The Murders of Lisa Gurrieri and Brandon Rumbaugh
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What are the details surrounding the murders of Lisa Gurrieri and Brandon Rumbaugh?
Hello everybody, my name is Rachel and welcome back to my channel or if you're new here, welcome to my channel. So today's case involves two murders that have gone unsolved for almost 20 years and it's just such a bizarre case and I just hope that by adding some exposure to this case and spreading some awareness that maybe someday soon we will get some answers. Today we are going to be discussing the unsolved murders of Lisa Guerreri and Brandon Rumbaugh.
Lisa Guerrieri was born on July 14, 1984 to John and Paula Guerrieri. Lisa was described as an energetic, outgoing, and bubbly young woman. She graduated from Mesa High School and at the time of her murder, she was a sophomore at Mesa Community College studying business management and had dreams of becoming a wedding planner. She sang in the choir at the Christ is King Catholic Church and she worked at Salt River Project in Arizona. She was just the type of person to smile at everybody and say good morning to everybody she saw. Lisa's father unfortunately passed away of cancer when she was very young, so her Uncle Mike took over and helped raise her, so he thought of her as his own. Uncle Mike said that she sang at his wedding and was just such a joy to have at his wedding and just a joy to have around in general.
She was known as the type of girl who could brighten anybody's day. At the time, Lisa was dating a handsome 20-year-old man named Brandon Rumba. Brandon Rumba was born on May 7, 1983 to Robert and Desiree Rumba. He graduated from Coronado High School in 2011 and then went on to join the US Marine Reserves while attending Arizona State University. He was described as spontaneous and goofy with a great sense of humor. He was always making everybody around him laugh and he was very optimistic about everything that he did. He was described as this tall, skinny kid growing up, but he built himself into this big, muscular, strong man. He loved fitness and working out and he had big dreams of one day opening up his own gym.
But for the time being, he worked as a personal trainer at the Fitness Works gym in Mesa. He also loved music just like Lisa and he also played drums in a local band.
Who were Lisa Gurrieri and Brandon Rumbaugh before their tragic deaths?
He also loved to paint and sculpt and he was really just this man who had many talents and passions. The couple was described as having a really amazing and healthy relationship. The two lived together in Scottsdale and they had plans to be married someday. Paula, Lisa's mother, said that Brandon treated Lisa like a queen and she really liked him. I'm not sure if this is 100% true, I saw this in some sources but not mentioned in others, but apparently just before the murders, Brandon and Lisa had just gotten engaged, but Paula had never gotten the chance to see the engagement ring. Now, in October of 2003, Lisa and Brandon decided that they needed to do something really special to celebrate their first year of dating.
Initially, they planned on going to Disneyland, which would have been around a five-hour trip from where they lived in Scottsdale. However, this idea ended up being really expensive, so they opted on going on a camping trip together instead. They ended up going to Bumblebee near Sunset Point around 60 miles north of Phoenix off the I-17. Bumblebee, Arizona is known as a ghost town in the Bradshaw Mountains nearby Bumblebee Creek. This is a campsite that's very commonly used by RVs in the winter when it's a bit cooler to be outside during the day. So it's definitely a little bit of a desolate area, but it's definitely a well-known and busy camping spot. now lisa had never been camping before so she was a bit nervous for this new adventure but she loved brandon and she was really excited to get some time alone with him to camp and stargaze they asked paula lisa's mother to borrow her white 2004 f-150 pickup truck for the trip paula was a little bit reserved to let them borrow the truck at first because one it needed an oil change but two
These were two kids going on an adventure and who knows where they would be taking that truck.
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