Speaker 1: Hello friends, welcome to the latest installment of our Land
Speaker 1: of the Lost series. This time we're delving into the
Speaker 1: cases of Keaslin Roberts and Caleb Smith. Now, with all
Speaker 1: the bizarre and seemingly unexplainable disappearance stories going 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 it also be true that with all
Speaker 1: the books coming out, and again, all the videos made
Speaker 1: and the information online about these cases, it's quite easy
Speaker 1: to become numbed or jaded to these stories, to these people.
Speaker 1: Couldn't it also be true that maybe this numbness, this
Speaker 1: nonchalance and somewhat boredom with cases like these, one after another,
Speaker 1: after another, after another, to 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 sure and 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 is one big difference. One of them
Speaker 1: could 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 15, 2020, Caleb Smith told
Speaker 1: his grandmother that he was driving to Rome, Georgia to
Speaker 1: spend the day hanging out with some friends who lived there.
Speaker 1: This wasn't anything out of the ordinary for the 21-year-old,
Speaker 1: so when he requested that she leave the deadbolt to
Speaker 1: the front door of their house unlocked for him so
Speaker 1: he could re-enter when he got back home later on
Speaker 1: that night, she happily obliged and thought nothing of it.
Speaker 1: Little did she know that while she would speak to
Speaker 1: her grandson at least one more time over the phone
Speaker 1: that same day, as he walked out the front door
Speaker 1: of their house that ill-fated cold day in January, it
Speaker 1: would be the last time she would ever actually see
Speaker 1: him alive. Technically, the next day, at 12.32 a.m., Caleb
Speaker 1: entered the Flying J gas station in Resaca, Georgia. This
Speaker 1: was on the way to Rome, Georgia. We know Caleb
Speaker 1: entered this establishment at this exact time because he was
Speaker 1: seen on the gas station's minimal surveillance footage. Three minutes later,
Speaker 1: at 12.35 a.m., Caleb called his grandmother and informed her
Speaker 1: that he had to pull into the rest stop because
Speaker 1: he realized he didn't have enough gas to get to
Speaker 1: Rome as he'd initially planned. He told her there was
Speaker 1: one man sitting at a table on the other side
Speaker 1: of the restaurant that he was going to ask to
Speaker 1: help him with $ 5 for gas money so he can
Speaker 1: continue on his journey to go and see his friends.
Speaker 1: Though his phone records have not been made public at
Speaker 1: this time, Caleb is seen on the same surveillance footage
Speaker 1: sitting at his table for a few minutes, seemingly sending
Speaker 1: texts but possibly browsing the internet. Caleb did eventually get
Speaker 1: up and approach the man, assuming he asked the man
Speaker 1: for the $ 5 for gas money he told his grandmother
Speaker 1: he was going to do. However, it is unclear whether
Speaker 1: or not the man gave Caleb the $ 5, and Caleb
Speaker 1: actually ended up approaching the man twice in a matter
Speaker 1: of just a few minutes. It is still unknown exactly
Speaker 1: what the exchanges were between the two men. No word
Speaker 1: either on whether or not this man was ever identified
Speaker 1: or questioned. No information one way or the other can
Speaker 1: be found. After approaching and speaking to this man the
Speaker 1: second time, Caleb returns to his own table and sits down,
Speaker 1: facing this unknown man. After just a minute or two,
Speaker 1: Caleb gets up and leaves the gas station rest stop area,
Speaker 1: never to be seen alive again. When morning came and
Speaker 1: Caleb's grandmother realized that his bed had been slept in,
Speaker 1: she became very concerned. If Caleb had planned on staying out,
Speaker 1: he never would have asked her to leave the deadbolt
Speaker 1: unlocked for him. She decided to go to the last
Speaker 1: place she knew him to be when he wasn't answering
Speaker 1: his phone or returning any of her texts. so she
Speaker 1: got into her own car and drove down to the
Speaker 1: Flying J rest stop and searched the surrounding area and
Speaker 1: the parking lot for Caleb's car. She eventually found his
Speaker 1: car parked in the Flying J parking lot, but in
Speaker 1: the back of the Denny's restaurant building, assuming where the
Speaker 1: back entrance or garbage exit would be. This location could
Speaker 1: be important because it seems Caleb was parked almost purposely
Speaker 1: out of view of any of the surveillance cameras. His
Speaker 1: grandmother states that she didn't immediately get out of her
Speaker 1: car to search Caleb's car because she saw a suspicious-looking
Speaker 1: white Nissan that, in her words, she said, freaked her
Speaker 1: out and decided it was safer to remain in her
Speaker 1: vehicle until Caleb's other family members, whom she had just called, arrived.
