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3 people saw something NO ONE else could, right before they VANISHED · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: The types of missing person cases that I think are
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  Speaker 1: particularly interesting are those where the person who goes missing
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  Speaker 1: is either in a crowded place so very difficult to disappear,
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  Speaker 1: at least without people seeing you, or they are oddly
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  Speaker 1: in touch or actively engaged with people around them when
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  Speaker 1: just like that, they're gone. And so today I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to focus on three missing person cases that fit that description.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, Brandon Swanson was a nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old college student enrolled in a community college in
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  Speaker 1: a little town in Minnesota called Canby. The town had
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  Speaker 1: a population of less than a thousand people. He lived
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  Speaker 1: in Marshall, Minnesota, which is about thirty minutes away and
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  Speaker 1: was only slightly larger than Canby. Brandon was in his
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  Speaker 1: sophomore year at the community college and planned at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year to transfer to a much larger
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  Speaker 1: four year university where he would complete his degree. On
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  Speaker 1: the last day of classes that year, on May thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon and some of his friends decided to go out
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  Speaker 1: and celebrate because not only did they now have this
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  Speaker 1: nice vacation, but for Brandon it was a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: He was getting ready to transfer to that larger school.
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  Speaker 1: So that night, Brandon met up with his friends kind
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  Speaker 1: of near where they went to school. There was a
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  Speaker 1: couple different backyard barbecued type college parties going on, and
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  Speaker 1: Brandon was having a good time with his friends, and
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  Speaker 1: at some point a little after midnight, he decided he
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  Speaker 1: just ready to go home he was tired. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: taking the preferred route, which would have been Highway sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight back to his home in Marshall, Minnesota, he decided
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  Speaker 1: to take some back roads. Later, when police were interviewing
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  Speaker 1: some of the people that were at those two backyard parties,
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  Speaker 1: that Brandon had attended. They asked how much was Brandon drinking,
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  Speaker 1: and they all said that Brandon wasn't really drinking at all.
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  Speaker 1: We saw him with one beer that he wasn't really drinking,
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  Speaker 1: and it seemed like he really was just tired. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't looking to party, and he left and seemed very sober.
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  Speaker 1: As Brandon is taking these back roads back to his
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  Speaker 1: home in Marshall, Minnesota, he ends up getting into a
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  Speaker 1: minor accident, but his car gets stuck in the ditch,
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  Speaker 1: so he can't get his car out of the ditch.
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  Speaker 1: He's totally stranded. The first thing he does is he
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  Speaker 1: calls his friends that were at the parties with him,
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  Speaker 1: but no one's picking up their phone. So at some point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's probably pretty embarrassed. He ends up calling
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  Speaker 1: his parents and says, Hey, I'm totally fine, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: letting you know I got into an accident. I'm near Lynde, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the directions of how to get here. I need
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  Speaker 1: you guys to come out here and help me get
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  Speaker 1: out of the ditch. And so Brandon's parents say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll come out and meet you. They use
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  Speaker 1: Brandon's directions to get out to this area right near Lynd, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: which was only about ten minutes away from Marshall, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: where they lived. They make their way over to the
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  Speaker 1: spot and Brandon's father calls Brandon and says, Hey, we're here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start flashing my lights as I drive down
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  Speaker 1: this road that you've sent us to, and so Brandon's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for you. I don't see you, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for you. He'd given them really specific directions to
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  Speaker 1: where he was, and while they stay on the phone
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  Speaker 1: with each other, Brandon's father would flash his lights repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: and drive all around the area that had been described
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  Speaker 1: as where Brandon was. When Brandon keeps saying that he
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  Speaker 1: can't see their car, he doesn't see their lights, he
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  Speaker 1: begins to describe again how to get to where he is,
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  Speaker 1: and he's telling his parents, did you turn on this road?
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  Speaker 1: Did you come down this way? Are you near Lynd, Minnesota?
