Speaker 1: Hello friends, Welcome to the latest installment of our Land
Speaker 1: of the Loss series. This time we're deving into the
Speaker 1: cases of Keesland Roberts and Caleb Smith. Now, with all
Speaker 1: the bizarre and seemingly unexplainable disappearance stories were around on
Speaker 1: YouTube and other places these days, it's easy to get
Speaker 1: caught up in them and forget that these are real people,
Speaker 1: real possible victims, who had family and friends, loved ones
Speaker 1: whose lives were affected in every possible way by the
Speaker 1: person's disappearance. Could also be true that with all the
Speaker 1: books coming out and again all the videos made and
Speaker 1: the information online about these cases, it's quite easy to
Speaker 1: become numbed or jaded to these stories to these people.
Speaker 1: Couldn't it also be true that maybe this numbness, this nonchalance,
Speaker 1: and somewhat boredom with cases like these, one after another
Speaker 1: after another after another, would be exactly what who or
Speaker 1: whatever is involved in orchestrating these disappearances and murders counts on.
Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to discuss two different cases
Speaker 1: that have a strange similarity and also a bit of
Speaker 1: a connection. Please keep in mind, though, that these are
Speaker 1: real human beings, and though their cases may or may
Speaker 1: not be similar to those you've heard over a thousand
Speaker 1: times already. Be shuren't pay attention to the details here.
Speaker 1: Listen closely and focus on the similarities and strangeness of
Speaker 1: both of these cases, while being sure to bear in
Speaker 1: mind that there's one big difference. One of them could
Speaker 1: very well still be alive and one of them, unfortunately
Speaker 1: has already been found deceased. Let's start with the tragedy
Speaker 1: of Caleb Smith. On January fifteenth, twenty twenty, Caleb Smith
Speaker 1: told his grandmother that he was driving to Rome, Georgia,
Speaker 1: has been the day hanging out with some friends who
Speaker 1: lived there. This wasn't anything else the ordinary for the
Speaker 1: twenty one year old, so when he requested that she
Speaker 1: leave the dead bolt to the front door of their
Speaker 1: house unlocked for him so he could re enter when
Speaker 1: he got back home later on that night, she happily
Speaker 1: obliged and thought nothing of it. Little did she know
Speaker 1: that while she would speak to her grandson at least
Speaker 1: one more time over the phone that same day, as
Speaker 1: he walked out the front door of their house that
Speaker 1: ill fated cold day in January, it would be the
Speaker 1: last time she would ever actually see him alive technically.
Speaker 1: The next day, at twelve thirty two am, Caleb entered
Speaker 1: the Flying Jay gas station in Resaca, Georgia. This was
Speaker 1: on the way to Rome, Georgia. We know Caleb entered
Speaker 1: this establishment at this exact time because he was seen
Speaker 1: on the gas station's minimal surveillance footage. Three minutes later,
Speaker 1: at twelve thirty five am, Caleb called his grandmother and
Speaker 1: informed her that he had to pull into the rest
Speaker 1: stop because he realized he didn't have enough gas to
Speaker 1: get to Rome as he'd initially plan. He told her
Speaker 1: there was one man sitting at a table on the
Speaker 1: other side of the restaurant that he was going to
Speaker 1: ask to help him with five dollars for gas money
Speaker 1: so he can continue on his journey to go and
Speaker 1: see his friends. Though his phone records have not been
Speaker 1: made public at this time, Caleb is seen on the
Speaker 1: same surveillance footage sitting at his table for a few minutes,
Speaker 1: seemingly sending text but possibly browsing the Internet. Caleb did
Speaker 1: eventually get up and approach the man. Assumingly. He asked
Speaker 1: the man for the five dollars for gas money, As
Speaker 1: he told his grandmother he was going to do. However,
Speaker 1: it is unclear whether or not the man gave Caleb
Speaker 1: the five dollars, and Caleb actually ended up approaching the
Speaker 1: man twice in a matter of just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Is still unknown exactly what the exchanges were between the
Speaker 1: two men. No word either on whether or not this
Speaker 1: man was ever identified a question no information one way
Speaker 1: the others can be found. After approaching and speaking to
Speaker 1: this man the second time, Caleb returns to his own
Speaker 1: table and sits down facing this unknown man. After just
Speaker 1: a minute or two, Caleb gets up and leaves the
Speaker 1: gas station rest stop area, never to be seen alive again.
