GA GA - Justin Gaines, 19, Duluth, 2 Nov 2007

[SweetMonkey12]

12 years after his disappearance, human remains found near Lake Lanier raise hopes for Justin Gaines’ mother

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is testing the remains for a DNA match, but have made no determination yet

 

[sammyed]

Any updates on Lake Lanier remains found? Mother Krista and Georgia LE updates? Bumping for Justin.

 

[Mich311eK]

Austin-Gatson also told Thomas that she is expanding the county’s cold case unit, putting two full-time investigators on those cases.

“If they have hit a stump where there is no further investigative things they haven’t done, if we take a fresh look at it, we may discover something,” Austin-Gatson said.

Erika Wilson is one of more than 170 mothers across Gwinnett County wondering who attacked, and in some cases killed, their children.

Her son Justin Gaines disappeared in 2007.

“I just wish someone would come forward and give us the right information,” Wilson said. “It’s hard to imagine people could know things for so long and not give us answers.”

Justin’s case is just one of the cold cases that the Gwinnett County DA’s office will potentially take another look at.

Metro DA to start new squad to look into possible wrongful convictions, cold cases

 

[iluvmua]

If anybody hasn't listened to The Unfound Podcast Channel W/ the Episode Justin Glen Gaines Look Who's Talking on YouTube I highly suggest you listen to it.

The host interviews Justin's mother and she gives a LOT of information ie his background etc.

One interesting thing she mentioned was that Justin called well over 50 people looking for a ride that night.


This is a new interview fron 2022

 

[imstilla.grandma]

During the late evening/early morning hours of Nov. 7, 2007, 18-year-old University of North Georgia College Freshman Justin Gaines was present at Wild Bill’s Nightclub in Duluth, near Gwinnett Place Mall in Gwinnett County. Justin was last seen at approximately 1:30 a.m., entering a vehicle with several individuals.

Shortly after his disappearance a missing person’s call was placed by the Gaines family. This incident was extensively investigated by the Gwinnett County Police Homicide Division and later
included extensive investigation efforts by the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office, Barrow County Sheriff’s Office, City of Monroe Police Department and the Walton County Sheriff’s Office.

In 2015, officers from multiple agencies searched the High Shoals area near the Apalachee River in Walton County, working on a tip from an inmate jailed in the local jail that Gaines’ body might be in an old well. At that time, The Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office, DNR Rangers and Georgia State Patrol, that included a search in three wells and a pond in the area. That search was subsequently called off.Gaines, of Snellville, was 18 at the time he was last seen on Nov. 2, 2007 at Wild Bill’s near Duluth.

During the spring of 2022, investigative efforts have been focused on Walton County and are being conducted by the Walton County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Homicide Unit.

WCSO Cold Case is investigating 2007 disappearance of an 18-year-old student

Note: Each month, The Walton Tribune, with the assistance of the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, is highlight a current cold case. Please contact the WCSO if you have any information on these unsol…

news.monroelocal.org

 

[dotr]

Aug. 27, 2023 By Mica Thomas

Georgia mother still looking for answers in son Justin Gaines’s 2007 disappearance

The 18-year-old went out for a night of fun at a club called Wild Bill’s in Duluth, Georgia. He never made it home.

www.nbcnews.com

''Erika said her son was very sociable and made friends easily. “He could walk up to a stranger and hold a conversation for hours,” she said.

Erika told Dateline the bartenders at Wild Bill’s knew Justin and throughout the night, he was captured on the club’s security camera.

That security camera even captured the last moments before Justin’s disappearance.

It was around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, November 2, 2007.

Justin was seen standing outside of the club. Erika told Dateline that according to his phone records, Justin was calling friends to ask for a ride home.''

Erika Wilson with her son, Justin GainesErika Wilson
''Investigators shared their working theory with 11Alive, NBC’s Atlanta affiliate, back in 2019. They believe Justin, who was wearing a diamond earring and flashing cash, caught the wrong person’s attention that night in Wild Bill’s. They believe that Justin may have been offered a ride by a blonde woman and was then taken to a house in Snellville, where he was robbed and shot to death. Then, they think that his body was dumped into Lake Lanier, but floated up a few days later, so the suspects then drove his body to another county to dispose of it in a well. However, the Chief Deputy of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department told 11Alive that the hard part about all the theories is figuring out: “Are they credible?”

''Investigator Rising told Dateline that the department constantly receives leads regarding Justin’s case. “I’ve got about three now that I feel good about,” he said.''

 

[Armchairdetect]

This missing persons case is all over the place. I lived near the area that Justin was when he went missing. Wild Bills was never my favorite. Always felt trashy to me. This is the first time I’ve heard about this case. Feel sorry for his family. Would like to know more about more of these theories. There’s this Dylan guy, some blonde lady the mom mentions in her article and a few others. Anyone research???

 

[Armchairdetect]

Here’s another pod/video cast if anyone is interested.

 

[#JUSTICE4WILDER]

There's a brand new podcast on Spotify covering this case. It is called
Drowning Creek

 

[dotr]

Jul 1, 2024
Justin Gaines disappeared from a nightclub in Gwinnett County in 2007.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

In 2015, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Martin Wilkie. The Walton County Sheriff's Office charged him with concealing the death of another in the case of Gaines. In that warrant, an alleged confession was mentioned and tied to Dustin Dylan Glass. Glass was never charged but is currently serving time in prison on a number of unrelated charges.

"No one has ever heard the main suspect give an interview because he never has," said Kipe.

Nine years after that warrant detailed his alleged confession, Glass breaks his silence for the first time in Kipe's podcast "Drowning Creek."
"No matter how you dress it up or make it look, I never killed that boy," Dustin Glass told Kipe.

Kipe said his year-long investigation has led him to interviews with people who have never come forward until now. However, he explained, there are still a lot of people out there who know what happened to Gaines but remain silent.

"A lot of people don't want to talk," he explained.
Gaines added, "I think a lot of that is fear."

While Gaines' case officially remains a "missing person" case, Kipe doesn't believe he's still alive.

"I mean you have to call a spade a spade, it's most likely a murder," he said.

Kipe believes the case is solvable but it's important to find Gaines.
"I think finding Justin's body is really the key," he explained.

Since the podcast dropped on June 21, Kipe said they've received several tips. The podcast has also shot up to No. 1 on Apple.

"You know going to number one in a couple hours after it was released, was not expecting that." he said.

"My goal was to put it out there and as information starts coming in, craft those last two episodes," Kipe said.

You can find the Drowning Creek podcast here.

New podcast, 'Drowning Creek' investigating metro Atlanta teenager's 2007 disappearance hits #1 in the US

Justin Gaines was 18 years old when he was last seen at nightclub in Duluth in the early morning hours of November 2, 2007.

www.11alive.com