OH OH - Tyler Davis, 29, Columbus, 24 February 2019

[cocomod]

I think he was under the influence of something, too. When I hear "confusion" and wandering around "lost", I think of meth. Also, from the most recent article, if they were all so exhausted from the night out on the town, why were they all still awake at well past 4:00 a.m.? Just saying . . . in my opinion it is odd.

"Brittany told Dateline nothing was out of ordinary that evening. But by the time they had walked around the sprawling shopping complex –- which includes no fewer than 235 retail stores, 40 restaurants and 750 residential units, according to its website –- it was around 3:00 a.m. and everyone was exhausted."
Young father Tyler Davis missing from Ohio shopping complex since February

Call me jaded, but huge red flags with story!!

It sounds like someone read online or had too many people questioning the story of being in the woods:
“He called and said, ‘I see the hotel. I’m walking through the woods. I’ll be right there.’” Brittany said. “He sounded so confused. And he is not an outdoorsy person at all. There could be two trees right beside each other and he would call that ‘woods.’”

Why would a good good friend go home when Tyler didn't make it back???
“I answered it and there was an open line for about four seconds. Then the phone hung up,” Brittany said. “I called him back and his phone was off. And it’s been off ever since.”

Brittany told Dateline it was nearing 4:30 a.m. at this point. Their friend, who Brittany says lives just 10 minutes from the hotel, decided to go home.


I hope they reviewed the video before now. Honestly, some surveillance video is erased after 2 weeks. This is one of the cases where I wish that I knew what police know

The Columbus Police Department did not reply to Dateline’s request for comment by Monday evening, but Brittany said authorities have conducted multiple searches and are currently reviewing security footage.

 

[Osugal]

I thought the same thing about the woods..

 

[Osugal]

I mean calling a small group of trees "woods" I don't think so.

 

[alexwood]

Call me jaded, but huge red flags with story!!

It sounds like someone read online or had too many people questioning the story of being in the woods:
“He called and said, ‘I see the hotel. I’m walking through the woods. I’ll be right there.’” Brittany said. “He sounded so confused. And he is not an outdoorsy person at all. There could be two trees right beside each other and he would call that ‘woods.’”

Why would a good good friend go home when Tyler didn't make it back???
“I answered it and there was an open line for about four seconds. Then the phone hung up,” Brittany said. “I called him back and his phone was off. And it’s been off ever since.”

Brittany told Dateline it was nearing 4:30 a.m. at this point. Their friend, who Brittany says lives just 10 minutes from the hotel, decided to go home.


I hope they reviewed the video before now. Honestly, some surveillance video is erased after 2 weeks. This is one of the cases where I wish that I knew what police know

The Columbus Police Department did not reply to Dateline’s request for comment by Monday evening, but Brittany said authorities have conducted multiple searches and are currently reviewing security footage.

[BBM]

I can see that Tyler's phone may have died due to needing to be charged. Brittany said that she did not go on the walk with Tyler after returning to the Hotel in the Uber because her phone needed to be charged. So, his also may have needed to be charged.

 

[Sillybilly]

Hey everyone ... just a reminder

Please do not bring names and info into the thread unless you are 100% sure it is the right individual.

Thanks

 

[Sillybilly]

Also, could someone please link me to the where the info from the mother-in-law is coming from. If it's from MSM it can stand; if it's social media it will be removed.

Thank you.

 

[Kkbbeans]

Anyone else follow the karlie guse case out of California ? This feels exactly like that. Don't ask questions, just share the flyer. I'm less than an hour from Easton and have been to and around the Hilton many times. None of this is passing the sniff test.

 

[loraball]

That's a relatively new Medical complex about a mile and a half from Easton shopping center. Very strange indeed that he would have walked that way and that far on foot drunk...

I thought the same, but look at the google map (I am assuming from his phone location info). If you were on foot you wouldn't walk the route it showed, you would cut through the parking lots. The route he went was the route a vehicle would have to travel if going to Abbot Labs. When I pulled this area up on Google maps, the vehicle even had to go thru a guard shack kind of toll both area to get into the property at Abbot Labs.
I think he left the Hilton in a car and was driven directly to Abbot Labs and dropped near the front of the building.