Speaker 1: When morning came and Caleb's grandmother that realized that his
Speaker 1: bed had been slipped in, she became very concerned. If
Speaker 1: Caleb had planned on staying out, he never would have
Speaker 1: asked her to leave the dead bolt unlocked. Corn She
Speaker 1: decided to go to the last place she knew him
Speaker 1: to be when he wasn't answering his phone or returning
Speaker 1: any of her text so she got into her own
Speaker 1: car and drove down to the Flying J rest stop
Speaker 1: and searched the surrounding area and the parking lot for
Speaker 1: Caleb's car. She eventually found his car parked in the
Speaker 1: Flying Jay parking lot, but in the back of the
Speaker 1: Dennis restaurant building, assuming where the back entrance or garbage
Speaker 1: eggs it would be. This location could be important because
Speaker 1: it seems Caleb was parked almost purposely out of view
Speaker 1: of any of the surveillance cameras. His grandmother states that
Speaker 1: she didn't immediately get out of her car to search
Speaker 1: Caleb's car because she saw a suspicious looking white Nissan that,
Speaker 1: in her words, she said, freaked her out and decided
Speaker 1: it was safer to remain in her vehicle and too
Speaker 1: Caleb's other family members, whom she had just called arrived.
Speaker 1: She never elaborated on why this white Nissan was suspicious
Speaker 1: looking to her or why it freaked her out so
Speaker 1: although it speculated it was because the windows were tinted
Speaker 1: very dark, and the vehicle had pulled in the park
Speaker 1: directly facing her in front of her vehicle, and nobody
Speaker 1: exited the Nissan. Immediately upon the arrival of the other
Speaker 1: two family members she'd called to come and a sister,
Speaker 1: the white Nissan pulled out of the parking lot. There's
Speaker 1: no information regarding whether or not this white Nissan had
Speaker 1: any involvement in what happened to Caleb. Upon searching Caleb's car,
Speaker 1: the family found it was unlocked. The cell phone and
Speaker 1: battery were separated and both in the glove box. The
Speaker 1: keys to the vehicle were on the floor underneath the seat.
Speaker 1: Although Caleb had called his grandmother the previous night and
Speaker 1: explained to her that he was almost out of gas,
Speaker 1: his car had a half a tank of gas in
Speaker 1: it when it was found. This would have been more
Speaker 1: than enough to get him to Rome. Essentially, Aaleb called
Speaker 1: his grandmother to explain about his being long gas for
Speaker 1: seemingly no reason. It's been said that he did it
Speaker 1: to give it reason as to why he would be
Speaker 1: later than expected coming home if he was stuck trying
Speaker 1: to get money for gas, but that hasn't been verified.
Speaker 1: Caleb's jacket was also found in the car. It was
Speaker 1: a very cold night in Georgia in the middle of January.
Speaker 1: The family couldn't understand why would leave his jacket behind.
Speaker 1: After searching his vehicle, his family called the police to
Speaker 1: report Caleb is missing. Gordon County Sheriff's Office spent all
Speaker 1: of the next two days January sixteenth and seventeenth, searching
Speaker 1: the areas around the Flying Jay restop for any additional
Speaker 1: evidence or for Caleb himself, with no results. It's also
Speaker 1: worth mentioning here that the GCSO never processed Caleb's car
Speaker 1: for additional evidence, forensic or otherwise, and immediately released it
Speaker 1: to the family. On February third, twenty twenty, Caleb Smith's
Speaker 1: body was found five miles away from the Flying Jay.
