Speaker 1: The land of the Last, where shadows play, where dreams
Speaker 1: are whispers that drift away.
Speaker 2: Mountains rise like giants, tall and cold, stories.
Speaker 3: Untold in the silence and fall color of twilight, Pinskies
Speaker 3: and hues, stars alike, ancient.
Speaker 2: Wom sell Us, their clues, wandering spirits through the fields, wrong, free, lost,
Speaker 2: in the echoes of what used to be.
Speaker 4: In the lead of the lost square, constans still a
Speaker 4: bascle light. The desturber.
Speaker 3: Has a gun.
Speaker 2: In the swirling beast, Bemilies of.
Speaker 1: Moments that purposes, rivers winding through the endless screen ring
Speaker 1: the moonlight, silver sheen that goes a laughter from the.
Speaker 4: Stars like.
Speaker 5: Hello, friends, Steve Stockton, here with you. Welcome to our
Speaker 5: latest video. This time we bring you another episode in
Speaker 5: our Land of the Loss series, spotlighting the strange disappearance
Speaker 5: of Dale Dinwiddie.
Speaker 6: Join us.
Speaker 5: I'd like to preface this episode by saying the case
Speaker 5: was suggested to us by my friend and fan of
Speaker 5: the channel, Samantha Phipps. Samantha writes, I'm an avid fan
Speaker 5: of your show who never forgot Dale's disappearance and hoped
Speaker 5: to see it solved for Dale's family, even though I've
Speaker 5: lived away from the area since nineteen ninety six. I'm
Speaker 5: a Columbia native and graduated from the University of South
Speaker 5: Carolina in eighty five and was in grad school there
Speaker 5: around the time of Dale's disappearance. My college friends and
Speaker 5: I spent lots of time in Five Points.
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 5: It has haunted so many of my old friends and
Speaker 5: myself because we can all relate to Dale. It could
Speaker 5: have been any.
Speaker 6: One of us. But here we are.
Speaker 5: We got to live our adult lives, and Dale did
Speaker 5: a sad memory.
Speaker 6: Indeed.
Speaker 5: On September twenty fourth, nineteen ninety two, twenty four year
Speaker 5: old Dale Dinwittie was attending a U two concert in
Speaker 5: the Five Points region of downtown Columbia, South Carolina with
Speaker 5: some friends. As the concert wound down and people were leaving,
Speaker 5: Dinwitty became separated from her friends that had left a
Speaker 5: few minutes prior to go to a bar. She went
Speaker 5: to the club and one of the club's bouncers to
Speaker 5: look for friends before she left the establishment and headed
Speaker 5: north on Harden Street. She hasn't been seen since, launching
Speaker 5: one of the longest searches and the oldest active missing
Speaker 5: person case in Columbia's history. Delle Dinwittie was just twenty
Speaker 5: four years old when she went missing. Having just graduated
Speaker 5: with her bachelor's degree in art history, Dinwittie was making
Speaker 5: plans to attend the University of South Carolina to get
Speaker 5: her graduate degree.
Speaker 6: After returning from.
Speaker 5: College, Dinwitty moved in with her parents while waiting to
Speaker 5: attend USC. Friends were anxious to spend time with the
Speaker 5: social butterfly, and this was one of the first outings
Speaker 5: she had gone on since being home. Arriving at the WILLIAMS.
Speaker 5: Brice Stadium, the group enjoyed the band and conversation and
Speaker 5: just being with one another. Dinwittie was said to be
Speaker 5: in good spirits and had a great time. After the
Speaker 5: U two concert was over, around eleven fifteen, the group
Speaker 5: made their way to a bar called Jungle Gyms. This
Speaker 5: this where things would go oh terribly wrong. Everyone made
Speaker 5: it to the bar and at first was having a
Speaker 5: great time, but as the night progressed, the group became
Speaker 5: separated from Dentwiddie. They had been about fifteen minutes looking for,
Speaker 5: but decided that she must have gotten a ride from
Speaker 5: someone she met at the establishment, or maybe even called
Speaker 5: her parents to come and pick her up. Neither of
Speaker 5: these were true, though. When she arrived at the club,
Speaker 5: she asked a bouncer if he had seen her friends,
Speaker 5: and upon learning he hadn't, she left that establishment and
Speaker 5: was on foot, walking north through the Five Points area
Speaker 5: toward the intersection of Harden and Green Streets, and was
Speaker 5: never seen again. The initial search for Dale Dinwittie was extensive,
Speaker 5: and police followed over a thousand leads. There was no
Speaker 5: crime scene, and that makes investigations all the more difficult.
Speaker 5: Many suspects were questioned, including Rinaldo Javier ray Rivera, who
Speaker 5: at the time of questioning was on death row for
Speaker 5: the multiple murders of four other women, one of whom
Speaker 5: was a police officer. Her leads were followed, but none
Speaker 5: of them led to any solid answers nor suspects. The
Speaker 5: longer the case lingered, the more rumors and theories arose
Speaker 5: from those following the case. One theory was one that
Speaker 5: we've all heard, that Dinwittie ran off to start a
Speaker 5: new life. This theory is investigated often in a lot
Speaker 5: of missing person cases and often leads to important details
Speaker 5: being overlooked early on in cases. Dale Dinwittie was a
Speaker 5: very responsible twenty four year old that had major plans
Speaker 5: to tend graduate school. If her plan was indeed to
Speaker 5: run away and start anew many family members and friends
Speaker 5: dismissed this idea because she would never make her loved
Speaker 5: ones worry. In the beginning, Dale's case was treated as
Speaker 5: a kidnapping. The authorities told the media at that time,
Speaker 5: there is nothing in her background to indicate that she
Speaker 5: would deliberately go away. Her family and friends agreed, even
Speaker 5: going as far as to state that she was a
Speaker 5: cautious person who did not like to be out alone
Speaker 5: from severe asthma and needing an inhaler to control the
Speaker 5: symptoms along with biweekly allarity injections. Her medication was not
Speaker 5: taken with her the night she went out with her friends.
Speaker 5: This fact alone was enough to lead investigators to dismiss
Speaker 5: Dinwitty having left by her own volition. The next and
Speaker 5: most probable theory is that Dinwhittye was kidnapped and murdered.
Speaker 5: The question is though by whom. Was it a stranger
Speaker 5: from the bar where she was inadvertently left behind by
Speaker 5: her friends, or maybe a stranger that saw the young
Speaker 5: woman walking alone. A crime of opportunity, or was it
Speaker 5: someone she knew. This last suggestion has been the most
Speaker 5: popular by the people that were closest to Dale. The
Speaker 5: two main sub theories from this suggestion is that it
Speaker 5: was either someone she knew or someone that perhaps had
Speaker 5: been stalking for a long period of time, learning her
Speaker 5: habits and waiting to seize an opportunity where she would
Speaker 5: be alone. The area where Dale was visiting when she
Speaker 5: disappeared was very busy with partying, students, bar patrons, and
Speaker 5: others all mingling before having to return to campus or
Speaker 5: home at nights in. This is one of many reasons
Speaker 5: of stranger abduction would have been hard for someone to
Speaker 5: pull off unnoticed. However, it's unknown how far Dinwiddy made
Speaker 5: it before she disappeared, or even where she was going.
Speaker 5: There was only a general direction given by the last
Speaker 5: person that saw, which was north towards the intersection of Harden.
Speaker 6: And Green Streets.
Speaker 5: Having directly dismissed the idea that Dinwiddie would have willingly
Speaker 5: gotten into the stranger's car, no matter how desperate she
Speaker 5: was to get home, her family and friends clinked to
Speaker 5: the idea that it was a person she knew as
Speaker 5: the most likely theory. This theory, however, comes with its
Speaker 5: own issues. If she accepted a ride from a friend
Speaker 5: or even an acquaintance, someone would have most likely recounted
Speaker 5: seeing her get into a car as the area was
Speaker 5: so busy, but with all the people questioned and that
Speaker 5: came forward with tips, no one saw anything. Has also
Speaker 5: been suggested that an acquaintance subduction would have been inconspicuous
Speaker 5: because there wouldn't have been a struggle or seen caused
Speaker 5: by Dinwittie and her would be abductor. An investigator close
Speaker 5: to the case stated, I'm leaning more towards the stranger
Speaker 5: abduction in Dale's case, regardless of how rare they are.
Speaker 5: I'm wondering how the perpetrator got her out of the
Speaker 5: busy area without being seen. The suspects in the disappearance
Speaker 5: of Dale Dinwittie were all questioned, but the best suspect
Speaker 5: was the one previously mentioned, Rinaldo Javier Ray Rivera, because
Speaker 5: he was a known serial killer. He had admitted to
Speaker 5: killing four women in Georgia and was living in the
Speaker 5: area at the time of Dinwittie's disappearance. Rivera was a
Speaker 5: student at the University of South Carolina in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 5: These facts alone made Rivera a strong suspect, but there
Speaker 5: were no clues, no evidence, and obviously no confession. Rivera
Speaker 5: was sentenced to death for the killing of a police
Speaker 5: officer and three life sentences for the subsequent killings of
Speaker 5: three other women. Some have suggested that Rivera was merely
Speaker 5: an easy suspect, as he was already in prison and
Speaker 5: was a known serial killer. Of the hundreds of tips
Speaker 5: that flowed into the police related to the Dinwitty case,
Speaker 5: none have led to any useful clues to break this
Speaker 5: cold case. Investigators have even taken directors from a psychic
Speaker 5: that led them to a pond where a car was
Speaker 5: indeed pulled from its murky water, but it had no
Speaker 5: connection to the case. Other tips have seen deer bones excavated,
Speaker 5: and search teams even used ground penetrating radar to look
Speaker 5: for abnormalities underground. Another call that reported a foul odor
Speaker 5: coming from a home near the area where Dinwittie was
Speaker 5: last seen led to an entire floor of a home
Speaker 5: being torn out, but frustratingly, nothing was found. The case
Speaker 5: continued to grow cold, then in twenty nineteen, approximately twenty
Speaker 5: seven years after the disappearance of Dale Dinwittie, the disappearance
Speaker 5: and subsequent murder of another USC student would open back
Speaker 5: up those painful wounds and memories of Dinwiddie's case and
Speaker 5: bring it back into the spotlight. On March twenty ninth,
Speaker 5: twenty nineteen, twenty one year old Samantha Josephson was in
Speaker 5: the Five Points area in downtown Columbia, the same area
Speaker 5: Dale Dinwiddie went missing from when she was last seen
Speaker 5: getting into a black Chevy and Paula. Thinking the car
Speaker 5: was her override, Josephson entered the car and never returned
Speaker 5: home that night. When she did arrive home by two am,
Speaker 5: her roommates knew something was wrong and filed a missing
Speaker 5: person's report the following day, Friday, March thirtieth. Later that
Speaker 5: same day, the County Sheriff's deputies received a report of
Speaker 5: a woman's body found by turkey hunters in a remote
Speaker 5: forest outside of town. The body was identified as the
Speaker 5: missing USC student, Samantha Josephson. She had been stabbed over
Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty times and left in the field
Speaker 5: where she was found. On Sunday, March thirty, Firs her
Speaker 5: killer was caught and arrested. Nathaniel Rowan was charged with
Speaker 5: kidnapping and murder. He was subsequently convicted on both charges
Speaker 5: and sent us to life in prison. This case was
Speaker 5: a painful reminder of the still unsolved case of Dale
Speaker 5: Dinwiddie to the many friends and family members that deserve answers. Then,
Speaker 5: in September of twenty twenty, another rumor about Dinwittie's case
Speaker 5: made its way through the area of her disappearance like wildfire,
Speaker 5: that she had been found and the almost thirty year
Speaker 5: old case would finally come to an end. There were
Speaker 5: whispers in the community that a man was questioned and
Speaker 5: arrested in connection with the case. Suddenly, dozens of calls
Speaker 5: flooded the state and local police agencies asking about the arrest.
Speaker 5: After examining the tips provided and calls made, however, these
Speaker 5: rumors were laid to rest and Richland's Police department released
Speaker 5: a statement saying that there is no new information on
Speaker 5: this missing person case. They also added the investigation action
Speaker 5: will not change until she is found. Richland County Sheriff
Speaker 5: Leon Lott is close to the family and keeps them
Speaker 5: apprized of any new tips.
Speaker 6: That come in.
Speaker 5: He says, I can see the pain in their eyes
Speaker 5: and hear it in their voices, but they are still
Speaker 5: focused and that has fueled us. The police department has
Speaker 5: tracked every lead, even traveling as far as Las Vegas
Speaker 5: and Minnesota to speak with people that claim to know
Speaker 5: something about the Dinwidy disappearance. These tips were either criminals
Speaker 5: trying to cut a deal for themselves or people just
Speaker 5: lying for unknown reasons. Now I want to insert a
Speaker 5: disclaimer here. This section that I'm about to go into
Speaker 5: is in no way an accusation against South Carolina lawyer
Speaker 5: Harry Gregory. This video is intended to state the facts
Speaker 5: as we know them and as they've been reported by
Speaker 5: law enforcement investigators, media, family news outlets, and other online articles.
Speaker 5: In ving videos, we are not responsible for the opinions
Speaker 5: of the reporting parties. Please do not harass anyone named
Speaker 5: in this video, not the victim, any of the accused family,
Speaker 5: or otherwise, and please be respectful in the comments section
Speaker 5: regarding the parties involved, especially the victims and their family members,
Speaker 5: because they do occasionally watch the stories reported on this channel.
Speaker 5: In the fall of twenty twenty, a case of forced
Speaker 5: intimate contact was reported to the South Carolina SLED that's
Speaker 5: the State Law Enforcement Division. The female that reported the
Speaker 5: case told the detective when the assault happened that the
Speaker 5: man who assaulted her told her, you remind me of
Speaker 5: Dale Dinwiddie. Now this chilled the victim's blood. The man
Speaker 5: allegedly made that remark none other than Columbia South Carolina
Speaker 5: lawyer that was just arrested in connection to a forced
Speaker 5: intimate contact with miners investigation, Harry Gregory. Now Gregory has
Speaker 5: since been charged with multiple counts of committing loot axe
Speaker 5: on a minor in two thousand and two and again
Speaker 5: in two thousand and four. This case has been turned
Speaker 5: over to Attorney General Alan Wilson. This tip was never
Speaker 5: referred to investigators of the Dinwitty case because the investigators
Speaker 5: taking the victim's statement didn't believe this one piece of
Speaker 5: her statement to be credible, even though the rest of
Speaker 5: her statement was.
Speaker 6: Believed to be true.
Speaker 5: The news outlet that published this update was supposedly given
Speaker 5: the reasons why police reached this decision, but declined to
Speaker 5: share them along with the name of the victim, as
Speaker 5: is customary. Several community members of Midland's area were asked
Speaker 5: what they thought caused the rate on the attorney's house
Speaker 5: on March eighteenth, twenty twenty one, and unequivocally it was
Speaker 5: said the Dinwitty case comment made by the new victim.
Speaker 6: Harry.
Speaker 5: Gregory's home was served with a search warrant on the
Speaker 5: early morning hours of March eighteenth, twenty twenty one. Police
Speaker 5: were reluctant to say exactly what they were looking for.
Speaker 5: Other females have accused Gregory from being demanding all the
Speaker 5: way to alligation of sadism. When asked if they thought
Speaker 5: he was capable of these actions against Dale Dinwiddie, a
Speaker 5: resounding yes was heard by those interviewed. Gregory was also
Speaker 5: accused of marital physical assault and has been divorced for years.
Speaker 5: The facts of this pertaining to this accusation regarding Dale
Speaker 5: Dinwittie are as follows. Number One, Gregory was in the Columbia,
Speaker 5: South Carolina area at the time of the Dinwitti disappearance.
Speaker 5: Number two, his residence is just a few blocks away
Speaker 5: from where Dinwitdy lived at the time. Number three, It's
Speaker 5: been stated by witnesses that Gregory was known to frequent
Speaker 5: the Five Points district, looking for younger women. Just want
Speaker 5: to point out again here there is nothing connecting South
Speaker 5: Carolina attorney Harry Gregory to the Dale Dinwitti case other
Speaker 5: than the statement reported to law enforcement by the new victim.
Speaker 5: As stated previously. However, sources close to this case state
Speaker 5: that police do not typically raid homes of accused of
Speaker 5: fans over twenty year old forced intimate contact cases. Therefore,
Speaker 5: people are speculating that the comment made by the victim
Speaker 5: about Dale Dinwittie had something to do with the raid
Speaker 5: on Harry Gregory's home on March eighteenth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: There's currently a twenty thousand dollars reward offered for information
Speaker 5: leading to Dinwittie squhareabouts. Dale Dinwittie was five feet tall,
Speaker 5: had brown hair, brown eyes, and weighed ninety six pounds.
Speaker 6: She was last seen.
Speaker 5: Wearing a green pullover shirt, a blue nylon LLBean jacket
Speaker 5: tied around her waist, baited jeans, and tennis shoes. One
Speaker 5: finger on each of her hands has a noticeable curve.