 

[loraball]

I wonder if, by chance, the friend who lives near Columbus works at Abbot Labs???

 

[mrstfs]

Why wouldn’t the CPD have a post for this case on their Facebook page? They seem to post a lot about different missing people etc.. maybe I missed it.

 

[Dre]

I too find this case very fishy. I first think it’s weird that they took a trip as a group of 3, I mean... one couple, a hotel room, a birthday... why invite other friend? If celebrating and alcohol were involved in her birthday, you’d think that maybe as adults they would also maybe think some intimacy might take place.. but three’s a crowd for most folks! And if it wasn’t for these 3... then maybe there needs to be a closer look at her relationship with the friend.
4am is incredibly late to be partying with just 3 people, I feel like stimulants might have been involved..
It’s also possible that once they fought and he left, he wanted to leave to take a hit of his drug of choice or maybe even go score some?
I also think it’s such a bad sign that the friend left in the middle of the night.. not only suspicious but just a... bad friend!
What a terrible birthday lol
Has anyone seen anything on polygraph testing?

 

[interestedincases]

I too find this case very fishy. I first think it’s weird that they took a trip as a group of 3, I mean... one couple, a hotel room, a birthday... why invite other friend? If celebrating and alcohol were involved in her birthday, you’d think that maybe as adults they would also maybe think some intimacy might take place.. but three’s a crowd for most folks! And if it wasn’t for these 3... then maybe there needs to be a closer look at her relationship with the friend.
4am is incredibly late to be partying with just 3 people, I feel like stimulants might have been involved..
It’s also possible that once they fought and he left, he wanted to leave to take a hit of his drug of choice or maybe even go score some?
I also think it’s such a bad sign that the friend left in the middle of the night.. not only suspicious but just a... bad friend!
What a terrible birthday lol
Has anyone seen anything on polygraph testing?

I thought the same thing of 3 is a crowd, but, based on this article, friend was NOT staying with them, he lived 10 minutes away and met them there. So that one is at least answered. Still a bad friend though IMO to leave!!

Young father Tyler Davis missing from Ohio shopping complex since February
"Brittany said a close friend, who lives in Columbus, came by the hotel to hang out with them. A few hours later, around 8:30 p.m., the three of them left the hotel to walk around the shopping center."
"Brittany told Dateline it was nearing 4:30 a.m. at this point. Their friend, who Brittany says lives just 10 minutes from the hotel, decided to go home."

 

[interestedincases]

Ok, so, let's look at this timeline. I know some info was posted yesterday, but it is NOT confirmed in MSM from what I can see on the Mod comment and deletions, so I'm going to discount it for now. Hopefully someone can become a VI and give us more if it's available. So that saying, I'm discounting the phone/data ping for last location for now since it's not proved.

Young father Tyler Davis missing from Ohio shopping complex since February

3AM - "–- it was around 3:00 a.m. and everyone was exhausted. They took an Uber back to the hotel. Brittany said that’s when the night began to change."

I googled the shopping center to Hilton and it's says a 2 minute drive so they got back to the hotel IMO no later than 3:10AM (give them time to get in Uber, pay, etc.)​

3:30AM - “Then Tyler called me around 3:30 a.m. and said he would be right back [to the hotel].”

This is still within the timeframe. Depending on which story you go with, this would give her time to go up to the room to charge her phone before the 3:30AM call​

4:10AM - "Around 4:10 a.m., about one hour after Tyler had left for the walk, Brittany’s phone rang. It was Tyler."
4:10AM - "Seconds later, Brittany’s phone rang again. It was Tyler." I answered it and there was an open line for about four seconds. Then the phone hung up,” Brittany said. “I called him back and his phone was off. And it’s been off ever since.”

This is a 40 minute timeframe which is HUGE. How far could he have walked (again, she didn't say in the last article that they had been drinking, so had they???) How far could someone had driven him.....​

4:30AM - "Brittany told Dateline it was nearing 4:30 a.m. at this point. Their friend, who Brittany says lives just 10 minutes from the hotel, decided to go home."

