Latest / The Path Went Chilly / Boxing Day Patreon Sampler: Tim Molnar
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- 0:28Speaker 1: Welcome to this month's bonus Patreon minisote for the Path
- 0:31Speaker 1: Went Chili. Today, it's just going to be Jewels and
- 0:33Speaker 1: I doing the episode because at the time of this recording,
- 0:36Speaker 1: Ashley is only a few weeks away from giving birth,
- 0:38Speaker 1: so she's quite busy right now. So we're gonna follow
- 0:41Speaker 1: the standard formula when it's just the two of us,
- 0:43Speaker 1: where I share the details of a case with Jewels
- 0:45Speaker 1: that she does not know, and she will give off
- 0:48Speaker 1: her reactions. So I guess I'll start off by asking
- 0:51Speaker 1: you right away, have you ever heard of the case
- 0:53Speaker 1: of the unexplained disappearance and death of Tim Molnar.
- 0:57Speaker 2: I've never heard of this case. I'm always really when
- 1:00Speaker 2: we have a case where I'm not familiar with it
- 1:02Speaker 2: in the least. And when you wrote me the message
- 1:05Speaker 2: saying that's the case we're going to cover and there
- 1:07Speaker 2: isn't all that much information, I purposefully don't google it
- 1:10Speaker 2: because I don't want to know anything and I want
- 1:12Speaker 2: to be completely surprised by everything that you tell me.
- 1:16Speaker 1: That's excellent, Yeah, because this is a very weird case.
- 1:18Speaker 1: I saw it on Unsolved Mysteries many years ago, but
- 1:21Speaker 1: because the segment was only five minutes long, and there's
- 1:24Speaker 1: such a limited amount of information, I thought it would
- 1:27Speaker 1: be an appropriate topic for a minisode. I did talk
- 1:31Speaker 1: about it on The Trail Went Cold several years ago,
- 1:33Speaker 1: but it wasn't the subject of the main subject of
- 1:35Speaker 1: the episode because of the lack of information there was.
- 1:38Speaker 1: It was just I talked spent a few minutes talking
- 1:40Speaker 1: about it in conjunction with another case. But I think
- 1:43Speaker 1: now it's a good opportunity to discuss it as the
- 1:45Speaker 1: main topic. And I'm sure you know that I have
- 1:48Speaker 1: a particular fascination for cases where people go missing and
- 1:51Speaker 1: are found dead under strange circumstances and a location they
- 1:55Speaker 1: have no reason to be at. We've done a few
- 1:58Speaker 1: episodes like the disappearance of Blas Adams, who disappeared from
- 2:01Speaker 1: British Columbia and was found dead in Knoxville, Tennessee, and
- 2:05Speaker 1: Judy Smith, who went missing on a business trip to
- 2:07Speaker 1: Philadelphia and was found in the mountains of North Carolina,
- 2:11Speaker 1: and the disappearance of David Lewis, who went missing from Amarillo,
- 2:15Speaker 1: Texas and then was found on a freeway in Washington State.
- 2:19Speaker 1: And the Tim Malnar case is going to be along
- 2:21Speaker 1: those lines.
- 2:22Speaker 2: Those are some of my favorite cases. Blair Adams is
- 2:26Speaker 2: one of our early cases that we covered on The
- 2:28Speaker 2: Path Went Chile, and it's been one that's fascinated me
- 2:31Speaker 2: for so many years, and it's really sad with the
- 2:34Speaker 2: mental health angle, but it's a very real scenario where
- 2:38Speaker 2: he was murdered and we just don't have the answers
- 2:41Speaker 2: as to what happened, and there's so many strange clues.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Same with Judy Smith. That case is like a real
- 2:48Speaker 2: life Gone Girl type of a scenario. And the other
- 2:51Speaker 2: one from Amarillo.
- 2:53Speaker 1: David Lewis, I think we did that one before, like
- 2:55Speaker 1: he went missing from his home at Amarillo, and then
- 2:57Speaker 1: about twenty four hours later he was found wandering on
- 3:00Speaker 1: a freeway outside an airport in Yakima, Washington, and he
- 3:04Speaker 1: was hit by a car. So it might not have
- 3:06Speaker 1: been foul play, but the big mystery is how did
- 3:09Speaker 1: he decide to travel from Texas to Washington in such
- 3:12Speaker 1: a short amount of time. But this will be along
- 3:16Speaker 1: the same lines where its essentially two mysteries rolled up
- 3:18Speaker 1: in one like how did the person wind up at
- 3:21Speaker 1: that location and how did they die? Was their foul
- 3:23Speaker 1: play involved? So the tim Malnar case. He lived in
- 3:28Speaker 1: Daytona Beach, Florida at the time he went missing in
- 3:31Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four. His parents were Michael and Helen Molnar.
- 3:35Speaker 1: They were originally from Canada but then moved to California,
- 3:39Speaker 1: and Tim was born in Los Angeles County. The family
- 3:42Speaker 1: had a total of four children. Tim had a younger
- 3:45Speaker 1: brother and a sister, and he also had tragically an
- 3:48Speaker 1: infant brother who died at a very young age, so
- 3:51Speaker 1: at this particular point, there were only three children in
- 3:54Speaker 1: the Molnar family. They eventually moved from California to Daytona Beach, Florida.
- 4:00Speaker 1: At this particular point, Tim was nineteen years old and
- 4:03Speaker 1: he was an aeronautical mechanics student at embry Riddle Aeronautical University.
- 4:08Speaker 1: And on the morning of January twenty fourth, nineteen eighty four,
- 4:12Speaker 1: Tim climbed into his nineteen sixty nine Dodge Dart to
- 4:15Speaker 1: drive his fourteen year old brother Frank, to drop him
- 4:18Speaker 1: off at school. And as far as I know, everything
- 4:20Speaker 1: seemed completely normal. There was nothing out of the ordinary.
- 4:24Speaker 1: But Tim was planning to go to class that day
- 4:27Speaker 1: at embry Riddle Aeronautical University and as far as anyone
- 4:30Speaker 1: can tell. He didn't show up, and he never returned
- 4:34Speaker 1: home that night, and his car was not found either.
- 4:36Speaker 1: So and when he didn't turn up, his parents eventually
- 4:39Speaker 1: called the police to report a missing.
- 4:42Speaker 2: So he successfully dropped Frank off, and then after that happened,
- 4:46Speaker 2: we just have no idea where he went, who he saw,
- 4:50Speaker 2: and what became of him.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to talk about how they found his
- 4:54Speaker 1: car at a later time, but we don't know like
- 4:57Speaker 1: where he went and why he decided to take off.
- 5:00Speaker 1: And another weird detail is that they discovered that Tim's
- 5:03Speaker 1: ten speed bicycle was missing from the house, and as
- 5:07Speaker 1: far as Frank could tell, the bike was not in
- 5:09Speaker 1: the car when Tim dropped him off at school, So
- 5:12Speaker 1: it seemed likely that for whatever reason, Tim decided to
- 5:15Speaker 1: drive home pick up the bike, and then he went missing.
- 5:18Speaker 1: And they would also discover that he withdrew all the
- 5:21Speaker 1: money in his bank account except ten dollars. He left
- 5:24Speaker 1: ten dollars behind, so there was a lot of evidence
- 5:27Speaker 1: at first to suggest that he had decided to take
- 5:29Speaker 1: off voluntarily.
- 5:31Speaker 2: It almost looks like you're trying to stage a disappearance.
- 5:35Speaker 2: If you go home, get your bike and you're bringing
- 5:38Speaker 2: it with you, meaning that you likely want to dump
- 5:41Speaker 2: your car at a certain location and then take off
- 5:44Speaker 2: on your bike. That could be how it could be interpreted.
- 5:48Speaker 2: And then if you're taking out all that money, maybe
- 5:50Speaker 2: it's nineteen eighty four not being so sure about how
- 5:54Speaker 2: bank records are going to be interpreted by investigators. Tim
- 5:58Speaker 2: might not have known that this would be very obvious
- 6:02Speaker 2: that he took out all of this money. So, I mean,
- 6:05Speaker 2: forensic countermeasures weren't known in nineteen eighty four like they're
- 6:09Speaker 2: known today. So it's an interesting first way to interpret
- 6:13Speaker 2: the information.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Exactly, Like a lot of people have found it weird
- 6:16Speaker 1: that if you wanted to go off somewhere and start
- 6:18Speaker 1: a new life, why did he not completely empty his
- 6:21Speaker 1: bank account? Like why did he leave behind the ten dollars?
