Jason Landry: Authorities still searching for Texas State student who’s been missing for two years

SAN MARCOS, Texas – Dec. 13, 2022, marked two years since 21-year-old Texas State pupil Jason Landry disappeared on a drive from San Marcos to his hometown of Missouri Metropolis, Texas. 

His crashed automobile was discovered on Salt Flat Highway, a gravel street in Luling’s oilfield. The Caldwell County Sheriff’s Workplace believes he stripped bare on the street, leaving his belongings behind. 

On Tuesday, family members and supporters held a candlelight vigil for Landry.

In January 2022, the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Workplace shared proof within the case with FOX 7 Austin. For a extra detailed timeline surrounding his disappearance, click on right here.

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CCSO took over the seek for Landry on Dec. 18, 2020, following preliminary investigative and search efforts by the Texas Division of Public Security.

A timeline from the sheriff’s workplace tracks Landry’s actions from when he left his condominium to when his cellphone ceased pinging in Luling. CCSO says that investigators have gained entry to most of Landry’s cellphone and laptop information.

The timeline of Landry’s disappearance supplied by the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Workplace goes as follows:

• Dec.13, 10:55 p.m.: Landry leaves his condominium in San Marcos, headed to Missouri Metropolis
• Dec.13, 11:05 p.m.: Landry is driving on Hwy 80 and passes underneath I-35 in San Marcos
• Dec.13, 11:07 p.m.: Landry enters Caldwell County on Hwy 80, heading south
• Dec.13, 11:11 p.m.: Landry enters Martindale, nonetheless heading south on Hwy 80
• Dec.13, 11:15 p.m.: Landry passes over SH 130 on Hwy 80
• Dec.13, 11:17-11:21 p.m.: Landry passes via Fentress, Prairie Lea, and Stairtown
• Dec.13, 11:24 p.m.: Landry enters Luling on Hwy 80

CCSO says that as Landry went via the intersection at Hackberry Road the place Hwy 80 turns into Austin Road, he stopped utilizing the Waze app and started utilizing Snapchat.

Landry then continued on Austin St. to the intersection with U.S. 183, also called Magnolia Avenue, and CCSO says investigators consider he continued straight via that intersection, persevering with onto E. Austin, however at this intersection, his digital footprint stops. Landry then continued on E. Austin onto Spruce Road, which turns into Salt Flat Highway, the place his automobile was discovered deserted within the 2300 block round 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 14, says CCSO.

CCSO says investigators are actually centered on the 67-minute window between Landry’s final information footprint at Austin Road and Magnolia Avenue and the invention of the crash scene on Salt Flat Highway. Investigators try to find out why whereas Landry’s cellphone had cell sign and was powered on, it does not seem to have been used since that intersection.

CCSO says his automobile was discovered deserted with the lights on and the keys within the ignition. The entrance passenger aspect door was locked as effectively. The crash has been decided to be a single-vehicle crash, most certainly from overcorrecting on the gravel street and spinning off the street. The rear driver’s aspect nook hit a tree on the east aspect of the roadway, propelling the entrance driver’s aspect into one other tree and barbed wire fence.

There is no such thing as a proof that another automobile or outdoors pressure was concerned within the collision, based on CCSO, and investigators are assured that the contact with the timber and fence line was the one contact the automobile sustained based mostly on the proof collected. The automobile’s rear window was damaged on account of the affect with a tree.

CCSO says that neither the volunteer firefighter who discovered the automobile or the trooper who responded to the scene entered the automobile. The automobile was then towed to an impound the place Landry’s father, the registered proprietor of the automobile, entered via the unlocked driver’s aspect door and located his son’s mobile phone between the driving force’s seat and the middle console.

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CCSO says that it’s unknown if the cellphone fell as Landry was driving via the intersection of Austin St and Magnolia Ave. or in the course of the crash. Landry’s father collected the cellphone and tried to seek out the crash scene.

Roughly 900 ft from the crash scene, Landry’s father discovered and picked up articles of his son’s clothes (shirt, shorts, socks, underwear, slide sandals, and a wristwatch) within the street. Investigators then processed these garments and located a single small blood smear, which CCSO says was not indicative of significant bodily harm and was probably brought on by Landry touching the barbed wire fence or foliage. No proof of blood was discovered contained in the automobile.

A evaluate of the physique and sprint cameras from the trooper’s preliminary response to the crash scene confirmed that roughly 900 ft from the crash scene, a backpack, a ball cap, a plastic bag of private toiletries, and a glass with a deceased beta fish in it, all belonging to Landry, have been discovered within the street, north of the clothes recovered by his father.

The backpack contained his pockets, a usable quantity of marijuana, a laptop computer laptop, gaming tools, and some private results. CCSO says that any earlier report stating that the backpack was “crammed” with narcotics is inaccurate. The small quantity of marijuana is being held with findings pending on whether or not it was mixed with an unknown hallucinogenic substance.

CCSO says investigators consider the clothes discovered within the roadway was what he was sporting earlier than the crash, however there isn’t any indication that the clothes was eliminated underneath duress or menace. There was chilly climate in the course of the time Jason is believed to have gone lacking, with the low temperature being recorded round 36 with a excessive of 43.

Landry’s cellphone was launched to DPS, who started efforts to entry the gadget and its information. CCSO says that there’s presently no proof he was touring to fulfill with or had communicated intent to fulfill with anybody in or round Luling.

CCSO says that that is believed to be an remoted incident with no menace to the group and that there’s presently no proof that an unknown individual of curiosity is concerned.