Hey prime numbers. You can listen to the vanished ad free on amazon, music, download the today, the. I don't know exactly what transpired at the shelter that evening Reductions in all their gates in and he was asked to leave, but when the detective it he will agree me the blurring from the police law that may wish for two things. Like there's just no information, you know I I I mean you know it took care. My brother gave you don't like mama and one down. with that. You know, so I really do my one that try to stay on top of it in the bottle. Work like your own refrained from you know when he was dead. Users be found.

On easter sunday of two thousand thirteen thirty seven year old, ryan Blanco, blagojevich disappeared from the central harbour area of portland. Maine he had struggled with alcohol as a teenager, but when he suffered a severe brain injury in an accident just a few years earlier, it led to a more serious dependence on alcohol ryan had lived in the area for around two years on the streets and in and out of shelters specific about his life at this time are vague

What is known, however, is that on the evening of march thirty, first, two thousand thirteen ryan was intoxicated, kicked out of a shelter and the police were called after. They spoke with him and he went on his way. Ryan was never seen again amorous in from wondering if this is at the suit one hundred and seventy two of the vanished ryan blanco. Yet ex story.

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working on this story for many months, and I this would be the perfect time for it, since ryan disappeared on Easter sunday, back in two thousand thirteen, so work to get ahead so that I could get this episode to you on the away july, ryan. Sister eve contacted me to see if I could cover her brothers story, due to the circumstances. His case just hasn't gotten much attention. Ryan sister eve and her parents had always kept tabs on him, since he has struggled with alcoholism and homelessness. She spoke with about his disappearance and later what led him to fall into his addiction. Even though he was he was a little messed up. He always contacted us, You sure two thousand in name com. My parents is really intoxicated, coincidentally, bye dad. And mind you like, he had such

bad brain injury. If he was on social security disability. I met my for his pay, you for it, because he was you know some asked up so here contact them for the money wherever he wasn t wait. I watched her union that to happen. Ever you up and mean at that time, so turkey that another thing he was really must stop them my dad. What do you mean? I could no longer tear you on my back, but I will forever here you in my heart. Was about eight o clock that night for that make people think or maybe like that, got your. Maybe he wouldn't start a new life and, like I pray, he's got a guy is the case. cs injury if he would have had to have help. like a lot of help because he wasn't, he wasn't capable at their about one o clock

next morning he was kicked out of the watch, observe the portal. the police were called to smoothly. We had a talk with them, her saw again the These were the last people to see ryan, but there's no indication or suspicion that law enforcement had anything to do with its disappearance. He was taken into protective custody, even though he was visibly intoxicated. The reasons for that are unknown police must have had a reason to feel that he was not a risk to himself or others. Here's d to Chris Chiesa from the portland police department, with more on that, one call for service that he had to give been causing a problem. There is something that is, one of them are removed. Typically her in this case too soon after them. When he wasn't leaving on his own, so they had an after removing term and then what kind of it. So no report generated or anything it was just kind of a cough service is what it is.

What happened to ryan after this is unknown If he got into an altercation, he never showed up at a hospital or respect I began by authorities if he had Accident he was never found or washed up anywhere. The tides can be big in the harbor and at certain times of the day, a body could be less likely to be found. but because no one knew ryan was actually missing, assert was never conducted that easter, his sister eve was back a college at you. Mass am hearst. It always kept in touch with ryan as much as she could anyway, considering that he was estranged from the family and living on the streets, but the time he was in contact with his parents. Disability payments were managed by his parents, so they would know where ryan was because he would call them to have them wire payments through to him it wasn't how they wanted it to be. It's just how it was in this

at least they knew where he was some of the time right had struggled with alcohol in his early teens and had in and out of youth programmes in two thousand ten ryan's life changed dramatically when he started abusing alcohol on a different level to what the family had seen before his serious accident. He played the mai latin. He was often you please soccer. You know he did school relatively well, he was an often craft. He she build something houses down here on the cape. He was fantastic, but he just couldn't stay away from the booze need actually started drinking prettier are you, I think it is about thirteen fourteen years old, he was a lot older than me. He was about fourteen fifteen years older than me. You know, I was a baby when it was first going to like his first treatment programmes

we started off young in and out of programs, you know, but he was like with a functioning alcoholic. How bravely or the brain injury. You know when he got back her accident. In two thousand ten, while under the influence ryan had a major car accident,. My brother, I like a bad problem with alcohol, starting when he young he can help. My crew instead sobriety, but he was never really able to keep it under control. And shoot out and tat, he was in a really bad car accident up in mean he was intoxicated I took a car and headed to korea and we actually have like a lot to stretch read through them. We didn't think he was going to make it through, but he but he came our where he was like. Never the same, am I going to call my you'd be here now He had been greatly about brain damage. So after Actually it's flake money

