VA VA - Christopher Douthat, 24, Rocky Mount, 25 Oct 2013

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Detectives have been able to trace Douthat's final known movements to the Vinton Kroger, around 3:30 p.m. on October 25.
There, he cashed his paycheck before a friend dropped him off at this bar around four.
Bar patrons say they recall him in Chap's until about eight.
Another friend says she was supposed to meet Christopher Douthat at the Food Lion in southeast Roanoke at 5 p.m. The friend also said that Douthat told her that he had plans to meet a friend, in a parking lot, before she arrived. When she got here, the friend said, Douthat was nowhere to be found.
While there is no video evidence backing either story, cell phone records back the Food Lion exchange.
Douthat told his friend he was in this parking lot, and that's the last anyone has heard or seen from him since.


http://www.wset.com/story/24149213/franklin-co-man-missing-for-six-weeks

 

[beachlvr0810]

Possible route from Chaps to Food Lion?

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=...YBw&oq=801+Campbell+Avenue+SE&t=h&mra=ls&z=14

 

[beachlvr0810]

Detectives have been able to trace Douthat's final known movements to the Vinton Kroger, around 3:30 p.m. on October 25.
There, he cashed his paycheck before a friend dropped him off at this bar around four.
Bar patrons say they recall him in Chap's until about eight.
Another friend says she was supposed to meet Christopher Douthat at the Food Lion in southeast Roanoke at 5 p.m. The friend also said that Douthat told her that he had plans to meet a friend, in a parking lot, before she arrived. When she got here, the friend said, Douthat was nowhere to be found.
While there is no video evidence backing either story, cell phone records back the Food Lion exchange.
Douthat told his friend he was in this parking lot, and that's the last anyone has heard or seen from him since.


http://www.wset.com/story/24149213/franklin-co-man-missing-for-six-weeks

Bolded by me...told his friend he was in "THIS" parking lot...wonder which parking lot that might be? Near Chaps or near Food Lion?

 

[beachlvr0810]

Is this Chaps? Google is showing the bar is right across from N&W.

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=...=3EMGdhp6nj_JlSkZy05n7g&cbp=12,135.99,,0,2.99

 

[beachlvr0810]

Maybe this is the parking lot Chris was meeting his friend at...it's right across the street from the bar.

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=...d=3EMGdhp6nj_JlSkZy05n7g&cbp=12,217.5,,0,6.11

 

[beachlvr0810]

 

[beachlvr0810]

Oops...sorry...I can't get the photo of the parking lot to load right

 

[rizzo0904]

Why were they meeting at Food Lion? A grocery parking lot at dinner time isn't the easiest place to find someone, it's usually pretty crowded. I'm guessing it wasn't to go shopping since he could have picked up what he needed at Kroger earlier.

 

[beachlvr0810]

Good question! I have my theories but I'm not sure.

 

[Elainera]

Good question! I have my theories but I'm not sure.

Let's hear them! Because I have nothing.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

Good question! I have my theories but I'm not sure.

Drugs...?

 

[jns207]

Drugs...?

I didn't want to be the first one to say it, but that's the best (really, the only) theory that came to mind when I read about the parking lot meet-up. A busy, dinner-time grocery store parking lot is a fairly ideal location for a quick and inconspicuous drug exchange. Depending on how careful the friends were about communicating incriminating information via text, LE might already know about the context of the meeting.

Just to clarify, I'm not accusing anyone of drug involvement, this is JMO based on the circumstances described.


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[TravelingBug]

Craigslist was the other thing that came to my mind.

Especially since the guy who was just killed buying an ipad for his parents from Craigslist the other night was a friend of many of my friends: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/...ter-fatal-shooting-near-ben-davis-hs/3889037/

 

[MamaJoJo]

Looking around the web and the relevant FB pages for information on Christopher...nothing. I hope he is able to come back for his daughter.

 

[MamaJoJo]

Still no new information about Christopher's whereabouts. However, I did stumble across an article about the sentencing of the man who assaulted CRD and SS last year...

http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/f...13e-773f-11e3-b71b-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm

 

[SanJuanMom]

Still no new information on Christopher?

 

[MamaJoJo]

Why no pleas from his mother or other family? SS is silent, too. What a sad set of circumstances.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Franklin Co. Man Missing for Four Months

Investigators are again asking for help in finding a missing 24-year old Franklin County man who hasn't been heard from for four months now.

http://www.wset.com/story/24149213/franklin-co-man-missing-for-four-months

 

[MamaJoJo]

A quick check for news on Christopher came up empty. I did, however, see a picture of his little girl (on his ex's FB) and she sure is a cutie pie. Where'd you go Christopher? I can't imagine you'd choose to miss your daughter growing up.

 

[beachlvr0810]

http://www.wset.com/story/25720298/families-rally-together-wanting-closure-on-missing-loved-ones

No mention of him in this article. No new updates. Where is he?