Speaker 5: She was last seen leaving Jungle Gym's Bar, which is
Speaker 5: now closed in the Five Points area of downtown Columbia,
Speaker 5: South Carolina. Her mother, Jean Dinwittie, has asked for people
Speaker 5: to rethink anything you saw that didn't seem that unusual
Speaker 5: to time, but mate, now looking back on be a
Speaker 5: little unusual. Would you please talk to your friends and
Speaker 5: friends of friends who were there on that night, maybe
Speaker 5: someone who remember something that could help us find Dale.
Speaker 6: If you have any.
Speaker 5: Information, no matter how insignificant it may seem, on either
Speaker 5: of these cases we mentioned here, please contact the Columbia
Speaker 5: Police Department at eight zero three by four five three
Speaker 5: five zero zero, or Crime Stoppers at eight eight eight
Speaker 5: two seven four six three seven to two, or you
Speaker 5: can contact your local law enforcement agency. There you have it, friends,
Speaker 5: I'll look forward to reading your comments about this strange disappearance,
Speaker 5: and let me remind you again please keep it friendly
Speaker 5: and respectful. It's most likely the family will be listening
Speaker 5: to this in the meanwhile, be good to yourselves and
Speaker 5: each other. Stay safe out there, and I'll see you
Speaker 5: just a little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton,
Speaker 5: and I'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 7: Christopher Tompkins was last seen January of two thousand and two,
Speaker 7: walking away from a survey job in a wooded area
Speaker 7: of Highway eighty five and Ellerslie deputies continue to ask
Speaker 7: for Tipsy in this case as they remained vigilant about
Speaker 7: learning what happened to Tompkins. If you have any information
Speaker 7: on this missing person's case, you're asked to call a
Speaker 7: Harris County Schriff's office for the GBI.
Speaker 5: In this episode, we'll discuss the bizarre disappearance of Christopher Tompkins.
Speaker 6: Let's begin.
Speaker 5: On the morning of January twenty fifth, two thousand and two,
Speaker 5: twenty year old Christopher Thompson left for his job as
Speaker 5: a surveyor. Christopher met up with the three members of
Speaker 5: his four man surveyor team and went about their daily
Speaker 5: routine of survey work at an expanse of lightly wooded
Speaker 5: area off County Line Road near Highway eighty five in Ellerslie, Georgia.
Speaker 5: The team moved as a unit, each man's faced fifty
Speaker 5: feet apart in a line as they worked their way
Speaker 5: in the same direction through the forest. Christopher, who was
Speaker 5: the last in the line, was keeping regular communications with
Speaker 5: the others, and he and the man in front of
Speaker 5: him were within eyesight of each other. At one point,
Speaker 5: the surveyor in front glanced back toward Christopher, who had
Speaker 5: just been talking to him moments before, to find he
Speaker 5: had vanished. It didn't make any sense because he had
Speaker 5: just been there several seconds before, but now there was
Speaker 5: nothing and nowhere he could have gone without being seen.
Speaker 5: The surveyor called the others and they searched the area,
Speaker 5: for what they discovered only made it even stranger. Nearby
Speaker 5: was one of Christopher's work boots hanging from a barbedois fence,
Speaker 5: with no sign of the other boot. In a patch
Speaker 5: of grass next to the boot or his work tools
Speaker 5: blew fabric from his work pants, and since that was it,
Speaker 5: and it seemed as if Christopher had simply vanished out
Speaker 5: of existence. At one pm, around four hours after Christopher disappeared,
Speaker 5: one of the other surveyors finally called their boss to
Speaker 5: say that Christopher had vanished. Christopher's mother was not told
Speaker 5: about the incident until four fifteen PM, when a missing
Speaker 5: person's report was filed. The next day, authorities were not
Speaker 5: able to find any additional clues as to what had
Speaker 5: happened to him. More intensive search was launched, but nothing
Speaker 5: turned up until months later, when the missing work boot
Speaker 5: was bizarrely found by chance on the private property of
Speaker 5: a man who lived at nine hundred yards from where
Speaker 5: Christopher had gone missing. How did Christopher just go missing
Speaker 5: in practically the blink of an eye in full view,
Speaker 5: only to leave behind just one boot? Where could he
Speaker 5: have gotten too so fast? And why were there no
Speaker 5: other signs of him anywhere? The disappearance has law remained baffling, and,
Speaker 5: as with many cases of people who have vanished into
Speaker 5: thin air, theories as to what happened to him have
Speaker 5: varied from the mundane to the truly bizarre. One of
Speaker 5: the first theories was that there had been some sort
Speaker 5: of foul play involved. After all, the surveyors with him
Speaker 5: did not report the disappearance for several hours, more than
Speaker 5: enough time for them to dispose of the body, allowing
Speaker 5: them to make up whatever story they liked. However, there
Speaker 5: was no motive at all for this, no evidence of
Speaker 5: foul play, and none of the other surveyors were ever
Speaker 5: seriously interrogated or investigated on the matter. There was also
Speaker 5: the theory that Christopher had simply walked off the job
Speaker 5: and run off to start a new life, a theory
Speaker 5: supported by his boss's claim that Christopher had been acting
Speaker 5: strangely in the days leading up to the vanishing, but
Speaker 5: his own mother adamantly denied this, saying, Chris lived with
Speaker 5: me and I saw.
Speaker 6: Him every day.
Speaker 5: There was neither range behavior on his part nor any distress.
Speaker 5: Many of his friends and family would insist that Christopher
Speaker 5: had been a well adjusted, happy individual, and his co
Speaker 5: workers painted a picture of a respectable, hard working individual.
Speaker 5: There's also the question of if he did walk away,
Speaker 5: then how did he manage to do it in full
Speaker 5: view of the others, and why did he do it
Speaker 5: minus one boot and while leaving behind those other bizarre clues.
Speaker 5: Another theory was he might have been attacked by a
Speaker 5: wild animal. But if that were the case, wouldn't there
Speaker 5: be more evidence of a struggle or injury. And how
Speaker 5: could this possibly happen within moments and within eyesight of
Speaker 5: the other surveyor without him knowing. It just doesn't make
Speaker 5: any sense.
Speaker 8: It was a twenty year old young man who that's
Speaker 8: home one morning to go to work. He was a
Speaker 8: part of a four man serving crew that was working
Speaker 8: in the Harrison County area. They were working in one
Speaker 8: of the areas out there, and three people came home
Speaker 8: in one day nine Chris simply vanished.
Speaker 6: And when I say advantaged, I need.
Speaker 8: Y'all to listen to Chris simply vanished.
Speaker 4: Some time that afternoon.
Speaker 8: The three individuals who were with Chris placed the call
Speaker 8: to nine on one to say he vanished. Search dogs
Speaker 8: and sheriff's job in the Harrison County Sheriff's department, they
Speaker 8: brought out whatever resources they had.
Speaker 6: We found one of Christ's boots.
Speaker 8: Enter, yeah, remember now, we found one of his boots
Speaker 8: that very day.
Speaker 9: We found some of his.
Speaker 8: Work tools and some change that they speculated when we
Speaker 8: think may has been through Chris's party, but maybe a
Speaker 8: week or two later, Uh, the Harrison County Sheriff's departments
Speaker 8: and told us that neighbor, the Chris had just walked away.
Speaker 8: I'll see if the man o all the way, he
Speaker 8: would take off him pook to do so, he probably
Speaker 8: keep both of them all that he was.
Speaker 10: Gonna be walking.
Speaker 5: This is where we get into some of the more
Speaker 5: far out theories that have made the rounds. One idea
Speaker 5: is that Christopher had seen something out there that he
Speaker 5: was not supposed to and was silenced by some mysterious
Speaker 5: party with the authorities in on it all. Explaining the
Speaker 5: lag time and informing the family. Even weirder still is
Speaker 5: the theory that some mysterious and very powerful force had
Speaker 5: actually picked him up and carried him off, with his
Speaker 5: belonging snagged on the fence as he was carried away.
Speaker 5: Ghosts ufo Bigfoot who knows. There are even the theories
Speaker 5: that the culprit could have been some sort of vortex,
Speaker 5: a rift between dimensions, or even the doings of ancient
Speaker 5: Native American spirits or curses from the days from the
Speaker 5: Native Creek Bey were mastered and driven from these lands
Speaker 5: by encroaching settlers. Of course, there is no evidence whatsoever
Speaker 5: for any of these wild theories either, and they serve
Speaker 5: merely to add a layer of additional bizarreness to an
Speaker 5: already bizarre case. So what happened to Christopher Tompkins? It
Speaker 5: remains a complete mystery. What are your thoughts on this case?
Speaker 5: Let us know in the comments below. If you enjoyed
Speaker 5: the first episode of this new series, make sure you
Speaker 5: hit that like button. In the meantime, take care of
Speaker 5: yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk
Speaker 5: to you next time.
Speaker 11: He is such a good dad and it's just really frustrated.
Speaker 12: What I'm trying my hardest to just like stay strong
Speaker 12: for my side.
Speaker 13: This little boy's father, Brittany Davis's husband, Tyler, hasn't been
Speaker 13: seen or heard from since February twenty fourth, Brittany's birthday.
Speaker 13: They had planned a birthday celebration at the Easton Town Centering, Columbus.
Speaker 12: I'm like, oh my gosh, this hotel is so nice.
Speaker 12: It's huge, you know, like, look at this whole area.
Speaker 12: There's the Tephany's over there.
Speaker 13: Brittany says. They checked in to the Hilton around five
Speaker 13: pm on the twenty third. A college friend who lives
Speaker 13: nearby met them. They walked around, We had a.
Speaker 12: Couple drinks at a few local bars. We were laughing,
Speaker 12: we were having a great time.
Speaker 13: Then they took a fifteen minute uber ride to the
Speaker 13: Dollhouse Gentlemen's Club for a few more cocktails. Brittany says
Speaker 13: Tyler was exhausted and fell asleep during the uber ride
Speaker 13: back to the hotel. They returned at the eighteen in
Speaker 13: the morning, and.
Speaker 12: When he got out of the uber, he just seemed
Speaker 12: really confused, like he didn't exactly know where. You Like,
Speaker 12: we weren't in the place we were supposed to be
Speaker 12: in his eyes, so he just took off walking and
Speaker 12: our friend was like, no, Brittany, don't worry about it.
Speaker 12: I'll go get him. And I was like, okay.
Speaker 13: Brittany says somehow their friend and Tyler separated and Tyler
Speaker 13: never came back. She says he called her at three
Speaker 13: thirty seven and.
Speaker 12: He's like, I'm sorry, I'm just taking a walk around
Speaker 12: the block.
Speaker 13: Twenty six minutes later, another call, but when.
Speaker 12: I had talked to him around four oh three, he said,
Speaker 12: I'm walking through the woods. I see the hell. No,
Speaker 12: I'll be there in five minutes.
Speaker 13: A third call came in minutes later. Brittany says she
Speaker 13: heard dead air for four seconds, then lost the call
Speaker 13: and this just makes no sense. Two months later, Brittany
Speaker 13: says she's still searching for answers.
Speaker 12: Like I'm not giving up.
Speaker 2: I'm not ever gonna stop.
Speaker 5: Hello, friends, Welcome to another episode in our Land of
Speaker 5: the Loss series. Today we'll be discussing the disappearance of
Speaker 5: one Tyler j.
Speaker 6: Day.
Speaker 5: We asked that you please share the links in the
Speaker 5: description box and share this video with your family and
Speaker 5: friends on social media. So we can help raise awareness
Speaker 5: of Tyler's disappearance and help find answers for his family
Speaker 5: and friends. We also asked that to use courtesy and
Speaker 5: respect for others in the comments section while discussing this case.
Speaker 6: Let's begin.
Speaker 5: By February of twenty nineteen, Brittany and Tyler Davis had
Speaker 5: recently celebrated their first year of marriage. Proud parents of
Speaker 5: a one year old boy, the couple did not go
Speaker 5: out much. In fact, they remained close to their Wilmington,
Speaker 5: Ohio home. More often than not. They reserved any solo
Speaker 5: adventures for anniversaries and birthdays. The weekend of February twenty third, however,
Speaker 5: happened to be one of those rare occasions. Brittany was
Speaker 5: turning twenty three, as the young parents wanted an adult's
Speaker 5: only weekend a way to celebrate the occasion. The early
Speaker 5: morning hours of the twenty third began not too differently
Speaker 5: than normal. Tyler, a twenty nine year old local business manager,
Speaker 5: came home from work around three am after working his
Speaker 5: sixth into twelve hour shift for the week. When he
Speaker 5: arrived home, Brittany was still awake of our tender by trade,
Speaker 5: she was not unaccustomed to being awake at such an hour.
Speaker 5: This morning, however, she was packing everything they and their
Speaker 5: son would need for their weekend get away. After finishing
Speaker 5: the packing and spending a bit of time together, the
Speaker 5: couple went to bed around five am. Within a few hours,
Speaker 5: their weekend of celebration would officially begin. Brittany and Tyler
Speaker 5: planned to meet up with his parents at the Texas
Speaker 5: Roadhouse on Stringtown Road in Columbus at noon. Understandably, they overslept.
Speaker 5: They eventually arrived shortly after one pm. They enjoyed dinner
Speaker 5: and conversation for a while before leaving their son with
Speaker 5: his grandparents as they headed out to enjoy some alone
Speaker 5: time together. Their plans were not overly extravagant. The weekend
Speaker 5: would be spent hanging out with one of Tyler's best
Speaker 5: friends at the Eastern Town Center, which is a shopping, dining,
Speaker 5: and entertainment complex in Columbus. The couple rented a hotel
Speaker 5: room at the Hilton, checking in around five PM. Their
Speaker 5: friend arrived shortly thereafter. Together, the trio visited for a
Speaker 5: while at the hotel until heading over to Eastern Town
Speaker 5: Center around nine pm. Once at the complex, they explored
Speaker 5: for a while before heading into their first bar of
Speaker 5: the evening, bar Lewis. This bar has since been permanently
Speaker 5: closed for those familiar with the area. Around ten to
Speaker 5: fifteen pm, the group popped next door to a bar
Speaker 5: called Adobe Gillis for a few more drinks. Around midnight,
Speaker 5: they walked back to the hotel. Their night of birthday
Speaker 5: celebration was not over, however. They wanted their final stop
Speaker 5: to be at the Dollhouse of Columbus, so they called
Speaker 5: an ouver to give them a ride. They arrived at
Speaker 5: the Dollhouse at twelve forty five am on February twenty fourth.
Speaker 5: He had more drinks and stayed there until after last
Speaker 5: call around two thirty am. Another uber picked him up
Speaker 5: around three and drove them back to the hotel. Britney
Speaker 5: stayed awake for the short eighteen minute duration of the ride,
Speaker 5: but the men fell asleep, tired and intoxicated. Once they
Speaker 5: arrived at the hotel. Brittany awoke the friend and together
Speaker 5: they roused Tyler. Tyler was exhausted and confused as he
Speaker 5: exited the vehicle. Tyler fell when he got up and
Speaker 5: noticed that the driver was leaving. Tyler grew increasingly agitated,
Speaker 5: he believed that they were abandoned at the wrong location.
Speaker 5: They were unable to convince Tyler that they were indeed
Speaker 5: at the proper spot. It is important to stress that
Speaker 5: Britney has emphasized this moment of Tyler's utter confusion and
Speaker 5: exhaustion as pivotal. When neither Brittany nor their friend could
Speaker 5: convince Tyler that they were at the Hilton, Tyler stormed
Speaker 5: off in anger. Brittany attempted to follow him, but their
Speaker 5: friend insisted that she returned to the hotel for a while.
Speaker 5: He assured her that he had seen Tyler upset like
Speaker 5: this before and said that he would follow Tyler and help.
Speaker 6: Him calm down.
Speaker 5: Britney's phone battery was nearly depleted and she needed to
Speaker 5: head up to the restroom. With the assurance of their friend,
Speaker 5: Brittany went back to the room for a few minutes.
Speaker 5: When she returned outside, she was unable to find neither
Speaker 5: Tyler nor their friend. At three thirty seven am, Tyler
Speaker 5: called Britney's phone and apologized for his behavior. He said
Speaker 5: that he needed to walk for a few more minutes,
Speaker 5: but would return soon. The friend returned shortly thereafter, without
Speaker 5: Tyler by his side. He insisted that Tyler would be
Speaker 5: back shortly. Tyler seemed adamant that he just needed a
Speaker 5: few minutes alone to cool down. This was not uncharacteristic
Speaker 5: behavior for him when he'd been drinking and was so tired.
Speaker 5: The friend reiterated he wasn't worried and felt Brittney should
Speaker 5: try not to worry as well. Brittany, however, was uneasy
Speaker 5: with the entire situation. She had only a brief moment
Speaker 5: of reprieve when Tyler called her again at four ten am,
Speaker 5: informed her that he wasn't far away. He said he
Speaker 5: was in a wooded area but could see the hotel
Speaker 5: in the distance. His best guess was that he would
Speaker 5: be back at the hotel within a few minutes. They
Speaker 5: exchange I love you and hung up. For an instant
Speaker 5: it seemed that all would be well. Unfortunately, that was
Speaker 5: the final time that Brittany heard her husband's voice. As
Speaker 5: soon as their call ended, Britney's phone rang again. It
Speaker 5: was Tyler calling her again, but this time the connection
Speaker 5: only lasted about four seconds. All Brittany heard was silence
Speaker 5: before the line disconnected. She immediately called him back, but
Speaker 5: his phone went straight to voicemail that has not changed
Speaker 5: since that morning. Britney waited for Tyler outside the hotel
Speaker 5: until her phone needed to be charged again. He didn't
Speaker 5: return as he'd promised. After recharging her phone a second time,
Speaker 5: Brittany called a friend of hers while she continued to
Speaker 5: search the men are for Tyler. After a short while,
Speaker 5: Brittany called his friends who lived nearby for any possible assistance.