came back to the house? He was in over a very long time and you know what this sector Hence the life and he was gonna have a lot of struggles. He you know he had lost so much. Strange on one of his side, then he was an insult. anymore, but there was hope for him, and I and he really lost the well like where We now need a few or so he had not regulate his emotion if he couldn't get what he wanted in earth total meltdown He didn't even want to try to stop drinking at that point and before Like you wanted to stop you, nobody, he didn't you just couldn't you know when he got back that car accident really you just like the turning point how many does never got better, You know what that brain under him because he kept drinking. He don't you got worse, ryan had a long term girlfriend who got pregnant after as accident

due to rights issues following the brain injury, the relationship disintegrated. And his former girlfriend and mother of his child got a restraining order against him, ryan move back home with eve and their parents back in massachusetts,. but after a while, they were able to deal with his addiction and that's when he moved back to maine. They had a very rocky relationship, but they were on again off again fur. my entire childhood, I would say about fifteen, maybe a little bit less. but towards the end As you know, one his daughter was born. Now is, alas, how like maybe I'll, stop drinking than it. People ever do that, because it never work and it didn't, and so she had to leave It wasn't a good relationship here, I had gone out settlement. It was about a ten. I think he may be got sick in dollars and I parents

then take it anymore. Walking on that child. You know their elderly, my father, a sudden, passed away. My mom is: many tool They couldn't live like that. So when he got the money he found a room up in portland and he wanted to go up to mean he knew his daughter was there It was like the last chance he really had to get his life together. Maybe have a chance to. I have a wife with his daughter by it I hadn't going there. What that much money, If we went off and then I he lost the room, was renting and the start of living at the shelters and people, but I I thoroughly your body could without in the woods for years. You know he always was an outdoor, the kind of person when he was younger. So what would he fell into the homelessness? That really do you mean we'll take let you know he went for a while. He had spent a good six months in look at that time.

While in maine eve was concerned about her brother, but felt powerless to help the situation She was in college and didn't have the ability to assist ryan. It was a struggle just to keep in contact with him and know that he was ok. I kind of cap track of him by police reports. Here, the european irrational, petty crimes alla time, keeping in public and walking out, unlike at seventeen dollar tab, you'd better. Now the shelter is primarily thing at the watch. Alter their syllable If I really didn't like up, obviously like he in the ass for them so my mom would set. He had a p o box up there and the first couple months, even though we didn't hear from them, he would send the tax up there, but what? If for missing, I actually contacted the mother. In rex girlfriend I contacted- and she was like she added restraining order because he wouldn't stop contacting her he needed family,

probably in our view, the cat and tat, he had a couple of months with no word from ryan and the family, not seeing any activity on mine or any information about him getting into trouble with the police. Early. May eve decided that it was time to file a missing persons report We've have been trying to establish exactly when someone had last seen him wearing in the night he went missing it wasn't until she filed the report that she was able to find out some information, the for they told me they were given a doll. You know, obviously we know these people can make up and run away. They can do what they want, but he wasn't people ask, then he never. You can't and my parents for that money again. There's never been anything like any sign of them ever again, you find out

shelter. He was I and how I file that missing persons report. I have been calling the police and asking I've been corner shop just received. He was there, but obviously they weren't able to tell me so that was valuable private. You eve and spoke to the homeless shelter, I don't know it Thirdly, what transpired at the shelter that an evening there was definitely not and he was asked to leave, but when the devil yeah He would like read me the blurring from the police lock at night in the shortest thing like there's, just no information it we hear that they tell me that they, just they were just a quick get out of here, I don't think he would do anything to him. You know what I mean. That's not really what I thought I really don't pick up, but there's just I've always thought tat. Her back. In my mind, I filed If report I believe it was in may, but if we didn't know for sure you know like, maybe he did just go off, but he wasn't calling for his disability checks.

and he really was incapable of like breathing. John behind his brain injury and not right. I can be avid into the pool via that, like it didn't, have the capability of just like up and going away, and they very, very dismissed the game. They never get a search form. If anything, I asked to fight to get him and you name it Some, I was finally able to get him in their last year. I took so long ridiculous how long it took to get in there and like portland, you know I do what thou well annoyed, and after a few times you, my own virtues, so and the fact that ryan was homeless and it become immediately apparent to any one at the time that he was missing no sir was ever conducted. you know now the detective on the case. Kindness took seriously the last time. I thought you were when you like admit, though yeah like this.

