Found Deceased LA - Nathan Millard, 42, GA resident on business trip in Baton Rouge, last seen leaving pub, phone found, debit card used, 23 Feb 2023

[Cryptic]

I agree, the timeline is awfully tight. But if they headed directly to Happy's after the game, then there's the opposite problem. Surely it doesn't take the pair an hour and a half to exit the arena, find an Uber and make the 10-minute trip back downtown.

Even with crowds there's a good hour in that timeline that remains a mystery.

Very good point.

My guess is that for various reasons, the trip to Penthouse was omitted from "Version One". Likewise, in "Version Two, the Penthouse jaunt is admitted to- but an earlier arrival time at Happy's (at 9:30) is also retained

I really think the key to mystery lies at the Penthouse Club with a stay longer than 50 minutes. I can clearly see the men going to a strip joint and then one (M) arranging for "freelance" private entertainment after hours.

I can sort of see M, or both men, impulsively buying what would likely be very mediocre quality marijuana from an "at risk youth" type vendor loitering around outside the LSU game.

But...

I cant see M going on a quest off the beaten path for hard drugs after the LSU game. In the end, its very likely that he simply does not use them and has no interest in experimenting with them.

Then factor in that he is not from Baton Rouge and as locals @bayoually have mentioned, the areas beyond the interstate get quickly and obviously "iffy"- at best. This negative change would be apparent even if one is intoxicated.

 

[modesty blaise]

Poor guy.

 

[Chelly]

Body of missing Ga. man found in Baton Rouge, family confirms; BRPD investigating

The body of the Georgia man who went missing in Baton Rouge has been found, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.

www.wafb.com

Family members confirmed on Monday, March 6, his body was found in a vacant lot.

No details about his cause of death have been released.

 

[Hestia's Fire]

Wrapped in a rug and plastic makes me think he was indoors when he died, as a back alley mugger or gang isn't going to be carrying around random rugs in which to obscure their victims, so possibly an overdose in a drug house where the residents didn't want to alert police so simply got rid of his body. We'll most likely know after the autopsy whether or not there were drugs in his system, but that would explain why he was hitting the ATMs so late at night.

Such an unfortunate ending and I feel so terrible for his family to have received this news.

 

[BradBRLA]

So sad. I was hoping for such a different ending to this. <modsnip: no source link> Tragic.

 

[Veronica Sawyer]

Wow. So not the outcome I expected.

 

[Wallendo]

I have followed this peripherally, but don't get a drug overdose vibe. I had wondered if possibly he had been abducted and driven to different ATM's to make forced withdrawals. That seems very unlikely in light of how he was found.

It also seems unlikely that he would wonder around in a drunken stupor, lose his phone, and somehow be invited into a house to do hard drugs and overdose.

I guess anything is possible at this point. I don't have a real feeling for his relationship with the "client". Had they worked together before. Were they old friends? I understand wining and dining a client. Maybe the client wanted to go to the game and the strip club, but if that were the case, why would the client be delayed at the bar while paying the tab? What was at the job site that required both men to physically be present for a meeting? It may not be related, but the details bother me.

I also wonder if the phone was not actually lost, but was later planted by those involved with the death to lead LE away from the actual death site.

 

[bkgregg5]

Wrapped in a rug and plastic makes me think he was indoors when he died, as a back alley mugger or gang isn't going to be carrying around random rugs in which to obscure their victims, so possibly an overdose in a drug house where the residents didn't want to alert police so simply got rid of his body. We'll most likely know after the autopsy whether or not there were drugs in his system, but that would explain why he was hitting the ATMs so late at night.

Such an unfortunate ending and I feel so terrible for his family to have received this news.

Either that, or he perhaps had a meet-up with someone he met at the gentlemen's club, and that turned bad. Either way, terrible news for his wife and children.

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

MSM link - Map and photos of scene

Body of missing Ga. man found in Baton Rouge, family confirms; BRPD investigating

The body of the Georgia man who went missing in Baton Rouge has been found, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.

www.wafb.com

Police said Nathan Millard, 42, was found dead Monday, March 6, around 3:34 a.m. in the 2900 block of Scenic Hwy.

His body was found in a vacant lot, family members confirmed.

 

[SuziQ]

<modsnip> Someone went to a lot of trouble to conceal his body. Or maybe they did the double wrap to make it easy to transport. Imo.

 

[Chelly]

Body of missing Ga. man found in Baton Rouge, family confirms; BRPD investigating

The body of the Georgia man who went missing in Baton Rouge has been found, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.

www.wafb.com

I wonder if someone else was using his ATM card.

