianna Maitland's or Heide Wilbur's. http://www.wcax.com/story/16953533/skull-discovery-matches-2-vt-missing-persons-cases
**UPDATE**
To all of you people who don't live in Northern Vermont, this morning a white female skull was found on the side of the road in Danby, VT (which is about 150 miles south of Montgomery, where Brianna lived), but the local news agency's are starting to wonder if this is Brianna. Here is the link to what the news has reported: http://www.wcax.com/story/16942953/human-skull-found-in-danby
More details to follow...
Just watched this on the Crime & Investigation channel. The police say they have found 'physical evidence' in the car but can't disclose it to the public due to it being an active investigation. Anyone know what this physical evidence is? Also her mother said he picked up hitchhikers, so she was obviously over friendly with strangers. they never suggested if they thought Brianna reversed her car into the old house? This show has just left more questions and answers. Anyway, i think the police are right to pursue the drug angle. Brianna had brought one of the drug dealers round to the house she was living in with her friend, which suggests she knew him quite closely otherwise why would he be going round to the house with her? Also her mother had said when they went shopping the day she went missing, she had ran out of the shop because she saw someone and then after she agitated in the car on the way home, which would suggest she has been maybe followed. She has been lured to that spot where her car was or she has been followed and made to pull the car over and it's no coincidence that the house the car was reversed into was crime scene in 1986, might suggest the person who harmed her is local. Another thing i noticed is the pay checks, perhaps she had them with her to persuade the person she met that she had the money to pay her debt?
Very sorry for the Maitland family. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
I agree that this was most likely the work of someone she knew.
I do not believe she owed a drug debt (her mood would have been off for days or weeks even; they would have given her time to pay off).
"....it's no coincidence that the house the car was reversed into was crime scene in 1986, might suggest the person who harmed her is local. Another thing i noticed is the pay checks, perhaps she had them with her to persuade the person she met that she had the money to pay her debt?"
The paycheck thing is a good point. The brothers that owned the house her car was crashed into were beaten and robbed at the home in 86 and it's been abandoned since (actually it's currently for sale). Think it would be a stretch to say the same people were involved 18 years later, but someone with local knowledge? Definitely.
Keallie Lacross, the girl who beat Brianna up, was recently arrested for a violent home invasion.
They need to hire you! Your comments are very insightful and I believe you're on the right track.
Thanks for giving this case the attention that it deserves. I want the family to have closure and peace. For sure the names of the NY cousins and Kealie Lacrosse are likely involved. It's too bad she had to be involved with this element of society. This situation is every parents' nightmare and my thoughts and prayers are with them.
just watched discovery channel and seen the case i think she witnessed that ramon fella rob kill a drug dealer or had info and they got rid off her
just watched show i reckon she new somesort of drug rob murder those two men had done and had info and they killed her to silence her
She was such a beautiful young lady. I pray that her family finds peace one day and the people responcible for her probable murder are dealt with accordingly. That being said, they know who they are and will eventually answer for all the lives they have wrecked. NOBODY GETS OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE. They will be judged eventually.
This whole thing reeks of small town corruption. I live in a small, rural area much like northern Vermont and here our local law enforcement and judicial entities are mixed up in various illegal activities and pretty much do whatever they want and there is no one to question their motives. Those who do their dirty work are the ones who are arrested and whose names appear in the local paper but nothing ever happens to these people, they are always acquitted or do a short stint in the local jail then are released after their 53rd offense for the same thing so those behind this activity have their pawns. We had a similar case to this one back in the late 1990's when a local girl went missing. She worked in a neighboring town and made a comment to one of her co-workers one night that she had seen something she wished she hadn't but refused to elaborate. A couple of weeks later her car was found abandoned with it's lights still on and it's engine running alongside the road a few miles from her home. Her purse and other personal effects were still in the car. After an extensive search by volunteers and police produced nothing the search was called off. A couple of weeks later a hunter found the girl's body floating in a small pond that was up above the road in a neighboring county. I knew her, I had gone to school with her and it really hurt because I knew what a good person she was. No one could imagine why anyone would want to hurt this girl. In the end an arrest was made and the guy arrested was a well-known drug dealer and user from out of state. He was sentenced to life in prison but everyone knows he had accomplices, everyone knows the general circle of people who had to have been involved. There was no way one man could have pulled off the crime the way he admitted to having done it. I fear Brianna Maitland's case will one day turn out to be similar to our local mystery. We got a few answers but there are those who know more who will never be held liable for their participation. Small towns hold their secrets well and when the right people are involved many times something like this can go unsolved for decades if not forever. People aren't going to talk, they aren't going to point fingers, they will simply go on about their business as if nothing ever happened and all anyone in that small Vermont town will be left with will be questions which will never be answered. Someone there knows EXACTLY what happened to this girl and who was involved and chances are the persons involved may have since moved away or cleaned up their illegal activity and have become productive members of the community but someday a clue will surface that may lead to what really happened and maybe then someone will take responsibility for this girl's disappearance. Judging from the short distance from where this girl got in her car to where her car was found I'd say someone may have been laying in the floor behind her seat, surprised her and forced her off the road and she panicked knocking the car in reverse ending up driving the rear of the car into the side of that old house by the road. Those old cars were all pretty much rear wheel drive so when the back of the car was lifted up and the wheels lost traction she was stuck. Notice the direction the front wheels are pointing, to the left, not straight ahead like she turned the wheel in a panic trying to get the car unstuck but all she would have done was sit and spin. The episode of Disappeared I watched about this case certainly sparked an interest in me but it wasn't very informative. I'd say local law enforcement knows more than they are willing to divulge, I'd be willing to bet on it. Someday it may all come out as I previously stated but until then I pray for peace for Brianna's family as well as those who knew and loved her. Such a sad story, such a tragic waste.......
