Jason Derek Brown- Arizona- 2004

So apparently they started the thread by scratching their heads as to why Brown (and also Daniel San Diego) haven’t been caught despite living in an age of little to no privacy.

Then they were mentioning how Jason Brown doesn’t belong on the Top Ten, because it should be used for terrorists and organized crime bosses. They finally figured out how the Top Ten List makes additions and talk about the likelihood of him being in South America, in particular Paraguay in the countryside since it’s mentioned that it’s very corrupt that many criminals live there.

My opinion on this is, that while I agree Jason Brown is a very shocking example of a fugitive who went on the run after 2001 is still at large 13 years later and having spent 10 years on the FBI Top Ten.

Regarding Brown on the Top Ten List, I think he really deserves being on the list, the FBI adding terrorists, and organized crime bosses, it really won’t help because public tips won’t be used to lead to their capture, Osama Bin Laden, and Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez, Semion Mogilevich, while very awful, weren’t meant for the FBI Top Ten. The list has changed, as they’ve removed the fugitives that won’t be caught through tips and added some that could be caught through tips.

The destinations on the reddit thread mentioned, are really good theories, South America and Paraguay in particular are possible after 13 years at large. After traveling this weekend for thanksgiving through the Midwest, Pennsylvania, and seeing all the rural towns, I wonder if Jason Brown or even fellow FBI Top Tenner Robert Fisher may have been hiding on a piece of land on the side of the interstate for the last 13 and 16 years respectively, and nobody knows it.

I dont think Jason is in South America. I live in Argentina, probably the south american country with more caucasian people and even here, they stand out like sore thumb. Plus spanish is a really hard language and is easy for us know when somebody doesnt talk spanish. Latino people always wants to know everything when they met a stranger. I dont think he is here

Hey Dave, Merry Christmas! As always, great insight and an interesting theory as to what would explain if Brown killed himself and his body was never found.

Although one thing though is that about an hour after he is said to have shot and killed Keith Palomares, the man whose truck he accidentally shot in the Tonto National Forrest the few days before called him for an estimate. The man described Brown as incredibly calm and collected. Not distraught or anything, and I don't believe Brown had become a fugitive just yet and was still on his way to his sister in California's house. At that moment, he doesn't sound remorseful.

That's not to say guilt didn't eventually seep in or the reality didn't set in just yet. I've always seen Brown as too in love with himself to kill himself, but that's only assuming he had no remorse. He wouldn't kill himself just to avoid capture imo (unless police were closing in on him, then he wouldn't want to go to jail), but if there was guilt, I could see that angle.

The sending back of everything is interesting- the author of the book "The Ghost" basically gives the theory that basically Brown decided to completely start over- cut ties with everything previously associated with him in his life- in order to attempt to successfully begin a new life for himself- which unfortunately he's succeeded at so far if he isn't dead.

Theory #1 is a possibility as well, you can't count out anything until hopefully one day there's a resolution.

Here are my updated thoughts on Jason Derek Brown, and these thoughts will be a bit different than what has been posted. I would personally not be surprised if JDB were living somewhere in Europe. In the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (The church JDB grew up in), there is a big emphasis on family history and learning about genealogy. If he learned where his ancestry came from (and I suspect that most likely, he is of European descent), he could have traveled to whatever country he knew he had ancestry from to blend in with the rest of society and start his life over over there since most countries in Europe are pretty stable. I know that he could be living in France since he served a mission for the Latter-Day Saint Church there, and I think that possibility has been brought up, but genealogy should be taken into consideration with him in my opinion knowing his background with the LDS church and his college degree.

I think there’s a deep reasoning why Brown was added to the list. Since his father vanished they seem to think that he taught Jason Brown and it would be very complicated to get this guy. But honestly as to his whereabouts, it’s all up in the air at this point.

Something reminded me the other day of how hard it must be to avoid detection. I was pulled over by a police officer for not stopping 3-seconds at a stop sign at an intersection with no traffic in a suburban neighbourhood. I honestly had no idea why I was being pulled over at the time. Imagine if I was a fugitive with a fake id or something. A carefully crafted life on the run could easily come crashing down because of a simple mistake of not waiting 3-seconds at a stop sign and a cop looking to meet his quota of tickets.