- 6:24Speaker 1: It would be one thing if it was maybe like
- 6:25Speaker 1: fifty cents, something you could withdraw, But the fact that
- 6:29Speaker 1: it was a round number. People have taken it as
- 6:31Speaker 1: a symbol that maybe he felt, if this doesn't work out,
- 6:34Speaker 1: I'm going to return home, and if I do, at
- 6:36Speaker 1: least I'll still have some money in my account waiting
- 6:38Speaker 1: for me.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Do you know if it's possible that he had to
- 6:41Speaker 2: have like a minimum amount in there to keep the
- 6:44Speaker 2: account active.
- 6:45Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure, and I don't have that information
- 6:49Speaker 1: about whether he took it from an ATM or had
- 6:51Speaker 1: to go into the bank. I don't know if ATMs
- 6:54Speaker 1: were prevalent in Daytona Beach back in nineteen eighty four,
- 6:58Speaker 1: but I haven't heard of anything about having him having
- 7:00Speaker 1: any specific interactions at the bank to withdraw the money
- 7:03Speaker 1: from any tellers. So I don't know if he was
- 7:05Speaker 1: told you have to leave ten dollars in.
- 7:07Speaker 2: There were ATMs even a thing in nineteen eighty four.
- 7:11Speaker 1: They might have been. I grew up in the eighties
- 7:14Speaker 1: and I seem to remember them from the late eighties.
- 7:17Speaker 2: I'm going to google this. Yeah, oh my god, it
- 7:19Speaker 2: says June of nineteen sixty seven.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Oh wow, I didn't.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. So, according to Wikipedia, a cash machine was
- 7:28Speaker 2: put into use by Barclays Bank and Field North London
- 7:32Speaker 2: in the United Kingdom on the twenty seventh of June
- 7:35Speaker 2: nineteen sixty seven, which is recognized as the world's first ATM.
- 7:39Speaker 2: This machine was inaugurated by English actor Reg Varney. Whoever
- 7:43Speaker 2: that is.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know that I didn't know they were
- 7:47Speaker 1: that old, but I couldn't say for certain if they
- 7:49Speaker 1: were implemented in the United States by nineteen eighty four,
- 7:52Speaker 1: and if they were, I can't say for certain if
- 7:54Speaker 1: they were in Daytona Beach.
- 7:56Speaker 2: They became common by the nineteen eighties. They were introduced
- 8:00Speaker 2: in Canada in nineteen sixty nine, but the widespread use
- 8:04Speaker 2: was in the nineteen eighties. So it's entirely possible that
- 8:08Speaker 2: he used in ATM.
- 8:10Speaker 1: I'm thinking that because otherwise I think someone from the
- 8:13Speaker 1: bank might have remembered him if he had to go
- 8:15Speaker 1: in and do a manual withdrawal.
- 8:17Speaker 2: So just one more thing regarding the ATM. Do you
- 8:21Speaker 2: think that if he did use it, that it's possible
- 8:23Speaker 2: that he left ten dollars in his account because you
- 8:26Speaker 2: could only take out multiples of twenty.
- 8:28Speaker 1: That is true. Yes, I never thought about that. That
- 8:31Speaker 1: maybe they just told him you can't take out twenty
- 8:33Speaker 1: and it was impossible to get it out in ten
- 8:35Speaker 1: dollars bills, and that's the only reason it was left there.
- 8:38Speaker 1: So three weeks later, Tim's parents received a credit card
- 8:41Speaker 1: statement in the mail which showed that their card, which
- 8:43Speaker 1: they had given to Tim was used to purchase gas
- 8:46Speaker 1: at a service station in Lake City, Florida, on the
- 8:49Speaker 1: same day ten disappeared, even though it was located one
- 8:53Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles northwest from Daytona Beach. So Helen
- 8:56Speaker 1: Malnar traveled all the way to the service station to
- 8:59Speaker 1: speak with the attacks and showed him his photograph, and
- 9:02Speaker 1: the attendant seemed to remember him because he recalled that
- 9:05Speaker 1: Tim had been driving a nineteen sixty nine Dodge Dart,
- 9:08Speaker 1: which was a classic so and when they showed a
- 9:11Speaker 1: photograph of the car, he said, yet, that might have
- 9:13Speaker 1: been the car I saw. So this added further evidence
- 9:16Speaker 1: to the possibility that Tim, for whatever reason, decided to
- 9:19Speaker 1: take off on his own.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Okay, so he cleans out his bank account less ten dollars,
- 9:27Speaker 2: and he has the credit card from his parents that
- 9:31Speaker 2: he's using. So if we were going to operate originally
- 9:35Speaker 2: under the presupposition that he's disappearing voluntarily, he takes out
- 9:39Speaker 2: his money, he gets his bike, he has his car.
- 9:42Speaker 2: If he wasn't wanting to be traced, one would think
- 9:45Speaker 2: that at this point he would be paying for his
- 9:47Speaker 2: gas with cash, not using the credit card his parents
- 9:51Speaker 2: gave him. So this totally is contrary to the theory
- 9:55Speaker 2: that he's disappearing of his own volition or free will.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Maybe he's just has a set objective and he's he
- 10:04Speaker 2: wasn't thinking like what if they trace this, because it
- 10:06Speaker 2: was never his intention to be disappearing.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also possible that he was planning to go
- 10:12Speaker 1: elsewhere that day for some unscheduled road trip and was
- 10:16Speaker 1: planning to go back, but then something went horribly wrong,
- 10:19Speaker 1: and of course when the credit card arrived three weeks later,
- 10:21Speaker 1: that's how they were able to tell that Tim used it.
- 10:24Speaker 1: And another odd detail is that they discovered that none
- 10:27Speaker 1: of his clothing or personal possessions appear to have been
- 10:30Speaker 1: missing from the house. The only thing that was gone
- 10:32Speaker 1: was the ten speed bicycle, So that once again goes
- 10:35Speaker 1: against the idea that he was planning to disappear permanently,
- 10:39Speaker 1: And like.
- 10:40Speaker 2: What scenario can you think of that, say, he was
- 10:43Speaker 2: going to meet somebody where It's clear, just based on
- 10:46Speaker 2: what we know now, that he wasn't planning on leaving
- 10:49Speaker 2: for any period of time. But what he was doing
- 10:52Speaker 2: required that he had money, because he took that cash
- 10:55Speaker 2: with him. So if he's going to meet somebody. Is
- 10:58Speaker 2: it that he's going somewhere where you can only drive
- 11:02Speaker 2: so far by car, so he needs to go the
- 11:04Speaker 2: rest of the distance on a bike or why else
- 11:07Speaker 2: do you think the bike would factor in?
- 11:09Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about that, as if possibly maybe
- 11:12Speaker 1: he was going to a rural area or something like
- 11:14Speaker 1: that that he knew that he couldn't drive on the
- 11:16Speaker 1: road so he had to take the bike with him.
- 11:18Speaker 1: But as we're going to talk about momentarily, the car
- 11:21Speaker 1: is eventually found and that only adds more unanswered questions
- 11:24Speaker 1: to the whole thing. So let me tell you about
- 11:26Speaker 1: this part, because it gets even weirder. It was not
- 11:29Speaker 1: until four months after Tim went missing when the Mallners
- 11:33Speaker 1: received a letter in the mail from a towing company
- 11:35Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Georgia, which stated that Tim's abandoned Dodge Dart
- 11:39Speaker 1: had been found in a parking lot on January the thirtieth,
- 11:43Speaker 1: six days hey after he originally went missing, and had
- 11:45Speaker 1: been in an impound yard ever since. And of course
- 11:49Speaker 1: this made things even weirder because Atlanta was four hundred
- 11:52Speaker 1: and thirty miles north of Daytona Beach. And then when
- 11:55Speaker 1: his parents went to Atlanta to pick up the car.
- 11:57Speaker 1: They discovered that his wallet was still inside, and even
- 12:00Speaker 1: though all the money had been emptied out, Tim's identification,
- 12:04Speaker 1: including his driver's license and his credit card, were still there.
- 12:08Speaker 1: But to make things even weirder, his bicycle was not
- 12:11Speaker 1: in the car, and some items that you or nearly
- 12:14Speaker 1: kept in there, such as a tool set and a
- 12:16Speaker 1: stereo system that he had received for Christmas and personally installed,
- 12:20Speaker 1: were missing. So people have wondered were these robbed, were
- 12:24Speaker 1: they stolen? Or did Tim take these out himself because
- 12:27Speaker 1: he wanted to steal them? And they discovered that the
- 12:31Speaker 1: vehicle was parked only a block away from a Greyhound
- 12:34Speaker 1: bus station, so they wondered, maybe he parked the car
- 12:37Speaker 1: here because he was planning to take a bus trip somewhere.
- 12:40Speaker 1: But if that's the case, why did he take the
- 12:42Speaker 1: bicycle out of the car? So this only brought up
- 12:46Speaker 1: more questions than they answered.