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure you're where you need to be? And
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  Speaker 1: his parents would respond, are you sure you're giving the
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  Speaker 1: right directions because we're here, we're flashing our lights and
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  Speaker 1: you don't see us. At this point, Brandon gets in
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  Speaker 1: his car and he starts it's doing the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: flashing his lights. Granted he can't move his car, so
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  Speaker 1: it's only one direction, but he's flashing his lights and
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  Speaker 1: he's telling his parents, do you see me, I'm flashing
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  Speaker 1: my lights, And they both were unable to see each other,
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  Speaker 1: both parties being very frustrated with each other. Brandon just
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  Speaker 1: says to his father, listen, I'm gonna just walk to Lind.
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  Speaker 1: I can see the lights right there. I have a
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  Speaker 1: friend in lind that can probably help me get my
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  Speaker 1: car out of here. I'm just gonna walk over there.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably like a thirty minute walk to Lend. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna walk towards the lights. Later, when police interviewed Brandon's father,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon's father would say it did not seem like Brandon
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  Speaker 1: was drunk. It didn't seem like he was confused. He
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  Speaker 1: seemed totally lucid and very easy to talk to. We
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  Speaker 1: were having a very normal conversation. Brandon's father stays on
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  Speaker 1: the phone with Brandon and for forty seven minutes, Brandon
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  Speaker 1: walks down this gravel road away from his car on
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  Speaker 1: the phone with his father. His father's just waiting for
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  Speaker 1: him to get to Lend so he can breathe a
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  Speaker 1: sigh of relief, make sure his son's okay. And as
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  Speaker 1: he's walking towards these lights that Brandon believes is the
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  Speaker 1: town of Lynd, Brandon all of a sudden goes, oh shit,
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  Speaker 1: and then the phone cuts out. Brandon's father's like what
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  Speaker 1: just happened? Tries calling him back, no answer. Brandon's father
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  Speaker 1: and his mother start driving all over the place, yelling
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  Speaker 1: out their window for Brandon, and they can't find him.
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  Speaker 1: They end up calling the police, who used Brandon's phone
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  Speaker 1: records to generally figure out where he had been when
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  Speaker 1: he was on the phone with Brandon's father, and it
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  Speaker 1: turns out he was nowhere near Lynd. He was twenty
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  Speaker 1: five miles away in a town called Taunton. So this
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  Speaker 1: huge search is launched for Brandon and there's no sign
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  Speaker 1: of him. They never get in touch with them on
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  Speaker 1: the phone, they never find his phone, They never find
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with Brandon. He just disappeared after seeing
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  Speaker 1: something on the road, after walking towards some set of
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  Speaker 1: lights that he thought was Lynd, but it wasn't. It
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  Speaker 1: was Taunton. But was he really walking towards town or
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  Speaker 1: what was it? What were the lights he was walking towards.
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  Speaker 1: To this day, Brandon's family leaves their front porch light
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  Speaker 1: on and hopes that someday Brandon will just show up again.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty three, Ronald Tomman was a sophomore at
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  Speaker 1: Miami University in Ohio. He was a business major, and
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  Speaker 1: he was living in a dorm room inside of Fisher Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Fisher Hall was a converted insane asylum, and all the
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  Speaker 1: students there believed that Fisher Hall was a haunted dorm.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of those places where you tried to
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  Speaker 1: stay away from if you could. On April nineteenth of
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  Speaker 1: that year, ron was in his dorm room inside of
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  Speaker 1: Fisher Hall. It was very snowy outside. He was listening
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  Speaker 1: to the radio and reading a book. At eight pm,
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  Speaker 1: he must have thought about getting into bed, and when
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  Speaker 1: he did, he pulled back the sheets and found that
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  Speaker 1: someone had left a dead fish in his bed. And
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  Speaker 1: so at eight pm there was an official request from
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  Speaker 1: ron to get new sheets sent up to his room.
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  Speaker 1: At about eight thirty pm, we don't know what it was,
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  Speaker 1: but something disturbed Ronald enough to where he ran out
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  Speaker 1: into the hall. We don't know what it was. People
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  Speaker 1: think it was a disturbing sound or someone yelling for help.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know. It's totally speculation. But something alerted him
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  Speaker 1: so quickly that he dropped everything he was doing. He
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  Speaker 1: left the radio on, lights on, book, opened, all of
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  Speaker 1: his ID cards, his wallet, everything, his shoes, everything stayed
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  Speaker 1: in his room, and he ran out into the hall.