 

[Chelly]

Body of missing Ga. man found in Baton Rouge, family confirms; BRPD investigating

The body of the Georgia man who went missing in Baton Rouge has been found, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.

www.wafb.com

Looks like a really bad area of town.

 

[Bogbacal2]

I lived in BR years ago. I accidentally ended up in the area in BR where others have talked about being “sketchy” and I was nervous and got out of the area quickly.
One thing I was thinking, IMO the homeless man seen walking with NM and the small transactions at convenient store makes me think he possibly bought the man some food, drinks….he walks with the man to the store, buys items, the homeless man goes on his way. Walking back to hotel, NM is mugged, made to go to ATM, card stolen, fights back and is killed.
In light of the news of his body being found wrapped in plastic and a rug, sounds like it’s a little more than being killed during a mugging.
Two scenarios I’m leaning towards:
1-Thought of the area, surroundings, the homeless have a variety of items they acquire, maybe rug…thugs in the area can easily steal from the homeless.
2-I have also had a strange feeling ever since I saw the video of he and the (person he was in town with for business-not accusing) in the hall and elevator of hotel.
I’m on the fence. Gut is telling me wrong place, wrong time but something about this business meeting is not sitting well with me. JMO

 

[tarabull]

Body of metro Atlanta man found in Baton Rouge days after vanishing on business trip

The remains of Nathan Millard were found about three miles from the pub he was last seen at.

www.11alive.com

 

[Hestia's Fire]

If this is a drug overdose situation, it suddenly makes a lot more sense to me why his business partner was immediately on high alert when NM didn't show up the next morning. Possibly Nathan got intoxicated at the club and, if he did have a history of substance abuse issues, that was enough to make him want to seek out something stronger. He may have said something to the business partner to that effect, which would explain why the partner stayed behind at Happy's to finish his drink- if he knew Nathan wasn't heading back to the hotel, there was no point in them leaving together. Then when Nathan didn't show for the meeting the next morning, he immediately suspected the worst and called for a welfare check/filed a police report. He may even have said something to the wife if he spoke to her, which could explain her unusual comment about finding his body. MOO, of course.

 

[iluvmua]

If this is a drug overdose situation, it suddenly makes a lot more sense to me why his business partner was immediately on high alert when NM didn't show up the next morning. Possibly Nathan got intoxicated at the club and, if he did have a history of substance abuse issues, that was enough to make him want to seek out something stronger. He may have said something to the business partner to that effect, which would explain why the partner stayed behind at Happy's to finish his drink- if he knew Nathan wasn't heading back to the hotel, there was no point in them leaving together. Then when Nathan didn't show for the meeting the next morning, he immediately suspected the worst and called for a welfare check/filed a police report. He may even have said something to the wife if he spoke to her, which could explain her unusual comment about finding his body. MOO, of course.

That makes sense to me

 

[starlightstarbright]

I would also assume that his business partner may not have wanted anything to do with something that made him uncomfortable. There are lots of people who are really uncomfortable with alcohol (or drugs) and may want to go for a few drinks or even to a strip club, if you must, but know where their limit is and don’t want to be too close to something that could risk their work or family. As much as we think we’d look out for a friend or acquaintance in a situation like that, I can also see throwing your hands up and letting someone make their own bed, so to speak, if you feel in over your head or a situation feels dangerous.

 

[AliceInPain]

If he ODd at someone's house like some people are speculating, then why the rug AND the plastic.
A rug would be sufficient to hide his body while transporting it.
Maybe he had blood on him or had been leaking bodily fluids? idk.
Horrific way to be treated after death whatever happened...

 

[aliintheroe]

So see pin (where his body was found) - the parking lot is actually owned by the funeral home. So that has to have been a recent body dump. No way the funeral home people (who know what a decaying body smells like) didn’t smell it first

 

[Hestia's Fire]

If he ODd at someone's house like some people are speculating, then why the rug AND the plastic.
A rug would be sufficient to hide his body while transporting it.
Maybe he had blood on him or had been leaking bodily fluids? idk.
Horrific way to be treated after death whatever happened...

Temperatures in BR have been in the mid- to high 80s every day since NM disappeared. At those temperatures and high Louisiana humidity, decomposition would set in rapidly if he was in a building with no air conditioning. A rug would be sufficient to hide his body, but not necessarily to contain the fluids associated with decomposition. An added layer of plastic would help to ensure that none of those DNA-containing fluids would land on the vehicle being used to transport his body to the dump site and therefore link his death to the residents of the house.

And I agree, a horrific way to be treated after death, no matter how he died.