Vanished in the Dark: Where is Brandon Swanson?
A college student vanished after having a minor car accident — and was on the phone with his parents at the moment he went missing.
Brandon Swanson, a 19-year-old from Marshall, Minnesota, went missing on May 14, 2008. After graduating from Marshall High School in 2007, he had enrolled at the Minnesota West Community and Technical College. He was interested in studying wind turbines, so chose to attend the Canby campus as it had a Wind Energy Technology course of study. Classes ended on May 13th, and he went out that night with some of his classmates to celebrate the end of the semester. He started his night at a party in Lynd, a small town located about 7 miles to the southwest of his home in Marshall. He later left Lynd and headed 35 miles northwest to Canby, a drive that would have taken around 40 minutes to complete. He said goodbye to his friends sometime after midnight and headed for home.
Brandon was extremely familiar with the 30-mile drive from Canby to Marshall, as he made it almost every day. The entire drive is done on one road, as the two towns are directly connected by State Highway 68. There is little traffic in the area, and the drive would normally take less than 35 minutes.
Brandon ran into some trouble on his drive; he accidentally drove his Chevy Lumina off the road and got it stuck in a…