Speaker 1: She never elaborated on why this white Nissan was suspicious-looking
Speaker 1: to her or why it freaked her out so. Although
Speaker 1: it's speculated it was because the windows were tinted very
Speaker 1: dark and the vehicle had pulled in and parked directly
Speaker 1: facing her in front of her vehicle and nobody exited
Speaker 1: the Nissan. Immediately upon the arrival of the other two
Speaker 1: family members she'd called to come and assist her, the
Speaker 1: white Nissan pulled out of the parking lot. There's no
Speaker 1: information regarding whether or not this white Nissan had any
Speaker 1: 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, Caleb called
Speaker 1: his grandmother to explain about his being low on gas
Speaker 1: for seemingly no reason. It's been said that he did
Speaker 1: it to give a reason as to why he would
Speaker 1: be later than expected coming home if he was stuck
Speaker 1: trying 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 he would leave his jacket behind.
Speaker 1: After searching his vehicle, his family called the police to
Speaker 1: report Caleb as missing. Gordon County Sheriff's Office spent all
Speaker 1: of the next two days, January 16th and 17th, searching
Speaker 1: the areas around the Flying J rest stop for any
Speaker 1: additional evidence or for Caleb himself, with no results. It's
Speaker 1: also worth mentioning here that the GCSO never processed Caleb's
Speaker 1: car for additional evidence, forensic or otherwise, and immediately released
Speaker 1: it to the family. On February 3rd, 2020, Caleb Smith's
Speaker 1: body was found five miles away from the Flying J.
Speaker 1: It was in a marshy 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 and,
Speaker 1: oddly enough, the fire department had been dispatched to 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: brush fire to have been started on its own was
Speaker 1: almost impossible. The initial report stated, however, No immediate indications
Speaker 1: of violence were apparent regarding Caleb's body, and the GBI
Speaker 1: revealed that there were no indications of violence or evidence
Speaker 1: of foul play. The results of the toxicology report were
Speaker 1: as follows. Caleb died as a result of methamphetamine intoxication.
Speaker 1: There is no known information as to whether or not
Speaker 1: Caleb ever had a problem with any kind of drugs,
Speaker 1: and the death was ruled accidental. If it weren't for
Speaker 1: something eerily similar happening to a young woman just two
Speaker 1: days later at the same exact Flying J gas station,
Speaker 1: that may have been the end of Caleb's story. However,
Speaker 1: when you add up the similarities with the story I'm
Speaker 1: about to relate to you, even when sprinkling in the differences,
Speaker 1: one can't help but wonder. We in the true crime
Speaker 1: community know there's usually no such thing as coincidence, and
Speaker 1: we all also know that nobody knows this better than
Speaker 1: law enforcement. So why exactly Or are they trying so
Speaker 1: hard to make us believe that coincidence is exactly what
Speaker 1: seems to connect these two cases? Are we really to
Speaker 1: believe that a young man, supposedly with enough methamphetamine in
Speaker 1: his system to kill him, stripped off his clothes and
Speaker 1: then not only decided to walk five miles in the
Speaker 1: bitter cold, high and naked, but that he managed to
Speaker 1: do so without calling any attention to himself at all?
Speaker 1: Is it reasonable to think that not a single person
Speaker 1: would have noticed a naked young man walking on the
Speaker 1: side of the road for an entire five miles? There
Speaker 1: are so many facts that just do not seem to
Speaker 1: fit with the accidental death ruling. Let's review just some
Speaker 1: of them now. First of all, even if we asked
Speaker 1: no questions and accepted that Caleb was able to walk
Speaker 1: all that way without being noticed despite the condition he
Speaker 1: was in both physically and mentally, keep in mind Caleb
Speaker 1: was found completely naked. This means no socks, no shoes, nothing.
Speaker 1: Are we also to believe that he could have accomplished
Speaker 1: this naked and five mile walk without not only doing
Speaker 1: no damage to but also not dirtying his feet at all?
