134. Smells Like A Slow Road Out Of Chico - The Disappearance Of Bryce Laspisa

Bryce Laspisa was having problems.  What sort of problems, he wouldn't say.  But at the end of August 2013 it was pretty clear to his friends - and his girlfriend - up in the far-Northern California town of Chico, where Bryce was attending a local community college, that something was not right.  The young redhead had started giving some of his prized possessions away.  He told his mother - who lived 500 miles away in Southern California, that he had some big problems that he needed to talk to her about...but he wouldn't go any farther than that.  So his mom  told Bryce to get in his SUV and drive home so they could figure out how to solve Bryce's problems.  Hence begins one of the strangest, most disturbing road drip ever documented - and it was, in fact, documented - right up until the part of the story where Bryce Laspisa's traile disappeared into the warm early morning California air.  Join Melissa as she traces the bizarre trek of a confused and likely deeply disturbed young man on a deeply disturbing rod trip into oblivion - where his actions can't be explained but only guessed at and where his journey ends with a crash off a cliff and a trail back to a truck stop - and then - nothing.