- 12:48Speaker 2: And we know that he didn't have like a backpack
- 12:51Speaker 2: or a suitcase, so how is he going to transport
- 12:54Speaker 2: these items? Say he did take he wanted to take
- 12:57Speaker 2: the Greyhound bus. Okay, maybe if you're just taking your bike,
- 13:01Speaker 2: but how are you going to carry a car, stereo?
- 13:04Speaker 2: And all of these other things. If you don't have
- 13:07Speaker 2: a bag in which to carry these items, and we
- 13:10Speaker 2: can't assume. I don't think at this point in the
- 13:13Speaker 2: story that he's the one that dumped the vehicle there.
- 13:15Speaker 2: Obviously it's possible that somebody dumped it there and then
- 13:18Speaker 2: they just took those items because they wanted to rob him.
- 13:22Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's interesting that if that was
- 13:25Speaker 2: the case, that they would leave the wallet. You said
- 13:28Speaker 2: the identification was in there still right.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Yeah, though, the identification and the credit card was in there,
- 13:33Speaker 1: but all the money was gone.
- 13:34Speaker 2: That seems odd. If you were to rob him, wouldn't
- 13:37Speaker 2: you not want the vehicle to be identified with like
- 13:40Speaker 2: who owns it right away? It would give you a
- 13:42Speaker 2: little bit more time if his identification wasn't in there,
- 13:47Speaker 2: to just get rid of that so that you would
- 13:49Speaker 2: kind of distance him from that vehicle, and then to
- 13:53Speaker 2: leave the credit card there. If you robbed it, you'd
- 13:56Speaker 2: think you'd at least try that credit card, so maybe
- 14:00Speaker 2: you one could assume that it was indeed Tim who
- 14:03Speaker 2: took it, because Tim knew wherever I'm going, I can't
- 14:07Speaker 2: use this credit card. I don't know. It's just a
- 14:10Speaker 2: big question mark. It's so strange because I just don't
- 14:13Speaker 2: see how he could get from point A his car,
- 14:15Speaker 2: with his bike, the car, stereo, all of these things
- 14:18Speaker 2: to point B. Maybe a greyhound bus, maybe somewhere else.
- 14:22Speaker 2: This is a really strange case.
- 14:24Speaker 1: It certainly is. Yeah, and you're right, we can't be
- 14:26Speaker 1: one hundred percent certain that Tim was the one who
- 14:28Speaker 1: left the car there. As far as I know, there
- 14:31Speaker 1: were no signs of any break in, so they don't
- 14:33Speaker 1: believe someone broke in and stole the stereo. But if
- 14:36Speaker 1: it was someone else who left the car there, maybe
- 14:39Speaker 1: they personally took the items. And a theory which has
- 14:42Speaker 1: been pushed forward that perhaps the reason that he took
- 14:44Speaker 1: out the stereo and the tool set is that maybe
- 14:46Speaker 1: he was planning to sell them or pawn them if
- 14:49Speaker 1: he was planning to disappear and needed money for say
- 14:52Speaker 1: bus fare, And it could also explain why the bicycle
- 14:55Speaker 1: was missing. Maybe he decided to sell it off or
- 14:58Speaker 1: pawn it himself. It's never been conclusively proven. They found
- 15:01Speaker 1: no evidence that he ever attempted to sell these items
- 15:04Speaker 1: anywhere in Atlanta, and it also brings up the question
- 15:07Speaker 1: if you wanted to disappear permanently. Why did he not
- 15:09Speaker 1: sell the car as well? Because he could probably make
- 15:12Speaker 1: a lot of money from that too.
- 15:14Speaker 2: And I think both things can be true. Tim could
- 15:17Speaker 2: have left the car, and he could have taken the
- 15:19Speaker 2: money out of the wallet and just left the wallet,
- 15:21Speaker 2: and then somebody could have come upon the Dodge Dart
- 15:24Speaker 2: and opportunistically been like, oh cool, there's a stereo, I'm
- 15:27Speaker 2: going to take that. There's a bike, I'm going to
- 15:29Speaker 2: take that. So if that was the case, we can't
- 15:33Speaker 2: know what Tim took and what the person. If this
- 15:36Speaker 2: scenario did indeed happen and there was like an opportunistic
- 15:39Speaker 2: robber who came up after the fact, we can't know
- 15:42Speaker 2: what each one.
- 15:43Speaker 1: Took exactly, like we don't know who took the items
- 15:47Speaker 1: out of the car or if Tim himself abandoned the car.
- 15:49Speaker 1: And even though there are as signs of any break in,
- 15:51Speaker 1: for all we know, maybe Tim just left it there unlocked,
- 15:54Speaker 1: and that someone opportunistic could have gone there and stolen
- 15:57Speaker 1: these items without having to break into it. So Tim's
- 16:02Speaker 1: family said that they could not understand why he would
- 16:04Speaker 1: have chosen to run away. We don't know all that
- 16:06Speaker 1: much about his personality. They just said that he was
- 16:09Speaker 1: kind of a quiet, reserved guy who'd never caused any trouble,
- 16:12Speaker 1: So we don't have any information if he might have
- 16:14Speaker 1: been suffering from many mental health issues or depression at
- 16:18Speaker 1: that time. But the case pretty much faded from the
- 16:21Speaker 1: spotlight for an entire decade. There were no leads that
- 16:24Speaker 1: I know of, but in November of nineteen ninety five,
- 16:26Speaker 1: UNSAW Mysteries decided to profile it on the show. But
- 16:30Speaker 1: they had a very interesting angle to it because there
- 16:33Speaker 1: were technically no signs of foul play or any evidence
- 16:36Speaker 1: that Tim was in any danger, and the evidence made
- 16:39Speaker 1: it look like he could have taken away voluntarily, so
- 16:42Speaker 1: they decided to make a public announcement that only a
- 16:45Speaker 1: few days after Tim went missing, a relative of his
- 16:49Speaker 1: had passed away and made Tim the heir to an
- 16:52Speaker 1: estate worth fifty thousand dollars. So they pretty much put
- 16:55Speaker 1: all the emphasis on that, saying that Tim, if you're
- 16:58Speaker 1: still alive and you're out there watching, please know that
- 17:01Speaker 1: even if you don't want to contact your family, you
- 17:03Speaker 1: still have fifty thousand dollars waiting for you, So if
- 17:06Speaker 1: you come back and claim it, you don't necessarily have
- 17:09Speaker 1: to stay with your family, but at least you can
- 17:11Speaker 1: let them know you're alive or okay, and they thought
- 17:13Speaker 1: that might be a motivation for him to come forward
- 17:16Speaker 1: if he happened to be watching and Unsaw Mysteries actually
- 17:19Speaker 1: did that a few years earlier on another missing person's case,
- 17:22Speaker 1: where a man named Scott hill A gone missing, but
- 17:25Speaker 1: it turned out that he likely took off voluntarily because
- 17:28Speaker 1: he made a lot of bad financial decisions which left
- 17:31Speaker 1: his family bankrupt, so he might have taken off because
- 17:33Speaker 1: he was ashamed. But it turned out that his mother
- 17:36Speaker 1: passed away and left him, made Scott the heir to
- 17:38Speaker 1: his seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars estate, So they
- 17:41Speaker 1: mentioned that on Unsolved Mysteries and lo and behold, they
- 17:44Speaker 1: still they found Scott alive somewhere and he did come
- 17:47Speaker 1: forward to claim the estate, but it was a very bittersweet,
- 17:50Speaker 1: awkward reunion with his family because they're like, well, we're
- 17:53Speaker 1: happy you're alive, but now we know you abandoned us
- 17:55Speaker 1: and that the only reason you're coming back is because
- 17:57Speaker 1: you want the money. So I think they were hoping
- 18:00Speaker 1: maybe that the same thing would happen with Tim.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sort of like, I'm glad that you're alive,
- 18:05Speaker 2: and we kind of hate you now because we've been
- 18:08Speaker 2: worried about all the worst things that could have happened
- 18:11Speaker 2: to you. And you left your family like up you know,
- 18:15Speaker 2: whatever creek without a paddle, and then you return only
- 18:19Speaker 2: when there's money involved, saying that you were putting people
- 18:23Speaker 2: secondary to money, and so yeah, I can imagine that
- 18:26Speaker 2: was bittersweet. But with Tim, I mean, fifty thousand dollars
- 18:30Speaker 2: and he's not coming forward. It seems like if you
- 18:34Speaker 2: were living under a different identity or that type of
- 18:38Speaker 2: a scenario where you had to forge this whole new life,
- 18:42Speaker 2: it would be difficult because I mean, unless you fake
- 18:45Speaker 2: a social Security number. And I don't know how adept
- 18:49Speaker 2: he was with these type of things. I'm sure he
- 18:51Speaker 2: was fairly smart. Being like that type of mechanic is
- 18:54Speaker 2: a really difficult type of career to embark upon. So
- 18:57Speaker 2: I'm sure he was above average intelligence. So I just
- 19:01Speaker 2: can't see any underlying motivation that would cause want him
- 19:05Speaker 2: to leave this life that he had at this age,
- 19:07Speaker 2: like he's just coming into adulthood. I just don't see
- 19:12Speaker 2: what factors would motivate him to want to leave his
- 19:15Speaker 2: life behind and not contact anybody.
