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The Last Call: The Disappearance of Brandon LawsonOn a hot August night in 2013, twenty-six-year-old Brandon Lawson walked out of a small rental house in San Angelo, Texas, after an argument with his longtime partner. He climbed into his white Ford F-150 and headed north on Highway 277, toward a fresh start that never came. Just after midnight, Brandon's truck ran out of gas on a lonely stretch of road south of Bronte. Minutes later, he placed a frantic 911 call-forty-odd seconds of static, half-heard words, and raw fear that listeners still argue about more than a decade later. ""I'm in the middle of a field..."" ""Please hurry..."" By the time a deputy and Brandon's brother reached the truck, the F-150 was there. Brandon was not. The Last Call: The Disappearance of Brandon Lawson is the haunting true story of what happened before and after that night: a young father caught between addiction and responsibility, a rural emergency system straining at its limits, and a family forced to search the fields of West Texas while the rest of the world dissected a broken audio file. Linda Davidson traces three competing explanations-accident, foul play, and voluntary disappearance-showing how each one shaped the search, the investigation, and the internet theories that followed. Moving from midnight highways and mesquite pastures to nursing-home dispatch rooms and backlogged DNA labs, she lays out how small decisions, blind spots, and systems not built for nuance can turn one bad night into a lifetime of not knowing. In 2022, nearly nine years after Brandon vanished, searchers found clothing and human remains less than a mile from where his truck had stopped. In 2024, DNA tests finally gave his family an answer they had both longed for and feared. This is not just the story of a disappearance. It is the story of everyone left standing on the shoulder of the road afterward-trying to understand how a man could call for help, say he was ""in the middle of a field,"" and simply never make it back.

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