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Another example of how years of search efforts in the area surrounding a disappearance can still fall short: The remains of Jason Landry, who disappeared on the night of December 14/15 2020 after crashing his car on a desolate road in Luling TX, were found last week, and confirmed to be his this afternoon.

THE DISAPPERANCE

If you aren't familiar with the case: Jason was a college student heading home to the Houston area from Texas State University for winter break. He left his apartment at ~10:55pm to make the roughly 2.5 hour drive home. He reached Luling TX around 11:25pm, turned off Waze at the intersection where he was supposed to turn to get on the highway to the Houston area, sent a snapchat, then continued straight onto Salt Flat Road; a dirt road that leads out into open land used mostly for oil fields and cattle grazing.

At 1231am, a volunteer firefighter returning home from a shift (driving south on Salt Flat, opposite Jason's direction of travel) came across Jason's car (a 2003 Nissan Altima) spun out and wrecked off the NB side of the road. The car was wedged up against a barbed wire fence and some trees, with the back window broken. He called the police.

Down the road several hundred feet, Jason's belongings and clothing were found scattered in the road, in an order that would imply he shed them as he walked south (first backpack, then flip flops, then pants, socks, shirt, underwear etc), leaving the responding officers to assume he was naked. In his backpack was normal student belongings, including a decent amount of marijuana (potentially blended with psychedelics, based on his history and recent snapchats to friends; youre welcome to dig into that piece more if you'd like). Important note: the temps that night were cold (in the 30's) with high winds.

No sign of him was found that night, nor in the following days/weeks of search efforts.

THE SEARCHES

The area in question is mostly flat, with occasional scrub brush, hardwood trees, small creeks and ponds. Most of it grass and dirt.

The search efforts in the first 9 days (beginning the next morning, December 15th) were intensive: Rural land around Salt Flat Road, including oil fields, ranches, creeks, abandoned shacks, oil tanks and more. TEXSAR later totaled their first deployment at 49.5 square miles / 31,680 acres by ground and air with 151 search professionals and approx 100 volunteers.

In addition to the standard line/grid pattern searches (which are much easier to do in this kind of terrain), they utilized ATVs, horse-mounted searchers, search and cadaver dogs, UAVs/drones, wetsuit creek searches, helicopters equipped with infrared/FLIR, fixed-wing aircraft, and more.

On December 16th, multiple dog teams alerted near an artificial pond (cattle water source). A diver couldn't find anything in the murky waters, so the oil company leasing the land volunteered to provide crews and pumps to drain it completely. That effort took 3 days. Jason was not found.

These initial efforts were finally called off on December 22nd.

But search efforts resumed in February 2021, and continued for the next 5 and a half years. Hundreds of volunteers with dog teams, horses, drones, sonar, water teams, etc. They searched water wells with cameras, scoured creeks and ponds, and "lawn-mowered" their way across the open fields to ensure every inch was covered. By June 2026, 32 official searches had been conducted.

SEPTEMBER 2026

Then, on September 8th, a local was walking an un-named property that lies east of Salt Flat Rd, just north of Biggs Road, when they found a skull and contacted the authorities. LE ended up recovering what human remains, and today confirmed through DNA and dental records that they belonged to Jason. These remains were found ~3.5 miles from the crash site.

LE also stated that the remains gave "no indication of foul play."

CLOSING

Thus ends the nearly 6 year effort to find Jason Landry.

If you followed this case at all, you are probably well aware of the many conspiracy theories around it; drug runners, corrupt cops, seedy oil tycoons and more. But, in the end, it appears he simply fled the scene under the influence of something extracurricular, and disappeared into the night. He then laid out in those fields without being discovered until now.

I share these instances because there are still many here who claim they are 100% convinced Maura could not possibly be out in the White Mountain wilderness because of the thorough search efforts. "Cadaver dogs are never wrong." "They searched everything in a X-mile radius." "A bloodhound tracked her to BA's." "There were no footprints." Etc, etc.

My point is search efforts are never fullproof, and drawing a circle on a map and saying everything within it was thoroughly searched is fantasy...especially in this kind of terrain.

My hope is some consider this case (along with Brandon Lawson, Geraldine Largay, and the many others) and keep an open mind as we continue to search for the truth.

The woman with the bizarre reaction to the camera as proceedings came to a close yesterday has been attending the trial under a Vanity Fair press pass, who were interested in an essay she was working on about the case and her unique perspective as a childhood friend of Lindsay's.

From the article (linked below):

"Vanity Fair revoked her press credential after Monday's proceedings, the magazine's parent company Condé Nast told the Daily Mail.

'We were interested in the prospect of a personal essay by Brittany Romano about her experience growing up with Lindsay Clancy,' a Vanity Fair spokesperson said.

'Yesterday, after clear conflicts with our editorial standards and processes, we informed Romano that we were not moving forward with her essay and informed the court that she is no longer credentialed by Vanity Fair.'"

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16078303/lindsay-clancy-trial-journalist-smile-massachusetts.html