New podcast covers Brian Shaffer disappearance they do over two hours on Brian's story. Coming up on ten years missing. The name of the show is true crime garage it's on ITunes and stitcher
www.TrueCrimeGarage.com
Sorry, I don't post much here, but just wanted to say that the True Crime Garage episode on Brian Shaffer was very well done. It was two episodes and pretty informative. On top of that there was pretty good discussion into theories. This story is pretty interesting for me, because I've been in that area many times.
I've looked around on the web for as much as I was able to for this story. I guess the one thing I would love to know is that phone call Brian made to his girlfriend earlier that night. Was that normal for him to do with her? Did she ever say?
Some people are quite vocal like that with their significant others. Lots of people aren't. I just wonder if that call raised a flag with her, or if that is just something the two of them did all the time, in which you would really disregard the importance of that call.
The other thing I would love to know, was anyone in that place, especially the two people he was with, able to confirm that he was drinking? If you want to go down the path of Brian using this night, and this building to go off the grid, why would you try to pull that stunt after several drinks. There are reports that he was very drunk, but I just wonder if anyone there confirmed that they did see him physically drinking.
I tend to believe that Brian somehow got out of that bar on his own. I think for whatever reason, he ditched his friends and was just going to find his own way back home. Somewhere along the way maybe someone took advantage of a guy they could lift for a few bucks, or maybe someone wasn't paying attention while they drove, and hit him, and didn't want to deal with the consequences, of maybe a dui/manslaughter.
You really can't rule anything out. I find it hard to believe that he would use a Friday night at a bar very close to Ohio State where there are tons of people as a focal point of disappearing on your own. But maybe that was just it. Disappear right under everyone's noses?
I really wish there were more podcasts out there with discussion of this case. It's really interesting, and hits home a bit as I grew up in Ohio and spent a lot of time hanging out in Columbus with friends.
