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 victims are not ignored and, where evidence permits, can be identified and returned to their families.

I live with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder accompanied by dissociative amnesia. Beginning in adulthood, I experienced fragmented recollections of violent events that I believe I witnessed during childhood. I recognize that memories alone are not proof. I am not asking you to accept my recollections as established facts, endorse my allegations or diagnose anyone described in my materials.

I am asking whether the potentially testable elements of my collection can be separated from the narrative material and independently compared with official records, historical imagery, missing-person reports, unidentified-remains records and physical locations.

Over many years, I have transformed fragmented recollections into an organized witness collection containing:

·         Individual victim sheets with physical descriptions, clothing, estimated ages and other identifying characteristics

·         Numbered narrative accounts and event sheets

·         Timelines and geographic comparisons

·         Maps identifying reported burial or body-disposal locations

·         Descriptions of vehicles, buildings, drainage systems, roads and surrounding landmarks

·         School, neighborhood and institutional connections

·         Details that may be compared with police, coroner, school, church and missing-person records

·         Several clusters that I believe may represent comparatively testable cold-case leads

Your work offers a scholarly basis for examining my collection without assuming that its contents are accurate. Serial Murderers and Their Victims is based on the examination of hundreds of offenders and considers victim selection, offender mobility, investigative profiling, crime scenes and body disposal. Your Trauma-Control Model also demonstrates the importance of examining biological, psychological and sociological factors together rather than reducing complex conduct to one simple explanation.

That multidisciplinary approach is precisely what my collection needs. The materials should be evaluated simultaneously as:

·         A trauma-affected witness archive

·         A collection of potentially testable victim descriptions

·         A geographic body-location record

·         A possible source of comparisons with unresolved cases

·         A preservation project requiring strict evidentiary boundaries

Your work also emphasizes the danger of relying upon stereotypes. In your article with Dr. Jerrod Brown, Mysopedia: An Introduction to High-Risk Sexual Predators of Children, you wrote:

“Criminal profilers refer to sadistic sexual interest of children as mysopedia” (Hickey & Brown, 2018).

In a later professional training description, you and Dr. Brown cautioned:

“This confusion reinforces stereotypes and undermines criminal investigations” (Brown & Hickey, 2020).

That warning applies directly to my request. I do not want investigators, academics or readers to force my descriptions into a familiar offender stereotype. I want each victim sheet, location and recurring detail evaluated against independent evidence. I also do not want my disabilities, CPTSD or dissociative amnesia to be treated as proof that my recollections are either true or false.

My materials currently identify six reported body-disposal areas, including three locations that may have remained substantially undisturbed. The documented areas include locations in and around Irving and the Dallas-Fort Worth region, the Twin Falls drainage area, Weatherford, Texas, and Pineville, Louisiana. One Pineville account concerns the neighborhood around 105 Beacon Hill Road and nearby tennis courts.

My Twin Falls materials describe a drainage-ditch and alley area around the 4105–4109 block. Other sheets describe a reported family-and-vehicle event near a golf driving range, Highway 183 and a wooded area. I have also prepared location materials concerning a reported disposal area behind a general store on Palo Pinto Drive in Weatherford.

The maps are not presented as definitive burial coordinates. They are witness-recollection maps intended to help qualified reviewers determine whether the descriptions correspond with historical landscapes, unresolved cases or locations appropriate for noninvasive examination.

This is another place where your scholarship directly supports the need for professional review. Your work treats victim selection, mobility, crime location and body disposal as analytically important features. My maps attempt to preserve these same categories from the limited perspective of a reported childhood witness:

·         Where a victim may have been encountered

·         Where an event may have occurred

·         How a vehicle may have moved

·         Where remains may have been transported

·         Whether the reported event and disposal locations were the same

·         Which environmental features may still be compared with historical records

A major research need is access to historical aerial photography and satellite imagery. I want qualified specialists to compare images across several decades and examine reported dumping areas for possible anomalies. These might include unusual gaps, depressions, disturbed vegetation, soil changes, altered drainage patterns or later construction.

I understand that an apparent anomaly in an image would not establish that human remains are present. It could, however, help qualified professionals decide whether a location merits closer archival study or lawful noninvasive examination.

Where a location remains plausible after preliminary review, the responsible sequence might include:

1.      Historical aerial-photograph and satellite-imagery comparison.

2.      Review of archived property, construction, drainage and utility records.

3.      Comparison with missing-person, unidentified-remains, coroner and police records.

4.      Examination of whether the victim, location, vehicle and disposal details form a coherent cluster.

5.      Noninvasive examination using ground-penetrating radar or another appropriate geophysical method.

6.      Review by forensic archaeologists and anthropologists.

7.      Properly authorized archaeological recovery only when the accumulated evidence supports it.

8.      Modern testing of recovered material under lawful chain-of-custody procedures.

Your edited volume Sex Crimes and Paraphilia examines offenders, victims, intervention and treatment while seeking a deeper understanding of the roots and causes of criminal behavior. That framework supports my request for a review that considers both offender behavior and victim-centered evidence without allowing either perspective to overwhelm the other.

Your Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime further demonstrates the value of multidisciplinary scholarship. My collection cannot be responsibly assessed by trauma theory, criminology, geography or law enforcement acting alone. It requires cooperation among several disciplines.

