RONAN FARROW NEEDED!!! PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO SOMEONE THAT KNOWS HIM SO WE ALL TOGATHER CAN 'SEND THE DEAD HOME' 2026

 

REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATIVE STORY CONSIDERATION

TO: RONAN FARROW

FROM: BRIAN “HAPPY” BRYANSON, FOUNDER — CPTSD COLD CASE

MISSION: “SEND THE DEAD HOME”

August 2, 2026

Dear Mr. Farrow:

My name is Brian “Happy” Bryanson. I am disabled and substantially homebound, and I have spent more than two decades organizing fragmented trauma-related recollections, treatment records, educational evaluations, correspondence, timelines, maps, and possible cold-case leads. I founded CPTSD Cold Case around one purpose: “Send the Dead Home.”

I am asking whether you or your investigative team would consider examining—not simply accepting—my documentary record. My recollections include abductions, homicides, missing persons, disposal locations, and institutional resistance in Texas and Louisiana. I understand that memory is reconstructive and that my reports do not establish that a crime occurred. What can be established is the longevity of my reporting, the existence of contemporaneous records, my repeated efforts to obtain independent review, and the continuing human cost when information concerning forgotten people is never tested.

THE STORY I AM ASKING YOU TO TEST

Can a disabled witness with documented learning differences, trauma treatment, decades of writing, and a substantial record package obtain a fair, independent examination when the institutions receiving his reports appear unwilling to engage?

My request is not for automatic belief, publicity without verification, or publication of private locations. It is for disciplined reporting: authenticate the records, interview the relevant people, compare the chronology with official files, identify contradictions, and determine whether any testable lead was mishandled or left unexamined.

The enclosed summary identifies why this may be a meaningful public-interest investigation.

IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT IT MUST BE DONE IN THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT

 

WHY THIS STORY MAY WARRANT YOUR INVESTIGATION
•	A witness who invites verification — I distinguish recollection, contemporaneous self-report, clinical documentation, and independent records. I am asking a journalist to test the archive, not certify every memory.
•	A documented resilience trajectory — Educational evaluations from 1991 and 2010 record high-average reasoning ability, persistent reading and writing difficulties, extraordinary effort, service to vulnerable children, graduate education, and the need for accommodations.
•	A decades-long paper trail — I report that trauma flashbacks began in 1997 and that the first homicide-related recollection emerged in December 1999. Since approximately 2000, I have created journals, victim-description sheets, maps, timelines, letters, emails, and agency submissions.
•	Institutional power and resistance — I allege that historical and present law-enforcement relationships created conflicts of interest and resistance to review. Those claims have not been adjudicated. The reportable question is what agencies received, preserved, compared, referred, or declined—and why.
•	Possible forgotten victims — The archive describes children, teenagers, adults, missing persons, unidentified remains, and possible disposal areas across Irving and the Dallas–Fort Worth region, with an additional Pineville, Louisiana recollection. Exact locations and unreleased details should remain protected unless investigators request them.
•	A test of trauma, memory, and evidence — Clinical records may document symptoms, treatment, coping, and dates of disclosure; they do not automatically verify historical events. The story can show how responsible journalism evaluates a sincere but uncertain witness without exploiting or dismissing him.
•	Disability and access — I am substantially homebound and request email communication. The record shows longstanding learning differences, physical limitations, and accommodation needs—yet also sustained organization, authorship, help-seeking, and advocacy.
•	A larger civic question — What procedures exist when a local agency may have a perceived conflict, and who ensures that historical missing-person or unidentified-remains information receives independent comparison?

PUBLICATION BOUNDARY

I would ask that living relatives, possible witnesses, exact locations, and unreleased victim characteristics be protected until independently verified and responsibly cleared for publication.

 

COLOR-CODED DOCUMENTARY TIMELINE

The dates below identify reported recollection and documentation activity; they do not establish the dates or truth of any alleged crime.

