Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if everyone could stop discussing the details of this very tragic case, how it could have been done, etc.

Why? We are human and we are curious. It is important to understand what happened.

This story is heartbreaking and scary. Does anyone know if there is updated information? There seem to be so many strange details at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:The body could have been propped up or caught in such a way that appeared he was "standing".

Could that mean he was found hanging? (hung?)

I don't know how someone could be simultaneously hanging but standing. I just shudder to think of all this.

To die you don't have to hang yourself from a height. He could have hung himself by tying a rope at the height of his head then lifting his feet off the ground. The weight of his body and the noose is what would asphyxiate him. Once unconscious, his feet would relax and hang back down to ground level. He might look like he was standing. I know two teenagers who hung themselves from heights less than the height of their body.

How horrible. You would have to have the willpower (for lack of a better word) to keep your feet lifted from the ground. Just horrible. I have been thinking a lot about this poor boy and his family.

My husband used to be a crime scene investigator. He once investigated the death of a man who hanged himself by tying a rope around a post in his yard and leaning forward on his knees. You want to talk about willpower.

It would be nice if everyone could stop discussing the details of this very tragic case, how it could have been done, etc.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Bryan. I can't imagine their pain.

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Anonymous wrote:The body could have been propped up or caught in such a way that appeared he was "standing".

Could that mean he was found hanging? (hung?)

I don't know how someone could be simultaneously hanging but standing. I just shudder to think of all this.

To die you don't have to hang yourself from a height. He could have hung himself by tying a rope at the height of his head then lifting his feet off the ground. The weight of his body and the noose is what would asphyxiate him. Once unconscious, his feet would relax and hang back down to ground level. He might look like he was standing. I know two teenagers who hung themselves from heights less than the height of their body.

How horrible. You would have to have the willpower (for lack of a better word) to keep your feet lifted from the ground. Just horrible. I have been thinking a lot about this poor boy and his family.

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Anonymous wrote:The body could have been propped up or caught in such a way that appeared he was "standing".

Could that mean he was found hanging? (hung?)

I don't know how someone could be simultaneously hanging but standing. I just shudder to think of all this.

To die you don't have to hang yourself from a height. He could have hung himself by tying a rope at the height of his head then lifting his feet off the ground. The weight of his body and the noose is what would asphyxiate him. Once unconscious, his feet would relax and hang back down to ground level. He might look like he was standing. I know two teenagers who hung themselves from heights less than the height of their body.

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Anonymous wrote:The body could have been propped up or caught in such a way that appeared he was "standing".

Could that mean he was found hanging? (hung?)

I don't know how someone could be simultaneously hanging but standing. I just shudder to think of all this.

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Anonymous wrote:hmm...I read that they saw the body from the path.

The body was barely been spotted from the path. The searchers said the body was found upright with the head looking down, so the searchers actually thought it was another person searching when they had first gone by the area.

I heard this too and it sounds very odd. Why Did the police not see him when they searched? Do they think it was a suicide?

The police search basically came from the front and the back but didn't meet in the middle of the two so there was an area that the police say they never actually looked at and this is where he was found. Had the family not hired a private investigator so quickly, I think his body would never have been found.

The body could have been propped up or caught in such a way that appeared he was "standing".

Could that mean he was found hanging? (hung?)

Anonymous wrote:This story states that the Fairfax County Police tweeted that it was an apparent suicide and then rescinded the tweet. Unbelievable. This family is suffering the worst loss imaginable, and the department is tweeting about it? Can this be accurate?

http://washingtonexaminer.com/missing-fairfax-county-teens-body-found/article/2510223#.UHRlEa4lqSo

Agree that it was horrible for the police to tweet that! What in the world?

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Anonymous wrote:hmm...I read that they saw the body from the path.

The body was barely been spotted from the path. The searchers said the body was found upright with the head looking down, so the searchers actually thought it was another person searching when they had first gone by the area.

I heard this too and it sounds very odd. Why Did the police not see him when they searched? Do they think it was a suicide?

The police search basically came from the front and the back but didn't meet in the middle of the two so there was an area that the police say they never actually looked at and this is where he was found. Had the family not hired a private investigator so quickly, I think his body would never have been found.

The body could have been propped up or caught in such a way that appeared he was "standing".

I wonder if disappearances of boys are treated.differently than girls. Where I live, there has been a college boy missing for awhile and it is really just starting to get a lot more news coverage. However, a lot of people seem to be treating it like he ran away, is hiding from something or killed himself. Same happened a few months ago with another college student and his body was eventually found in a resevoir. Now if it was a girl missing, there would be a lot more media attention and people looking at something malicious.


I'm sure there are statistics to back up why boys disappearing is treated differently than girls, i just find it interesting.

Wow. I hope it wasn't what I think it was. I may have been stating the obvious in my prior post, my apologies.

Fairfax County is so inept in so many regards. It is too big to run efficiently, and it is comfortable with that? This poor family.

You will see on the video that someone cited as a private investigator hired by the family (see aforementioned reason) mentioned on camera "in his opinion" it was not suicide. That is one person's opinion, but the police were out of line in their failures.

Anonymous wrote:Also the way I read it about the body was that it was in an upright position. That could mean sitting, leaning against the tree, not standing.

"The body was standing under a tree, searchers told Peggy Fox." -- so I take that to be "standing." The whole unnaturalness of that gives me an awful "Blair Witch Project" vibe. I don't mean that as disrespectful at all. But that's all I can think of. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

FFX county police tweeted that a body had been found and it was apparent suicide. They later tweeted that it was too early to say what cause of death was and the previous tweet was an error.

Also the way I read it about the body was that it was in an upright position. That could mean sitting, leaning against the tree, not standing.

It's all very odd. We ride the trails near where he was found all the time. Sends a chill up my spine.

This story states that the Fairfax County Police tweeted that it was an apparent suicide and then rescinded the tweet. Unbelievable. This family is suffering the worst loss imaginable, and the department is tweeting about it? Can this be accurate?

http://washingtonexaminer.com/missing-fairfax-county-teens-body-found/article/2510223#.UHRlEa4lqSo