Speaker 5: Within a few hours, Brittany had contacted Tyler's parents and
Speaker 5: the Columbus Police Department. The police department informed her that
Speaker 5: little could be done by them officially until he was missing.
Speaker 5: Between forty eight and seventy two hours. The Eastern Area's
Speaker 5: canvassed by over six hundred cameras, but the last time
Speaker 5: that Tyler was seen on camera was outside of the Hilton,
Speaker 5: as the eggs did the uber that morning. Many friends,
Speaker 5: family members, and volunteers have worked tirelessly to find any
Speaker 5: possible evidence regarding Tyler's disappearance. Multiple searches had been conducted
Speaker 5: from sonar and helicopters, to dive teams and canvassing locations
Speaker 5: on foot. Tyler has yet to be found. Questions have
Speaker 5: yet to be answered. Tyler disappeared in the early morning
Speaker 5: hours of February twenty fourth, twenty nineteen. He was last
Speaker 5: seen walking on foot wearing dark blue jeans and a
Speaker 5: white T shirt. He had a bluish green flannel shirt
Speaker 5: and white and black nikes. Tyler has described as five
Speaker 5: feet ten inches tall and one hundred and seventy pounds.
Speaker 6: He has brown hair and brown eyes, and his.
Speaker 5: Most distinguishing feature is a visible red birthmark that extends
Speaker 5: from his right hand all the way up his arm
Speaker 5: to his neck. Britney deserves answers about the whereabouts of
Speaker 5: her husband. His parents want their son to return, and
Speaker 5: Tyler's son wants to see his father again. His family
Speaker 5: wants him home. If you have any information regarding the
Speaker 5: disappearance of Tyler J. Davis, please contact the Columbus Police
Speaker 5: Department at sixty one four six four five two three
Speaker 5: five eight. There's also an active Facebook group which we'll
Speaker 5: link in the description. Remember, you just might know the
Speaker 5: person who has the missing pieces of information needed to
Speaker 5: solve this puzzle and provide answers to Tyler's family and friend. Well, friends,
Speaker 5: thank you for allowing us to bring Tyler's disappearance to
Speaker 5: your tension again.
Speaker 6: We asked that.
Speaker 5: Everyone who watches this video please share it on social
Speaker 5: media with family and friends. Until we meet again, take
Speaker 5: care of yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton, and
Speaker 5: I'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 14: Dozens met on Ohio State's campus for the Brian Schaeffer
Speaker 14: March for the Missing, named in honor of Schaeffer, an
Speaker 14: Ohio State medical student who disappeared during a night out
Speaker 14: with friends twelve years ago. Laurie Davis is a friend
Speaker 14: of the family.
Speaker 15: Unfortunately, there have not been leads that have been that
Speaker 15: have led to anything in Brian's case. I think that
Speaker 15: people might be afraid to talk, and I think that
Speaker 15: after twelve years, they need to buck up and they
Speaker 15: need to start speaking.
Speaker 5: Hello, friends, Welcome to the third episode of our Land
Speaker 5: of the Loss series. In this video, we'll be discussing
Speaker 5: the disappearance of Brian Shaeffer. Please make sure you share
Speaker 5: the links in the description box and share this video
Speaker 5: so we can help Brian's family spread awareness.
Speaker 6: Let's begin.
Speaker 5: March thirty first, two thousand and six started off just
Speaker 5: as hope for twenty seven year old Brian Randall Shaeffer.
Speaker 5: Spring break had officially begun and finals had concluded. As
Speaker 5: a second year medical student at the Ohio State University,
Speaker 5: he was ready to unwind. Aside from the normal pressure
Speaker 5: of medical school, Brian's stress was overwhelming compared to most.
Speaker 5: He had suffered great loss in the week's preceding that night.
Speaker 5: His mother, Renee, was a nurse who both encouraged and
Speaker 5: inspired her oldest son to pursue medicine. She was not
Speaker 5: able to see him fulfill this goal, however, as she
Speaker 5: was taken by Mielo on March six, two thousand and six.
Speaker 5: She was only fifty one years old. Brian was broken,
Speaker 5: so broken, in fact, that he was unable to bring
Speaker 5: himself to a tender funeral in a timely manner. One
Speaker 5: of Vernet's final wishes was for her son to complete
Speaker 5: his degree. She also hoped he would get married and
Speaker 5: start a family. She was eager for her son to
Speaker 5: find happiness, and she hoped that he would propose to
Speaker 5: his girlfriend, Alexis Wagner, and perhaps an effort to nudge
Speaker 5: him in that direction, her Christmas gift to Brian and
Speaker 5: Alexis included a trip for two to Miami. In Alexis
Speaker 5: were to leave on Monday, April third, for a week
Speaker 5: long trip. They were never to live that experience, however.
Speaker 5: On Friday, March thirty first, Brian officially started his break
Speaker 5: by having dinner at the Outback Steakhouse in Rentalsburg, Ohio
Speaker 5: with his father, Randy. Brian's friends wanted him to join
Speaker 5: them for drinks earlier in the evening, but Brian insisted
Speaker 5: he spend some time with his father. They were both
Speaker 5: in the midst of grief over losing the mattriarch of
Speaker 5: the family. Brian's father reported that he seemed mainly concerned
Speaker 5: about his father's well being. Brian was a bit tired,
Speaker 5: but otherwise well. Such fatigue would be unsurprising, of course,
Speaker 5: given everything he had endured that month. He needed dress,
Speaker 5: but he deserved a night to forget all his troubles.
Speaker 5: After dinner with his father, Brian returned to his apartment
Speaker 5: to prepare for a night of revelry. Around nine pm,
Speaker 5: he joined his friend Clint Florence with the intention of
Speaker 5: bar hopping. They met up at the Ugly Tuna Saluta,
Speaker 5: a bar that has since been closed. The Ugly Tuna
Speaker 5: was within a few blocks of Brian's apartment, so it
Speaker 5: made sense to begin the evening there. Within the hour,
Speaker 5: Brian took a moment to speak on the phone to
Speaker 5: his girlfriend Alexis. She had driven up to Toledo for
Speaker 5: the weekend. She wished to spend a few day with
Speaker 5: their parents before she and Brian jetted off to Miami together.
Speaker 5: Friends and family had suggested to the couple that perhaps
Speaker 5: Miami would be the perfect location for a proposal. Alexis,
Speaker 5: certain that Brian was the love of her life, was
Speaker 5: eager to take such a trip with him. Their call
Speaker 5: was brief, and he made sure to emphasize his love
Speaker 5: for her before saying goodbye. Unfortunately, this was the last
Speaker 5: time that Alexis heard Brian's voice. Brian and Clint decided
Speaker 5: to continue their evening by moving on to several other
Speaker 5: bars before they met up with a young woman named
Speaker 5: a Meredith Read. She was a friend of Clint's, and,
Speaker 5: given their condition, offered to give them a ride. They accepted,
Speaker 5: and together the three of them returned to the Ugly
Speaker 5: Tuna Saluna. Brian and his friends arrived at the bar
Speaker 5: around one fifteen am on Saturday, April first. Surveillance camera's
Speaker 5: timestamped the trio's arrival as they ascended the escalator to
Speaker 5: the second story bar. Forty minutes later, Brian was seen
Speaker 5: again on surveillance standing near the top of the escalator
Speaker 5: speaking with two young women. After a few moments, Brian
Speaker 5: says goodbye and appears to re enter the Ugly Tuna.
Speaker 5: He is never seen on camera again. Clint and Meredith
Speaker 5: left around two am, unable to find Brian in person
Speaker 5: or able to get him to answer her cell phone.
Speaker 5: Sunday evening, a few hours prior to their scheduled flight
Speaker 5: to Miami, Alexis was more than concerned. She had not
Speaker 5: been able to contact her boyfriend over the weekend and
Speaker 5: she knew something was wrong. Out of an abundant of caution,
Speaker 5: she contacted Brian's father and brother to let them know
Speaker 5: of her worries. They met her that evening at Brian's apartment.
Speaker 5: He was nowhere to be found, so they began searching
Speaker 5: the immediate area. By the time the police were informed
Speaker 5: of the situation, nearly two days had passed. Surveillance footage
Speaker 5: was reviewed from the Ugly Tuna as well as other
Speaker 5: local areas that were on his route. That evening after
Speaker 5: his last appearance at one fifty five am. He is
Speaker 5: never seen again on camera. All possible exits from the
Speaker 5: bar were covered by cameras, so it is unknown how
Speaker 5: he left without being caught on video. There was only
Speaker 5: one exit out of the building that was not actively
Speaker 5: being monitored, but it was on the first floor. It
Speaker 5: was also a service exit that led directly to a
Speaker 5: construction site. According to Sergeant John Hurst, who was the
Speaker 5: lead supervisor of the Missing Persons department at the time,
Speaker 5: leaving through the service exit would have been extremely difficult.
Speaker 5: He said that there would be no reason for anyone
Speaker 5: to want to leave that way. It would have been
Speaker 5: a difficult task even sober, and Brian had been drinking
Speaker 5: heavily that evening. When it became clear that something was
Speaker 5: truly a miss, word of Brian's disappearance spread rapidly. His
Speaker 5: picture and description were widely circulated across the OSU campus
Speaker 5: and the surrounding areas, as well as on various social
Speaker 5: media platforms. Brian's athletic in appearance. He's a Caucasian male,
Speaker 5: standing stone foot two inches and weighing between one hundred
Speaker 5: and sixteen one hundred and seventy pounds. He has brown
Speaker 5: hair and hazel eyes. His left iris has a distinctive
Speaker 5: black dot on it. He has a tattoo on his
Speaker 5: upper right bicep is of the stickman logo that was
Speaker 5: on the cover art of Pearl Jam's single Alive. He
Speaker 5: was last seen wearing an olive colored short sleeved shirt
Speaker 5: with a white long sleeved shirt underneath. He was wearing
Speaker 5: blue jeans, a yellow Cancer Wareness bracelet, and Adidas tennis shoes.
Speaker 5: Brian had a dream of someday becoming a rock star,
Speaker 5: as evidenced by a stickman tattoo. Brian greatly admired the
Speaker 5: band Pearl Jam. When Brian vanished, news spread quickly across
Speaker 5: the band's fan message boards, with a thread being created
Speaker 5: titled Columbus Area of Pearl Jam Fan Gone Missing. The
Speaker 5: community rallied around the family, as did the band themselves,
Speaker 5: with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder speaking multiple times about
Speaker 5: Brian's disappearance. On June twenty fourth, two thousand and six,
Speaker 5: during a concert in Cincinnati, Eddie took a moment to
Speaker 5: ask for any information about Brian, declaring that Brian is
Speaker 5: one of us and we miss him. Here tonight, hopefully
Speaker 5: we can have a happy ending to this. Eddie then
Speaker 5: stated We're going to play this one for Brian before
Speaker 5: heading into wish list, altering the lyrics and places begging
Speaker 5: Brian to come on home. There is love waiting at home.
Speaker 5: Brian's story has not been forgotten by the band over
Speaker 5: the years. In twenty ten, Eddie reminded the crowd in
Speaker 5: Columbus about Brian's disappearance before dedicating the song come Back
Speaker 5: to Brian. Since his disappearance, there have been glimmours of hope,
Speaker 5: albeit just a few and only briefly. For example, Brian's
Speaker 5: apartment was broken into a few weeks after his disappearance.
Speaker 5: This could have been a major step forward in the case,
Speaker 5: but police determined it was simply a random crime and
Speaker 5: nothing more. A few months later, Alexis called Brian's phone,
Speaker 5: just as she had done every night since she last
Speaker 5: heard his voice. Day after day of only getting his voicemail.
Speaker 5: In September, his phone finally rang. No one answered, but
Speaker 5: they were able to ping the phone's location to Hilleyhard, Ohio. This,
Speaker 5: according to the cell phone company, was nothing more than
Speaker 5: a glitch. Brian's phone was never turned on again, and
Speaker 5: his credit cards were never used. Theories have abounded as
Speaker 5: to what happened to Brian that night. Perhaps he was
Speaker 5: too overwhelmed with the state of his life and simply left.
Speaker 5: Maybe he was attacked on his walk home. He was
Speaker 5: inebriated after all, and that location of town was known
Speaker 5: for its crime. Maybe his body is still within the
Speaker 5: building somewhere, or maybe it was in the construction.
Speaker 6: Area later covered with concrete.
Speaker 5: Some have suggested that Clinton knows exactly what happened, as
Speaker 5: he refused to undergo a polygraph test, and according to
Speaker 5: Brian's younger brother Derek, the two didn't always to get
Speaker 5: a law. Glynt had stated he told the police all
Speaker 5: he knew. Therefore, he claimed there was no need to
Speaker 5: undergo any sort of light detective test. Police have not
Speaker 5: been able to rule out much of anything with such
Speaker 5: a lack of evidence. In this case, Brian's father, Randy,
Speaker 5: and his girlfriend Alexis did everything they could to keep
Speaker 5: Brian's name and image in the media. Randy exhausted all
Speaker 5: means of searching, including scouring the Old Tangy River. At
Speaker 5: the suggestion of a psychic, Randy dedicated the remainder of
Speaker 5: his life to finding his son and helping other families
Speaker 5: who were missing loved ones. Randy unfortunately died whenstruck by
Speaker 5: a falling limb during a storm in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 5: He never found any successful leads on the whereabouts of
Speaker 5: his eldest son, the sole remaining immediate family member of Brian's,
Speaker 5: as his younger brother, Derek Alexis, has begun a new
Speaker 5: life Clinton Florence has moved out of state. Lori Davis,
Speaker 5: a friend of the families who took up particular interest
Speaker 5: in Brian's case, has dedicated countless hours of her life
Speaker 5: to fining not only Brian, but also every other missing
Speaker 5: person in Ohio. Life moves on, but Brian, of course,
Speaker 5: will never be forgotten. Unfortunately, despite tips still being sent
Speaker 5: in fairly regularly throughout the years, we are no closer
Speaker 5: to answering the question what happened to Brian Schaeffer. If you,
Speaker 5: or anyone you know has any information about the disappearance
Speaker 5: of Brian Shaeffer born February eleventh, nineteen seventy nine, please
Speaker 5: call one eight seven seven six four five tips or
Speaker 5: eight seven seven six four five eight four seven seven.
Speaker 5: You can remain anonymous if you wish well friends, Thank
Speaker 5: you for tuning in to episode three of our Land
Speaker 5: of the Lost series. Please remember that we're asking everyone
Speaker 5: who watches this video to please share it on social
Speaker 5: media and with friends and family. Brian is still missing
Speaker 5: and you just might know the person who hold sakia
Speaker 5: solving this case. Until we meet again, take care of
Speaker 5: yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk
Speaker 5: to you next time. Hello, friends, Steve Stockton here with you.
Speaker 5: Welcome to our latest video. Today we bring you another
Speaker 5: episode of our Land of the Loss series. Join me,
Speaker 5: let's walk and see. But before we begin, please take
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Speaker 5: we cover William P. Smolenski Jr. Also known as Billy
Speaker 5: bes Friends and family.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: The interesting thing about Billy's case. His disappearance caused a
Speaker 5: law to be enacted, referred to as Billy's Law, now
Speaker 5: coined as to Help Find the Miss Act, which is
Speaker 5: aimed at creating a system designed to track, update and
Speaker 5: locate missing remains in the United States.
Speaker 6: William P.
Speaker 5: Malenski Junior Billy was thirty one years old when he
Speaker 5: disappeared on August twenty fourth, two thousand and four, from
Speaker 5: his home in Waterbury, Connecticut. At the time of his disappearance,
Speaker 5: he had a dog named Harley, an adult German shepherd that,
Speaker 5: by all accounts, was well taken care of, cherished, and
Speaker 5: dear to his heart. Billy was born on January fourteenth,
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy three, and had brown hair, blue eyes. Stood
Speaker 5: six feet tall and weighed about two hundred pounds at
Speaker 5: the time he went missing. Billy graduated high school and
Speaker 5: then went on to attend Naugatuck Community College for about
Speaker 5: a year before dropping out. He grew up in Naugatuck,
Speaker 5: the grandson of Polish immigrants who lived a simple rural
Speaker 5: life by farming and keeping animals like horses chickens in
Speaker 5: the light. In nineteen ninety nine, he moved to Waterbury
Speaker 5: due to his grandfather's passing, which forced his parents to
Speaker 5: sell the family farm. Although he had a love for
Speaker 5: auto mechanics, he worked odd jobs in the blue collar
Speaker 5: field to pay his bills. Leroy Henley lived next door
Speaker 5: to Billy in the small town filled with humble homes,
Speaker 5: good people, and simple living. On the day of his disappearance,
Speaker 5: that faiful day in August, Billy asked Leroy to watch
Speaker 5: out for his dog, Harley, said he wouldn't be gone long,
Speaker 5: just taking a trip up north to check out some
Speaker 5: cars for sale. Le Roy agreed to do the neighborly thing,
Speaker 5: and Billy left. Billy was never seen again. The next day,
Speaker 5: Leroy went over to Billy's as agreed, and noticed the
Speaker 5: house was locked up with the dog inside. Still doing
Speaker 5: the neighborly thing. Leroy noticed that Billy's truck was still
Speaker 5: in the driveway and that something just wasn't right, considering
Speaker 5: that was the only vehicle Billy owned and he wouldn't
Speaker 5: have driven it out of town on his venture to
Speaker 5: purchase another. The police were then called to Billy's home.