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  Speaker 1: When his roommate came back at ten pm, the door
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  Speaker 1: to the room was open and he saw that all
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  Speaker 1: of Ronald's things were just laying out. The lights were on,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no sign of ron. Okay, maybe he
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  Speaker 1: left and went to his frat house because ron was
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  Speaker 1: a part of a frat. But the next day, when
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't get in touch with ron he ended up
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  Speaker 1: telling authorities that his roommate had been missing since the
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  Speaker 1: night before. When police began investigating, they saw that he
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  Speaker 1: had been studying a psychology textbook before he ran out
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  Speaker 1: into the hall, and he had actually dropped the only
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  Speaker 1: psychology course he was taking three weeks earlier. His car
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  Speaker 1: was still parked right outside the dorm. There was still
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred dollars inside of his bank account, and
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  Speaker 1: because he had not taken anything from his room. People
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  Speaker 1: believe he basically left in a T shirt and shorts,
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  Speaker 1: with no money, no shoes, no anything. A woman living
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  Speaker 1: twelve miles away from the campus would lay a report
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  Speaker 1: that the same night he went missing, a man looking
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  Speaker 1: like Ronald Thomman matches description exactly, showed up at her
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  Speaker 1: door and she opened the door, and she said he
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  Speaker 1: was visibly frightened. He kept looking around like something was
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  Speaker 1: after him, but he seemed very upset. He was totally disheveled.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have a jacket on, he didn't have shoes on.
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  Speaker 1: There was no car outside of her house. So this
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy looking guy comes up to the door
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  Speaker 1: and he says, you gotta tell me where the bus
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  Speaker 1: stop is. I got to get out of here. Where's
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  Speaker 1: the bus stop? And she pointed down the road. He
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  Speaker 1: immediately turned and he ran away, and that was lest
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  Speaker 1: anybody saw of him. Five months before, ron ran out
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  Speaker 1: of his dorm room to investigate some sound in the
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  Speaker 1: hall or whatever it was in the hall. He had
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  Speaker 1: gone to a coroner's office to ask to have his
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  Speaker 1: blood typed, and the corner said, in thirty five years,
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  Speaker 1: he's never had someone come to him and ask him
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  Speaker 1: to do a blood type for them. Ronald could have
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  Speaker 1: just gone to a local physician on campus to do
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  Speaker 1: that for him, so it seems strange that he would
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  Speaker 1: have gone to a corner of all people to get
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  Speaker 1: his blood typed. Toman's parents said they spoke to him
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  Speaker 1: a week before he went missing, and they said there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing unusual about him. He seemed like he was happy,
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  Speaker 1: well adjusted, He had no clear stress in his life.
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't add up. To this day, no one
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  Speaker 1: knows where he is and no one knows what he
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  Speaker 1: heard in the hall that made him run out and
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  Speaker 1: then ultimately vanish. In two thousand and six, Brian Schaeffer
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  Speaker 1: was a twenty seven year old medical student at Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State University. He had just lost his mother to a
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  Speaker 1: battle with cancer. He was feeling very down, and so
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  Speaker 1: his roommate Clint decided it would be a good idea
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  Speaker 1: on April first, which was the end of their classes,
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  Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a break coming up,
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  Speaker 1: that they should go out and just take his mind
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  Speaker 1: off of what he was dealing with and go out
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  Speaker 1: to a bar and have a good time. Brian agrees,
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  Speaker 1: and so on April first, the two of them make
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  Speaker 1: their way to the Ugly Tuna bar, which was located
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Just before ten pm that night,
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  Speaker 1: Brian stepped away from the Ugly Tuna to make a
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  Speaker 1: phone call to his girlfriend. Her name was Alexis and
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  Speaker 1: she was also a medical student at Ohio State. On
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  Speaker 1: the call, there was some niceties exchanged. He said he
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  Speaker 1: loved her and that would be the last time she
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  Speaker 1: ever heard his voice. After Brian came back into the bar,
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  Speaker 1: Brian and Clint decide they want to leave the Ugly
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  Speaker 1: Tuna and do a little bit of bar hopping, so
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  Speaker 1: they go to a couple different bars right outside and
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  Speaker 1: eventually meet up with one of Clint's friends named Meredith.
