A REQUEST TO DR. ERIC W. HICKEY: REQUEST FOR SCHOLARLY GUIDANCE 2026
Subject: Request for Scholarly Guidance: CPTSD Cold-Case Witness Collection, Victim Sheets and Body-Location Maps Dear Dr. Hickey: My name is Brian “HAPPY” Bryanson. I am disabled, substantially homebound and the founder of CPTSD Cold Case. My mission is expressed in four words: “Send the Dead Home.” I am writing because your scholarship in serial and multiple homicide, victimology, offender behavior, forensic psychology and cold-case review places you in a unique position to understand both the potential value and the evidentiary limitations of what I have assembled. Your dedication in Serial Murderers and Their Victims has particular meaning for me: “To the victims, both the living and the dead—may their suffering not be ignored nor forgotten” (Hickey, 2010). Those words closely reflect the purpose of my work. I am not seeking publicity through the suffering of victims. I am attempting to preserve potentially testable information so that unidentified or forgotten vi...