Speaker 5: When the police arrived, believing at first that Billy had
Speaker 5: left on his own, they quickly realized something had gone wrong.
Speaker 5: Billy's wallet, keys, and other personal items were found in
Speaker 5: the truck under the driver's seat. The preliminary days of
Speaker 5: Billy's disappearance are a web of confusing and endless details, lives, speculations, accusations,
Speaker 5: finger pointing, and oddly include multiple ex girlfriends. Here's a timeline.
Speaker 5: At four am, early morning hours of the day disappeared,
Speaker 5: Billy was at his recent ex girlfriend, Maddeline Gleeson's home,
Speaker 5: and according to her statements, he was upset upon his
Speaker 5: leaving because he believed she was dating someone else by
Speaker 5: the name of Chris Sorenson. Billy made a few more
Speaker 5: stops that day the bank to deposit his paycheck and such,
Speaker 5: and made some phone calls. The most important calls that
Speaker 5: police turned up in the investigation, the last three be exact,
Speaker 5: were made by Billy to Chris Sorenson. Chris stated that
Speaker 5: a call he received, never directly identifying Billy, was from
Speaker 5: a male caller telling him to quote watch his back
Speaker 5: end quote. Billy also contacted a different ext girlfriend and
Speaker 5: asked her to attend a theme park the following weekend.
Speaker 5: At three pm the day of his disappearance, a twenty
Speaker 5: four oh four, Billy had stopped for an afternoon meal,
Speaker 5: proven by receipts found during the investigation, and placed him
Speaker 5: at a local burger king. In two thousand and five,
Speaker 5: Seawan Karpiak, a local man and the son of Madeline Gleeson,
Speaker 5: the ex girlfriend of Billy, supposedly worked with another man,
Speaker 5: Jason Lee, and attacked Billy and buried him at one
Speaker 5: of Shawn's work sites. However, the police got this tip
Speaker 5: in two thousand and six, a year too late, because
Speaker 5: Shawn had passed away of an overdose. In two thousand
Speaker 5: and five, Chad Hansen, a supposed friend to the late
Speaker 5: Seawan Carpiuk, admitted to killing Billy and destroying the body
Speaker 5: and evidence by burying it under concrete. Other statements made
Speaker 5: by Chad had law enforcement spent ding countless hours in
Speaker 5: the Naugatuck State Forest, Seymour and Oxford, Connecticut searching for
Speaker 5: the remains of Billy Smolensky. Law enforcement eventually charged Chan
Speaker 5: Hansen with interfering and making false statements to the police
Speaker 5: during an investigation, believing that he had lied to intentionally
Speaker 5: throw off the investigation. Although there are witness statements that
Speaker 5: Hanson bragged about killing Billy and hiding the body, he
Speaker 5: was allowed to plead down and served a four and
Speaker 5: a half year prison sentence. To this day, there is
Speaker 5: enough concrete evidence to charge them with Billy's murder, and
Speaker 5: Billy's remains have never been found. The Naugatuck River Valley area,
Speaker 5: located about seventy miles northeast of New York City, where
Speaker 5: searches have been focused for Billy's remains, has turned up nothing.
Speaker 5: There's no evidence of Billy's presence, no leads, no tracks,
Speaker 5: or personal items. A railroad line runs through the valley area,
Speaker 5: and there are several municipalities located within the Naugatuck River basin.
Speaker 5: This area used to be lushed with manufacturing facilit was
Speaker 5: once known as one of the largest manufacturing hubs in
Speaker 5: New England. The small mill towns have changed with time,
Speaker 5: as with most of the country. Many of the houses, jobs,
Speaker 5: and even people have been transformed, and the area now
Speaker 5: has more advanced, updated towns with a different feel, but
Speaker 5: the same old nostalgia can still be found in some
Speaker 5: of the hidden corners around the area. Billy's Law, or
Speaker 5: the Help Find the Missing Act, became Public Law number
Speaker 5: one one seven three two seven on December twenty seventh,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty two. The Act reads to increase accessibility to
Speaker 5: the National Missing and Unidentified Person System, to facilitate data
Speaker 5: sharing between such systems and the National Crime Information Center
Speaker 5: database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and for other purposes.
Speaker 5: Billy's Law will force the United States Attorney General to
Speaker 5: oversee names, finally creating the national centralized system that connects
Speaker 5: all missing persons cases, remains found, unclaimed persons, case details,
Speaker 5: evidentiary support, and help coordinate national communication. This Act provides
Speaker 5: technical support to families of missing and unidentified loved ones
Speaker 5: and will create and give investigative support to unsolved cases.
Speaker 5: It will also oversee creation and use of new technologies
Speaker 5: to facilitate data entry in a timely manner into the
Speaker 5: nameless system, which in turn increases the chances of remains
Speaker 5: being claimed in cases being solved. One of the most
Speaker 5: important aspects of this Act is the sending of reports
Speaker 5: to law enforcement that have jurisdiction of remains found information
Speaker 5: on missing or deceased persons, regardless of age. This will
Speaker 5: be a vital key in identifying remains because law enforcement
Speaker 5: just doesn't have access to the information from other cities, towns,
Speaker 5: or states. In the past, this was known as linkage blindness,
Speaker 5: SEX and j of the Act states to conduct data
Speaker 5: analytics and research projects for the purpose of enhancing knowledge,
Speaker 5: best practices, and training related to missing and unidentified person cases,
Speaker 5: as well as developing namous system enhancements. Billy is still missing,
Speaker 5: but because of activists in this community. Selfless love from
Speaker 5: web slouse dedicated to giving families answers and his own
Speaker 5: families relentless love and seeking answers in Billy's case, this
Speaker 5: act will provide answers to millions of Americans that we've
Speaker 5: been waiting decades for. We don't know if Billy's case
Speaker 5: will ever be solved, but this simple act will solve
Speaker 5: many others by consolidating resources around the nation and the
Speaker 5: world to reiterate.
Speaker 6: William P.
Speaker 5: Billy Smolenski Junior was thirty four years old when he
Speaker 5: disappeared on August twenty fourth, two thousand and four, from
Speaker 5: his home in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was born on January fourteenth,
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy three and has brown hair, blue eyes. Stood
Speaker 5: approximately six feet tall and weighed around two hundred pounds
Speaker 5: at the time of his disappearance. Well, folks, there you
Speaker 5: have it. What do you think of this wonderful new law,
Speaker 5: Billy's Law and the act'll have on the missing, the forgotten,
Speaker 5: and the unidentified. As always, I look forward to your comments,
Speaker 5: but please keep it friendly and respectful. So we meet again.
Speaker 5: Be put yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there,
Speaker 5: and if you see something, say something. As for me,
Speaker 5: I'll see a little further on down the trail. I'm
Speaker 5: Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time. Please
Speaker 5: tell your animals.
Speaker 6: I said Hi.
Speaker 5: Hello friends, Welcome to the latest installment of our Land
Speaker 5: of the Loss series. This time we're delving into the
Speaker 5: cases of Keisland, Roberts and Caleb Smith. Now, with all
Speaker 5: the bizarre and seemingly unexplainable disappearance stories going around on
Speaker 5: YouTube and other places these days, it's easy to get
Speaker 5: caught up in them and forget that these are real people,
Speaker 5: real possible victims, who had family and friends, loved ones
Speaker 5: whose lives were affected in every possible way of the
Speaker 5: person's disappearance.
Speaker 6: It could also be.
Speaker 5: True that with all the books coming out and again
Speaker 5: all the videos made and the information online about these cases,
Speaker 5: it's quite easy to become numbed or jaded to these stories,
Speaker 5: to these people. Couldn't it also be true that maybe
Speaker 5: this numbness, this nonchalance, and somewhat boredom with cases like these,
Speaker 5: one after another after another after another, it'd be exactly what,
Speaker 5: who or whatever is involved in orchestrating these disappearances and
Speaker 5: murders counts on. In this episode, we're going to discuss
Speaker 5: two different cases that have a strange similarity and also
Speaker 5: a bit of a connection. Please keep in mind, though,
Speaker 5: that these are real human beings, and though their cases
Speaker 5: may or may not be similar to those you've heard
Speaker 5: over a thousand times already, be sure and pay attention
Speaker 5: to the details here. Listen closely and focus on the
Speaker 5: similarities and strangeness of both of these cases, while being
Speaker 5: sure to bear in mind that there's one big difference.
Speaker 5: One of them could very well still be alive and
Speaker 5: one of them, unfortunately, has already been found deceeized. Let's
Speaker 5: start with the tragedy of Caleb Smith. On January fifteenth,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty, Caleb Smith told his grandmother that he was
Speaker 5: driving to Rome, Georgia, has been the day hanging out
Speaker 5: with some friends who lived there. This wasn't anything out
Speaker 5: of the ordinary for the twenty one year old, so
Speaker 5: when he requested that she leave the dead bolt to
Speaker 5: the front door of their house unlocked for him so
Speaker 5: he could re enter when he got back home later
Speaker 5: on that night, she happily obliged and thought nothing of it.
Speaker 5: Little did she know that while she would speak to
Speaker 5: her grandson at least one more time over the phone
Speaker 5: that same day, as he walked out the front door
Speaker 5: of their house that ill fated cold day in January,
Speaker 5: it would be the last time she would ever actually see.
Speaker 6: Him alive technically.
Speaker 5: The next day, at twelve thirty two aas Caleb entered
Speaker 5: the Flying Jay gas station in Resaca, Georgia. This was
Speaker 5: on the way to Rome, Georgia. We know Caleb entered
Speaker 5: this establishment at this exact time because he was seen
Speaker 5: on the gas station's minimal surveillance footage. Three minutes later,
Speaker 5: at twelve thirty five am, Caleb called his grandmother and
Speaker 5: informed her that he had to pull into the rest
Speaker 5: stop because he realized he didn't have enough gas to
Speaker 5: get to Rome as he'd initially plan. He told her
Speaker 5: there was one man sitting at a table on the
Speaker 5: other side of the restaurant that he was going to
Speaker 5: ask to help him with five dollars for gas money
Speaker 5: so he can continue on his journey to go and
Speaker 5: see his friends. Though his phone records have not been
Speaker 5: made public at this time, Caleb is seen on the
Speaker 5: same surveillance footage sitting at his table for a few minutes,
Speaker 5: seemingly sending texts, but possibly browsing the internet. Caleb did
Speaker 5: eventually get up and approach the man as suemingly he
Speaker 5: asked the man for the five dollars for gas money,
Speaker 5: as he told his grandmother he was going to do. However,
Speaker 5: it is unclear whether or not the man gave Caleb
Speaker 5: the five Dollarsleeb actually ended up approaching the man twice
Speaker 5: in a matter of just a few minutes. It's still
Speaker 5: unknown exactly what the exchanges were between the two men.
Speaker 5: No word either on whether or not this man was
Speaker 5: ever identified a question no information one way the others
Speaker 5: can be found. After approaching and speaking to this man
Speaker 5: the second time, Caleb returns to his own table and
Speaker 5: sits down facing this unknown man. After just a minute
Speaker 5: or two, Caleb gets up and leaves the gas station
Speaker 5: rest stop area, never to be seen alive again. When
Speaker 5: morning came and Caleb's grandmother realized that his bed had
Speaker 5: been slept in, she became very concerned. If Caleb had
Speaker 5: planned on staying out, he never would have asked her
Speaker 5: to leave the dead bowl unlocked porn. She decided to
Speaker 5: go to the last place she knew him to be
Speaker 5: when he wasn't answering his phone or returning any of
Speaker 5: her text so she got into her own car and
Speaker 5: drove down to the Flying J rest stop and search
Speaker 5: the surrounding area and the parking lot for Caleb's car.
Speaker 5: She eventually found his car park to the Flying J
Speaker 5: parking lot, but in the back of the Denny's restaurant building,
Speaker 5: assuming where the back entrance or garbage eggs it would be.
Speaker 5: This location could be important because it seems Caleb was
Speaker 5: parked almost purposely out of view of any of the
Speaker 5: surveillance cameras. His grandmother states that she didn't immediately get
Speaker 5: out of her car to search Caleb's car because she
Speaker 5: saw a suspicious looking white Nissan that, in her words,
Speaker 5: she said, freaked her out and decided it was safer
Speaker 5: to remain in her vehicle and to Caleb's other family
Speaker 5: members whom she had just called arrived.
Speaker 6: She never elaborated on why.
Speaker 5: This white Nissan was suspicious looking to her or why
Speaker 5: it freaked her out so, although it speculated was because
Speaker 5: the windows were tinted very dark and the vehicle had
Speaker 5: pulled in the park directly facing her in front of
Speaker 5: her vehicle, and nobody exited the Nissan. Immediately upon the
Speaker 5: arrival of the other two family members she'd called to
Speaker 5: come and a sister, the white Nissan pulled out of
Speaker 5: the parking lot. There's no information regarding whether or not
Speaker 5: this white Nissan had any involvement in what happened to
Speaker 5: car Caleb. Upon searching Caleb's car, the family found it
Speaker 5: was unlocked. His cell phone and battery were separated and
Speaker 5: both in the glove box. The keys to the vehicle
Speaker 5: were on the floor underneath the seat. Although Caleb had
Speaker 5: called his grandmother the previous night and explained to her
Speaker 5: that he was almost out of gas, his car had
Speaker 5: a half a tank of gas in it when it
Speaker 5: was found. This would have been more than enough to
Speaker 5: get him to Rome. Essentially, Caleb called his grandmother to
Speaker 5: explain about his being long gas for seemingly no reason.
Speaker 5: It's been said that he did it to give it
Speaker 5: reason as to why he would be later than expected
Speaker 5: coming home if he was stuck trying to get money
Speaker 5: for gas, but that hasn't been verified. Caleb's jacket was
Speaker 5: also found in the car. It was a very cold
Speaker 5: night in Georgia in the middle of January. The family
Speaker 5: couldn't understand why would leave his jacket behind. After searching
Speaker 5: his vehicle, his family called the police to report Caleb
Speaker 5: is missing. Gordon County Sheriff's Office spent all the next
Speaker 5: two days, January sixteenth and seventeenth, searching the areas around
Speaker 5: the Flying Jay Restop for any additional evidence or for
Speaker 5: Caleb himself, with no results. It's also worth mentioning here
Speaker 5: that the GCSO never processed Caleb's car for additional evidence,
Speaker 5: forensic or otherwise, and immediately released it to the family.
Speaker 5: On February third, twenty twenty, CADEB. Smith's body was found
Speaker 5: five miles away from the Flying Jay. He was in
Speaker 5: the marsh and overgrown area of the county between the
Speaker 5: Sugar Valley and Hill City communities. The Sheriff's office reported
Speaker 5: that a passerby found him in a heavily overgrown and
Speaker 5: poorly drained area. Caleb was completely naked, and oddly enough,
Speaker 5: the fire department had been dispatched to that same area.
Speaker 5: His body was found earlier in the day in response
Speaker 5: to a small brush fire, and didn't come across Caleb's remains.
Speaker 5: This is another odd fact. Despite not knowing whether or
Speaker 5: not this brushfire was connected to Caleb's death or not,
Speaker 5: went a few weeks there in Georgia at the time,
Speaker 5: so for a brush fire to have been started on
Speaker 5: its own was almost impossible. The initial report stated, However,
Speaker 5: no immediate indications of violence were parent regarding Caleb's body,
Speaker 5: and the GBI revealed that there were no indications of
Speaker 5: violence or evidence about play. The results of the toxicology
Speaker 5: report were as follows. Caleb died as a result of
Speaker 5: methamphetamine intoxication. There's no known information as to whether or
Speaker 5: not Caleb ever had a problem with any kind of drugs,
Speaker 5: and the death was ruled accidental. If it weren't for
Speaker 5: something eerily similar happening to a young woman just two
Speaker 5: days later at the same exact Flying Jay gas station,
Speaker 5: that may have been the end of Caleb's story. However,
Speaker 5: when you add up to the similarities with the story
Speaker 5: I'm about to relate to you, even when sprinkling in
Speaker 5: the differences, one can't help but wonder we in the
Speaker 5: true crime community know there's usually no such thing as coincidence,
Speaker 5: and we all also know that nobody knows this better
Speaker 5: than law enforcement, So why exactly are they trying so
Speaker 5: hard to make us believe that coincidence is exactly what
Speaker 5: seems to connect these two cases.
