Found Deceased OH - Joey LaBute, 26, Columbus, 4 March 2016 #1

[cvaldez1975]

Lol to me "byeeee" is sort of dismissal like "bye Felicia"

Even if it is his regular tone, who says 'Bye' when somebody says goodnight? Unless they had been texting for a while and the guy said he was going to bed. Then I could see him saying 'bye'

I cannot believe this is happening again! How do people go missing right under people's noses!?

 

[Tssiemer]

My phone auto corrected it to Johnston. But I have a few people in my contacts with that name.


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[Tssiemer]

I forgot about this guy disappearing from a bar, but he was underage.

NY - Jonathan Schaff, 23, Granville, 18 Jan 2014
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=232322


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[ninij9]

Every time I get a gibberish text fom my kids, late at night, I panic. What if they were kidnapped and its a message? Code? The kidnapper doesn't speak english and is asking for ransome? This is my life.

As You can imagine, my husband gets very little sleep with my shenanigans.

Catching up in thread but your post caught me saying "me too, me too". My poor daughter has learned to be very clear when she texts me late at night lest the swat team show up to rescue her.

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[BiobabeOH]

I cannot stop thinking about Joey, so I put together all I think I know so far..

Social
JoeyFB: https://www.facebook.com/labute1
https://m.facebook.com/find.joeylabute
https://m.facebook.com/missingcases/photos/a.300837909936550.73088.212865135400495/1304016839618647
http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/...ng-Persons/Cold-Case-Missing-Adults/LaBute-Jr
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News
1. MARCH 7TH 2016 http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/family-frantic-after-26-year-old-man-goes-missing (Interview with Joe LaBute, Dad)

2. March 7, 2016, 9:22pm http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/07/missing-man-last-seen-early-saturday-in-short-north/

3. March 7, 2016 10:17PM http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...r-man-who-disappeared-friday-in-columbus.html

4. March 8, 2016, 4:20pm http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/08/short-north-businesses-jump-in-on-effort-to-find-missing-man/

5. March 8, 2016, http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/columbus-detectives-searchinh-for-missing-26-year-old-man

6. MARCH 8TH 2016 http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/columbus-detectives-searchinh-for-missing-26-year-old-man

7. March 9, 2016 6:42PM http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...ng-columbus-man-continues-into-fifth-day.html

Timeline

Friday:
Joey parked car at Thurber Gate Apartments
Joey walked to Union Cafe (~20 min walk: https://goo.gl/maps/tzc31XBYmUD2 )
10:19pm Friend (Matt?) txt Joey &#8220;goodnight cutie&#8221;
10:28pm Joey txt back to friend &#8220;Byeeeeeee.&#8221; (With a period in it?)

Saturday:
11-1 Joey left the table
~12:00am Kyle Reigle said he and his wife decided to call it a night.
~12:10am Kyle Reigle never saw Joey so started to text him
1:22AM Nonsense text sent from Joey (*1) "Jnhstioj" to Matt (*7)
~1:30am (female, aunt?) called him. Joey said "I'm driving". (*1)

Sunday:
~am Joey's 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer was found.

 

[inmyhumbleopinion]

I cannot stop thinking about Joey, so I put together all I think I know so far..

Social
JoeyFB: https://www.facebook.com/labute1
https://m.facebook.com/find.joeylabute
https://m.facebook.com/missingcases/photos/a.300837909936550.73088.212865135400495/1304016839618647
http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/...ng-Persons/Cold-Case-Missing-Adults/LaBute-Jr
<modsnip>


News
1. MARCH 7TH 2016 http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/family-frantic-after-26-year-old-man-goes-missing (Interview with Joe LaBute, Dad)

2. March 7, 2016, 9:22pm http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/07/missing-man-last-seen-early-saturday-in-short-north/

3. March 7, 2016 10:17PM http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...r-man-who-disappeared-friday-in-columbus.html

4. March 8, 2016, 4:20pm http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/08/short-north-businesses-jump-in-on-effort-to-find-missing-man/

5. March 8, 2016, http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/columbus-detectives-searchinh-for-missing-26-year-old-man

6. MARCH 8TH 2016 http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/columbus-detectives-searchinh-for-missing-26-year-old-man

7. March 9, 2016 6:42PM http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...ng-columbus-man-continues-into-fifth-day.html

Timeline

Friday:
Joey parked car at Thurber Gate Apartments
Joey walked to Union Cafe (~20 min walk: https://goo.gl/maps/tzc31XBYmUD2 )
10:19pm Friend (Matt?) txt Joey &#8220;goodnight cutie&#8221;
10:28pm Joey txt back to friend &#8220;Byeeeeeee.&#8221; (With a period in it?)