- 19:18Speaker 1: Yeah, with the Scott Hill case, it was obvious why
- 19:20Speaker 1: he would have wanted to take off, because he made
- 19:23Speaker 1: a bunch of bad financial decisions and he put his
- 19:25Speaker 1: family in dire straits. But with Tim, he didn't seem
- 19:28Speaker 1: to have anything bad going on for his life because
- 19:30Speaker 1: he's taking a course in aeronautical engineering, so he's obviously
- 19:34Speaker 1: a smart guy and he's got plans for the future.
- 19:37Speaker 1: So that's the key difference between these two cases is
- 19:41Speaker 1: that with Scott Hill's case, they knew why he would
- 19:43Speaker 1: have taken off, but with Tim, his family was completely clueless.
- 19:47Speaker 2: Do we know at all anything about his romantic life.
- 19:51Speaker 1: We don't know anything. I have no idea if he
- 19:53Speaker 1: ever had any girlfriends or boyfriends or any relationships at all.
- 19:57Speaker 1: We just don't know anything about his personality other th
- 20:00Speaker 1: that he was a quiet kid who didn't cause any trouble.
- 20:03Speaker 2: It's so hard when we don't have that type of
- 20:05Speaker 2: information because then we also likely don't have information on
- 20:09Speaker 2: if he partied, if he had any kind of secret life,
- 20:12Speaker 2: if there was something that he was ashamed of. There's
- 20:15Speaker 2: just so many things where there's hidden variables. And it
- 20:19Speaker 2: absolutely could be nothing. There might be nothing that he
- 20:22Speaker 2: felt shame about. There might be no secret life, there
- 20:25Speaker 2: might be no abuse of any substances. But at the
- 20:28Speaker 2: end of the day, we just don't.
- 20:29Speaker 1: Know exactly, just because we have no information about his background.
- 20:35Speaker 1: But the Unsoawd Mystery segment would lead to one of
- 20:37Speaker 1: the more shocking updates in the history of the show.
- 20:40Speaker 1: They didn't get any leads after the first airing in
- 20:43Speaker 1: November of nineteen ninety five, but they re ran the
- 20:45Speaker 1: segment in January of nineteen ninety six, and that's when
- 20:48Speaker 1: they got a call to the unsaw Mysteries telecenter from
- 20:51Speaker 1: a guy named Stephen Call who had just watched the show.
- 20:55Speaker 1: And at the end of the segment they had described
- 20:57Speaker 1: the clothing that Tim was wearing when he was last
- 21:00Speaker 1: and Stephen Call said, I found a dead body about
- 21:03Speaker 1: ten years ago and I vividly remember it, and I'm
- 21:06Speaker 1: pretty sure the victim was wearing the same clothes that
- 21:09Speaker 1: you described that Tim was wearing. And it turned out
- 21:12Speaker 1: that this story did check out, because it turned out
- 21:14Speaker 1: that on March the twenty third, nineteen eighty six, an
- 21:18Speaker 1: unidentified dead body for a young man was found frozen
- 21:21Speaker 1: in a block of ice in a secluded pine plantation
- 21:25Speaker 1: in Wakisha County, Wisconsin, and because he could not be identified,
- 21:30Speaker 1: he had been kept there as a John Doe for
- 21:32Speaker 1: about a decade. And here's the shocking part. Wakisha County,
- 21:36Speaker 1: Wisconsin is twelve hundred miles away from Daytona Beach, and
- 21:40Speaker 1: they did do DNA testing and it turned out that
- 21:43Speaker 1: the victim was Tim Molnar.
- 21:47Speaker 2: Wow, what the actual f I'm my mind is seriously
- 21:52Speaker 2: blown because I thought, Okay, it's far enough where we've
- 21:55Speaker 2: got the vehicle four hundred miles away, and now it Wisconsin, Like,
- 22:00Speaker 2: how did he get it up there? Did he ride
- 22:03Speaker 2: his bike there? How did he end up in this
- 22:05Speaker 2: pine plantation? I have so many questions?
- 22:08Speaker 1: Oh so do I, and unfortunately a lot of them
- 22:11Speaker 1: were resolved. Some people have had some suspicion about Stephen Kohl,
- 22:15Speaker 1: where they're thinking, how did you remember the clothing that
- 22:17Speaker 1: a dead body was wearing like ten years earlier, But
- 22:21Speaker 1: some people have said, well, if you experienced the trauma
- 22:24Speaker 1: finding a dead body, you might remember all the details.
- 22:26Speaker 1: And they never found any indication that he was a suspect,
- 22:29Speaker 1: and he just said that when he was watching the
- 22:32Speaker 1: Unsaw Mystery segment and they described the clothing, he just
- 22:35Speaker 1: had immediate flashbacks and was like, the guy that they
- 22:39Speaker 1: found was about the same age range. I think it's
- 22:42Speaker 1: probably a long shot because this was Wisconsin, but I'll
- 22:45Speaker 1: phone in the tip anyway. And I'm sure glad he
- 22:47Speaker 1: did because it turned out his hunch was correct and
- 22:49Speaker 1: it was Tim.
- 22:51Speaker 2: I'm glad that he was finally discovered because that gives
- 22:54Speaker 2: his family those answers. As difficult as it is to
- 22:57Speaker 2: accept that he's just seized and they have no idea
- 23:01Speaker 2: how he got there and why, it at least gives
- 23:05Speaker 2: them the body. And I know that having your loved
- 23:09Speaker 2: one brought home and having the ability to be able
- 23:12Speaker 2: to go and visit them or you know, have whatever
- 23:14Speaker 2: type of funeral you would have, I think gives parents
- 23:20Speaker 2: some just some answers. I mean, there's a lot of
- 23:22Speaker 2: question marks here, and I can't imagine what they're dealing
- 23:27Speaker 2: with in the aftermath, because it's like, great, we know
- 23:30Speaker 2: part of this, but it's an enduring mystery.
- 23:33Speaker 1: Oh exactly, yeah, because that only brought up so many
- 23:36Speaker 1: more unanswered questions inside their own mind. But there were
- 23:39Speaker 1: so many details that left even more unanswered questions because
- 23:43Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety six, DNA testing was not as
- 23:46Speaker 1: common as it is today, so they wanted to double
- 23:49Speaker 1: check it first to see is there a good chance
- 23:51Speaker 1: this might be Tim Before they took the DNA from
- 23:54Speaker 1: his family members, and when the John Doe had been found,
- 23:57Speaker 1: he was carrying a set of rusted keys on them
- 23:59Speaker 1: that they still had his evidence, and they asked them, all, nars,
- 24:02Speaker 1: have you changed your locks at all since Tim went
- 24:05Speaker 1: missing in nineteen eighty four, and they said no. So
- 24:08Speaker 1: they made a copy of their house key, sent it
- 24:10Speaker 1: up to Wisconsin, and it turned out to be an
- 24:13Speaker 1: exact match to the rusted key that the John Doe
- 24:16Speaker 1: had been carrying, so that was their first hint that
- 24:18Speaker 1: this might be Tim. And he had also been found
- 24:21Speaker 1: carrying a rusted key for a Dodge Dart, which turned
- 24:25Speaker 1: out to be a match for Tim's car, And that
- 24:28Speaker 1: just makes things more confusing because if he wanted to
- 24:30Speaker 1: take off voluntarily, why did he still carry around his
- 24:34Speaker 1: car key and his house key, Like, if he's abandoning
- 24:37Speaker 1: the car, he's not going to need the key, and
- 24:40Speaker 1: if he has no intention of coming back, He's not
- 24:42Speaker 1: going to need his house key either, So why would
- 24:44Speaker 1: he leave his wallet behind in the car with his
- 24:46Speaker 1: ID and credit card but still hold on to these
- 24:48Speaker 1: keys and take them all the way to Wisconsin.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Like what if he was meeting somebody and he didn't
- 24:54Speaker 2: want them to see his vehicle or was that another location?
- 24:58Speaker 2: So he've thought, Okay, well, I'll park my car here
- 25:01Speaker 2: in Atlanta and we're going to meet at location you
- 25:04Speaker 2: know X or whatever. And then he gets there, gets
- 25:08Speaker 2: in the vehicle of the person, and then they're going
- 25:11Speaker 2: to drive to location A say, for example. And that's
- 25:16Speaker 2: what he's what's understood. But then something changes, something happens.