Speaker 6: Are we really to believe that.
Speaker 5: A young man supposed with enough methamphetamine in his system
Speaker 5: to kill him, stripped off his clothes and then not
Speaker 5: only decided to walk five miles into bitter cold, high
Speaker 5: and naked, but then he managed to do so without
Speaker 5: calling any attention to himself at all. Is it reasonable
Speaker 5: to think that not a single person would have noticed
Speaker 5: a naked young man walking on the side of the
Speaker 5: road for an entire five miles. There are so many
Speaker 5: facts that just do not seem to fit with the
Speaker 5: accidental death throughly. Let's review just some of them now.
Speaker 5: First of all, even if we ask no questions and
Speaker 5: accepted that Caleb was able to walk all that way
Speaker 5: without being noticed despite the condition he was in both
Speaker 5: physically and mentally, keep in mind Caleb was found completely naked.
Speaker 5: This means no socks, no shoes, nothing. Are we also
Speaker 5: to believe that he could have accomplished this naked five
Speaker 5: mile walk without not only doing no damage to but
Speaker 5: also not dirting his feet at all. There is no
Speaker 5: explanation as to why or how the police have been
Speaker 5: able to reconcile themselves to calling this death with all
Speaker 5: the strange facts and evidence an accident. Caleb was found
Speaker 5: in a very muddy marshy area, not even a drop
Speaker 5: of mud on his feet. His clothes were never found either,
Speaker 5: but again there is no information as to the extent
Speaker 5: of the police investigation into where his clothes went either.
Speaker 5: Why wasn't Caleb's family allowed to identify the body. Some
Speaker 5: say it's simply because of the state of decomposition of
Speaker 5: the body after being outside the marsh land for so long,
Speaker 5: but others aren't so sure. Remember this was during the
Speaker 5: cold winter in January. Speculation and rumors surround this case,
Speaker 5: and it seems no one knows enough to be able
Speaker 5: to separate fact from fiction. Our research was only able
Speaker 5: to find two that weren't absolutely off the wall wild
Speaker 5: conjectures and made just any bit of sense. The first
Speaker 5: of these theories is that he may have gotten into
Speaker 5: someone else's car to smoke the methamphetamine, a dealer, or
Speaker 5: perhaps maybe the man he was seen on camera having
Speaker 5: multiple conversations with, who to the best of the public's knowledge,
Speaker 5: was never even found, let alone questioned or investigated in
Speaker 5: any way, and this tends to happen sometimes to people
Speaker 5: who've partaken this particular substance. Caleb became overheated and started
Speaker 5: taking off his clothes Before anyone knew what was happening,
Speaker 5: Caleb started overdosing, and whoever he was with, if he
Speaker 5: was with anyone, didn't want to be involved in any
Speaker 5: way with this overdose death for fear, especially if they
Speaker 5: were the one that sold or gave it to him.
Speaker 5: But even if they were just using with him and
Speaker 5: drove Caleb's body to the marsh land and left it there,
Speaker 5: did whoever this person or people were think about DNA
Speaker 5: evidence or forensics and possibly, instead of Caleb stripping himself,
Speaker 5: did the perpetrators or witnesses strip him of his clothes
Speaker 5: after he died to eliminate any kind of touch or
Speaker 5: fiber evidence eventually coming back to them or their.
Speaker 6: Car to his death.
Speaker 5: The fact of the matter is, we just don't know,
Speaker 5: and it seems as though if the investigators in this
Speaker 5: case have it their way, we never will. Caleb's case
Speaker 5: is officially closed at this point, two days after the
Speaker 5: incident with Caleb at this Flying Jay gas station and
Speaker 5: eerily an almost shockingly similar disappearance happened. Many people who
Speaker 5: are familiar with Caleb's case feel like what happened to
Speaker 5: Keithland Roberts, or at least what everyone knows happened to
Speaker 5: her because she has yet to be found, should have
Speaker 5: initiated at least a little bit more investigation into his case.
Speaker 5: They believe it should have led the police, as it
Speaker 5: did for most of the public, into asking some serious
Speaker 5: questions regarding that accidental death. Truly, so what happened to Keesln?
Speaker 5: Let's find out now. Please keep in mind as we
Speaker 5: go over the details that we know in her case,
Speaker 5: that she is still considered missing and should be presumed
Speaker 5: alive until it can be proven that she is not so.
Speaker 5: Close attention. On January eighteenth, twenty twenty, twenty one year
Speaker 5: old young woman named Keesln Roberts was seen at the
Speaker 5: same Flying Jay gas station, only she was encountered entering
Speaker 5: an employee's only entrance in the back on the Dennis side.
Speaker 5: Remember this is also where Caleb's car was found the
Speaker 5: same Flying Jay gas station in Resaca, Georgia. Some reports
Speaker 5: state that Keaesln was simply told, unemployeed, that she could
Speaker 5: not be back there in this employee's only kitchen aera entrance,
Speaker 5: and other states that she actually got into some kind
Speaker 5: of altercation with the person who informed her of this
Speaker 5: and was then told to leave. There's nothing official to
Speaker 5: confirm or disprove either one of these statements. Remember, there
Speaker 5: are no cameras in this part of the parking lot.
Speaker 5: What is known, however, is that when she was told
Speaker 5: or asked to exit the area, she was allegedly just
Speaker 5: standing there staring blankly out the door she just entered.
Speaker 5: Keieslan had dropped all her belongings. These included a backpack
Speaker 5: containing her ID, credit and debit cards, cash, and charger,
Speaker 5: and ran off the employees of either the gas station
Speaker 5: side or the Denny's side. Again these reports, Conflict ended
Speaker 5: up calling nine to one one and described Keeslin as
Speaker 5: a suspicious looking young woman and described the odd encounter.
Speaker 5: Keesland was never seen or heard from again. Where did
Speaker 5: Keieslyn go and how did she get there? Without her car?
Speaker 5: Her vehicle was found two days later on January twentieth,
Speaker 5: with more belongings inside, parked very near where Caleb's car
Speaker 5: was found in the exact same parking lot. Witnesses would
Speaker 5: later come forward stating that they had briefly spoken to
Speaker 5: Keesland that faithful night, and she had allegedly told them
Speaker 5: she was there meeting a male friend. However, this alleged
Speaker 5: meeting has never been elaborated on. The person she was
Speaker 5: supposedly meeting and also her boyfriend were questioned but police
Speaker 5: shortly after she was supported missing, but so far nobody
Speaker 5: has been named either suspect or even a person of
Speaker 5: interest in the case. It's worth mentioning that kees did
Speaker 5: have a history with drug use, mainly methamphetamine, and had
Speaker 5: blown off a mandatory probation appointment the day before she
Speaker 5: went missing, resulting in a warrant being issued for her arrest.
Speaker 5: Many speculated the Keeslan so quickly fled from the Flying
Speaker 5: Jay that day due to not wanting to be there
Speaker 5: when the police were called, because she would have been
Speaker 5: arrested on this warrant, but why not take her car.
Speaker 5: More speculation had Keeslan possibly leaving the gas station with
Speaker 5: a trucker, but again this hasn't been confirmed. In early
Speaker 5: March or twenty twenty, when investigators searched the Flying Jay
Speaker 5: and no idea why it took this long for them
Speaker 5: to search the area her car was found in in
Speaker 5: which she was last seen. They did find items of
Speaker 5: clothing that belonged to Keeslan in a dumpster behind the building.
Speaker 5: An anonymous witness, who has been said to be fully
Speaker 5: cooperative police and not involved in any way to her disappearance,
Speaker 5: came forward and told reporters that these articles of clothing
Speaker 5: had been there the entire time, but police were allegedly
Speaker 5: just getting around a searching for and collected them as
Speaker 5: evidence now and now meaning to months later in March. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: this is all the evidence available, at least online in
Speaker 5: either case, Can it really all be a coincidence that
Speaker 5: two young people, one a known drug user and the
Speaker 5: other possibility found dead from intoxication from the other's drug
Speaker 5: of choice, go missing from the exact same gas station
Speaker 5: under early similar circumstances within two days of each other.
Speaker 5: Is it also just happened since that the two also
Speaker 5: live on the same street as each other. Now there's
Speaker 5: no evidence that they even knew each other, but still
Speaker 5: a little too much to overlook if you ask most
Speaker 5: people involved with or following this case, where is Keeslan.
Speaker 5: Did she meet the same fate as Caleb and just
Speaker 5: hasn't been found yet? Was Caleb's death truly an accident,
Speaker 5: and even if it was, someone obviously moved his body
Speaker 5: at least, and at most they murdered him and dumped
Speaker 5: it at the location where it was found. Is he's
Speaker 5: running on our own and of our own free will
Speaker 5: due to fear again of being arrested for that probation
Speaker 5: violation and probable relapse. It's also worth mentioning here that
Speaker 5: there have been several sightings of Keesln at multiple truck
Speaker 5: stops in various cities across the country. However, none of
Speaker 5: these have ever been able to actually be confirmed as
Speaker 5: her Now, as we mentioned, her clothes were found two
Speaker 5: months after she was last seen fleeing the scene. So
Speaker 5: where did she go while naked? Also without anyone seeing her?
Speaker 5: As the police are insinuating Caleb took a five mile
Speaker 5: naked walk without being noticed too. Were her clothes really
Speaker 5: there the entire time, as the anonymous and seemingly cooperative
Speaker 5: witness claim to news reporters, or were they dumped there
Speaker 5: after the fact for whatever reason. Currently, there's a six
Speaker 5: thousand dollars reward for information that could lead to Keeslan's whereabouts.
Speaker 5: If you can help this investigation in any way, or
Speaker 5: think you have any information, no matter how small or
Speaker 5: insignificant it may seem, please contact the Gordon County Sheriff's
Speaker 5: Department at seven zero six six two nine one two
Speaker 5: four four. So what do you think of this case?
Speaker 5: Are these bizarre circumstances simply coincidence or is there indeed
Speaker 5: a connection here?
Speaker 6: I look forward to reading your comments.
Speaker 5: As always, we asked you please be respectful in the
Speaker 5: comment section when discussing this case. Many times family and
Speaker 5: friends of the victims do watch these videos and read
Speaker 5: the comments, so please don't say anything that you wouldn't
Speaker 5: say if it was your family member or friend in
Speaker 5: this circumstance. In closing, be good to yourselves and each other.
Speaker 5: I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 16: Months after a local veteran disappeared, family and friends of
Speaker 16: twenty eight year old with James Litka are still searching
Speaker 16: for answers. Today, volunteer spent hours handing out flyers and
Speaker 16: searching for any sign of James w Eau. Sarah Winkleman
Speaker 16: has the story.
Speaker 11: Family friends and strangers hit the sidewalk searching for clues
Speaker 11: of James.
Speaker 12: I don't know James, but I want his family to
Speaker 12: have some closure on this. Hopefully we find him.
Speaker 11: Twenty eight year old James lid Cut was reported missing
Speaker 11: on November fifth, after he was last seen with friends
Speaker 11: on Water Street in the early morning hours of November fourth.
Speaker 9: Honestly, it's so miserable.
Speaker 12: It's just like we're just questioning.
Speaker 11: Everything and not knowing anything.
Speaker 9: There's so many things running through your head, like it's
Speaker 9: just yeah, it's just miserable. We just need to figure
Speaker 9: some stuff out.
Speaker 11: The Old Clare Police Department has conducted four ground searches
Speaker 11: and three water search but now the community is stepping
Speaker 11: up to do their part.
Speaker 17: Our family has kind of been trying to rally and
Speaker 17: get together to see how we can bring awareness to
Speaker 17: the fact that James has been missing for so long.
Speaker 11: CRUs went out on a ground search in the Water
Speaker 11: Street area and also started knocking on doors.
Speaker 10: We just want everybody to just be eyes open, be
Speaker 10: aware of we're still looking for him and we're not
Speaker 10: going to.
Speaker 12: Give up to we find them.
Speaker 11: Their goal is to hand out more than two thousand
Speaker 11: of these flyers with James's picture all over them in
Speaker 11: hopes that somebody will come forward with some information.
Speaker 9: We just need people out there, like getting the word out,
Speaker 9: just kind of helping us. Like it's big for our
Speaker 9: family and we need to get it out there and
Speaker 9: we need answers.
Speaker 11: They are handing out his picture and asking neighbors to
Speaker 11: look in garages, campers or other spaces where someone could
Speaker 11: crawl into.
Speaker 12: We just want more people to know, because the more
Speaker 12: people the better.
Speaker 11: Getting the word out and begging may want with information
Speaker 11: to come forward.
Speaker 17: If you know anything about James's disappearance that night, please
Speaker 17: let us know. Even if it's the slightest detail, it
Speaker 17: can bring a lot of stuff to the surface that
Speaker 17: we need to know.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 5: Friends, In this video, we'll be discussing the disappearance of
Speaker 5: James Lidke. Please make sure you share the links in
Speaker 5: the description box and share this video so we can
Speaker 5: help james family spread awareness.
Speaker 6: With that said, let's begin.
Speaker 5: James Lidka has been missing since the early morning hours
Speaker 5: of November fourth, twenty eighteen. He was going to school
Speaker 5: at UW Stout for engineering while living with his sister
Speaker 5: Kristen and a roommate My. He was last seen on
Speaker 5: surveillance leaving College bar the Pickle on Walter Street in
Speaker 5: downtown Auclaire, Wisconsin. Before vanishing, James was out with My
Speaker 5: and her friends, none of whom he knew particularly well,
Speaker 5: celebrating one of My's co worker's birthday. On the surveillance video,
Speaker 5: he seen walking behind the bar in the direction of
Speaker 5: a bike path. The pickle happens to be mere feet
Speaker 5: from the river. James was separated from the people he
Speaker 5: was out with at this point, and his phone's GPS
Speaker 5: showed that his last location was in the eleven hundred
Speaker 5: block of Menominee Street. He did have telephone contact with
Speaker 5: one of them at approximately twelve to twenty five am
Speaker 5: on Sunday morning, and according to the records, the last
Speaker 5: phone activity was on November fourth, twenty eighteen, at eight
Speaker 5: twenty five pm. No report can be found anywhere what
Speaker 5: James supposedly talked to the person about that he contacted.
Speaker 5: Around midnight, he was denied entry at the Pickle for
Speaker 5: being supposedly too drunk. This condectional would be true, but
Speaker 5: based on other reports, he could have been turned away
Speaker 5: pickle for any number of reasons. The bouncers there have
Speaker 5: a reputation for being rude and sometimes outright sexist racist.
Speaker 5: James's best friend since childhood, Cody said that James does
Speaker 5: not have a history of getting too intoxicated or blackout drunk.
Speaker 5: At most, he gets happy in Gigley as by all
Speaker 5: accounts of fun and kind guy to be around. Cody
Speaker 5: says that to him as james best friend since third grade,
Speaker 5: James looked pissed or stressed in the last known CCTV
Speaker 5: footage Hileman. Cody also states that James didn't talk about
Speaker 5: my much. James aunt Valerie said that her brother james
Speaker 5: dad said Mike could be overbearing and texted James a lot.
Speaker 5: His dad didn't initially worry when Mike called him saying
Speaker 5: James was missing on Sunday morning. It had gone out
Speaker 5: Saturday night. Police and fire officials conducted her routine search
Speaker 5: on the Chippewall River for clues into his disappearance.
Speaker 6: With no luck.
Speaker 5: We don't have any definitive information to say he's actually
Speaker 5: in the river. We're just covering our bases, said Lieutenant
Speaker 5: Derek Thomas of the All Clare Police Department. There is
Speaker 5: also surrounded by woods, and people living in All Claire
Speaker 5: have done so just for James by themselves. His aunt
Speaker 5: Valerie even relocated All Claire when James went missing. She's
Speaker 5: been desperately searching for her nephew and any clues to
Speaker 5: us whereabouts. In the episode of Vanished about James, his
Speaker 5: family says the roommate he went out with that night
Speaker 5: has not been cooperative in the search whatsoever.
Speaker 6: They have avoided the.
Speaker 5: Family and moved out of the apartment they share with
Speaker 5: James almost immediately after the disappearance. James was kind and
Speaker 5: took this person in when they had nowhere to go,
Speaker 5: and their behavior has been a bit suspicious. They could
Speaker 5: be entirely innocent here, obviously, but it is strange that
Speaker 5: they don't seem.
Speaker 6: To want to help look for James.
Speaker 5: During the week after his disappearance, Kristen texted me to
Speaker 5: ask a few questions about when she last saw James.
Speaker 5: Mike texted her back and said, simply talk to the police.