Saturday:
11-1 Joey left the table
~12:00am Kyle Reigle said he and his wife decided to call it a night.
~12:10am Kyle Reigle never saw Joey so started to text him
1:22AM Nonsense text sent from Joey (*1) "Jnhstioj" to Matt (*7)
~1:30am (female, aunt?) called him. Joey said "I'm driving". (*1)

Sunday:
~am Joey's 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer was found.

This is great. Thank you! <modsnip> Also, I was not able to get the "https://m.facebook.com/find.joeylabute" link to work (I'm on my laptop). The only other relevant FB page I have been able to find is "Find Joey LaBute" at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1000669620032629/, but there hasn't been anything posted. I am very worried that something unsavory has happened to this very handsome young man ... .

 

[BiobabeOH]

Apologies:
There seems to be no page with this name on FB right now: https://m.facebook.com/find.joeylabute or https://facebook.com/find.joeylabute

Instead users seem to be using this hashtag: &#8234;#&#8206;findJoeLaBute&#8236;

The Locate the Missing link is actually: https://www.facebook.com/missingcas...3088.212865135400495/1304016839618647/?type=3

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[taradiane]

http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/10/family-desperate-for-news-about-missing-man-as-search-enters-sixth-day/

Another update, this time from local NBC affiliate. Not really any new information, but an interview with other family members.

 

[bbqkaren]

Attached is a screenshot of the text messages I pulled off of abc6/Fox28. I thought this made it easier to understand.

It starts at about 1:54 on this video
http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/columbus-detectives-searchinh-for-missing-26-year-old-man

 

[tarabull]

Nice 1st post bbqkaren

:welcome6:

Thanks for finding that and sharing the screenshots!

And of course, thanks for joining us!

ETA: So Joey called someone (?) out as a liar and then disappeared....hmmmmm.

:thinking:

 

[Timekeeper65]

BiobabeOH, taradiane, and bbqkaren - WELCOME!

:welcome3:

 

[Elinor25]

Hello. Not sure if anyone has brought this up, but I wonder if the weird text is supposed to say Johnstown. That's just NE of Columbus. About 30 mins. Perhaps he was taken there?

 

[Timekeeper65]

Hello Elinor25, and a proper welcome to you too!

:welcome5:

 

[JerseyGirl]

As of Thursday afternoon, Columbus police detectives had not yet released surveillance video from inside the Union Cafe.

http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/10/family-desperate-for-news-about-missing-man-as-search-enters-sixth-day/

 

[JeannaT]

As of Thursday afternoon, Columbus police detectives had not yet released surveillance video from inside the Union Cafe.

http://nbc4i.com/2016/03/10/family-desperate-for-news-about-missing-man-as-search-enters-sixth-day/

I would think that would be a very sensitive issue. There must be patrons of the bar, who, for a number of reasons really don't want video of them there to get out in public.

 

[eric136]

Joey's father said on Channel 6 interview that Joey said he was "driving". When Joey said he was driving, was the before or after the weird text message ?

 

[Bravo]

Joey's father said on Channel 6 interview that Joey said he was "driving". When Joey said he was driving, was the before or after the weird text message ?

:welcome6:

 

[Esse]

Joey's father said on Channel 6 interview that Joey said he was "driving". When Joey said he was driving, was the before or after the weird text message ?

Before:

"It was a fun night. We don't get together a whole lot, a group of cousins and family friends. So, we decided to meet up," Reigle said.
Reigle said when Joey left the table around 12:30 a.m. that night and didn't come back, they called and texted.
"[I was calling] his phone until probably 2:30 a.m. and didn't hear anything. The next morning is when we really started to worry because he wasn't back home or anything like that," he said.
Family members said the last message sent from LaBute&#8217;s phone sent at 1:22 a.m. Saturday simply read: &#8220;Jnhstioj.&#8221;

Sorry, I don't have the link.

 

[Esse]

OK, I have the link.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...tage-to-help-locate-missing-columbus-man.html

 

[Appalachiangranny]

The Arnold Classic was in town then and it is the biggest human trafficking event in Columbus all year. 2nd biggest next to the Superbowl. Has anyone looked at this angle?