CANADA Canada- Eli Wood, 25, student@ Sir Wilfred Laurier Univ., missing after fire (poss. arson)@ home, Kitchener, Ont.,19 Oct., 2025, *Foul play suspected*

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Crime With Kait covered the details
YouTube video link

6:30
EW’s whereabouts confirmed up to 12am
He was at home speaking with family members
Spa night with dog

7:11
All of EW’s belongings including cell phone and laptop were destroyed in the fire

I appreciate the link. I am not saying this is wrong, nor asking for another link. What I do want to point out is that without the actual phone evidence, this could be someone's interpretation of events, not the actuality of them. Example: After being on a road trip, I will call from my car in the driveway that I am "home". If I get out of the car and someone were to kidnap me, my kids might assume I was in the house, when I was not. Or I will be out in the car eating my once a month In and Out burger and if my D calls, I might or might not mention it. If she asks what I am doing for the day, I might say "I am doing laundry" when the actuality of it is I put the first load in, went for my In and Out burger, and am planning to go back, flip the wash to the dryer and add another load. But I'm NOT actually home right at that moment. So it's a thing I consider when I don't have actual records (or someone visibly seeing them) that prove where someone was. I acknowledge that it colours my thinking.

Also, the statement "All of EW’s belongings including cell phone and laptop were destroyed in the fire" seems a little definitive to me. How could anyone possibly know that? Whatever clothes he was wearing, whatever he had on his person when he disappeared was NOT destroyed in the fire. What else might have been there that left with Eli or whoever took him that no one knows about? Is there a comforter or blanket missing? Wallet? Medications? Such an odd statement to make.

As an aside, I cannot imagine that the fire was specifically to destroy the laptop and phone. Or at least the phone. Phone records are fairly easily accessed, a lot of people save images to the cloud, so how could anyone know that destroying a phone would destroy all evidence? Even a laptop can be backed up to the cloud, or documents saved on an external server. I suppose they might just take a chance that destroying the electronics would destroy evidence, better than nothing as it were.

If it weren't for the dog, I might think Eli decided to leave on his own and start elsewhere (though not sure how), but I cannot see him leaving the dog to die such a horrible death. Not at all. All just me thinking about the circumstances and MOO.

 

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I appreciate the link. I am not saying this is wrong, nor asking for another link. What I do want to point out is that without the actual phone evidence, this could be someone's interpretation of events, not the actuality of them. Example: After being on a road trip, I will call from my car in the driveway that I am "home". If I get out of the car and someone were to kidnap me, my kids might assume I was in the house, when I was not. Or I will be out in the car eating my once a month In and Out burger and if my D calls, I might or might not mention it. If she asks what I am doing for the day, I might say "I am doing laundry" when the actuality of it is I put the first load in, went for my In and Out burger, and am planning to go back, flip the wash to the dryer and add another load. But I'm NOT actually home right at that moment. So it's a thing I consider when I don't have actual records (or someone visibly seeing them) that prove where someone was. I acknowledge that it colours my thinking.

Also, the statement "All of EW’s belongings including cell phone and laptop were destroyed in the fire" seems a little definitive to me. How could anyone possibly know that? Whatever clothes he was wearing, whatever he had on his person when he disappeared was NOT destroyed in the fire. What else might have been there that left with Eli or whoever took him that no one knows about? Is there a comforter or blanket missing? Wallet? Medications? Such an odd statement to make.

As an aside, I cannot imagine that the fire was specifically to destroy the laptop and phone. Or at least the phone. Phone records are fairly easily accessed, a lot of people save images to the cloud, so how could anyone know that destroying a phone would destroy all evidence? Even a laptop can be backed up to the cloud, or documents saved on an external server. I suppose they might just take a chance that destroying the electronics would destroy evidence, better than nothing as it were.

If it weren't for the dog, I might think Eli decided to leave on his own and start elsewhere (though not sure how), but I cannot see him leaving the dog to die such a horrible death. Not at all. All just me thinking about the circumstances and MOO.

I understand the details about belongings destroyed, dog killed in fire, and last known times of calls are not verified by LE.

The podcaster pulled the details from posts and comments made by EW’s family members in the Facebook group they admin called Help Find Eli Wood and another page called Ground Search For Eli Wood.

It’s important to note that the Initial articles and police reports all emphasized the estimated $500k in damage to the house deemed arson.

The death of EW’s dog was not brought up by LE, and the disappearance of EW, and the destruction of EW’s belongings in the apartment were downplayed.

MOO the fire came across as a deliberate act to destroy all evidence.
Fire and the water used to put out fire damages and destroys a great deal of forensic evidence. If the phone or laptop were used to log into encrypted servers or platforms like signal without the username handle it can be very difficult to retrieve communication that occurred.