- 25:22Speaker 2: Did they give cause of death when they found that
- 25:24Speaker 2: he was frozen? Did they give any insight there?
- 25:27Speaker 1: No, they were not able to determine the exact cause
- 25:29Speaker 1: of death. Like I said, he was not found until
- 25:32Speaker 1: March of nineteen eighty six, but he had originally gone
- 25:34Speaker 1: missing in January of nineteen eighty four, and no one
- 25:37Speaker 1: can be certain how long he had been dead at
- 25:40Speaker 1: that point because he was heavily decomposed. We don't know
- 25:42Speaker 1: if his body was there for two whole years before
- 25:45Speaker 1: he was found. So that doesn't add much insight on
- 25:48Speaker 1: how exactly he died, if it was foul play, or
- 25:51Speaker 1: if he crossed paths with someone who killed him. And
- 25:54Speaker 1: it's certainly possible that he could have like climbed on
- 25:56Speaker 1: the Greyhound bus in Atlanta and traveled all the way
- 25:59Speaker 1: to us, but we still have no idea.
- 26:01Speaker 2: Why do we know that there was buses that went
- 26:06Speaker 2: like directly to Wisconsin. I guess he could have taken
- 26:09Speaker 2: the connecting buses along the way, doesn't matter if they
- 26:12Speaker 2: had a direct line to Wisconsin from Atlanta. There's a
- 26:15Speaker 2: myriad of ways he could have got there, taken a
- 26:17Speaker 2: bus partway, hitchhike the rest.
- 26:19Speaker 1: Unfortunately, we don't have that information because they didn't find
- 26:22Speaker 1: the car in Atlanta until four months after he went missing.
- 26:26Speaker 1: I don't think they checked bus records back then, but
- 26:28Speaker 1: by nineteen ninety six, there's no way they're going to
- 26:30Speaker 1: have records about which buses would have been leaving Atlanta
- 26:33Speaker 1: at that particular day. But this area was pretty remote though,
- 26:37Speaker 1: so say if he took a bus till Milwaukee or something,
- 26:41Speaker 1: that doesn't explain how he wound up in this very
- 26:43Speaker 1: remote area.
- 26:45Speaker 2: It seems like he must have been meeting somebody, like,
- 26:49Speaker 2: what else would he be doing If you were going
- 26:52Speaker 2: to stage your own disappearance, why would you take all
- 26:55Speaker 2: of your money out less than ten dollars? If you
- 26:58Speaker 2: were planning on using your parents' credit card part way
- 27:00Speaker 2: through to get gas, you'd think, well, if I'm planning
- 27:03Speaker 2: to end my own life, why do I need more money?
- 27:06Speaker 2: And like, why would you go so far away? People
- 27:08Speaker 2: who end their own lives typically, obviously, I know you
- 27:12Speaker 2: always give a really big example for somebody who ends
- 27:16Speaker 2: their own life far away, and what casees that that
- 27:19Speaker 2: you always use?
- 27:20Speaker 1: The Gail Delano one. Yeah, he was going to bring
- 27:22Speaker 1: it up momentarily, but people have looked at that possibility
- 27:26Speaker 1: that because he left his wallet behind, he may have
- 27:29Speaker 1: been planning suicide. And while it makes no logical sense
- 27:32Speaker 1: for him to travel twelve hundred miles in order to
- 27:34Speaker 1: do so, I always cite the Gail Delano case as
- 27:37Speaker 1: an example of someone doing that because she went missing
- 27:40Speaker 1: from the town of wo Of, like a small town
- 27:43Speaker 1: in Maine, in nineteen eighty six, and after she was
- 27:46Speaker 1: featured on Unsolved Mysteries, they had a medical examiner come
- 27:49Speaker 1: forward and says, I recognize that woman as as a
- 27:52Speaker 1: Jane Doe, who had checked into a hotel in Mobile, Alabama,
- 27:56Speaker 1: which was nearly two thousand miles away, and they positively
- 28:00Speaker 1: identified her because she had overdosed. So, for whatever reason,
- 28:04Speaker 1: she decided to travel all the way from Maine to Alabama,
- 28:07Speaker 1: check into a hotel under a fake name, and overdose
- 28:10Speaker 1: in order to take her own life. And well, it
- 28:13Speaker 1: makes no logical sense. We do know that Gail Delano
- 28:15Speaker 1: had a severe history of depression and may have just
- 28:19Speaker 1: felt it's better off not to let my family know
- 28:21Speaker 1: I completed suicide. So I'm just going to take off
- 28:23Speaker 1: to this far away location and no one will find me.
- 28:26Speaker 1: And because we couldn't determine Tim's cause of death, I
- 28:29Speaker 1: guess we can't completely rule out that his death was
- 28:32Speaker 1: a suicide either.
- 28:34Speaker 2: Yeah, that is incredibly atypical, but obviously it does happen,
- 28:39Speaker 2: so we can't rule that out. It just seems so
- 28:43Speaker 2: odd that, like you're going to travel a distance, Why
- 28:46Speaker 2: not Atlanta? That's pretty far away. Why continue on to Wisconsin.
- 28:51Speaker 2: It feels like it would have just been far away
- 28:53Speaker 2: where you are. Why exert that extra effort to go
- 28:57Speaker 2: that extra distance. It's just confounding this whole case is
- 29:02Speaker 2: I'm totally torn because we don't know what mental health issues,
- 29:07Speaker 2: if any Tim was struggling with. I mean, mental health
- 29:10Speaker 2: wasn't talked about the same way in nineteen eighty four,
- 29:13Speaker 2: So even if he was suffering, he may not have
- 29:16Speaker 2: told anybody.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking as well, is like I
- 29:20Speaker 1: said that there's no information about his background, but if
- 29:22Speaker 1: he was suffering from depression or anything like that, or anxiety,
- 29:26Speaker 1: he may just not have told anyone and kept it
- 29:28Speaker 1: bottle up inside and that they never sense that anything
- 29:31Speaker 1: was wrong. So that's why it took them completely out
- 29:34Speaker 1: of the blue when he decided to travel to another
- 29:36Speaker 1: location in order to take his own life. I mean,
- 29:39Speaker 1: with the Gail Delano case, we had a documented history
- 29:42Speaker 1: of mental health issues, so no one was overly surprised
- 29:45Speaker 1: that she elected suicide. But with Tim, we just don't know.
- 29:48Speaker 1: And even if it was a suicide, of how did
- 29:50Speaker 1: he do it? I mean, at least with the Gail Delano's,
- 29:53Speaker 1: they know that she overdosed on pills. But because we
- 29:55Speaker 1: couldn't determine Tim's cause of death, it's unclear if he
- 29:59Speaker 1: could have had any p hills or anything in a
- 30:00Speaker 1: system for suicide.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Refreshed my memory. In the guil Delano case, did she
- 30:06Speaker 2: have any connection to the area that she decided to
- 30:10Speaker 2: complete suicide.
- 30:12Speaker 1: I don't think so. No, and they've never been able
- 30:14Speaker 1: to determine if she flew down there or if she
- 30:17Speaker 1: hitchhiked down there. I think she just settled on maybe
- 30:19Speaker 1: just a faraway location where her family never would have
- 30:22Speaker 1: found her. And as far as I know, Tim didn't
- 30:25Speaker 1: have any connection to Wisconsin because he grew up in
- 30:27Speaker 1: California before he moved to Florida. But he may have
- 30:30Speaker 1: just selected it at random if it was suicide, thinking
- 30:33Speaker 1: this is the farthest place away that my family will
- 30:36Speaker 1: never find out what happened to me. And he probably
- 30:38Speaker 1: never dreamed that I'm going to be featured on national
- 30:41Speaker 1: television a decade later and the guy who found my
- 30:44Speaker 1: body is going to phone in the tip. So yeah. Sadly,
- 30:47Speaker 1: there weren't any further developments in the case even after
- 30:51Speaker 1: it was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, and his parents have
- 30:54Speaker 1: both since passed away. I believe his brother, Frank and
- 30:58Speaker 1: his sister are still al but I've never seen them
- 31:01Speaker 1: speak publicly about the case, so I don't know about
- 31:04Speaker 1: their thoughts and if they're still actively trying to figure
- 31:07Speaker 1: out what happened to them. But the story is not
- 31:10Speaker 1: over because the most recent leads I have found out
- 31:13Speaker 1: are on Reddit, because there is this one person who
- 31:16Speaker 1: has relatives who live in the area of Wisconsin where
- 31:19Speaker 1: Tim was found, and over the past couple of years,
- 31:22Speaker 1: they have made multiple posts on a whole bunch of
- 31:25Speaker 1: different subreddits saying that they have information about Tim's disappearance
- 31:29Speaker 1: and they have a suspect that they want people to
- 31:31Speaker 1: look into, and it's all over the place. It's been
- 31:34Speaker 1: shared multiple times, and they have claimed that they have
- 31:37Speaker 1: shared this information with the authorities but never heard back
- 31:40Speaker 1: from them, And in a lot of subreddits, like the
- 31:42Speaker 1: Unresolved Mystery subreddit, whenever this person has posted it, it's
- 31:46Speaker 1: been taken down. And I think the main reason for
- 31:48Speaker 1: that is that they specifically name a suspect that they
- 31:51Speaker 1: believe might have killed Tim, which you're not supposed to
- 31:53Speaker 1: do on most subreddits of so that's probably why it's
- 31:57Speaker 1: been pulled. But if you search hard enough, you can
- 31:59Speaker 1: still find it in places.
