ITS ABOUT TIME TO SEND THE DEAD HOME 2026: PROPOSED CITIZEN COLD-CASE TASK FORCE

 

CITIZEN PROPOSAL

IT’S ABOUT TIME TO SEND THE DEAD HOME

An All-Female Texas Ranger Cold-Case Blind-Corroboration Task-Force Proposal 2026

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Submitted respectfully to:

Major Wende O. Wakeman  •  Lieutenant Laura Simmons  •  Ranger Veronica Gideon
Ranger Sharee Irwin  •  Ranger Nicole Martin (UCIP)

Brian “Happy” Bryanson
Citizen Investigative Journalist and Archive Publisher
Founder, CPTSD Cold Case — “Send the Dead Home”

Progressive Research Paper 2026-08-04-01  |  August 4, 2026

“I am not asking anyone to accept my recollections as proven history. I am asking qualified professionals to test whether specific details recorded across years correspond with independently held records.”
— AUTHOR ARCHIVE — Blind-Corroboration Challenge, 2026

CLASSIFICATION: Unofficial citizen proposal and investigative working paper. It is not a Texas DPS publication, an official task-force charter, a judicial finding, an expert report, or a determination that any named person committed a crime.

 

Executive Request

I respectfully ask these five publicly identified women Texas Rangers to consider a tightly bounded, all-female pilot review team—working through ordinary DPS authority and supervision—to test five preserved victim leads against records held independently of me. The working title is “It’s About Time to Send the Dead Home.” The requested first action is not belief, prosecution, excavation, or public accusation. It is one controlled comparison per lead card, with written documentation of matches, conflicts, and unavailable records.

“If you want to do something right, it must be done in the brightest light.”
— AUTHOR ARCHIVE — CPTSD Cold Case: Most Recent Works, 2026

Why this team and why now

·         Twenty-six years have passed between sustained outreach beginning in 2000 and this 2026 proposal. The underlying claims remain unverified, but the reporting trail, victim sheets, correspondence, and record requests now permit controlled triage.

·         The five proposed participants bring complementary public assignments: division leadership, DFW supervision, Company F field experience, and an Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program assignment.

·         A small pilot controls workload. Each reviewer chooses one testable record system and returns a written disposition: match, conflict, no record, referral, or jurisdictional barrier.

·         The proposal expressly preserves uncertainty and seeks disconfirmation. Repetition is not treated as proof.

PROPOSED PARTICIPATION ONLY: The roles below are suggestions based on public DPS assignments. No Ranger has agreed to participate, and this document must not be represented as an official DPS initiative.

Proposed Five-Ranger Structure

Publicly listed Ranger	Proposed pilot role	Reason for routing
Major Wende O. Wakeman	Executive sponsor / authority review	Company F leadership and statewide command perspective.
Lt. Laura Simmons	DFW and jurisdiction liaison	Company B Garland leadership; principal DFW-area routing.
Ranger Veronica Gideon	Records and blind-comparison reviewer	Company F Austin placement supports access and interagency routing.
Ranger Sharee Irwin	Field-coordination reviewer	Company F field assignment; proposed coordination of limited local checks.
Ranger Nicole Martin (UCIP)	Pilot triage lead	Publicly listed in Giddings under the Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program.

Twenty-Six Years: Reporting, Preservation, and Request for Review

Figure 1. The timeline documents the persistence and organization of reporting—not the historical truth of any alleged event. The author reports that the first homicide-related recollection emerged in 1999; this chart uses 2000–2026 for the requested 26-year outreach interval.

“My goal was not myself … I had high hopes of solving a cold case and sending a victim home.”
— AUTHOR ARCHIVE — Bricks of Sadness Mortared With Shame, 2026

Triage and Solvability Matrix

The score measures only how readily a lead can be checked against outside records. It is not a probability that the recollection is accurate, that a crime occurred, or that a proposed identity is correct. Each score uses five equally disclosed dimensions: record abundance (25), distinctiveness (25), geographic precision (20), time-window precision (15), and institutional anchor (15).