Speaker 1: He was in the marsh and overgrown area of the
Speaker 1: county between the Sugar Valley and Hill City communities. The
Speaker 1: Sheriff's office reported that a passerby found him in a
Speaker 1: heavily overgrown and poorly drained area. Caleb was completely naked,
Speaker 1: and oddly enough, the fire department had been dispatched that
Speaker 1: same area. His body was found earlier in the day
Speaker 1: in response to a small brush fire, and didn't come
Speaker 1: across Caleb's remains. This is another odd fact. Despite not
Speaker 1: knowing whether or not this brush fire was connected to
Speaker 1: Caleb's death or not, it was an incredibly wet few
Speaker 1: weeks there in Georgia at the time, so for a
Speaker 1: brushfire to have been started on its own was almost impossible.
Speaker 1: The initial report stated, however, no immediate indications of violence
Speaker 1: were regarding Caleb's body, and the GBI revealed that there
Speaker 1: were no indications of violence or evidence of about play.
Speaker 1: The results of the toxicology report were as follows. Caleb
Speaker 1: died as a result of methamphetamine intoxication. There's no known
Speaker 1: information as to whether or not Caleb ever had a
Speaker 1: problem with any kind of drugs, and the death was
Speaker 1: ruled accidental. If it weren't for something eerily similar happening
Speaker 1: to a young woman just two days later at the
Speaker 1: same exact Flying Jay gas station, that may have been
Speaker 1: the end of Caleb's story. However, when you add up
Speaker 1: to the similarities with a story I'm about to relate
Speaker 1: to you, even when sprinkling in the differences, one can't help.
Speaker 1: But wonder we in the true crime community know there's
Speaker 1: usually no such thing as coincidence, and we all also
Speaker 1: know that nobody knows this better than law enforcement. So
Speaker 1: why exactly are they trying so hard to make us
Speaker 1: believe that coincidence is exactly what seems to connect these
Speaker 1: two cases? Are we really to believe that a young
Speaker 1: man supposed with enough methamphetamine in the system to kill him,
Speaker 1: stripped off his clothes, and then not only decided to
Speaker 1: walk five miles into bitter cold, high and naked, but
Speaker 1: then he managed to do so without calling any attention
Speaker 1: to himself at all. Is it reasonable to think that
Speaker 1: not a single person would noticed a naked young man
Speaker 1: walking on the side of the road for an entire
Speaker 1: five miles. There are so many facts that just do
Speaker 1: not seem to fit with the accidental death throughly. Let's
Speaker 1: review just some of them now. First of all, even
Speaker 1: if we ask no questions and accepted that Caleb was
Speaker 1: able to walk all that way without being noticed despite
Speaker 1: the condition he was in both physically and mentally, keep
Speaker 1: in mind Caleb was found completely naked. This means no socks,
Speaker 1: no shoes, nothing. Are we also to believe that he
Speaker 1: could have accomplished this naked and five mile walk without
Speaker 1: not only doing no damage to but also not dirting
Speaker 1: his feet at all. There is no explanation as to
Speaker 1: why or how the police have been able to reconcile
Speaker 1: themselves to calling this death with all the strange facts
Speaker 1: and evidence an accident. Caleb was found in a very muddy,
Speaker 1: marshy area, not even a drop of mud on his feet.
Speaker 1: His clothes were never found either, but again there is
Speaker 1: no information as to the extent of the police investigation
Speaker 1: into where his clothes went either. Why wasn't Caleb's family
Speaker 1: allowed to identify the body. Some say it's simply because
Speaker 1: of the state of decomposition of the body after being
Speaker 1: outside the marshland for so long, but others aren't so sure.
Speaker 1: Remember this was during the cold winter in January. Speculation
Speaker 1: and rumors surround this case, and it seems no one
Speaker 1: knows enough to be able to separate fact from fiction.