- 32:01Speaker 2: That is really interesting. I wonder what this person was
- 32:06Speaker 2: attached to, like, do you know if there's any other
- 32:08Speaker 2: crimes and what specifically it was that made them believe
- 32:12Speaker 2: that this person was responsible for Tim's death.
- 32:15Speaker 1: Well, they write a full backstory on the Reddit post,
- 32:18Speaker 1: and I'm going to share it now. I'm not going
- 32:20Speaker 1: to say the suspects name. I'll just say that his
- 32:23Speaker 1: name is Richard. That's what I'll call him, and it's
- 32:26Speaker 1: an unusual last name. So I did a Google search
- 32:28Speaker 1: on it, and this poster said that this guy Richard
- 32:32Speaker 1: went to prison eventually for sexually assaulting a child, and
- 32:36Speaker 1: I looked up his name and he is on the
- 32:38Speaker 1: sex offenders registry. So this does check out. So I
- 32:42Speaker 1: do believe that this person is real and that there's
- 32:46Speaker 1: maybe a possibility he did something to Tim, but because
- 32:49Speaker 1: law enforcement has never said his name, I'm not going
- 32:51Speaker 1: to share it. So the story goes is that the
- 32:54Speaker 1: person who left this had an uncle who lived in
- 32:57Speaker 1: a remote area of Wisconsin far from where Tim's body
- 33:01Speaker 1: was found. And apparently Stephen Kull, the person that found
- 33:05Speaker 1: Tim's body, lived directly across the street from this person's uncle,
- 33:09Speaker 1: so that's already an interesting connection. And the story goes
- 33:13Speaker 1: is that this guy, Richard, lived nearby and was considered
- 33:16Speaker 1: to be a pretty weird dude who would stop by
- 33:19Speaker 1: the uncle and aunt's property uninvited just to hang out
- 33:23Speaker 1: and just give them a very creepy vibe. And the
- 33:26Speaker 1: story goes is that he kind of had a survivalist mentality,
- 33:31Speaker 1: like they don't even know if he had a job.
- 33:32Speaker 1: He kind of lived in a cabin in the woods.
- 33:35Speaker 1: It would often poach animals, and they think that that
- 33:37Speaker 1: was his source of food, that he would just go
- 33:39Speaker 1: hunting and kill animals rather than buying it. But what's
- 33:42Speaker 1: interesting is that there were always rumors throughout the area
- 33:45Speaker 1: that he had a shack and that if any drifters
- 33:48Speaker 1: came by, any young drifters, mail drifters, he would let
- 33:51Speaker 1: them stay there. And some people think that this is
- 33:54Speaker 1: kind of an interesting coincidence that Tim would wind up
- 33:57Speaker 1: dead in the same area where this guy lived, and
- 34:00Speaker 1: that this guy had a shack where he would have
- 34:03Speaker 1: young men stay, and then many years later he would
- 34:05Speaker 1: go to prison for sexually assaulting a young boy.
- 34:09Speaker 2: So this is interesting. So are they positing that Richard
- 34:14Speaker 2: knew to Tim and lured him to Wisconsin, or that
- 34:17Speaker 2: he just kind of opportunistically met Tim when he was
- 34:20Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, which still begs the question why was he
- 34:24Speaker 2: in Wisconsin.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Well, here's the interesting part is the poster says that
- 34:29Speaker 1: Richard was a pilot who had his own small plane,
- 34:32Speaker 1: and apparently in the winter he would fly down to
- 34:35Speaker 1: Florida whenever he went on vacation. I think that's kind
- 34:38Speaker 1: of a weird detail because he's supposedly a survivalist living
- 34:41Speaker 1: off the land who kills animals, yet he's got his
- 34:44Speaker 1: own plane that he uses to travel to a different state.
- 34:48Speaker 1: And because Tim was going to school to be an
- 34:50Speaker 1: aeronautical engineer, this sounds like the type of guy he
- 34:54Speaker 1: could have befriended that Tim went missing in the winter.
- 34:57Speaker 1: He went missing in January. So theoretically, if Richard flew
- 35:00Speaker 1: down to Florida cross paths with Tim, he could have
- 35:03Speaker 1: said something to them saying that, Hey, I know you're
- 35:06Speaker 1: interested in aeronautical engineering. I'm a pilot. If you want
- 35:09Speaker 1: to join me in Wisconsin or something, I can show
- 35:12Speaker 1: you some things. I could teach you how to fly
- 35:13Speaker 1: or something. And that could provide an explanation for how
- 35:17Speaker 1: Tim was lured to Wisconsin.
- 35:19Speaker 2: If only we had phone records or something to tie
- 35:23Speaker 2: them together a way that they were corresponding. Did they
- 35:26Speaker 2: write letters if they were indeed familiar with each other,
- 35:30Speaker 2: Because for Tim to go there, it would have had
- 35:33Speaker 2: to have been for if he was lured for a
- 35:36Speaker 2: pretty profound reason, because obviously his career was important to
- 35:40Speaker 2: him in what he was studying, and he had to
- 35:42Speaker 2: miss school in order to take this trip.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Right Oh yeah, Like he was supposed to go to
- 35:47Speaker 1: class on the very same day he went missing, and
- 35:50Speaker 1: it might seem out of character for him to just
- 35:52Speaker 1: take off like that and not tell his parents about it.
- 35:54Speaker 1: But I'm sure like if he told them that story,
- 35:57Speaker 1: they say, you've got this strange guy from Wisconsin who
- 35:59Speaker 1: wants to fly you back there, and stuff like, no,
- 36:02Speaker 1: you're not doing this. How do you even know this guy?
- 36:04Speaker 1: So he probably thought, well, they're going to disapprove, so
- 36:08Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go on my own anyway. And he
- 36:10Speaker 1: was nineteen at the time, he technically was i legal adult,
- 36:13Speaker 1: so he could have used that as an argument. But
- 36:15Speaker 1: I think the big hole in the theory is that
- 36:17Speaker 1: if Tim cross passed with Richard and Florida, why did
- 36:21Speaker 1: his car wind up in Atlanta, because if he caught
- 36:24Speaker 1: a plane flight with him, why would he drive the
- 36:26Speaker 1: car like four hundred and fifty miles away to a
- 36:28Speaker 1: different state.
- 36:30Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense why you would abandon your car,
- 36:32Speaker 2: and it also doesn't make sense why you would need
- 36:34Speaker 2: a bike. I don't get the story with regards to that.
- 36:39Speaker 2: The connection is enticing when you have the fact that
- 36:42Speaker 2: he's a pilot, he's a creep, and he's on the
- 36:44Speaker 2: sex offender registry. It's plausible that he could have somehow
- 36:48Speaker 2: kept in contact with him, But I just can't understand
- 36:52Speaker 2: what would be the impetus for him to so impulsively
- 36:56Speaker 2: act and go, I'm going to drive to Atlanta, dump
- 36:59Speaker 2: my car there, and then go to Wisconsin and meet him.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Like you would have to miss a lot of school,
- 37:03Speaker 2: And I don't know what the program was like, but
- 37:06Speaker 2: I can imagine that if you were to miss multiple days,
- 37:08Speaker 2: you're going to be very, very behind, and you would
- 37:11Speaker 2: need some sort of letter to excuse your absence. You
- 37:14Speaker 2: don't get to just miss a chunk of days when
- 37:16Speaker 2: you're in any type of schooling. And if that was
- 37:19Speaker 2: important to him, like like you said, he's nineteen, he's
- 37:22Speaker 2: an adult, he could have justified it with that, But
- 37:24Speaker 2: I also think he's nineteen. He's kind of a kid.
- 37:27Speaker 2: He's going to be more impulsive, and his frontal lobe
- 37:29Speaker 2: isn't developed yet, so the type of behavior that we
- 37:33Speaker 2: are seeing here isn't necessarily adult behavior. If he just
- 37:37Speaker 2: acted impulsively, I could see a nineteen year old doing that.
- 37:40Speaker 2: But he seemed responsible from what we know, But we
- 37:43Speaker 2: know very little.