PERIOD	PLACE	SOURCE TYPE	DOCUMENTARY SIGNIFICANCE
1950s	Sherman, Texas	FAMILY HISTORY	Reported beginning of an intergenerational family and criminal-influence narrative; requires independent records.
Early 1970s	Pineville, Louisiana	RECOLLECTION	Childhood recollection involving a possible abduction and disposal event.
1970s–1990s	Irving / DFW	RECOLLECTION	Possible disappearance, homicide, transportation, and disposal clusters recalled across multiple locations.
1991	Dallas / UTA	INDEPENDENT RECORD	Psychoeducational evaluation documents high-average reasoning, learning differences, perseverance, service, and academic effort.
1997	Texas	SELF-REPORT	Reported onset of trauma-related flashbacks.
Dec. 1999	Texas	SELF-REPORT	Reported first homicide-related recollection and beginning of focused documentation.
2000–2017	State / federal contacts	REPORTING	Journals, victim sheets, maps, timelines, letters, and agency contacts accumulated.
2010	Plano, Texas	INDEPENDENT RECORD	Educational evaluation documents persistent reading/writing disability, completed degrees, and accommodation recommendations.
2018–2020	Texas	CLINICAL / DISABILITY	Records document posttraumatic-stress treatment, physical limitations, coping, writing, and continued outreach.
2024–2026	Texas / national outreach	REPORTING	Renewed therapy, expanded documentary packages, records requests, correspondence, public writing, and calls for independent review.

COLOR KEY:  BLUE = independent educational record  •  PURPLE = clinical/disability record  •  GOLD = self-report  •  MAGENTA = recollection  •  TEAL = reporting/outreach  •  ORANGE = family-history hypothesis

The investigative opportunity is the intersection of three chronologies: the period described in the recollections; the emergence of those recollections beginning in adulthood; and a reporting effort extending for more than two decades.

 

WHAT I AM ASKING YOU TO DO
•	Authenticate — Review original educational, clinical, disability, correspondence, and agency records; preserve provenance and revision history.
•	Compare — Ask independent agencies to identify what was searched, what was unavailable, what was contradicted, and what remains testable.
•	Interview — Speak with appropriate former officials, witnesses, clinicians, researchers, and records custodians using trauma-informed and non-leading methods.
•	Protect — Do not publish exact locations, identifying information about living private persons, or unverified accusations as established fact.
•	Follow the institutional record — Determine whether reports were logged, retained, routed, compared with missing-person and unidentified-remains data, or dismissed without meaningful review.

Why the forgotten need you

Mr. Farrow, your work has shown why careful reporting matters when vulnerable people describe harm involving powerful institutions. The people at the center of my archive—if even one can be identified through a legitimate comparison—cannot request records, correct a file, call a reporter, or ask to be returned to family. They depend upon living people to decide that uncertainty is not the same as worthlessness and that a difficult witness is not an excuse to abandon a testable lead.

I am not asking you to adopt my conclusions. I am asking you to examine the evidence architecture: what I reported, when I reported it, what documents existed at each stage, what agencies did, what independent records can establish, and whether any responsible next step remains. If the archive does not withstand scrutiny, that should be documented honestly. If part of it does, the forgotten deserve the benefit of that discovery.

THE FORGOTTEN CANNOT ASK FOR A REPORTER. I AM ASKING FOR THEM.

Thank you for considering whether this record presents a story worth testing. I can provide a protected index, source chronology, selected original records, and a concise list of independently testable questions. Email is the only reliable accommodation for initial communication.

Respectfully,

Brian “Happy” Bryanson

Founder — CPTSD Cold Case

Mission: “Send the Dead Home”

Email: CPTSDcoldcase@gmail.com

Public project: https://cptsdcoldcase.blogspot.com/

Communication accommodation: EMAIL ONLY — no telephone calls, unexpected appointments, or unannounced visits.

EVIDENCE NOTE: Recollections and allegations described here are not adjudicated facts. Independent records may document reporting, symptoms, education, disability, treatment, or agency contact without verifying the historical content of a recollection.