Speaker 1: Our research was only able to find two that weren't
Speaker 1: absolutely off the wall wild conjectures and made just a
Speaker 1: tiny bit of sense. The first of these theories is
Speaker 1: that he may have gotten into someone else's car to
Speaker 1: smoke the methamphetamine, a dealer, or perhaps maybe the man
Speaker 1: he was seen on camera having multiple conversations with, who,
Speaker 1: to the best of the public's knowledge, was never even found,
Speaker 1: let alone questioned or investigated in any way, and it
Speaker 1: tends to happen sometimes to people who've partake in this
Speaker 1: particular substance. Caleb became overheated and started taking off his
Speaker 1: clothes before anyone knew what was happening. Caleb started overdosing,
Speaker 1: and whoever he was with, if he was with anyone,
Speaker 1: didn't want to be involved in any way with this
Speaker 1: overdose death for fear, especially if they were the one
Speaker 1: that sold or gave it to him. But even if
Speaker 1: they were just using with him and drove Caleb's body
Speaker 1: to the marshland and left it there, did whoever this
Speaker 1: person or people were think about DNA evidence or forensics
Speaker 1: and possibly instead of Caleb stripping himself, did the perpetrators
Speaker 1: or witnesses strip him of his clothes after he died
Speaker 1: to eliminate any kind of touch or fiber evidence eventually
Speaker 1: coming back to link them or their car to his death.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is we just don't know,
Speaker 1: and it seems as though if the investigators in this
Speaker 1: case have it their way, we never will. Caleb's case
Speaker 1: is officially closed at this point. Two days after the
Speaker 1: incident with Caleb at this Flying Jay gas station, and eerily,
Speaker 1: an almost shockingly similar disappearance happened. Many people who are
Speaker 1: familiar with Caleb's case feel like what happened to Keithlyn Roberts,
Speaker 1: or at least what everyone knows happened to her because
Speaker 1: she has yet to be found, should have initiated at
Speaker 1: least a little bit more investigation into his case. They
Speaker 1: believe it should have led the police, as it did
Speaker 1: for most of the public, into asking some serious questions
Speaker 1: regarding that accidental death. Truly, so what happened to Keesln?
Speaker 1: Let's find out now. Please keep in mind as we
Speaker 1: go over the details that we know in her case,
Speaker 1: that she is still considered missing and should be presumed
Speaker 1: alive until it can be proven that she is not. So.
Speaker 1: Paid close attention. On January eighteenth, twenty twenty, twenty one
Speaker 1: year old young woman named Keesln Roberts was seen at
Speaker 1: the same Flying Jay gas station, only she was encountered
Speaker 1: entering an employee's only entrance in the back on the
Speaker 1: Dennis side. Remember this is also where Caleb's car was
Speaker 1: found the same Flying Jay gas station in Resaca, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Some reports state that Keesln was simply told unemployeed that
Speaker 1: she could not be back there in this employee's only
Speaker 1: kitchen area entrance, and other states that she actually got
Speaker 1: into some kind of altercation with the person who informed
Speaker 1: her of this and was then told to leave. There's
Speaker 1: nothing official to confirm or disprove either one of these statements. Remember,
Speaker 1: there are no cameras in this part of the parking lot.
Speaker 1: What is known, however, is that when she was told
Speaker 1: or asked to exit the area, she was ledgedly just
Speaker 1: standing there, staring blankly out the door she just entered.
Speaker 1: Keeslan had dropped all of her belongings. These included a
Speaker 1: backpack containing her ID, credit and debit cards, cash, and
Speaker 1: phone charger, and ran off the employees of either the
Speaker 1: gas station side or the Denny's side. Again, these reports
Speaker 1: conflict ended up calling nine to one one and described
Speaker 1: Keeslin as a suspicious looking young woman and described the
Speaker 1: odd encounter. Keeslan was never seen or heard from again.
Speaker 1: Where did Keeslyn go and how did she get there
Speaker 1: without her car? Her vehicle was found two days later
Speaker 1: on January twentieth, with more belongings inside, very near where
Speaker 1: Caleb's car was found in the exact same parking lot.