Figure 2. Proposed workload order. Scores are editorial triage judgments based on the supplied archive and must be recalculated by an independent reviewer.

Rank	Lead	Score	Why testable	First bounded action
1	Victim 123A — possible MacArthur cheerleader/athlete	88	School identity, red athletic jacket, sleet-day closure, approximate age and appearance, 4105 Twin Falls anchor.	Weather/school calendar → yearbooks and rosters → missing/runaway and hospital records.
2	Victim 123E — Lee Britain intern teacher	82	University placement, school semester, rear parking area, green vehicle, and reported police-presence cue.	Student-teacher placement lists → interrupted assignments → police/missing-person comparison.
3	Victim 123C — Lee Britain employee	78	School employment, age range, staff disappearance or separation, residence and broad DFW ravine sequence.	Complete staff roster → unexplained departure/memorial → independent case-file comparison.
4	Victim 123B — Boy Scout	75	Approximate age, uniform, residential visit, alley/creek route, and possible drowning or recovery record.	Geographic recovery logs → youth records → Scout rosters and memorials.
5	Victim 123G — toddler	70	Approximate age, drainage location, head injury, reported witness pursuit, and emergency-response cue.	Jurisdiction/dispatch and EMS search → child-welfare and unidentified-child records.

 

Priority One: Victim 123A — Possible MacArthur Cheerleader/Athlete

STATUS: Uncorroborated reported lead. The words “cheerleader,” “MacArthur student,” and “sale” are archive interpretations requiring independent verification. They must not be published as established facts.

Reported details preserved in the archive

·         Female, approximately sixteen, with blonde curly hair and an athletic build.

·         Red high-school athletic jacket with an extended rear collar; possible MacArthur color association.

·         A school day involving sleet; broad late-1970s to early-1980s estimate.

·         Reported injury at the back of the head and arm movement when carried from the residence.

·         Reported cash exchange and removal by an adult man; destination and later outcome unknown.

Why it ranks first

This lead combines an unusual weather cue, a school-day calendar, an institutional affiliation, distinctive clothing, an approximate age and appearance, and a fixed address. Those elements create a staged search that can be conducted without feeding candidate identities back to the author.

Five simple—but controlled—checks

1.       Identify Irving-area sleet or freezing-precipitation school days from 1975–1982 and determine whether schools closed, opened late, or dismissed early.

2.       For those narrowed dates and school years, review MacArthur yearbooks, cheerleading and athletic rosters, school newspapers, withdrawal records, and memorial notices.

3.       Compare candidate descriptions with contemporaneous missing-person, runaway, juvenile, hospital, and unidentified-person records.

4.       Confirm historical ownership and occupancy of 4105 Twin Falls and check whether any calls for service, EMS responses, or neighborhood reports survive.

5.       Use a blind reviewer; do not show names, photographs, or case narratives to the author before a clean, open-ended interview.

“Compare the details. Follow the records. Send the dead home.”
— AUTHOR ARCHIVE — One Detail Could Bring Someone Home, 2026

Minimum Pilot Protocol

FREEZE: Preserve original files, emails, victim sheets, and metadata; work only from copies.

EXTRACT: Record each detail exactly as first written, including uncertainty and contradiction.

PARTITION: Keep the author separate from the record-search team.

SEARCH: Document positive, negative, and unavailable record results.

CHALLENGE: Assign a reviewer to identify alternative explanations and public-source contamination.

ESCALATE: Allow the agency with jurisdiction—not the author or academic team—to decide whether a match warrants action.

Email for Official Routing

DPS does not publish direct email addresses for these five Rangers. Do not guess address formats. Send the request to the verified DPS media address as a citizen-journalist routing request and submit the same text through the official Ranger General Contact form.

