65. Sounds Like A Panhandle Cover-Up: What Happened To Thomas Brown?

Melissa takes us through the deeply creepy disappearance of 18 year-old Thomas Brown on Thanksgiving Eve 2016, just moments after being videotaped pumping gas in the small town of Canadian, Texas.  Can it really be true that law enforcement botched this case so badly that the victim's mother had to hire a private investigation team to try to get to the truth?  Evidently so.  Because due to the hard work of that private investigator, Thomas Brown's remains were finally uncovered in January 2019.  But still absolutely nothing is known about the manner of his death.  The police insist it was suicide - but the bizarre array of evidence, the way it was collected or otherwise discovered and the erratic and baffling way the case has been handled by law enforcement raise far more questions than they do divulge answers.