Speaker 1: Witnesses would later come forward stating that they had briefly
Speaker 1: spoken to Keeslan that faithful night, and she had allegedly
Speaker 1: told them she was there meeting a male friend. However,
Speaker 1: this alleged meeting has never been elaborated on the person
Speaker 1: she was supposedly meeting, and also her boyfriend were questioned,
Speaker 1: but police shortly after she was supported missing, but so
Speaker 1: far nobody has been named either suspect or even a
Speaker 1: person of interest in the case. It's worth mentioning that
Speaker 1: Keyslun did have a history with drug use, mainly methamphetamine,
Speaker 1: and had blown off a mandatory probation appointment the day
Speaker 1: before she went missing, resulting in a warrant being issued
Speaker 1: for her arrest. Many speculate the Keyeslan so quickly fled
Speaker 1: from the Flying Jay that day due to not wanting
Speaker 1: to be there when the police were called, because she
Speaker 1: would have been arrested on this warrant, but why not
Speaker 1: take her car. More speculation had Keeslan possibly leaving the
Speaker 1: gas station with a trucker, but again this hasn't been confirmed.
Speaker 1: In early March or twenty twenty, when investigators searched the
Speaker 1: Flying Jay and no idea why it took this long
Speaker 1: for them to search the area her car was found
Speaker 1: in in which she was last seen. They did find
Speaker 1: items of clothing that belonged to Keeslin in a dumpster
Speaker 1: behind the building. An anonymous witness who has been said
Speaker 1: to be fully cooperative with police and not involved in
Speaker 1: any way to her disappearance, came forward and told reporters
Speaker 1: that these articles of clothing had been there the entire time,
Speaker 1: but police were allegedly just getting around to searching for
Speaker 1: and collected them as evidence now and now, meaning two
Speaker 1: months later in March. Unfortunately, this is all the evidence available,
Speaker 1: at least online in either case. Can it really all
Speaker 1: be a coincidence that two young people, one a known
Speaker 1: drug user and the other possibility found dead from intoxication
Speaker 1: from the other's drug of choice, go missing from the
Speaker 1: exact same gas station under early similar circumstances within two
Speaker 1: days of each other. Is it also just happened since
Speaker 1: that the two also live on the same street as
Speaker 1: each other. Now there's no evidence that they even knew
Speaker 1: each other, but still a little too much to overlook
Speaker 1: if you ask most people involved with or following this case,
Speaker 1: where is Keeslin? Did she meet the same fate as
Speaker 1: Caleb and just hasn't been found yet? Was Caleb's death
Speaker 1: truly an accident, and even if it was, someone obviously
Speaker 1: moved his body at least, and at most they murdered
Speaker 1: him and dumped it at the location where it was found.
Speaker 1: Is he's running on our own and of our own
Speaker 1: free will due to fear again of being arrested for
Speaker 1: that probation violation and probable relapse. It's also worth mentioning
Speaker 1: here that there have been several sightings of Keesln at
Speaker 1: multiple truck stops in various cities across the country. However,
Speaker 1: none of these have ever been able to actually be
Speaker 1: confirmed as her. Now, as we mentioned, her clothes were
Speaker 1: found two months after she was last seen fitting the scene.
Speaker 1: So where did she go while naked? Also without anyone
Speaker 1: seeing her? As the police are insinuating Caleb took a
Speaker 1: live mile naked walk without being noticed too. Were her
Speaker 1: clothes really there the entire time, as the anonymous and
Speaker 1: seemingly cooperative witness claim to news reporters, or are they
Speaker 1: dumped there after the fact for whatever reason. Currently, there's
Speaker 1: a six thousand dollars reward for information that could lead
Speaker 1: to keyslan s whereabouts. If you can help this investigation
Speaker 1: in any way, or think you have any information, no
Speaker 1: matter how small or insignificant it may seem, please contact
Speaker 1: the Gordon County Sheriff's Department at seven zero six six
Speaker 1: two nine one two four four. So what do you
Speaker 1: think of this case? Are these bizarre circumstances simply coincidence
Speaker 1: or is there indeed a connection here? I look forward
Speaker 1: to reading your comments. As always, we ask that you
Speaker 1: please be respectful in the comment section when discussing this case.
Speaker 1: Many times family and friends of the victims do watch
Speaker 1: these videos and read the comments, so please don't say
Speaker 1: anything that you wouldn't say if it was your family
Speaker 1: member or friend in this circumstance. In closing, be good
Speaker 1: to yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you next time.