Speaker 1: There is no explanation as to why or how the
Speaker 1: police have been able to reconcile themselves to calling this death,
Speaker 1: with all the strange facts and evidence, an accident. Caleb
Speaker 1: was found in a very muddy, marshy area. Not even
Speaker 1: a drop of mud on his feet? His clothes were
Speaker 1: never found either, but again, there is no information as
Speaker 1: to the extent of the police investigation. into where his
Speaker 1: clothes went either why wasn't Caleb's family allowed to identify
Speaker 1: the body some say it's simply because of the state
Speaker 1: of decomposition of the body after being outside the marshland
Speaker 1: for so long but others aren't so sure remember this
Speaker 1: was during the cold winter in january Speculation and rumors
Speaker 1: surround this case, and it seems no one knows enough
Speaker 1: to be able to separate fact from fiction. Our research
Speaker 1: was only able to find two that weren't absolutely off-the-wall
Speaker 1: wild conjectures and made just a tiny bit of sense.
Speaker 1: The first of these theories is that he may have
Speaker 1: gotten into someone else's car to smoke the methamphetamine, a
Speaker 1: dealer or perhaps maybe the man he was seen on
Speaker 1: camera having multiple conversations with. who, to the best of
Speaker 1: the public's knowledge, was never even found, let alone questioned
Speaker 1: or investigated in any way. And as tends to happen
Speaker 1: sometimes to people who partake in this particular substance, Caleb
Speaker 1: became overheated and started taking off his clothes. Before anyone
Speaker 1: knew what was happening, Caleb started overdosing, and whoever he
Speaker 1: was with, if he was with anyone, didn't want to
Speaker 1: be involved in any way with this overdose death for fear,
Speaker 1: especially if they were the one that sold or gave
Speaker 1: it to him. but even if they were just using
Speaker 1: with him and drove Caleb's body to the marshland and
Speaker 1: left it there. Did whoever this person or people were
Speaker 1: think about DNA evidence or forensics and possibly, instead of
Speaker 1: Caleb stripping himself, did the perpetrators or witnesses strip him
Speaker 1: of his clothes after he died to eliminate any kind
Speaker 1: of touch or fiber evidence eventually coming back to link
Speaker 1: them or their car to his death? The fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is, we just don't know. And it seems
Speaker 1: as though if the investigators in this case have it
Speaker 1: their way, we never will. Caleb's case is officially closed
Speaker 1: at this point. Two days after the incident with Caleb
Speaker 1: at this Flying J gas station, an eerily and almost
Speaker 1: shockingly similar disappearance happened. Many people who are familiar with
Speaker 1: Caleb's case feel like what happened to Keaslin Roberts, or
Speaker 1: at least what everyone knows happened to her because she
Speaker 1: is yet to be found, should have initiated at least
Speaker 1: a little bit more investigation into his case. They believe
Speaker 1: it should have led the police, as it did for
Speaker 1: most of the public, into asking some serious questions regarding
Speaker 1: that accidental death ruling. So, what happened to Kiesland? Let's
Speaker 1: find out. Now, please keep in mind as we go
Speaker 1: over the details that we know in her case that
Speaker 1: she is still considered missing and should be presumed alive
Speaker 1: until it can be proven that she is not. So,
Speaker 1: pay close attention. On January 18th, 2020, A 21-year-old young
Speaker 1: woman named Kieslin Roberts was seen at the same Flying
Speaker 1: J gas station, only she was encountered entering an employees-only
Speaker 1: entrance in the back on the Denny's side. Remember, this
Speaker 1: is also where Caleb's car was found. The same Flying
Speaker 1: J gas station in Resaca, Georgia. Some reports state that
Speaker 1: Kiesland was simply told by an employee that she could
Speaker 1: not be back there, and this employee's only kitchen area entrance,
Speaker 1: and others state that she actually got into some kind
Speaker 1: of altercation with the person who informed her of this,
Speaker 1: and was then told to leave. There is nothing official
Speaker 1: 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 allegedly just
Speaker 1: standing there, staring blankly out the door she had just entered.