- 37:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the one thing we do know is
- 37:46Speaker 1: that his parents said that he never caused any trouble,
- 37:48Speaker 1: though I'll use the disclaimer that family is a missing
- 37:51Speaker 1: and murdered victims try to paint their loved ones in
- 37:54Speaker 1: the best possible light, So maybe if he did get
- 37:56Speaker 1: into trouble in the past, they downplayed it a little bit.
- 37:59Speaker 1: But the thing about the bicycle is that theoretically, maybe
- 38:02Speaker 1: if like Richard landed his plane in a remote area
- 38:05Speaker 1: without any roads, like Tim could have used the bicycle
- 38:08Speaker 1: to go there. But that doesn't explain like why he
- 38:11Speaker 1: would take the stereo out of his car and the
- 38:13Speaker 1: tools out of his car, or why he would even
- 38:16Speaker 1: drive to Atlanta to begin with, or why he would
- 38:18Speaker 1: even need to drive anywhere, Like all he could do
- 38:20Speaker 1: is just go to an airfield or something and then
- 38:23Speaker 1: hitch a ride on the plane. So the theory is intriguing,
- 38:26Speaker 1: but there's still a number of holes in it and stuff.
- 38:28Speaker 1: And like you said, if you really wanted a career
- 38:31Speaker 1: in aeronautical engineering, it's not very wise to just miss
- 38:34Speaker 1: a whole bunch of classes unexcused just to travel to
- 38:36Speaker 1: another state. No matter if this guy is going to
- 38:39Speaker 1: give you some pointers. I mean, you still need that degree,
- 38:41Speaker 1: you still need that education if you're hoping to have
- 38:44Speaker 1: a career in that field.
- 38:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I find it very odd, Like you said that
- 38:48Speaker 2: he owns this plane, but he's like living off the land.
- 38:51Speaker 2: Where does one get the money to fuel a plane
- 38:54Speaker 2: which is very very expensive, And where did they procure
- 38:58Speaker 2: this plane in this and with what money? It seems
- 39:03Speaker 2: really odd.
- 39:04Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'll add the disclaimer that I don't
- 39:07Speaker 1: know how much this information is true. The only part
- 39:09Speaker 1: of the story which has checked out is that Richard
- 39:12Speaker 1: is on a sex offender list. But I don't know
- 39:15Speaker 1: if this person who left this post like met Richard personally.
- 39:18Speaker 1: It sounds like they're getting all this information like third
- 39:21Speaker 1: hand from their uncle and aunt who lived in the
- 39:24Speaker 1: areas are saying all these bad things about him. But
- 39:27Speaker 1: it does see if the story is correct that the
- 39:30Speaker 1: uncle and Richard and Stephen call all happened to live
- 39:34Speaker 1: in the same area where Tim's body was found. That
- 39:36Speaker 1: is a pretty intriguing coincidence. And they even theorized that
- 39:41Speaker 1: maybe one of the reasons that Richard would just show
- 39:43Speaker 1: up on the uncle's property uninvited is that maybe he
- 39:46Speaker 1: was scouting looking for a good place to dump a
- 39:49Speaker 1: dead body if he ever killed anyone. But because they
- 39:52Speaker 1: could not determine Tim's exact cause of death, we still
- 39:55Speaker 1: can't even be one hundred percent certain that he was
- 39:57Speaker 1: murdered to begin with.
- 40:00Speaker 2: Beginning it totally reminded me by listening to this girl
- 40:05Speaker 2: talk on this podcast and she grew up with Ted
- 40:09Speaker 2: Kaczinski being their neighbor. He sounded like the exact same thing,
- 40:13Speaker 2: like he would like creep onto the property and just
- 40:15Speaker 2: like pop by make everybody feel uncomfortable and just like
- 40:18Speaker 2: super awkward. Sounds like the same type of a vibe.
- 40:22Speaker 2: Although Ted Kaczinsky wasn't letting mail drifters stay with him.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know that he liked to live a
- 40:28Speaker 1: life of solitude. I mean, I guess it's possible that
- 40:32Speaker 1: Tim could have traveled to Wisconsin on his own and
- 40:34Speaker 1: then just by pure coincidence, cross paths with Richard, who
- 40:38Speaker 1: lured him into a shack or something and murdered him
- 40:40Speaker 1: and disposed of his body. But we just don't have
- 40:43Speaker 1: any evidence pointing in that direction. Like, in order to
- 40:46Speaker 1: pin this crime on Richard, we just need evidence of
- 40:48Speaker 1: how Tim got from point A to point Z, and
- 40:51Speaker 1: so there are just too many pieces of the puzzle
- 40:53Speaker 1: missing in order to say with any certainty that Richard
- 40:57Speaker 1: murdered Tim.
- 40:58Speaker 2: We just don't have a definite connection there. We know that,
- 41:01Speaker 2: like vaguely, according to the source on Reddit, that Richard
- 41:05Speaker 2: had a plane and would fly down to Florida, so
- 41:07Speaker 2: like maybe they met, but the connection seems pretty tenuous
- 41:11Speaker 2: at best, and it seems like they may be extrapolating
- 41:15Speaker 2: from the fact that they know that Richard's this creep
- 41:18Speaker 2: who's on the sex offender registry and probably weirds everybody
- 41:21Speaker 2: out of the area, that Tim's body was found close
- 41:24Speaker 2: and Hall lives close by, and it's all just seems interconnected.
- 41:29Speaker 2: So I can see how somebody could wholeheartedly believe that
- 41:32Speaker 2: Richard was involved, even though there really is nothing to
- 41:36Speaker 2: go off of here except some like vague things like, oh,
- 41:40Speaker 2: he's a pilot and has a plane. Maybe they met
- 41:42Speaker 2: in Florida exactly.
- 41:43Speaker 1: I mean, the person writing these posts does seem genuinely
- 41:46Speaker 1: passionate about it, and I think they're doing it out
- 41:48Speaker 1: of frustration because they tried to send it into the
- 41:51Speaker 1: authorities many years ago and get the sense that no
- 41:54Speaker 1: one is listening to them. So I do wish that
- 41:56Speaker 1: the authorities would at least look into this at the
- 41:58Speaker 1: very least, and if they, if Richard was not responsible,
- 42:01Speaker 1: they could at least rule it out, because according to
- 42:03Speaker 1: the Sex Offender Registry, he's no longer living in Wisconsin,
- 42:06Speaker 1: He's living in another state and is currently in his eighties.
- 42:10Speaker 1: So if he was the killer at the time, is
- 42:11Speaker 1: running out to try to pin the crime on him?
- 42:14Speaker 2: And I'm guessing from the investigator's perspective is I don't
- 42:18Speaker 2: know if his death was ruled undetermined, but if it's
- 42:21Speaker 2: not ruled a homicide, allocating resources to look into it
- 42:25Speaker 2: when there's really no case to close. If it's the
- 42:28Speaker 2: kind of undetermined, I doubt they put any emphasis on
- 42:32Speaker 2: needing to resolve that. It's sort of like a limbo
- 42:35Speaker 2: designation when you say undetermined, because if it's not a homicide,
- 42:40Speaker 2: how do you put homicide investigators on the case. How
- 42:43Speaker 2: do you tell them to then go investigate this when
- 42:46Speaker 2: you aren't clear what the cause of death is and
- 42:49Speaker 2: if he was murdered, if it was suicide, if it
- 42:52Speaker 2: was natural causes. It's I think it must have been difficult,
- 42:56Speaker 2: but I'm with you. I think that they should have
- 42:57Speaker 2: at least just had some But he looked into it
- 43:00Speaker 2: just really quickly, just to see if there was any
- 43:02Speaker 2: sort of connection there exactly.
- 43:05Speaker 1: And then we've talked about this that there are a
- 43:06Speaker 1: lot of unexplained death cases that are in limbo where
- 43:09Speaker 1: even though it's considered to be undetermined and the case
- 43:12Speaker 1: isn't technically closed, that only means that no one is
- 43:14Speaker 1: going to actively investigate it unless someone puts a good
- 43:17Speaker 1: lead or tip that way that they can look at.
- 43:20Speaker 1: I mean, another alternate possibility is that Tim could have
- 43:23Speaker 1: simply died of exposure. And I do find it interesting
- 43:26Speaker 1: that he was found wearing the same clothes he had
- 43:29Speaker 1: on on the day he disappeared, which seems to indicate
- 43:32Speaker 1: that he died a short time after he originally went missing.