So the friend stayed another 20 minutes after Tyler's phone switched off and then decided to just go home. He didn't leave at 4:10AM thinking Tyler was safe and on his way back in, he hung around for 20 more minutes and said oh well, I'm leaving........
​

I honestly have two thoughts on this case.
1) He did wander off and got lost and died from an accident. Whether it was because he was intoxicated (drinking/drugs/slipped something at the bar) and fell into a pond or OD'd, or someone hit him on accident (which I think would be rare and not likely). Why did his phone go off? Loss of battery (which would be likely if her phone had already died), or, did he fall in a pond and lost connection?
2) When the friend left, where did he go? I would be curious if he went straight home, or followed another path? How could he have picked up Tyler though if Tyler's phone had turned off and he didn't know where he was? Or, did he leave and Tyler WAS there, his wife just didn't know?
3) The article says they met friends (plural), were there OTHER people with them too that Tyler could have gone with??? Did he really go somewhere that wife/friend knew about and just didn't return. That was explain the loss of panic on walking trying to find him and talk him back in. If intoxicated, he would have somewhat sobered up in 1.5 hours, enough to be able to hang out and wait until sunrise if lost.

As suspicious as the friend sounds in this article, IF and I use IF lightly, the timing is honest and correct with the phone calls, I think Tyler came into an accident, whatever it was.

Or, did someone else have Tyler's phone and make the calls so it would give a timeline of events?

They were seen going into the hotel, but not leaving. Is this really even possible??! Even if something happened to him IN the hotel, how would they get him out without the cameras seeing a single one of them? I do NOT believe there isn't additional footage.

And I still don't understand why the cops weren't called right away at 4:10AM. I'm not sure they would have done much since he was an adult and hadn't been missing that long, but I would absolutely call in a heartbeat if I didn't have a good feeling and it had been 1 1/2 hours since he went walking and didn't return.

 

[mrstfs]

Since his wife is an Admin on the official missing person Facebook page, are we allowed to copy comments she made there? I just re-reviewed the WS Rules but I’m always unclear about this.

 

[lilyarms]

I live in Columbus <modsnipped le bashing>

 

[~StingRay~]

I worked with Tyler 2 years ago at the local Pub. At the time, his wife was expecting their baby. He always seemed to be a pretty level-headed guy. Granted, I didn't know him outside of work, but that's how he seemed. This whole thing is unreal. I have been sharing the posts on FB since a mutual friend and coworker first shared the flyer. I work with a lady who is very close to this case, as she is a very close friend of Tyler and his wife's. I personally believe that he would not have just up and left his wife and child, as some people have speculated.
I've followed Websleuths regarding many different cases for a long time. Never thought I'd be following one regarding an old coworker.
I, too, have questioned why they'd have a friend join them on an anniversary outing. Maybe just to show them around?
I read something on here that stated that the CCTV footage showed the 3 of them being dropped off by the Uber, but never showed Tyler leaving by himself?
Do they mean the footage shows him leaving with someone else, or do they mean the footage never showed him leaving at all?

 

[~StingRay~]

SO

There is video of wife, friend, tyler entering the hotel after being dropped off by the uber but there is no video of tyler walking out by himself?

That is what I was referring to in my above post.

 

[alexwood]

"[B]rittany said authorities have conducted multiple searches and are currently reviewing security footage."

Young father Tyler Davis missing from Ohio shopping complex since February

I haven't seen anything reported in MSM as to what was captured on any CCTV/security footage. Am I overlooking something?

 

[Plo_Koon]

That is what I was referring to in my above post.

We've all been confused by that part.

 

[Plo_Koon]

Thanks, Plo! That's what I remember. I would think that LE's review would be complete by now. After all, he has been missing for some 45 days. Maybe something that we can rely on will be reported soon.

You would think. A month and a half is a good chunk of time for somebody to be missing. Something hopefully has to come out at some point.