Speaker 1: Kiesland 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 conflict,
Speaker 1: ended up calling 911 and described Kiesland as a suspicious
Speaker 1: looking young woman and described the odd encounter. Kiesland was
Speaker 1: never seen or heard from again. Where did Kiesland go
Speaker 1: and how did she get there without her car? Her
Speaker 1: vehicle was found two days later on January 20th with
Speaker 1: more belongings inside, parked very near where Caleb's car was
Speaker 1: found in the exact same parking lot. Witnesses would later
Speaker 1: come forward stating that they had briefly spoken to Kiesland
Speaker 1: that fateful night and she had allegedly told them she
Speaker 1: was there meeting a male friend. However, this alleged meeting
Speaker 1: has never been elaborated on. The person she was supposedly
Speaker 1: meeting and also her boyfriend were questioned by police shortly
Speaker 1: after she was reported missing. But so far, nobody has
Speaker 1: been named either a suspect or even a person of
Speaker 1: interest in the case. But it's worth mentioning that Kiesland
Speaker 1: did have a history with drug use, mainly methamphetamine, and
Speaker 1: had blown off a mandatory probation appointment the day before
Speaker 1: she went missing, resulting in a warrant being issued for
Speaker 1: her arrest. Many speculate that Kiesland so quickly fled from
Speaker 1: the Flying J that day due to not wanting to
Speaker 1: be there when the police were called because she would
Speaker 1: have been arrested on this warrant. But why not take
Speaker 1: her car? More speculation had Kiesland possibly leaving the gas
Speaker 1: station with a trucker, but again, this hasn't been confirmed.
Speaker 1: In early March of 2020, when investigators searched the Flying J,
Speaker 1: and no idea why it took this long for them
Speaker 1: to search the area her car was found in and
Speaker 1: where she was last seen, they did find items of
Speaker 1: clothing that belonged to Kiesland in a dumpster behind the building.
Speaker 1: An anonymous witness, who has been said to be fully
Speaker 1: cooperative with police and not involved in any way to
Speaker 1: her disappearance, came forward and told reporters that these articles
Speaker 1: of clothing had been there the entire time, but police
Speaker 1: were allegedly just getting around to searching for and collecting
Speaker 1: them as evidence now, and now meaning two months later
Speaker 1: in March. Unfortunately, this is all the evidence available, at
Speaker 1: least online in either case. Can it really all be
Speaker 1: a coincidence that two young people, one a known drug
Speaker 1: user and the other a 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 eerily similar circumstances within two
Speaker 1: days of each other? Is it also just happenstance that
Speaker 1: the two also live on the same street as each other? Now,
Speaker 1: there's no evidence that they even knew each other, but still,
Speaker 1: a little too much to overlook if you ask most
Speaker 1: people involved with or following this case. Where is Kiesland?
Speaker 1: Did she meet the same fate as Caleb and just
Speaker 1: hasn't been found yet? Was Caleb's death truly an accident?
Speaker 1: And even if it was, someone obviously moved his body
Speaker 1: at least. And at most, they murdered him and dumped
Speaker 1: it at the location where it was found. Is Kiesland
Speaker 1: running on her own and of her own free will
Speaker 1: due to fear, again, of being arrested for that probation
Speaker 1: violation and probable relapse? It's also worth mentioning here that
Speaker 1: there have been several sightings of Kiesland at multiple truck
Speaker 1: stops in various cities across the country. However, none of
Speaker 1: these have ever been able to actually be confirmed as her. Now,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, her clothes were found two months after
Speaker 1: she was last seen fleeing the scene, so where did
Speaker 1: she go while naked? Also, without anyone seeing her, as
Speaker 1: the police are insinuating, Caleb took a five-mile naked walk
Speaker 1: without being noticed, too. Were her clothes really there the
Speaker 1: entire time, as the anonymous and seemingly cooperative witness claimed
Speaker 1: to news reporters? Or were they dumped there after the fact,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason? Currently, there's a $ 6, 000 reward for information
Speaker 1: that could lead to Kiesland's whereabouts. If you can help
Speaker 1: this investigation in any way, or think you have any information,
Speaker 1: no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, please
Speaker 1: contact the Gordon County Sheriff's Department at 706-629-1244. So, what
Speaker 1: do you think of this case? Are these bizarre circumstances
Speaker 1: simply coincidence, or is there indeed a connection here? I
Speaker 1: look forward to reading your comments. As always, we ask
Speaker 1: that you please be respectful in the comment section when
Speaker 1: discussing this case. Many times, family and friends of the
Speaker 1: victims do watch these videos and read the comments. So
Speaker 1: please don't say anything that you wouldn't say if it
Speaker 1: was your family member or friend in this circumstance. In closing,
Speaker 1: be good to yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton,
Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you next time.