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  Speaker 1: The three of them continued bar hopping until Brian and
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  Speaker 1: Clint decided they wanted to go back to the Ugly Tuna.
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  Speaker 1: Meredith offered to drive, so they drive back to the
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  Speaker 1: Ugly Tuna and at about one fifteen in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: security cameras right outside the Ugly Tuna pick up the
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  Speaker 1: trio walking into the bar. At about two am, that
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  Speaker 1: same camera picks up Brian Shafer stepping out of the
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  Speaker 1: bar and speaking to two college aged females before at
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  Speaker 1: some point saying goodbye to them and walking back into
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  Speaker 1: the bar. At some point between one point fifteen when
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  Speaker 1: the trio arrived and two am, when Brian is seen
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  Speaker 1: alone outside with those two other girls, Brian and Clinton
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  Speaker 1: Meredith got separated. Clinton Meredith tried calling him, They tried
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  Speaker 1: yelling for him, they couldn't find him. They assumed he
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  Speaker 1: must have got tired and just left the bar at
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  Speaker 1: some point, because he only lived six blocks away and
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  Speaker 1: if he wanted to, he could walk home, so they
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  Speaker 1: don't think much of it, and they ultimately leave the
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  Speaker 1: bar to head home themselves. The following day, Brian's girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: Alexis tried giving Brian a call, but it went straight
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  Speaker 1: to voicemail. She figured he could be sleeping off a hangover,
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  Speaker 1: so she didn't think much of it, But as she
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  Speaker 1: called him all day long and never got through, she
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  Speaker 1: started to become worried and asked Brian's father, Randy, if
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  Speaker 1: he could swing by Brian's apartment and just check in
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  Speaker 1: on him. When Randy arrived, Brian was not there, but
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  Speaker 1: his car was there and his apartment looked untouched. The
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  Speaker 1: bed was still made there wasn't any signs of Brian
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  Speaker 1: having been there recently. At this point, Randy communicates with
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  Speaker 1: the police, who immediately launch a huge search for Brian
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  Speaker 1: and the police they review the footage from the Ugly
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  Speaker 1: Tuna and it shows Brian, along with Clint and Meredith,
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  Speaker 1: making their way into the Ugly Tuna at one time
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  Speaker 1: fifteen in the morning. Then it shows Brian leaving at
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  Speaker 1: two am to speak to those two college girls that
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  Speaker 1: were outside the bar, but then he goes back into
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  Speaker 1: the Ugly Tuna. There is no video footage after that
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  Speaker 1: of Brian ever leaving the Ugly Tuna. There was one
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  Speaker 1: other exit from the Ugly Tuna that was not covered
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  Speaker 1: by a camera. However, it was under very heavy construction
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  Speaker 1: and in no way appeared to be a regular exit.
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  Speaker 1: It was completely blocked by construction materials and there was
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  Speaker 1: no sign that Brian had ever even gone near that
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  Speaker 1: exit from all of the other cameras inside. Police went
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  Speaker 1: to surrounding buildings that had cameras pointed in any way
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  Speaker 1: near the Ugly Tuna to try to pick up some
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  Speaker 1: sign of Brian leaving the bar after two am, but
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  Speaker 1: there weren't any. It was like he went into the
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  Speaker 1: bar and never left. And they searched the ugly tuna.
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  Speaker 1: They looked everywhere, he was not there. To this day,
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  Speaker 1: no one has any idea what happened to Brian. Is
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  Speaker 1: he still inside the bar? And if he left the bar?
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  Speaker 1: How are there no cameras anywhere that are able to
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  Speaker 1: pick that up? There was lots of cameras looking at
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  Speaker 1: the bar and looking outside the bar. How did he
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  Speaker 1: vanish without anybody knowing? Unfortunately, we probably will never know
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  Speaker 1: what happened to Brandon Swanson, Ronald Thomman or Brian Schaeffer,
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  Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean we can't speculate. So I'd love
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  Speaker 1: three cases. I'll do my best to respond to as
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