Pretty bad. But now there is nothing we can really do, there's never been. They ve, never done a search for him. they never done anything even He didn't heart. My parents really that much the last couple of months. He would offer his money, he was inadequate there is the police did anything. It's just that. I wish You get more information like I don't even know the officer there like him laugh. if he was very close to the harbour maybe he found the water, but when I brought it few crash. He he was a global: you ve done the harbour for other people, so we know is not there. When it comes to suicide, ryan's family doesn't believe that he would have taken his own life. They have always felt that he had a drive to clean himself up for the sake of his daughter Is he wouldn t boy. She would never not pact us and

there's a worn out for him, but the probation he was always in trouble. There's no way in how you got five years without having any form of contact with the police you know he wouldn't do that, especially with his daughter tat. Was it later the drive to that clean and silver when he went first nothing. I contacted the bomb even here record no way and how you wouldn't contact any of our thinking. This does not that kind of a person part Like things maybe me here how unhook the harbour? You know, I don't know he didn't just run away. when he first for missing and I was in contact with the police. There was this officer that I had been speaking with and spoke with him twice. he had mentioned, there is peaks island, which is right near portland. It's an I went off in portland and he said that there was a gentleman with the house over there and the home we're in what he would take care of people and supposedly

ryan had mention this to that officer. I dont even know that he was gonna. Take a bow over the peaks island, nothing came of that, but I was thinking was true. Maybe he fell into the water. Installer was very young when he disappeared and although the relationship with the child's mother was strained at the time the family, has been able to build a relationship and be in each other's lives. She actually just moved to the cave back to the cape for me, so I just went to his daughters first soccer and showed me great, like build a relationship with her the only the eve or the police have received was from a man who knew ryan through a homeless shelter. He said that there was a rumour that ryan had taken a rowboat over two peaks island where, amongst small residential and commercial population, a small group of homeless people live ethan,

said this tape was looked into by police, but never lead to anything. Considering the fact that a fairy takes twenty minutes to get two peaks island, it would difficult to row, even for a physically fit person as for falling into the harbor, it is the boy just possible. I mean you really never know I yes, everything's really case by case in sir. I possible sure we'd I've had some people far when not survive referred people form survives. The unfortunately does happen. may we have missing people every almost all the time You know I can go from anywhere like ryan's case to two kids run on when ever in between never saw again, everything's different, so humming, but unfortunately just get a lot. We do so so, no, that's not. It was not a cop,

call me where we find people in the water admitted, but it does happen. He feels the weight of being the only person who has ever looked for ryan in her. I, Only when I took care my brother case, you know my mama. They went down You know, so I'm really the only one that try to stay on top of it. And eve understands that for the police ryan wasn't a priority but he should have had at least some kind of focus curry. Obviously words like a nuisance for them. You know but I just want to bring them home. You know it's so rule with the police. Sometimes you yearly didn't take more seriously But then again from like a realistic standpoint. I totally Stephen are coming from. You don't like I really assembly them with. What did they do to him, but they didn't do anything to him. You know he was drunk. He had something you better, and learn something then.

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Kevin fowler of miracle messages, an organisation that attempts to link homeless persons with their loved ones via video messages. Here, explained a little about why it's so difficult for family members to find out if their loved ones are either staying at a homeless, shelter or previously staying there. So under him up shelters and other homeless providers are giving help can be considered, help providers, health service providers, they cannot, firmer, deny whether someone is that their facility and so you end up with this. well intentioned but wretched system, family members show up at the shelters and they ask I'm looking for brother. My son, my father, I my mom and

Here's your photo here, sir. full name and the shelters can't can or denied weather A person is that the facility and so you end up. If you walk into many shelters in the united states, you end up with missing persons. Lies on the balkan boys posted by gambling numbers just desperately. looking for any possible way too low their loved. Why? I understand Theres many reasonable, valid reasons why some good that want to be located by another individual get up individuals, Skating from domestic violence young people, have to use homeless in san francisco algae picky too many of them have been the face, the situations at home, so its utter sugar for the love, one reconnection keep that in white washed the real reasons why some one of remain anonymous and private, but there should be