Speaker 5: James is five foot seven inches tall, weighs one hundred
Speaker 5: and seventy pounds. It was last seen wearing a baseball cap,
Speaker 5: maroon's shirt, and jeans. Police said they don't believe play
Speaker 5: is involved in his disappearance. If you have any information
Speaker 5: regarding the young missing veteran, please contact the All Claire
Speaker 5: Police Department at seven one, five eight three nine four
Speaker 5: nine seven two. Well, friends, thank you for tuning in
Speaker 5: of our Land of the Loss series. Please remember that
Speaker 5: we're asking everyone who watches this video to share it
Speaker 5: on social media and with friends and family. James is
Speaker 5: still missing and you just might know the person who
Speaker 5: holds the key to solving this case. Till we meet again,
Speaker 5: take care of yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton
Speaker 5: and I'll talk to you next time. Hello friends, Today
Speaker 5: we're going to be looking into the strange disappearance of
Speaker 5: Daniel Robinson. Daniel Robinson, twenty four year old geologist from Columbia,
Speaker 5: South Carolina, has been missing since he was last seen
Speaker 5: leaving a job site in the area of Sun Valley
Speaker 5: Parkway and Cactus Road on June twenty third, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 6: Later that day, he was reported missing.
Speaker 5: And nobody has seen or heard from him since. Daniel
Speaker 5: graduated from the College of Charleston in South Carolina with
Speaker 5: a degree in geology in twenty eighteen. Missing Persons flyer
Speaker 5: was released to the public, and investigators of the Buck
Speaker 5: Eye Police Department began speaking with friends and family to
Speaker 5: determine where Robinson may have gone. According to loved ones
Speaker 5: and those who knew him best, there was no indications
Speaker 5: that Daniel had wanted to leave his life behind or
Speaker 5: harm himself in any way. However, it was also stated
Speaker 5: to be very unlike him to not have told anyone
Speaker 5: why he was leaving the job site in the middle
Speaker 5: of the day or where he was going. Cell Phone
Speaker 5: and financial records have provided no indication of Robinson's possible whereabouts.
Speaker 5: According to the police, Robinson was last seen driving his
Speaker 5: twenty seventeen Jeep for Renegae, heading west further into the
Speaker 5: desert area of Sun Valley Parkway, just north of Cactus
Speaker 5: Road in Buckeye. While reviewing phone records, investigators did notice
Speaker 5: a single ping that came from his cell phone, but
Speaker 5: there was no available data as to the location because,
Speaker 5: as they stated, the phone was either out of range
Speaker 5: or turned off. It did not appear as though Daniel
Speaker 5: had made any calls or texts after leaving the job
Speaker 5: site on that faithful June day. However, on the nineteenth
Speaker 5: of July, a rancher who owned property about four miles
Speaker 5: southwest from the job site where Daniel was lest made
Speaker 5: a call to police and reported having found what looked
Speaker 5: like Daniel's jeep on his property, wrecked and abandoned. Daniel
Speaker 5: was nowhere around as far as the man could tell.
Speaker 5: It was determined fairly quickly to indeed be Daniel's jeep
Speaker 5: and its hot was found That was very concerning. It
Speaker 5: was stuck in a deep ravine with significant damage and
Speaker 5: appeared to have rolled and landed on its side, Buckeye
Speaker 5: Police said at that time, adding that Robinson's cell phone, wallet, keys,
Speaker 5: and clothing were all found at the scene. The vehicles
Speaker 5: airbags had also deployed. The buck Eye Police Department also
Speaker 5: stated that because of the rough terrain, the vehicle was
Speaker 5: not clearly visible to cruise searching by air and on foot,
Speaker 5: the detectives in charge of the case immediately began an
Speaker 5: official and thorough search around the area.
Speaker 6: Where the vehicle was found.
Speaker 5: They employed search dogs, aerial helicopter search, and even searched
Speaker 5: by foot, all to no avail. Daniel Robinson, it seems,
Speaker 5: had disappeared without a trace. Police reported that they had
Speaker 5: searched an area of more than seventy square miles together
Speaker 5: with outside agencies and utilized ATVs to da or dogs,
Speaker 5: a helicopter and even a drone, although no further evidence
Speaker 5: of Daniel or even a hint as to what happened
Speaker 5: to him other than the wrecked vehicle was found anywhere,
Speaker 5: and a statement issued after the initial search, Bluck Eye
Speaker 5: Police added that based on the personal effects found in
Speaker 5: Daniel's vehicle, no foul play is suspected. Daniel's family and
Speaker 5: the private investigator that they've hired disagree. For one, a
Speaker 5: private investigator believes that Daniel's jeep had been crashed several
Speaker 5: times in different locations before coming to rest on its
Speaker 5: side in the ravine. Another thing that they found extremely
Speaker 5: suspicious is that the very clothes Daniel was wearing, every
Speaker 5: single item, was found in a pile mere feet away
Speaker 5: from his crash cheap. On July thirty first, there was
Speaker 5: a human skull found a bit south of the area
Speaker 5: where his jeepers are covered, but it was later forensically
Speaker 5: determined to not be that of Daniel Robinson. No further
Speaker 5: human remains of any kind were found in the search
Speaker 5: area or around the area where the skull was found.
Speaker 5: Daniel had recently moved to Phoenix for work, and it
Speaker 5: wasn't at all unusual for the job to have him
Speaker 5: working on sites in remote desert locations, often in extreme conditions.
Speaker 5: His father, David Robinson the second, has traveled from his
Speaker 5: home in South Carolina to continue the search for his
Speaker 5: son and for answers as to what happened. He's also
Speaker 5: set up a GoFundMe page to pay for a private investigator,
Speaker 5: along with flyers, continued searches, and other expenses. In mid July,
Speaker 5: Daniel's father claimed that the Buckeye Police Department stopped putting
Speaker 5: in the necessary effort. He even began organizing search parties
Speaker 5: of his own and brought in his own private investigator
Speaker 5: and forensic analysis team. He's launched two websites and a
Speaker 5: Twitter page to help streamline the project. David Robinson's efforts
Speaker 5: are ongoing, with a volunteer party set to conduct a
Speaker 5: search on October second. He is still calling on the
Speaker 5: Buckeye Police Department to revamp the efforts and conduct a
Speaker 5: more thorough investigation into Daniel's disappearance. Daniel Robinson has described
Speaker 5: as five foot eight with black hair and brown eyes,
Speaker 5: is missing a right forearm and hand. Anyone with information
Speaker 5: can submit tips by Robinson's website, which you can find
Speaker 5: in the description, or by contacting the Buck Eye Police
Speaker 5: Department at six two three three four nine six four
Speaker 5: zero zero. Well, there you have it, folks. What do
Speaker 5: you think of this strange disappearance? Why would Daniel shed
Speaker 5: all his clothing and take off into the desert? You
Speaker 5: perhaps have a head injury or was he forced to
Speaker 5: do this by someone else? Was this purely an accident
Speaker 5: or was there something more in a fair that's going on.
Speaker 5: Why would Daniel suddenly leave a job site in the
Speaker 5: middle of work.
Speaker 6: At this time?
Speaker 5: None of this makes any sense. I look forward to
Speaker 5: reading your comments, but we do ask that you please
Speaker 5: keep it friendly and respectful. Many times, the family and
Speaker 5: friends of these missing persons watch these videos and read
Speaker 5: the comments station Please don't say anything you wouldn't want
Speaker 5: to read if this was your friend or family member
Speaker 5: loved one being discussed in the meanwhile, be good to
Speaker 5: yourselves and each other. Be careful out there. I'll see
Speaker 5: you just a little farther on down the trail. I'm
Speaker 5: Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time. Hello friends,
Speaker 5: Today we bring you another episode in our Land of
Speaker 5: the Lost series, the Sad Strange Disappearance for Johnny Gosh.
Speaker 6: Join us.
Speaker 5: Now on this channel we discuss missing persons cases of
Speaker 5: all kinds. Sometimes the missing are found unharmed and relatively unscathed,
Speaker 5: the victim perhaps of a kidnapping or some other sinister plot.
Speaker 5: Most of the time, though, people who go missing or
Speaker 5: found relatively quickly because they went missing by choice or
Speaker 5: simple misadventure. Those are the cases there's no need to
Speaker 5: really discuss that much further, due to the happy ending
Speaker 5: being the result of some misunderstanding or accident that caused
Speaker 5: it all in the first place. Then there are some
Speaker 5: strange cases that start off relatively the same because all
Speaker 5: the others, only for there to be so many strange
Speaker 5: twists and bizarre turns it's almost hard to keep up.
Speaker 5: Today we're discussing one of those very cases, What happened
Speaker 5: to Johnny Gosh. Now, what did happen to Johnny Gosh
Speaker 5: is still unknown completely, but his disappearance has become so
Speaker 5: convoluted with years of misleading medieval reporting, unreliable witnesses, conflicting
Speaker 5: information being given by people close to the case, and
Speaker 5: so much more. At the end of the day, if
Speaker 5: we believe even some of what is thought to be
Speaker 5: fact about this particular case, we could all very well
Speaker 5: feel insane and a bit lost ourselves, losing a bit
Speaker 5: more faith in the world in which we live. One
Speaker 5: detail at a time, the backstory. On September fifth, nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty two, a twelve year old boy from West des Moines, Iowa,
Speaker 5: named Johnny Gosh went missing in the early morning hours
Speaker 5: while out on his paper route. The community in Johnny's
Speaker 5: family would never be the same again. Johnny's mother, Neurene Gush,
Speaker 5: has since been on a mission all her own, a
Speaker 5: mission to not only find a truth about what happened
Speaker 5: to her beloved son that clear and fine mourning, but
Speaker 5: to also expose some horrendous atrocities, possibly involving human trafficking.
Speaker 6: And the people who deal in such things as well.
Speaker 5: Many believed this case is want of a cover up,
Speaker 5: one which rises to the highest ranks of politicians and
Speaker 5: even further if you can believe it. So let's get
Speaker 5: into Johnny's story. It was the early morning, and Johnny
Speaker 5: was out on his paper ride alone, normally his father
Speaker 5: went with him, and Johnny had asked his father the
Speaker 5: night before if he could go by himself that day.
Speaker 5: His father initially said no, but Johnny went by himself anyway,
Speaker 5: and subsequently was never seen again, sort of. Some witnesses
Speaker 5: came forward and claimed that a man had stopped and
Speaker 5: asked Johnny for directions, and once he pulled off, Johnny
Speaker 5: had mentioned to another paper boy that the guy in
Speaker 5: the car had scared him a little. That same car
Speaker 5: at old Ford Fairmont that had stopped and somewhat frightened
Speaker 5: Johnny seemingly pulled off and waited until he was out
Speaker 5: of side of anyone else on the street. That day,
Speaker 5: two men apparently grabbed him off the street and held
Speaker 5: him down in the back of the old car, according
Speaker 5: to witnesses, who also said that the car pulled away
Speaker 5: so quickly after snatching Johnny that the tires screeched as
Speaker 5: they drove away and out of sight. Unfortunately, and for
Speaker 5: unknown reasons, no one who saw this abduction, and there
Speaker 5: were several people who did see it, apparently none of
Speaker 5: them reported the incident to the authorities. It actually wasn't
Speaker 5: until the customers on Johnny's route called his parents to
Speaker 5: ask why their papers.
Speaker 6: Hadn't yet been delivered. Unbelievable.
Speaker 5: This was hours after the abduction itself, and so much
Speaker 5: precious time had already been wasted due to all these
Speaker 5: people not doing their civic duty. See something, say something.
Speaker 5: If you see a car snatch a kid off the street,
Speaker 5: call the police immediately. Johnny's father went to go and
Speaker 5: look for him along this route and quickly found the
Speaker 5: wagon where he kept his newspapers on the side of
Speaker 5: the street from which he was taken, and knew immediately
Speaker 5: something was wrong. It was very unlike Johnny to be
Speaker 5: so irresponsible to just leave his wagon and papers there
Speaker 5: and just take off. His father called his mother, and
Speaker 5: together they notified the authorities. This is where, at least
Speaker 5: to some people, and you can be your own judge
Speaker 5: of it, of course, where the story stops making sense.
Speaker 5: The parents have described their initial experience with authorities as
Speaker 5: somewhat humiliating, to say the very least. The police considered
Speaker 5: the young man to be a runaway, even after interviewing
Speaker 5: several witnesses who had since come forward with accounts of
Speaker 5: the strange man, the actual abduction itself, and even the
Speaker 5: screeching tires of the vehicle as it made a fast
Speaker 5: getaway with Johnny in the back seat. They were very
Speaker 5: slow to respond to the first place, acting as if
Speaker 5: it were an everyday occurrence and not an emergency that
Speaker 5: a twelve year old boy could have been snatched in
Speaker 5: plain sight of multiple witnesses by at least two strange
Speaker 5: men allegedly. Fortunately for Johnny, his mom wasn't going to
Speaker 5: back down and reiterated over and over and over again
Speaker 5: that this was outside of her son's character and she
Speaker 5: knew beyond a doubt that her son hadn't run away
Speaker 5: but had been taken. Still, the police weren't taking any action.
Speaker 5: They were working under the runaway theory, so Doreen, Johnny's mom,
Speaker 5: organized her own search party made up of family, friends,
Speaker 5: and the community as a whole, to try and find
Speaker 5: Johnny or at least spread awareness about his abduction. Loreen
Speaker 5: even reached out to the FBI, as it is and
Speaker 5: was back then protocol that they get involved immediately if
Speaker 5: a kidnapping takes place due to the likelihood of the
Speaker 5: victim being brought across state lines. However, she soon realized
Speaker 5: there weren't going to be much, if any help and
Speaker 5: decided to take on the entire investigation herself. She contacted
Speaker 5: local and even national media in order to raise the
Speaker 5: awareness of her son's case all across the country, as
Speaker 5: well as in her own local community. It worked, and
Speaker 5: the case almost immediately made headlines in all media outlets.
Speaker 6: Durine hired a.
Speaker 5: Private investigator and even followed up leads herself whenever she could.
Speaker 5: What she learned could still be byself be alleged and
Speaker 5: must have been horrifying and debilitating, especially to her mother.
Speaker 5: She found out that Johnny had been abducted for the
Speaker 5: sole purpose of being used in a trafficking ring abusers
Speaker 5: that spread throughout the globe and involved some very high
Speaker 5: ranking people and officials.
Speaker 6: All over the world.
Speaker 5: He wasn't killed, but some might say his fate was
Speaker 5: worse than death. He was being kept alive and traumatized
Speaker 5: in strange and possibly even satanic ways as part of
Speaker 5: breaking him down mentally, physically, and emotionally, perhaps even spiritually.
Speaker 5: It was all a part of damaging and possibly eliminating
Speaker 5: any self esteem the young boy might have had. This
Speaker 5: was said to have made him more vulnerable to the
Speaker 5: brainwashing and susceptible to mind control that would follow. This
Speaker 5: was done so that technically he wouldn't have to be imprisoned,
Speaker 5: because he would be a slave in every sense of
Speaker 5: the word to the people who were involved in all
Speaker 5: this terror. Now again, this is all theory injecture. About
Speaker 5: six months after he was kidnapped, a woman at a
Speaker 5: convenience store several states away in Oklahoma alleged a young
Speaker 5: boy came running up to her screaming, I'm Johnny Gosh,
Speaker 5: I've been kidnapped. According to this witness, two men immediately
Speaker 5: ran up to the young boy, grabbed him, and made
Speaker 5: a hasty retreat, never to be seen again by the
Speaker 5: woman or at that particular convenience store. New evidence would
Speaker 5: continue to surface in the coming years. Some contacted the
Speaker 5: Goshs and informed them that they come into the possession
Speaker 5: of a dollar bill with a message I'm alive Johnny
Speaker 5: Gosh written on it. Mister Gosh mailed the person another
Speaker 5: dollar bill in return for this one, and upon examining
Speaker 5: the writing on the bill when he received it, Johnny's
Speaker 5: mother confirmed her son's handwriting. Johnny had, at least according
Speaker 5: to Noraene, written the message. A while later, in Denver, Colorado,
Speaker 5: another bill surfaced and not it and read nab polished
Speaker 5: for the words Johnny Gosh was here. Noreene believed the
Speaker 5: truth about her son's abduction, and it had all been
Speaker 5: a part of was purposely being hushed by authorities and
Speaker 5: almost everyone involved in finding the truth because of what
Speaker 5: it stood for the abuse of power and the ease
Speaker 5: with which the powerful, rich and elite get away with
Speaker 5: whatever they want. Now, this may seem very strange and
Speaker 5: out of place, but consider the things that have happened
Speaker 5: recently in the Jeffrey Epstein case. That doesn't sound so
Speaker 5: far fetched, does it.
Speaker 17: So.
Speaker 5: Doreen refused to give up on her son, though, and
Speaker 5: continued her fight to not only expose what had happened
Speaker 5: to Johnny, but to possibly bring him home one day
Speaker 5: as well. She vowed that she wasn't going to stop
Speaker 5: until the entire truth was revealed. According to Noraine, this
Speaker 5: trafficking organization underground that had taken her son was connected
Speaker 5: to some pretty powerful higher ups, including those who worked
Speaker 5: for the CIA, politicians in our nation's capital, and even
Speaker 5: the United States military. Eventually, young and older men alike
Speaker 5: started to come forward, mainly due to Noreene's strength, bravery,
Speaker 5: and dedication to finding her son, and claimed that they
Speaker 5: had been abducted as part of the same ring as
Speaker 5: Johnny and others, and they started giving information not just
Speaker 5: to the Gashes, but to the press and the authorities
Speaker 5: as well. Many of these men and boys confirmed what
Speaker 5: Noreene had suspected all along. It was the trafficking ring,
Speaker 5: and it was global eventually too. Throughout the years and
Speaker 5: with the help of family and friends, loved ones, and
Speaker 5: even the media, Loreene would meet many of these men.
