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THE distraught mother of a missing Las Vegas man has pleaded for help in finding her beloved son.
Jaydon Fischmann, who is also known as Alec to friends, has been missing since September 28th and, according to his devastated mom Tammy, has completely disappeared.
Jaydon, 28, was making a trip to the Bay Area to see a former girlfriend and left Las Vegas on a flight which went via Denver, Colorado.
He arrived in Denver safe and sound, and then had a 10 hour layover before jumping on a connecting Frontier flight to San Francisco.
However, according to airline security staff, he was asked to leave the plane because he was filming someone, and had made them uncomfortable.
“We were told he was acting a little paranoid,” Tammy told The U.S. Sun. “That’s all we know.”
What Tammy was able to discover was that her eldest son, who had agreed to take a later flight, booked a Lyft car and headed for an Econo Lodge hotel in nearby Aurora, Colorado.
There is surveillance of Jaydon checking in at 2.13 am and then leaving the lobby the next morning at 10.49 am.
A man, who Tammy believes was a fellow resident, was seen “rushing” towards Jaydon, but Aurora cops refused to interview the person in question, while the hotel also distanced themselves from becoming involved.
The U.S. Sun contacted the Aurora Police department but didn’t hear back.
“They said there wasn’t a crime so refused to investigate,” said a deflated Tammy. “I just wanted them to talk to him.”
But that, however, was the last sighting of Jaydon, who was described as a “free spirit” by his mother.
The mystery surrounding his sudden and bizarre disappearance, however, was only just beginning.
Phone records show that Jaydon’s Android phone stayed on, albeit without any activity, until September 30th.
Tammy assumed the battery had finally died and, as the days began to pass with no word from her son, she began to get increasingly frantic.
“His phone was his lifeline, he’s not a materialistic person,” she continued. “When he wasn’t answering texts, we knew something was wrong.”
On October 23rd, however, finally there was movement – but not in the way his family were hoping for.
Jaydon’s phone suddenly turned back on and, under the guidelines of the Kelsey Smith act which was introduced in 2021 and allows cell providers companies to give phone location information to law enforcement in emergency situations such as an abduction, a detective in Las Vegas contacted by Tammy was able to divulge where the phone was.
“We had literally just arrived back from Denver at 10.30 pm, which was a nine hour drive,” she recalled. “By 1 am, we were back on the road.”
Now they were heading to Oakland, California, where the troubling mystery deepened.
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The pings from the phone were leading Tammy and husband Tim down a series of dead ends, with zero progress being made. They were getting absolutely nowhere, so packed up and made the trip back to Las Vegas.
Not long after, Jaydon’s socials suddenly became active. People posing as him were using Facebook and Instagram, threatening his family while making attempts to withdraw money from a cash app.
“They said they knew where we lived and were making up stories about how they got the phone in the first place, ” his mom said.
Tammy said one of the excuses was they picked it up from “train hoppers”
She sent all the screenshots of the gang attempting to take money from Jaydon and his family, describing in detail the threats, especially the physical ones made towards her other son.
Tammy thought, finally, a breakthrough had been made. Not for the first time, however, she was wrong and bereft of hope.
“They said there’s no crime being committed, and told me basically the only way that they would check it out is if I got a picture of somebody being tied up with a bag over their head,” she said with a sigh.
“That’s the only way they would check the phone to see if it was a problem.”
She still has absolutely no idea how Jaydon’s phone made the 1,230 mile journey from Colorado to Oakland. The girl Jaydon was supposed to be seeing was in Germany at the time and couldn’t help at all with their increasingly desperate search.
“Maybe his backpack was stolen,” she said.
Tammy, who is being helped through her nightmare by Candice Cooley, the mother of Dylan Rounds, who hasn’t been seen since last year and has been very active in helping other families through her new missing persons initiative, thought that once she received Jaydon’s phone, there would be progress.
Through the help of friends, after getting access to Jaydon’s voicemails she was able to narrow down 50 messages to two which were intended for the people who had his phone.
A dialogue was started between one person who had left a message and had absolutely no idea that the device was being used for nefarious purposes, by people it didn’t belong to.
Eventually, the phone was secured by the person and sent back to Las Vegas, although those responsible for taking it in the first place have locked it up, leaving her unable to access any information.
Cell providers have told Tammy, the only way to unlock the phone would be to perform a factory reset, which is not an option.
“I am grateful they cannot taunt us, but I’m disappointed we don’t have any answers from the phone itself, ” she said.
Tammy is desperate for cops to stop treating Jaydon like a runaway adult and, even though he has finally been placed onto a missing person’s database, without the help of Candice, she would be feeling even more alone in her search as she does now.
She claims to have identified the people who took her phone – “they live together and I know everything about them” – but badly needs more help from law enforcement to discover exactly where Jaydon is.
“It’s a mystery to me, ” she concluded.
“There’s so many pieces the police could be investigating and they aren’t. I need to know what happened to my son.”
The U.S Sun attempted to contact the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department, but was unable to connect with them.