Some kind of double opt in system and I just come said, One could say, sir, I'm willing to be found by these individuals. I'm going to be contacted and located they reach out and otherwise information, private and confidential to me this basic common sense that we have been implemented yet as a nation, and told us more about miracle messages and what they do. sandy founder ceo of miracle messages. We help people experiencing homelessness, reconnect to their loved one than in the process. We help asset neighbours, better connect with Where can we relational poverty on the streets. It turns out there. Many people who are experiencing homelessness, we think of as lacking in our housing that true and that devastating. But there's someone more to be human, then just a bit

used. The math was pyramid. You, food water, shelter, clothing, housing, we're really cast on those higher order, need the belonging of sense of self of actual of security and community, and so with miracle judges are we reunited about a hundred and seventy eight people with their above one, the average time disconnected twenty years and it really just got started with me. Taken a walker street you're in san francisco and asking every person I met with? where'd, you almost never paid by to record a short video message- with a family member, a friend for the holidays and but first walker met a ban may jeffrey said. He hadn't seen his family twenty years. Recorded a short video on the spot when online that night and found a facebook group it was hometown the video there,

and within an hour it was short hundreds of times at the local police, His sister got tagged than the first twenty minutes, and when we got on upon the next day, she told me that Jeffrey had been a missing person for twelve years. This is broad daylight. Downtown san francisco all week before christmas, and so I quit my job and working in their education tat space before can silicon valley, startup scene. and I started, you know what has become miracle messages for power, our approach at miracle messages that is that's not going away on its own. The government and the system as it exists, Getting on top of the issue too, you know our satisfaction and so on. Starting in saying. Ok enough is enough. to do something tangible? That can really make a difference, but it all humane and reflects the values of our communities

Where were immigration, our neighbours as human beings that someone's brother, sister, mother, father, son and daughter, and not see human beings, as defined by their lack of housing, we all know that homelessness is a major issue. Kevin explained some of the factors contributing to this crisis. It's an invisible disaster. Think of it in terms of our fire flood, where there's thousands but this placed traumatize. each dealing with some small aspect of that event. everyone in their own way. United by this trauma and, unlike natural disaster the kind of shared trauma at that level. Totally invisible to most of our eyes or its disconnected if see, people on the streets as problems to be solved. Not people to be loved theirs

number of carbon. Why homelessness is such a problem in the united states from just that? a deplorable lack of affordable housing, believed it the current number allegation a shortage of eight million units to meet current demand for affordable housing in the united states. That's just a current demands For how, then you talk the criminalization of different substances, serve people who are suffering from mental health issues Add in just a rising cost of living the stagnant wages. Adding in company that we focus on witches breakdown of relationships and family structures up with justice horrendous, wasting that really not worsen, cost taxpayers. Hundreds and hundreds of million dollars a year in in some of the larger cities? We also,

Doktor Jeffrey cain- and he told us about his experience, working with people struggling with alcoholism,. I'm a medical doctor, trained in internal medicine and addiction, medicine and boys divide in internal medicine, addiction, medicine, For my whole career, I've had The web for my whole self in the field of addiction, medicine and full time since nineteen eighty eight primarily in psychiatric hospitals. My work looks more like psychiatry now that internal medicine treating with addiction, sometimes tree medical problems or psychiatric problems go along with addiction and doing dusted teach patients, but also, the public. What since all about and how to cope with my current position, I have been for fifteen years is the chief, of addiction services at them,

brattleboro retreat, which is It's a hundred and eighty four year old psyche, forget addiction cretin, the facility hospital in southeastern vermont, and I'm I'm out chairman of the that's national council on alcohol and drug dependence and I used to describe it as a sort of them cross predict then recovery as a sort of a national voluntary organization. We ask after kane about the combination of alcoholism and brain injuries. brain injuries can led to the source of mood and impulse control. Thumbprint comes people can be set up angry have less so of controlled. It did this inhibited, we'll drink, alcohol or his marijuana for that matter. They can also become distributed from grain, injuries can predisposed people to get in trouble with drugs.

Have less of a chance of regaining their footing in getting out of it memory can be disturbed as well. They might lose a home, lose the vehicle, get lost in the woods and not have the mental ability to sort of figure it out and find their way back, It's the alcohol addiction. We talked a little about tolerance levels. If individuals are drinking slowly, though, might get, what alcohol level high enough to make them vomit and they get rid of some of the alcohol if they chugs, especially of hype of beverages wide carer, something quickly we need a whole lot of vodka filled. Jello cubes, the blood level goes up very rapidly, can depress I have two brief and naive drink. Can overdosing die from somebody who is addicted. The alcohol is tolerant to it. They could have high enough blood level. That would kill a naive drinker and can be

singing and dancing were causing it This is an emergency room someplace just because it's a legal substance and server recreational beverage too much too fast, especially in the night you drink or can be very dangerous, also miss prison Misunderstandings people will have a stereotype of Someone who's addicted to alcohol, who is drinking every day to intoxication starting in the morning on dogmas, that is harmless. Down on their luck. There are plenty of sadly plenty people like that, but they're all people who are employed have intact families and fairly. Well,. Ryan's drinking to block out pain or to get through his injury. Recovery was certainly a factor in its vulnerability. In terms of becoming addicted. The alcohol vote