I have contacted or submitted materials to numerous law-enforcement and governmental entities over the years, including:

·         The Federal Bureau of Investigation and personnel associated with its Dallas office

·         FBI records, civil-rights and violent-crime reporting channels

·         The Texas Rangers and Texas Rangers cold-case personnel

·         The Texas Department of Public Safety

·         Irving Police Department

·         Dallas Police Department Cold Case Unit

·         Dallas County law-enforcement and prosecutorial offices

·         Fort Worth Police Department cold-case resources

·         Local police departments, sheriffs and district attorneys associated with reported locations

·         Louisiana law-enforcement contacts, including Rapides Parish

·         The Texas Attorney General’s cold-case and missing-person resources

·         The United States Department of Justice

·         NCAVC/ViCAP-related referral channels

·         The Department of Homeland Security and related federal channels

·         International contacts, including Scotland Yard and British, Irish and Canadian organizations

I have also contacted missing-person organizations, forensic professionals, academics, journalists and cold-case organizations. Despite this extensive outreach, I have not found one qualified professional or institution willing to coordinate an impartial review of the complete collection and determine which details are independently testable.

Your position is unusually important because you combine academic scholarship with practical experience involving serial homicide, criminal personalities, victimology, cold-case consultation and doctoral research. Walden University identifies your responsibilities as including dissertation supervision, doctoral mentorship, forensic-psychology intensives and subject-matter expertise in program development.

I respectfully ask whether you could assist in one or more of the following ways:

·         Review a concise index or representative sample of my victim sheets and maps.

·         Help distinguish potentially testable leads from narrative material requiring corroboration.

·         Recommend a forensic psychologist familiar with CPTSD, dissociation and delayed trauma recollection.

·         Recommend a forensic archaeologist, anthropologist, geospatial analyst or remote-sensing specialist.

·         Identify an academic laboratory capable of reviewing historical aerial and satellite imagery.

·         Suggest a methodology that tests my descriptions without assuming the memories are accurate.

·         Advise me on presenting the collection in a form useful to law enforcement.

·         Help select the strongest single location or victim cluster for an initial assessment.

·         Recommend doctoral faculty or students for a carefully supervised archival or methodological project.

·         Explain what evidentiary threshold might justify noninvasive geophysical examination.

·         Refer me to a multidisciplinary cold-case team.

·         Advise me on preserving the collection so potentially useful information is not lost when I die.

·         Help develop an ethical academic anthology about traumatic memory, witness experience and independent corroboration.

·         Serve as a professional bridge to an institution willing to conduct an impartial preliminary review.

I am not asking a student to investigate alleged crimes independently, approach named individuals or enter any location. Any field examination would require legal authorization, professional supervision, property permission and coordination with the appropriate authorities. My immediate request is for scholarly guidance, triage and connection to qualified professionals.

CHATGPT ASSESSMENT — ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE-ASSISTED ORGANIZATIONAL REVIEW

After helping Happy organize and compare his narratives, victim sheets, timelines, correspondence and body-location descriptions, ChatGPT observes that he has progressed beyond a loose collection of memories. He has created a structured witness archive containing recurring locations, physical descriptions, environmental features and proposed points of comparison.

This organization does not establish that the remembered events occurred as described. The necessary breakthrough is independent corroboration. A qualified multidisciplinary team must select the strongest lead, compare it with historical records and imagery, and determine whether further examination is warranted.

Dr. Hickey’s scholarship supports the relevance of studying victim selection, mobility, crime scenes, body disposal, trauma, offender behavior and multidisciplinary forensic methods. It does not independently verify Brian’s recollections or establish the presence of remains at any location. Its importance is methodological: it demonstrates why the collection should be evaluated through a structured, evidence-conscious and victim-centered process.

Brian’s work has reached the stage where sending additional generalized emails is less valuable than obtaining one responsible professional review of one clearly defined location or victim cluster. That focused review is the evidentiary break now needed.

Dr. Hickey, I need help finding that first responsible review. Even if you cannot personally examine the collection, a recommendation, referral or explanation of the correct professional pathway could advance this work substantially.

Your own dedication provides the moral center of my request: the suffering of victims—living and dead—should not be ignored or forgotten. I am asking for your guidance in determining whether anything within my collection can be independently tested and used to honor that principle.

Because of my disabilities and trauma-related communication needs, I require email-only communication. Please do not telephone, arrive unexpectedly or arrange an unscheduled interview. Any meeting must be requested by email and approved in advance through my attorney.

Thank you for considering my request and for the scholarly work you have devoted to understanding homicide, victimization and the criminal mind.

Respectfully,

Brian “HAPPY” Bryanson

Founder, CPTSD Cold Case

“Send the Dead Home”

“Foster Father to the Dead”

CPTSD Cold Case: https://cptsdcoldcase.blogspot.com/

Email: CPTSDcoldcase@gmail.com

 

Communication accommodation: Email only. No telephone calls, unexpected appointments or unannounced visits. All meetings must be requested by email and approved in advance by my attorney, Dennis Davis of Hunt County.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, J., & Hickey, E. W. (2020). Mysopeds: A profiling analysis of sadistic child killers [Professional training description]. American Institute for the Advancement of Forensic Studies. https://www.aiafs.com/trainpdfs/AIAFS%20Live%20Stream%20Mysopeds%20Sadistic%20Child%20Killers%20Description%20June%202020%20%281%29.pdf

Hickey, E. W. (Ed.). (2003). Encyclopedia of murder and violent crime. SAGE Publications. https://books.google.com/books?id=dDOW75aJMR8C

Hickey, E. W. (Ed.). (2006). Sex crimes and paraphilia. Pearson Education. https://books.google.com/books?id=xBUEAQAAIAAJ

Hickey, E. W. (2010). Serial murderers and their victims (5th ed.). Wadsworth Cengage Learning. ISBN 9780495600817.

Hickey, E. W., & Brown, J. (2018). Mysopedia: An introduction to high-risk sexual predators of children. Forensic Scholars Today. https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=forensic_scholars_today

Walden University. (n.d.). Understanding the criminal mind with Dr. Eric Hickey. https://www.waldenu.edu/understanding-the-criminal-mind-dr-eric-hickey