Speaker 5: There were those who said that they knew Johnny and
Speaker 5: had spent time with him during their horrifical ordeal. They
Speaker 5: gave her more updated information on how he was doing
Speaker 5: and his physical condition, but none were ever able to
Speaker 5: tell her where her son was exactly. This was all
Speaker 5: allegedly due to the fact that organizations like the one
Speaker 5: involved in the trafficking ring were very mobile and constantly
Speaker 5: on the move. She eventually learned that Johnny, along with
Speaker 5: another child about his age, had eventually escaped their captors
Speaker 5: and were living in fear of their lives, constantly on
Speaker 5: the run and in hiding. Though she eventually did i'd
Speaker 5: give up her search for in hopes of her son
Speaker 5: ever coming home, Loarene didn't stop. She became an activist,
Speaker 5: giving press releases, regularly appearing in public on behalf of
Speaker 5: missing children in general. It was through Noreene's brave efforts
Speaker 5: and loved for her son that Johnny and other missing
Speaker 5: children were the first appear on the backs of milk
Speaker 5: cartons nationally. The hope was that someone somewhere would come
Speaker 5: forward with information on the particular child featured and possibly
Speaker 5: lead to a homecoming for the family. Despite all the
Speaker 5: work she was doing and countless leeds that came in
Speaker 5: throughout the years, none ever let her any closer to
Speaker 5: actually being reunited with her own son. Sometime in nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety seven, fifteen years after Johnny had originally been abducted,
Speaker 5: and soon after Loarene had given a television appearance where
Speaker 5: she spoke a special message to Johnny in case he
Speaker 5: were listening. That day, there was a knock at Marine's door.
Speaker 5: It was the middle of the night and it had
Speaker 5: awakened her from sleep. When she went to the door
Speaker 5: and looked through the peep hole, she saw two young
Speaker 5: men stand there. She asked who it was, and a
Speaker 5: response must have come as quite a shock to this
Speaker 5: still grieving mother. Mom, it's me, Johnny, Can I come in?
Speaker 5: She couldn't get the door open fast enough. Although it
Speaker 5: had been fifteen years and her son was no longer
Speaker 5: a young boy, she knew immediately that this was him.
Speaker 5: Her son had come home to her at last. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: though Johnny hadn't come to stay and was only there briefly,
Speaker 5: he hadn't come back to live again as a happy
Speaker 5: family and move on. He come to ask her for
Speaker 5: her help. He talked briefly about the last fifteen years,
Speaker 5: and suddenly Narene realized that everything she had thought had
Speaker 5: happened and what was going on was true. It was
Speaker 5: like Johnny had brought with him the few pieces still
Speaker 5: missing from the puzzle she begun to put together in
Speaker 5: her head the very day he had gone missing. Johnny
Speaker 5: was extremely nervous the whole time he was visiting that night,
Speaker 5: and he asked his mother to help him bring his
Speaker 5: captors and abductors to justice. According to him, if they
Speaker 5: didn't get caught, he would have to live in fear
Speaker 5: for his life and for the rest of his life,
Speaker 5: always in hiding, constantly on the run.
Speaker 6: No way to live.
Speaker 5: Johnny stayed a few hours and left again before sunrise.
Speaker 5: He made his mom promise she wouldn't tell anyone he
Speaker 5: had stopped by or what he had told and asked
Speaker 5: of her. She promised her son she would never tell
Speaker 5: that she saw him that night, and off he went
Speaker 5: back into the world when the ring once again, not
Speaker 5: knowing where he was going or if he would even
Speaker 5: ever be back.
Speaker 6: Ring.
Speaker 5: Gosh continues to this day to fight for justice and
Speaker 5: give voices to those who don't have their own anymore.
Speaker 5: She's an activist for our world's most vulnerable, our children,
Speaker 5: and she does everything she can and helps spread awareness
Speaker 5: to trafficking rings and what is allegedly going on globally.
Speaker 5: Regarding such atrocities, she consistently brought attention to the other
Speaker 5: victims of the same trafficking ring her son was a
Speaker 5: part of, and also to others who were victimized by
Speaker 5: those connected to the one that Johnny. In two thousand,
Speaker 5: she published a book called Why Johnny Can't Come Home
Speaker 5: and gave a detailed account of everything she had learned
Speaker 5: about her sons and other children's cases. It's all the
Speaker 5: information she has uncovered and retained throughout the years, and
Speaker 5: include some shocking allegations of a cover up, a higher
Speaker 5: ups and authority figures we are supposed to rely on
Speaker 5: to keep us and our kids safe. Shortly after Johnny's disappearance,
Speaker 5: Doreene founded the Johnny Gosh Foundation. According to the website,
Speaker 5: the organization's purpose is to educate others as to their
Speaker 5: reality and seriousness kidnapping, trafficking, and how it could happen
Speaker 5: to your family, the dangers of those traffickers, and how
Speaker 5: cunningly they operate in our country. Johnny's story has become
Speaker 5: pretty well known in circles like ours, this community, on YouTube,
Speaker 5: and in the media, as it's one of those stories
Speaker 5: that you never want to go away. It's one of
Speaker 5: those cases where feels like if we stopped talking about it,
Speaker 5: it could have devastating effects on other children and their
Speaker 5: families as a whole, because without knowledge of it, history
Speaker 5: is bound to repeat itself. As a wise man once said,
Speaker 5: Throughout the years, Neuring Gosh has been called many horrible things,
Speaker 5: from nut job, to crazy, to pathetic, to a liar,
Speaker 5: to a desperate mother clinging to false hope. And while
Speaker 5: we may never know if everything she said about what
Speaker 5: happened to her son is true. Many believe she has
Speaker 5: presented enough information that could be checked for accuracy and factuality,
Speaker 5: if only someone would have the courage to do so.
Speaker 5: Our hearts go out to the Gosh family, and we
Speaker 5: hope one day, if everything Doene has a legend and
Speaker 5: reported over the years is true, that one day justice
Speaker 5: will be served, regardless of money, power, fame or wealth,
Speaker 5: and that maybe, just maybe Johnny can come home. We
Speaker 5: for one, will be reporting the facts as we know them,
Speaker 5: and as always praying for the victims and families we
Speaker 5: discuss on our channel. Well, folks, there you have it,
Speaker 5: the sad, strange disappearance of Johnny Gosh. I'm anxious to
Speaker 5: see your comments on this one, but please remember to
Speaker 5: keep it friendly and respectful. In the meanwhile, be good
Speaker 5: to yourselves at each other. Stay safe out there. If
Speaker 5: you have kids, hug them tight and keep an eye
Speaker 5: on them. As for me, I'll see you a little
Speaker 5: farther on down the trail. I'm stay Stockton and I'll
Speaker 5: talk to you next time. Hello, friends, Welcome to the
Speaker 5: twelfth episode of our Land of the Lost series. In
Speaker 5: this video, we'll be discussing the disappearance of Clinton Nelson.
Speaker 5: Please make sure you share the links in the description
Speaker 5: box and share this video so we can help Clinton's
Speaker 5: family spread awareness.
Speaker 6: But that said, let's begin.
Speaker 5: Clinton Devin Nelson was born August ninth, nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 5: in Sparefish, South Dakota. You went missing on September first,
Speaker 5: two thousand and six, from Haughton, Louisiana. Clinton was to
Speaker 5: give you the shirt off his back kind of guy.
Speaker 5: He loved children and making people laugh, and was very
Speaker 5: close to his mother, Carolyn Johnson, sometimes referred to in
Speaker 5: the media as Carolyn Teagan. His mother said that she
Speaker 5: always had trouble disciplining or reprimanding him because he had
Speaker 5: a knack for making her laugh whenever she tried to
Speaker 5: do so. You could tell they're very close. Clinton's mother
Speaker 5: was a teenager when she got pregnant with him with
Speaker 5: another teenager named Jeff, when she visited Louisiana one summer.
Speaker 5: When she got home, she found out she was pregnant,
Speaker 5: and although Jeff came to South Dakota for a time
Speaker 5: and they tried to make it work, the relationship didn't
Speaker 5: last long and they soon called it quits, with Jeff
Speaker 5: going back to Louisiana, and Carolyn deciding to stay in
Speaker 5: South Dakota to raise Clinton on her own or with
Speaker 5: the help of her family. Eventually, she remarried, and while
Speaker 5: Clinton got along well with his stepfather and half sibling,
Speaker 5: he spent a lot of time wondering about his biological
Speaker 5: fought than that part of the family. Jeff did make
Speaker 5: some appearances in Clinton's life throughout the years, but wasn't
Speaker 5: really involved and didn't participate in supporting or raising him.
Speaker 5: Clinton was very athletic, played soccer from pre k to
Speaker 5: high school freshman year. He also enjoyed rollerblading, camping, biking, skateboarding, fishing, etc.
Speaker 5: Anything being in the outdoors he loved. In school, his
Speaker 5: favorite subject was history, but he became bored because it
Speaker 5: just wasn't challenging enough for him. Linton also loved old
Speaker 5: music and had a knack for randomly pulling out facts
Speaker 5: about various musicians. In high school, he struggled personally with
Speaker 5: a kind of identity crisis, wanting to know his biological
Speaker 5: father and where he came from and where his roots were.
Speaker 5: He ended up calling in with the wrong crowd and
Speaker 5: started using drugs. He did eventually get himself clean and
Speaker 5: was sober about two years when he decided he wanted
Speaker 5: to move to Louisiana to connect with his biological father Jeff,
Speaker 5: and to work on an oil rig there which his
Speaker 5: uncle was forming of and offered to help Clinton out
Speaker 5: and hook him up with this job. Carolyn said she
Speaker 5: was hesitant when Clinton told her he wanted to move
Speaker 5: down there to live with his father and stepmother. Jeff
Speaker 5: had had problems and issues with dreg use in the
Speaker 5: past as well, but she was also very hopeful because
Speaker 5: she knew it was something her son needed to do
Speaker 5: for himself. Carolyn spent a while leading up to when
Speaker 5: Clinton left talking to him on the phone and regularly
Speaker 5: communicating with Jeff just to get a feel for where
Speaker 5: he was in his life, to see if he had
Speaker 5: grown up and if he was responsible enough to help
Speaker 5: Clinton succeed on his new life path, and to also
Speaker 5: be able to help support and encourage him on his
Speaker 5: continuing journey through recovery. Jeff had finally convinced her that
Speaker 5: everything would be fine and that he was ready, willing, able,
Speaker 5: and capable to take care of and help out their
Speaker 5: son in any way he could. Clinton left for Louisiana
Speaker 5: in April of two thousand and six. Within six months,
Speaker 5: he'd be missing and never seen or heard from again.
Speaker 5: When he first got to Louisiana, Clinton was staying with
Speaker 5: his father and his stepmother in a trailer on the
Speaker 5: same property as his stepsister and possibly some other families
Speaker 5: who also lived in trailers. While this seemed to be
Speaker 5: a very tight family unit, immediately upon his arrival, there
Speaker 5: were some problems with Clinton and his stepmother. The first
Speaker 5: issue was Clinton's dog. He had some kind of large
Speaker 5: dog that his stepmother had insisted he leave behind in
Speaker 5: South Dakota when he made the move, but he brought
Speaker 5: the dog with him anyway. His stepmother was extremely unhappy
Speaker 5: about this and started to complain almost immediately. Very shortly thereafter,
Speaker 5: Clinton ended up moving into his stepsister's trailer on the
Speaker 5: same property as his father and stepmother. Not only did
Speaker 5: his stepmother constantly complain about the dog, her biggest issue
Speaker 5: was all three of them plus the dog living in
Speaker 5: a small trailer. The space just got too small and
Speaker 5: too cramp and she essentially wanted her home back. Very
Speaker 5: shortly after arriving, Clinton moved into his stepsister's trailer, so
Speaker 5: he was still close to his father, just not in
Speaker 5: the same home. Many people who were there at the
Speaker 5: time Clinton arrived and all this was going on have
Speaker 5: stated that they felt there were some jealousy issues there too,
Speaker 5: But Clinton was a very laid back and chow kind
Speaker 5: of guy. It seemed like he was just happy to
Speaker 5: finally have his father around into beginning to know him,
Speaker 5: so he paid it no mind. His father must have
Speaker 5: felt the same way, because, although this is now debated
Speaker 5: and has been since the disappearance, according to Carolyn, both
Speaker 5: Clinton and Jeff had been telling her that they were
Speaker 5: moving out and getting a place together, just the two
Speaker 5: of them. Apparently Jeff was prepared to leave his new wife.
Speaker 5: Carolyn said that Jeff told her, I've already lost my
Speaker 5: son once and I'm not going to lose him again. Now,
Speaker 5: remember that oil rig job that we mentioned. Clinton's uncle
Speaker 5: was the foreman on this particular rig and offered to
Speaker 5: help him get the initial interview and whatever else it
Speaker 5: took to get his foot in the door to work
Speaker 5: full time on that rig. It took about three months
Speaker 5: to come to fruit, though, and Clinton needing to support
Speaker 5: himself financially in some way while he waited for the opening,
Speaker 5: worked odd jobs here and there, including in a subway
Speaker 5: sandwich shop and also helping out at a welding shop
Speaker 5: in Princeton, Louisiana. When Clinton finally did get the job
Speaker 5: on the ol rig, he was super happy and proud
Speaker 5: of himself. The pay was incredibly good, and he bragged
Speaker 5: his mom on the phone that he was the only
Speaker 5: one left of the six people that had started with him.
Speaker 5: He also told her he had chosen this as his
Speaker 5: new career path. Everyone he worked with absolutely loved him
Speaker 5: and were super impressed with the work he did there.
Speaker 5: Sometimes he'd even go as far as to go in
Speaker 5: on his days off and help out. Carolyn said that
Speaker 5: it did cross her mind about all the money he
Speaker 5: was making there because it was such a large amount,
Speaker 5: especially for a young man with minimum responsibilities. She felt
Speaker 5: that having all that money, in her opinion, could put
Speaker 5: him at a higher risk for relapse. However, when she
Speaker 5: voiced these concerns to both Clinton and Jeff, they convinced
Speaker 5: her that there weren't any signs of her issues with
Speaker 5: relapses into drugs. On the night of September first, two
Speaker 5: thousand and six, Clinton went to a party in Princeton, Louisiana.
Speaker 5: The person throwing the party was Larry Gillespie. Larry was
Speaker 5: the son of the owner of the welding shop Clinton
Speaker 5: had helped out in from time to time while waiting
Speaker 5: for the Roig job to come through. Now there are
Speaker 5: many conflicting reports as to Clinton's final hours because some
Speaker 5: sources say that he showed no signs of drug use
Speaker 5: before his disappearance that night, but other sources state that
Speaker 5: the night before, Clinton's father, Jeff, had allegedly convinced Clinton
Speaker 5: to go buy and smoke some methamphetamine with him, as
Speaker 5: he told Clinton he had never tried the stuff but
Speaker 5: wanted to. The father and son allegedly stayed up all
Speaker 5: night smoking till the next day when Clinton got dropped
Speaker 5: off at Larry's and Jeff had to go to work.
Speaker 5: Some witnesses say Clinton was acting extremely strange and exhibiting
Speaker 5: some bizarre behavior on the night of his disappearance. In
Speaker 5: the hours leading up to the party, Jeff dropped Clinton
Speaker 5: off at the Gillespie's house, and Clinton was constantly staring
Speaker 5: out of the blinds and acting paranoid, as if someone
Speaker 5: were following and or watching him. There was a party
Speaker 5: there that night, with many many people come and going,
Speaker 5: sometimes as many as sixty people there at one time.
Speaker 5: There rumors that there were a lot of illicit activity
Speaker 5: in that house. According to the people at the party,
Speaker 5: around eight eight thirty PM, Clinton stepped outside to smoke
Speaker 5: a cigarette and never returned and has not been seen since. However,
Speaker 5: around ten or ten thirty that same night, Clinton's father, Jeff,
Speaker 5: allegedly received a phone call from Clinton where he whispered
Speaker 5: he was being chased by the police through the woods,
Speaker 5: then the phone went dead. A week or two before
Speaker 5: the disappearance, Clinton had had a work accident on the
Speaker 5: old rig and had broken his collar bone and fractured
Speaker 5: two or three ribs, and also had his arm in
Speaker 5: a sling as a result of these injuries. Also, there's
Speaker 5: even more using and conflicting information about whether or not
Speaker 5: Clinton had started using again prior to disappearance. In most
Speaker 5: news sources and even documentaries about this case, it said
Speaker 5: that he had been cleaned for two years leading up
Speaker 5: to his disappearance. Now it's a fact, as far as
Speaker 5: anyone knows, that he had been cleaned for two years
Speaker 5: leading up to his mood Louisiana, but a few weeks
Speaker 5: before his disappearance, he had actually been arrested for having
Speaker 5: illicit substances and paraphernalia on him. Nobody bothered to inform
Speaker 5: his mother this fact though, until after the disappearance, and
Speaker 5: had her fully convinced that he was doing very well
Speaker 5: on maintaining his sobriety. His father stated quote, I wasn't
Speaker 5: going to be the one to drop dime on him
Speaker 5: in the quote. Now, let's get into a couple theories.