- 43:35Speaker 1: And let's not forget that no other clothing was found
- 43:38Speaker 1: missing from his house, so he didn't take it with him,
- 43:41Speaker 1: So it could be a case where he decided he
- 43:43Speaker 1: wanted to go off on a trip and decided to
- 43:45Speaker 1: go from Florida to Wisconsin. But after spending all these
- 43:48Speaker 1: years living in California and Florida in this sunny climate,
- 43:51Speaker 1: he greatly underestimated how cold it would be in no
- 43:54Speaker 1: Wisconsin in January, so he wandered out into the remote
- 43:58Speaker 1: area and died of exposure, and then they found him
- 44:00Speaker 1: a few years later.
- 44:02Speaker 2: I guess it's also possible that he ran into somebody
- 44:05Speaker 2: in Atlanta and they killed him there and then drove
- 44:09Speaker 2: to Wisconsin to dispose of the body, thinking nobody would
- 44:11Speaker 2: make the connection. We just have like a myriad of
- 44:14Speaker 2: possibilities here.
- 44:15Speaker 1: Exactly no evidence pointing towards any of them. But it
- 44:18Speaker 1: is possible that someone could have dumped his body there
- 44:21Speaker 1: just to throw the investigation off the track, because it
- 44:24Speaker 1: technically worked because no one when they found this John
- 44:26Speaker 1: Doe thought it was a missing young man from Florida,
- 44:30Speaker 1: and it was only by pure luck of it being
- 44:32Speaker 1: featured on Unsolved Mysteries and Stephen call Watching that they
- 44:35Speaker 1: managed to conclusively identify him. But of course this oply
- 44:38Speaker 1: opens up the dilemma that if it wasn't Richer, then
- 44:41Speaker 1: what actually did happen to Tim? And this is one
- 44:44Speaker 1: of those cases where no matter how hard I try,
- 44:46Speaker 1: I cannot come up with an explanation that makes one
- 44:48Speaker 1: hundred percent complete sense.
- 44:51Speaker 2: I'm with you, I honestly have no idea, and I
- 44:54Speaker 2: think it's just comes down to the fact that there's
- 44:56Speaker 2: way too many missing variables here to be able to,
- 45:00Speaker 2: like venture an educated guess on what happened, Like, we
- 45:05Speaker 2: don't know if there was mental health issues, if he
- 45:07Speaker 2: had any substance use disorder, if he had any situations,
- 45:12Speaker 2: any traumas, relationships that were very difficult or complex, any
- 45:18Speaker 2: shame attached to anything, if there was any underlying motivations
- 45:21Speaker 2: that might have had him might have had Tim leave
- 45:25Speaker 2: his life in order to either start a new one
- 45:29Speaker 2: or to end it somewhere else, maybe because he didn't
- 45:32Speaker 2: want his family to have the pain of knowing that
- 45:34Speaker 2: he ended his own life. He wanted them to hold
- 45:36Speaker 2: on to the hope that he could be out there,
- 45:39Speaker 2: or if he planned to meet somebody and they harmed him,
- 45:42Speaker 2: or if he just planned to go to a certain
- 45:43Speaker 2: location and somebody opportunistically harmed him. There's just so many
- 45:47Speaker 2: different scenarios and I can't stick to one. It just
- 45:51Speaker 2: seems so strange. And even if he did go to
- 45:54Speaker 2: Wisconsin it ended up there, I can't decide if it
- 45:57Speaker 2: was suicide or just exposure and he missed Judge the weather.
- 46:01Speaker 2: Like you said, I'm very confused by this case exactly.
- 46:05Speaker 1: I wish we knew more about Tim's background because in
- 46:07Speaker 1: the Blair Adams case, which we talked about, we knew
- 46:09Speaker 1: he was clearly having mental health issues when he left
- 46:12Speaker 1: British Columbia, and he was obviously paranoid and thought that
- 46:15Speaker 1: someone was trying to kill him. And that may have
- 46:17Speaker 1: only been in his own mind. He may have been
- 46:19Speaker 1: hallucinating and fabricating all these ideas that his life was
- 46:23Speaker 1: in danger. But the fact of the matter is is
- 46:25Speaker 1: he did cross paths with someone in Knoxville who killed him,
- 46:28Speaker 1: but it may have had nothing to do with the
- 46:30Speaker 1: reason he left. But with Tim's case, we can't even
- 46:33Speaker 1: speculate on that at all because we don't know what
- 46:35Speaker 1: his behavior was like before he disappeared.
- 46:38Speaker 2: All we can do is throw out theories, but like,
- 46:40Speaker 2: there's really nothing to connect any of them to the case.
- 46:44Speaker 2: We could just throw out what could have happened, but
- 46:47Speaker 2: we can't even speculate on like, oh, I think that
- 46:49Speaker 2: this is likely what happened. Nothing is given in this case,
- 46:53Speaker 2: and it just comes down to how little we know
- 46:55Speaker 2: about Tim and how little we know about his life.
- 46:58Speaker 2: Like you said, if we knew more like we did
- 47:00Speaker 2: with Blair, we had some deep insights due to his mother.
- 47:04Speaker 2: We knew about him having issues with his sexuality and
- 47:10Speaker 2: issues with mental health, and how these things could have
- 47:13Speaker 2: played into his decision, whether he was having a manic
- 47:16Speaker 2: episode when he decided to make that drive. It seems
- 47:20Speaker 2: like these things factored it in a way that made
- 47:23Speaker 2: it easier for us to understand the why, whereas in
- 47:27Speaker 2: this case, the why is completely unclear exactly.
- 47:32Speaker 1: It's two mysteries rolled into one. Why did him wind
- 47:34Speaker 1: up in Wisconsin? Why did he leave Florida to begin with?
- 47:37Speaker 1: And how did he wind up dead? And like I said,
- 47:40Speaker 1: this is probably the cases that I'm one of the
- 47:41Speaker 1: cases I'm most fascinated with that has a limited amount
- 47:44Speaker 1: of information, which is why I wanted to talk about
- 47:47Speaker 1: it here, and totefully, one of these days maybe someone
- 47:50Speaker 1: will follow up on this Reddit poster's tip and maybe
- 47:54Speaker 1: figure out if Tim was the victim of foul play.
- 47:57Speaker 2: I'm really glad you shared this with me because I
- 47:59Speaker 2: never of this case before, and the details are mind boggling.
- 48:05Speaker 2: I also don't understand the how he got from Atlanta
- 48:09Speaker 2: to Wisconsin, like maybe he took a bus, but maybe
- 48:11Speaker 2: he didn't. There's just no guarantees here. Everything is tenuous
- 48:16Speaker 2: at best. We've got no firm connections. His parents are
- 48:20Speaker 2: now deceased, so we basically have his siblings left alive,
- 48:25Speaker 2: Frank and what was his sister's name, I'm Michelle, Michelle,
- 48:29Speaker 2: But they aren't speaking publicly about the case, so there's
- 48:32Speaker 2: just so little we know about Tim. I just want
- 48:35Speaker 2: so badly to know more.
- 48:37Speaker 1: Me too, and hopefully we'll get a resolution to this
- 48:39Speaker 1: case someday. But I did like seeing the look on
- 48:41Speaker 1: your face when I mentioned that Tim was found in Wisconsin,
- 48:44Speaker 1: because you were legitimately shocked by that one.
- 48:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I was very shocked, like I expected, like Atlanta,
- 48:50Speaker 2: maybe it's going to be somewhere close by, maybe in Georgia,
- 48:53Speaker 2: that his body would be found. I did not expect Wisconsin.
- 48:56Speaker 2: That totally blew my mind.
- 48:58Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, So that's why wanted to discuss this one.
- 49:01Speaker 1: So before we wrap things up any more thoughts on
- 49:04Speaker 1: Tim Malnar's case.
- 49:05Speaker 2: No, I think we covered it all, and I'm with you.
- 49:09Speaker 2: I just truly hope that Frankie Michelle get a resolution
- 49:13Speaker 2: to this case because I can't imagine what it would
- 49:17Speaker 2: be like knowing that your parents died without finding out
- 49:20Speaker 2: what happened to your brother, and to know that they
- 49:23Speaker 2: had another sibling that died very young, died what was
- 49:26Speaker 2: the scenario He was an infant.
- 49:28Speaker 1: I don't know any details, but he died when he
- 49:30Speaker 1: was a baby.
- 49:32Speaker 2: Yeah. To lose two siblings, right, that's got to be
- 49:35Speaker 2: a lot for both Frank and Michelle. So I truly
- 49:38Speaker 2: hope that in their lifetime they get the answers that
- 49:41Speaker 2: they so deserve.
- 49:42Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, So I really hope to find out
- 49:44Speaker 1: the answers what happened somedays. So if anyone out there
- 49:47Speaker 1: has information, please try to contact the authorities. And if
- 49:50Speaker 1: anyone working in law enforcement is listening, Please try to
- 49:54Speaker 1: check out this reddit poster's tip and see if there's
- 49:56Speaker 1: a connection between Tim and Richard. So that about brings
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