COPY-AND-PASTE EMAIL

media@dps.texas.gov

Official Ranger General Contact form:
https://www.dps.texas.gov/apps/dps/Forms/Vue/Ranger_Contact

SUBJECT: Please route to Major Wende Wakeman, Lt. Laura Simmons, Rangers Veronica Gideon, Sharee Irwin, and Nicole Martin (UCIP): proposed five-lead cold-case pilot

Dear Major Wakeman, Lieutenant Simmons, Ranger Gideon, Ranger Irwin, and Ranger Martin:

My name is Brian “Happy” Bryanson. I am a disabled, homebound citizen investigative journalist and archive publisher and the founder of CPTSD Cold Case — “Send the Dead Home.” I respectfully submit the attached citizen proposal, “It’s About Time to Send the Dead Home.”

For approximately 26 years, beginning with sustained outreach in 2000, I have attempted to preserve and submit recollections that I believe may relate to unidentified or missing people. I understand that trauma-related recollection is not self-proving evidence and that details may be mistaken, incomplete, duplicated, displaced in time, influenced by later information, or disproved by records.

I am not asking you to accept an offender theory or treat my writing as proof. I am asking whether five publicly identified women Texas Rangers might sponsor or participate in a bounded pilot: select one lead card, preserve the original account, compare one set of distinctive details with records held independently of me, and return a written result—match, conflict, no record, referral, or jurisdictional barrier.

The first-priority card concerns Victim 123A, a reported teenage girl with blonde curly hair, an athletic build, a red school sports jacket, and a possible MacArthur High School connection. The timing is linked in my recollection to a school day involving sleet. I have described a reported cash exchange and removal from a Twin Falls residence; “sale” is my interpretation, not an independently established fact. Her identity and outcome remain unknown.

The packet ranks five leads by external testability, explains the scoring method, proposes a blind-corroboration protocol, and separates recollection from interpretation. Ranger Nicole Martin is included because the current public Company F roster identifies her with the Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program. The proposed roles are invitations only and do not imply DPS endorsement.

Please confirm receipt, provide an intake or correspondence reference number, and identify whether one Ranger or records analyst can conduct one limited comparison. If the Texas Ranger Division is not the proper owner, please identify the local agency, prosecutor, archive, or program to which the packet should be routed.

Because I am disabled and homebound, I request email communication only. Please do not telephone me or arrange an unexpected appointment.

 

 

 

Respectfully,

Brian “Happy” Bryanson
Citizen Investigative Journalist and Archive Publisher

https://cptsdcoldcase.blogspot.com/?zx=d5cf6aee654b8bfe
Founder, CPTSD Cold Case — “Send the Dead Home”
Email: CPTSDcoldcase@gmail.com
EMAIL COMMUNICATION ONLY

Documentation and Evidentiary Boundaries

·         The proposal does not establish a victim identity, offender, abduction, trafficking event, homicide, burial site, or official case connection.

·         Internal consistency is relevant to documentary history but cannot substitute for an external record match.

·         Tentative candidate identities should not be published or taken to families. A credible match belongs with the agency having jurisdiction.

·         The author asks that contradictions and disconfirming records be preserved, not erased or harmonized.

·         The task-force emblem is an original, unofficial citizen-proposal mark. It is not a DPS badge or Texas Ranger insignia.

Official Public Sources

Texas DPS, Texas Rangers Company B roster: https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/texas-rangers/company-b

Texas DPS, Texas Rangers Company F roster: https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/texas-rangers/company-f

Texas DPS, Texas Rangers contact information and submission limitations: https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/texas-rangers/contact-information

Texas DPS, Ranger General Contact form: https://www.dps.texas.gov/apps/dps/Forms/Vue/Ranger_Contact

Texas DPS Media and Communications Office: media@dps.texas.gov

Proposed Task-Force Emblem

The emblem below is intentionally labeled “PROPOSED,” “CITIZEN,” and “UNOFFICIAL.” Its Texas-inspired star and hourglass symbolize time, disciplined review, and the path home. It must never be displayed as an official Texas DPS or Texas Ranger badge.

“Send the Dead Home.”
— BRIAN “HAPPY” BRYANSON — Mission statement

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FROM THE DESK OF
Brian “Happy” Bryanson
Citizen Investigative Journalist and Archive Publisher
Founder, CPTSD Cold Case — “Send the Dead Home”

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