Speaker 5: The first one is Clinton, somehow, with broken ribs and
Speaker 5: collar bone and arm in a sling, took off running
Speaker 5: into the woods in a substance induced paranoia, thinking the
Speaker 5: cops were following him. Over one hundred people who had
Speaker 5: attended the party at one time or another that night
Speaker 5: were interviewed, and there were many conflicting statements. Some said
Speaker 5: Clinton walked off, some said he ran off, and others
Speaker 5: still said he left in a car. Others, besides, said
Speaker 5: he just stepped out to have a cigarette.
Speaker 6: And never came back.
Speaker 5: Is this really reasonable or plausible though, considering his injuries
Speaker 5: to be running through woods and bayous and whatever other
Speaker 5: kind of deep vegetation.
Speaker 6: They have down there in the South.
Speaker 5: Theory two is that Clinton was killed and robbed for
Speaker 5: his money he had on him that night. He was
Speaker 5: from South Dakota, and his mother said she had not
Speaker 5: raised him to be aware of people at all, and
Speaker 5: he wouldn't think to question anyone's motives. Many of the
Speaker 5: witnesses at the party that night said he was bragging
Speaker 5: all night long about having twenty five hundred dollars on
Speaker 5: him and an even larger check back home from the
Speaker 5: oil rig job that he hadn't even cash yet. Now
Speaker 5: many folks think this is the most plausible explanation as
Speaker 5: to what could have happened to Clinton, considering he was
Speaker 5: in a house party full of users and dealers and
Speaker 5: was talking so much about the amount of cash she
Speaker 5: had on him. It's not one hundred percent known, but
Speaker 5: it's not believed that anyone from his family was at
Speaker 5: the party that night. The third theory is that Clinton
Speaker 5: odeed and some are all the people at the party
Speaker 5: that night got rid of his body and no one
Speaker 5: is talking. It's been alleged that the people who owned
Speaker 5: this house were well known to law enforcement in the area,
Speaker 5: were both using and selling. It's also been said that
Speaker 5: in that particular parish, there would have been several arrests
Speaker 5: made if the place have been called to report an
Speaker 5: overdosed person. And let's face it, if it was that
Speaker 5: kind of house, nobody wants the law involved in anything,
Speaker 5: especially not the heat that would come with an overdose,
Speaker 5: especially with most of the people there either dealing or
Speaker 5: using illicit substances themselves. Before we end, though, it should
Speaker 5: be said that we were in contact with someone very
Speaker 5: involved in the case who was there that night and
Speaker 5: has given us some personal information which is not floating
Speaker 5: around on line or in the press. Now take all
Speaker 5: this at face value and decide for yourself what you believe.
Speaker 5: But the person throwing the party stated that he did
Speaker 5: in fact pass the lie detector test, despite the media
Speaker 5: making it sound like he's a suspect. Larry Gillespie claimed
Speaker 5: that he begged Clinton to just stay the night and
Speaker 5: not leave or go anywhere. Another source confirms that Clinton
Speaker 5: was smoking substances that night, but that it wasn't anything
Speaker 5: new for him at the time. Allegedly he had relapsed
Speaker 5: pretty hard but was still highly functional. Clinton decided to
Speaker 5: get a ride either home or to go get more
Speaker 5: substances and possibly return to the party. The person throwing.
Speaker 5: The party stated that he told the police exactly who
Speaker 5: Clinton was last talking to and who picked Clinton up
Speaker 5: when he was trying to get a meet up for
Speaker 5: a ride. Did that person come and get him? According
Speaker 5: to our anonymous source, Clinton left Larry's house on foot,
Speaker 5: perfectly fine and talking on his phone to whoever was
Speaker 5: coming to pick him up. Now we have heard the
Speaker 5: name of that so, but we're not at liberty to
Speaker 5: give that name. That person supposedly picked him up at
Speaker 5: eight thirty that night, and then he was never seen
Speaker 5: or heard from again, except for the one phone call
Speaker 5: we mentioned earlier to his father. Many people believe that
Speaker 5: because Clinton was an addict, and because the house he
Speaker 5: was at and the company was keeping the night he disappeared,
Speaker 5: and his previous run in with the law when he
Speaker 5: had all the substances in paraphernalia in his possession, the
Speaker 5: police allegedly decided it just wasn't worth investigating. Clinton's mother
Speaker 5: still travels from South Dakota to Prince in Louisiana every
Speaker 5: single year to spread awareness, hang flyers, and do interviews
Speaker 5: with local media about her son's disappearance. After Clinton had disappeared,
Speaker 5: a woman he once dated gave birth to a baby boy.
Speaker 5: DNA from Clinton's mother proved the little boy was Clinton's.
Speaker 5: What happened to Clinton? Are any of the above theories true?
Speaker 5: Wouldn't someone have talked by now after all these years?
Speaker 5: Or was it something much more sinister?
Speaker 6: After all?
Speaker 5: We know of many cases where a person joins the
Speaker 5: missing clusters in the wilderness. Usually a male makes a final,
Speaker 5: paranoid and unintelligible phone call, just for the phone to
Speaker 5: go dead and with a person never to be seen
Speaker 5: or heard from again. I'll leave you to decide for
Speaker 5: yourselves what you think with this quote from Clinton's heartbroken mother,
Speaker 5: when asked what she thinks happened to her son, she
Speaker 5: said this, and I quote, I believe from the very
Speaker 5: beginning he was dead. I just got this crazy, sick
Speaker 5: feeling the night had happened, and I had no idea
Speaker 5: he was even missing until two days later. I tried
Speaker 5: to deny that feeling, but that night I.
Speaker 6: Felt it end quote.
Speaker 5: Well, friends, thank you for tuning in to episode twelve
Speaker 5: of our Land of the Loss series. Please remember that
Speaker 5: we're asking everyone who watches this video to share it
Speaker 5: on social media and with friends and family. Clinton is
Speaker 5: still missing, and you just might know the person who
Speaker 5: holds the key solving this case and bring enclosure to
Speaker 5: the family. Until we meet again, take care of yourselves
Speaker 5: and each other. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to
Speaker 5: you next time.
Speaker 18: A family in turmoil over the disappearance of thirty three
Speaker 18: year old Ermilinda Alvarado, a Merced mother of eight children
Speaker 18: ages six to twenty three, a mother, sister, and wife
Speaker 18: who just vanished.
Speaker 5: Hello, friends, and welcome to our second episode of Land
Speaker 5: of the Lost. Today we'll be discussing the disappearance of
Speaker 5: Ermelinda Alvarado. Please make sure you share the links in
Speaker 5: the description box and share this videos we can help
Speaker 5: Erma Linda's family spread awareness.
Speaker 6: Let's begin.
Speaker 5: Ermelinda Alvarado was last seen in Merced, California, on April tenth,
Speaker 5: twenty nineteen. She had read it a red Hyundai Lantra
Speaker 5: while her husband was on a business trip to Texas.
Speaker 5: At twenty five am, she called her sister and said
Speaker 5: she was driving to Florida to visit their brother. A
Speaker 5: few minutes later, she called her husband and said she
Speaker 5: wanted to drive to Texas to be with him. He
Speaker 5: told her to go back home and pick him up
Speaker 5: at the airport. When he arrived home at nine thirty
Speaker 5: seven am, she posted a video on one of her
Speaker 5: social media accounts. It showed her alone in the desert
Speaker 5: near Blythe, California. Her sister kept trying to call her,
Speaker 5: and later that morning, Irma Linda finally answered. She said
Speaker 5: she'd been in a car accident and two men had
Speaker 5: tried to take her car in keys and she had
Speaker 5: to run for her life.
Speaker 6: Almost three hours later, she answered.
Speaker 5: A call from her brother in law and said a
Speaker 5: friend had picked her up and they were un route
Speaker 5: to Los Angeles, California. This is the last time anyone
Speaker 5: spoke to her. Never arrived to pick up her husband,
Speaker 5: Jose from the Fresno Yosemite International Airport. She's never been
Speaker 5: heard from again. On April eleventh, twenty nineteen, the rented
Speaker 5: hand Day was found abandoned off eastbound Interstate ten in
Speaker 5: a remote desert area between the towns of Blythe and Indio, California,
Speaker 5: near the Arizona border. Erma Linda's purse, identification, cash, and
Speaker 5: credit cards when sited, but her cell phone was missing.
Speaker 5: Erma Linda's family have taken several trips to the desert
Speaker 5: in Riverside County, where the vehicle was discovered. They've passed
Speaker 5: out flyers and searched for anything that would help find her.
Speaker 5: After working with a voluntary private investigation service, police found
Speaker 5: a location where her phone pinged a nearby tower. The
Speaker 5: family then used Google Maps to pinpoint an area to search.
Speaker 5: Jose says, we searched it. It was hot, it was hard,
Speaker 5: but we did whatever we could. After a three mile
Speaker 5: hike in the desert and a mile to the top
Speaker 5: of a mountain, the family discovered her shoes, but no
Speaker 5: other sign of her.
Speaker 18: Eleventh you know, around two am is when.
Speaker 5: I called, you know, reported her missing, and we haven't
Speaker 5: had contact with her since.
Speaker 18: Ierma Linda's husband says he doesn't know what to think.
Speaker 18: While her husband was on a work trip in Texas,
Speaker 18: according to Merced Police, Albarado rented a car. It was
Speaker 18: found days later abandoned on eastbound Highway ten near the
Speaker 18: California Arizona border.
Speaker 5: Thirty miles from Blyth and our press was in the car.
Speaker 6: The first was in the car, id credit cards cash.
Speaker 18: Since her disappearance, Ose and Erma Linda's sisters, Maria and
Speaker 18: Suzanne have taken trips to the secluded desert area of
Speaker 18: Riverside County where the rented vehicle was discovered, passing out
Speaker 18: flyers and searching for anything that could help find her.
Speaker 18: After working with a volunteer private investigation in service, what
Speaker 18: do you think of the police found a location where
Speaker 18: her cell phone pained a nearby tower. The family used
Speaker 18: Google Maps to pinpoint an area to search.
Speaker 6: He searched it. I mean, it's hot, but it's hard,
Speaker 6: but you know, you know, we did whatever we could.
Speaker 18: Then a break. After one hike about three miles in
Speaker 18: and about a mile to the top of a mountain,
Speaker 18: they discovered her shoes.
Speaker 10: It was very difficult, terrain, rocky, honestly life threatening. I
Speaker 10: think it was very, very difficult to get up to
Speaker 10: her shoes. It's right next to the border. It's very
Speaker 10: terrifying to just think of any and every scenario that
Speaker 10: could have happened.
Speaker 18: Riverside County Sheriff Deputies tel CBS forty seven. They searched
Speaker 18: the area but came up empty. Since her disappearance, her
Speaker 18: sisters have learned irma Linda struggled with an addiction to
Speaker 18: pain medication.
Speaker 10: I know that Viking came into play after she disappeared.
Speaker 10: I kind of started I started looking at my own's medications.
Speaker 10: They were missing.
Speaker 18: Just weeks before she went missing, the family placed her
Speaker 18: on a seventy two hour hold inside a rehab center.
Speaker 18: Here's what we know right now. On April eighth, at
Speaker 18: seven thirty in the morning, Erma Linda dropped off her
Speaker 18: husband for a business trip at the Fresno Airport. On
Speaker 18: April ninth, around noon, home video cameras show her leaving
Speaker 18: her house carrying only a brown paper bag under her arm.
Speaker 18: Or saw her and merced. Sometime afterwards, she turned off
Speaker 18: the location tracker on her phone. On April tenth, at
Speaker 18: two twenty five in the morning, she called her sister, Madia.
Speaker 18: She said she was driving her brother. Minutes later, she
Speaker 18: called her husband and said she wanted to drive to
Speaker 18: Texas to be with him. At nine thirty seven that morning,
Speaker 18: this video taken by Erma Linda was posted on her
Speaker 18: Snapchat account. It shows her alone in the desert near
Speaker 18: blythe California. At ten twenty eight am, she finally answered
Speaker 18: a call from her sister.
Speaker 10: She told me that she was an offender bender and
Speaker 10: that to a gentlemen tried to take her car, her
Speaker 10: keys away and that she had to run for her life.
Speaker 18: Almost three hours later, she answered a call from her
Speaker 18: brother in law. She told him a friend picked her
Speaker 18: up and she was on her way to Los Angeles.
Speaker 18: That's the last time anyone heard from her. Can't lose
Speaker 18: the faith, even though I'm at the point words, you know,
Speaker 18: it's hard.
Speaker 10: I need to find her. We need to find her.
Speaker 5: The family stated that Erma Linda struggled with an addiction
Speaker 5: to pain medication. Just weeks before she went missing, the
Speaker 5: family placed her on a seventy two hour hold inside
Speaker 5: a reab center. Ermalinda and Jose have eight children between
Speaker 5: the ages of six and twenty three. Five of them
Speaker 5: are their biological children and they adopted the other three.
Speaker 5: It's uncharacteristic of heartedly without warning or not be in
Speaker 5: touch with their family by phone, tex or social media.
Speaker 5: Her case remains unsolved. Ermelinda Alvarado is five foot four
Speaker 5: inches tall, about one hundred pounds, and has shoulder length
Speaker 5: dark hair. She has braces and was last seen black hoodie,
Speaker 5: black pants, and running shoes. A message from Jose Alvarado.
Speaker 5: My name is Jose Alvarado the third. I'm the husband
Speaker 5: of missing Ermalinda Alvarado. I've set up a Facebook account
Speaker 5: for the Ermalinda Alvarado case. I've also set up a
Speaker 5: GoFundMe account to not only raise funds while I'm out
Speaker 5: of work and home with the children, but any needs
Speaker 5: financially that may arise along the way dealing with eur
Speaker 5: Melinda's missing person's case. I would appreciate all the help
Speaker 5: and support I can get. As you can imagine, no
Speaker 5: family can ever be prepared for this type of situation
Speaker 5: to arise, and I'm still taking each day at a
Speaker 5: time as this experience is one that I would never
Speaker 5: worship on any one of you out there. Ever, any
Speaker 5: prayers you consent would be very encouraging and thoughtful chairs
Speaker 5: to this go fundme and any shares to the missing
Speaker 5: Flyers that we have created by professional Our entire family
Speaker 5: is going through very public and very painful situation and
Speaker 5: all of us want to get answers about Ermelinda Alvarado's
Speaker 5: well being, her location. Thank you again, so very much
Speaker 5: from the bottom of my heart for all the help
Speaker 5: this entire time. This has not been the easiest process.
Speaker 5: While keeping up with five active children, but I promise
Speaker 5: to do my best and check back often for any
Speaker 5: and all updates on this account and share as many
Speaker 5: updates as possible each day or week. If you travel
Speaker 5: to or from the Coachella Festival between April ninth and
Speaker 5: April eleventh, twenty nineteen, please check any pictures, videos, and
Speaker 5: dashcam media you have. We would like you to check
Speaker 5: the meetia to see if you may have caught Ermelinda
Speaker 5: traveling again. The rental vehicle was a neuur Radhyndai Elantra.
Speaker 5: Thank you everyone for your love and support. Sincerely, Jose
Speaker 5: Angel Alvarado the Third. Please ask anyone with information regarding
Speaker 5: Ermelinda's disappearance to contact Mercaid the Police Department at two
Speaker 5: zero nine three eight five sixty nine one two. Well,
Speaker 5: you may contact Detective hey Good at two zero nine
Speaker 5: seven sixty nine eight six seven zero. You can message
Speaker 5: anonymous tips or information to text merce Said to two
Speaker 5: seven four six thirty seven and the tip and information
Speaker 5: well friends. Thank you for tuning into episode two of
Speaker 5: our new series, Land Is the Lost. Please remember that
Speaker 5: we were asking everyone who watches this video to please
Speaker 5: share it on social media and with friends and family.
Speaker 5: Ur Melenda is still missing, and you might know the
Speaker 5: person who holds the key to solving the case. Until
Speaker 5: the next episode, take care of yourselves and each other.
Speaker 5: I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 4: In the Land of the Last, where shadows.
Speaker 1: Play, where dreams are whispers that drift away, Mountains rise.
Speaker 2: Like giants, tall and cold, stories.
Speaker 1: Untold in the silence of foam.
Speaker 3: Color of twilight, pinskies and hues, stars alike, ancient.
Speaker 2: Wom sell Us their clues, wandering spirits through the fields
Speaker 2: Rome free, lost in the echoes of what used to be.
Speaker 1: In the lad of the lost.
Speaker 4: Square, time stands still are bits of the lighted desert
Speaker 4: has a gun in the swirling mist, bemilies of moments
Speaker 4: that purposes, Rivers winding
Speaker 3: Through the endless green bearing the moonlight, silver sheep circles,
Speaker 3: a laughter from the pat