ability. Increased risk increases risk, yet people don't become addicted unless they have access to the substance, somebody who's gonna risk factors, but brought up in an odd right out. not all free time in the midwest may not stir drinking or get involved with alcohol, so vulnerabilities factor. Accessibility is a factor and also permissive attitudes. Its use. When you are asking about missing, standing with and under estimating the dangers of alcohol that can feed into permissive attitudes towards use an especial somebody's vulnerable have easy access. People around them that thing rankings. Okay and maybe even ox intoxication as a gay or even expected, they can be on their way. Somebody often whose volume

for the reasons we talk about, has access to a substance there, culture, words permissive to use it and they said using it over the addictive substances from the release of dopamine in the brain and pleasure said the nucleus accompanied and that play is a mood change. People feel good. They, like repeat that rewarding experience, but that same mood change also gives relief from displeasure the person with all those address experiences whose no pain from the past can we forget about that and not suffer in those moments and when things feel good psychologists call it a positive real Lisbon. When people get relief from displeasure, they call it a negative reinforcement either one

distance the brain and where addiction happens in the brain is not in the conscious cerebral cortex up top it The brain stem in the olympic system, the primitive brain, the ensure brain with this conditioning, it's like the trained athlete who have muffle memory to make the move on the court or the bomb feel, so they don't have to think about it. It's it's automatic it. It's all the more swift ensure because of that, the person whose. conditioned to seek drink alcohol can do it without making a conscious decision to do it or can do it despite a conscious decision that they don't want it primitive, instinctively behavior, where people drink while or use other addictive substances? I like you too. If any

hold your breath. If I hold my breath, I could do that for a while, but then gonna take a breath and nuts. Else matters and that's what being in active addiction is like how can they keep doing this the body or their family or society. Well, it's not a choice. When people are an act of addiction and Not only is this primitive instinct we'll drive happening the exam He'd have brain, medial, prefrontal cortex, where we we think we have the sort of sense of self wait risks and make decisions that get or distorted by them that of conflict of interest, that that is, addiction that serve normal pleasures, satisfactions or responsibilities. Like personal safe, family, community dont measure up to the salient so important to the individual of more of the substance.

Ryan has now been missing for over six years right dna is in the system, but as yet no matches to any unidentified persons, have been established, So what happened? A ryan after he was kicked out of a shelter on march thirty. First, two thousand thirteen we know that he spoke to the police. But where did he go after that? Did he simply fall into the harbour and was never located?

Did he meet with foul play? Could ryan have travelled to another city or town and is currently living amongst the homeless population? There could he be out there somewhere, not knowing who he is. Could the combination of his brain injury and heavy alcohol use have caused some sort of amnesia eve desperately wants to find out what happened to her brother, but she feels as though no one is really looking. He was homeless and battling alcoholism and seen by many others is simply not a priority, but to eve rhine will always be her brother and she deserves answers. The time of his disappearance reign was thirty, seven years old and described as six feet tall wing, approximately one hundred and seventy pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes

if you have any information about ryan's disappearance, please call the portland mean police department at two zero. Seven, eight, some four, eight five, nine three you can follow ryan's case on facebook were eve, runs the missing ryan blanco. Yet a page to find more information on miracle messages. Please go to miracle messages, dot work as well as their facebook group. It's just a really bored, my line that nothing like how can someone just disappear like that? I know better. They want a relic heed, our kidnaps, you not, but it is treated me to have so many on top an identified missing people. I know I've been me, you know I never find him

and ryan's case that he put himself into you know like a risky risky situation and we don't know what happened, but I just really truly believe that anyone everyone deserves to at least try to be found. You know an addict or so people there are people first and they still have family and we still want to bring them home The.

The brings us to the end of episode, one hundred and seventy two I'd like to thank everyone who spoke with us for this episode. If you have a missing loved one that you'd like to have featured on the show, there's a key submission form at the vanished podcast dot com. If you'd like to contact me, there's a page and a discussion group on facebook, I'm on twitter at the vantage pod and also on instagram, if you enjoy this, show subscribe now and leave a five star review on apple podcasts, spotify wanted to re dot com or wherever you're listening right now. Do you wanna help support the vanished? There are a couple of things that you can do. One way to help is by supporting our sponsors, you can find links and promo codes in the episode notes. Another way to support the show is by filling out a short survey at one degree: dot com. Slash survey join me next time, I'll be covering a case from maryland. Thanks for listening the.

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