I just saw the story on Brianna, this morning, for the first time! She was missing for FOUR days before her friend even contacted her mother to see if she was at her own house! At 30 years old, if I didn't come home after my bartending job, my mother had already called the cops and every hospital in the area looking for me and I worked at the Police Academy and a local cop hang out! Did no one care about her until she was gone? Maybe she staged the whole thing and ran away from that place! If it was a drug deal or there was money owed, I don't care if her checks were for $10.00, "they" would have taken them, unless they planned on killing her and would not be able to cash them without raising suspiscion! These were not dumb criminals! The dumb one, I'm sorry to say, is the first trooper to come upon the car and "ass"ume it was a DUI incident and that the person would show up eventially to claim their car! That is the stupidest thing I ever heard! They had a tow truck pick up the car, leaving the entire area unprocessed for days, for other tire tracks and ANY evidence that could lead to which way "they" left the scene! A passerby took photos and even photographed the only evidence that was on the ground, outside of the car, i.e., a WATER BOTTLE, that would have DNA! Second, the people who drove by, a "boyfriend" who recognized her car, even, DIDN'T STOP to see if she was OKAY? WTH! I am from a small town, not even a town, if my car was seen on the side of the road and someone drove by it, BELIEVE ME, it would be checked, reported and it would be an automatic call to my home,the police, SOMEBODY! This whole case was so miss handled it is making me angry! AND, why was she not living at home? Because she was embarrassed of her rural farm home? Give me a break! Living from house to house, boyfriend to boyfriend? My Father would have had a coronary, wouldn't yours? There is more to this story besides not disclosing evidence, than meets the eye! I have a nephew who went missing 30 years ago, from college in Colorado and we all know he was transporting drugs from his home town in Miami! He will NEVER be found because the people he worked for made sure of it! Another friend of mine, trying to make some quick cash, ran drugs for "some people" to Hawai'i! One day he called his wife to say he was coming home! Three months later, his body was found under a pile of rocks in the mountains on Maui, killed by a "hot shot" of drugs! It is highly possible those boys from New York had something to do with Her dissappearance and the girl who socked her up, set the whole thing up! I pray she is found and I wish someone would just come forward and tell the TRUTH!
I just stumbled across this after watching disappeared (my now favourite tv show) Did nobody find it weird that although the hole made into the house was big enough for me a 16 year old girl to fit inside then it would be normal for a 17 year old girl to fit inside it wasn't checked? And, correct me if I'm wrong, but was there a lake or river behind the house? Let's say, God forbid, that she was murder or knocked out and I'm correct about a lake or river, her body/corpse could have been thrown in. She then could have drowned and the scent could be gone from her body then her murderers took her away to dispose better of her body. These are just thoughts I had.
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Hi guys I'm from South Africa and just watched the Brianna Maitland story on Investigation Discovery and having seen the way the case was investigated was poor and disappointing from the local police and especially the officer who got the vehicle towed should hav had it processed for forensics and fingerprints before it had been towed n the crime scene could hav been processed effectively and then have it towed.That could have made the difference!!!! Yet all they can look at now is photographs eyewitnesses had taken of the scene and ponder about what they see in the pic.This is really poor!!! With her background and connections to a possible drug syndicate it is possible that those two guys may hav killed her because I think one of them refused to say he knows her but the other one did yet they both were seen with her at a few parties!!!! They cannot be ruled out either! The person who made the statement of her body being dismembered is likely since there has been no trace of Brianna till today.I'm. Shocked and saddened by her dissappearance.I may not really know her but I feel for her family and the closure they need.They shudnt hav gone public to the media(tv) when they seen a girl that looked like Brianna in the Casino before they actually went n searched for her because it might as well been her coz she will hav known that they were looking for her and her mom said it was not her altho she hasn't seen Brianna for so long it is possible that she cannot tel exactly when she did see her,what and hw she would look like! I really hope they find Brianna.I pray that they do!!!
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