I was acquainted with Nic before he went missing, I see Austin nearly every day. First I would like to clear the air regarding his vehicle. The silver 4runner he is seen driving in the previous EWU livestream was not involved in his disappearance. He disappeared on foot, and his family has the 4runner at this point in time.
Secondly, I would like to address anyone who has placed their suspicions on Austin. You don't know either of these people. Austin had nothing to do with Nics disappearance. Him and Nic worked together and lived together. They did everything together and without Nic, Austin was stranded. Austin looked for Nic for a few days before he started calling family and the police(it wasn't unusual for one of them to wander off for large portions of a day). Imagine waking up expecting your best friend to be there, and having them just missing. And imagine staying at the site that your friend went missing from for multiple nights; wondering what the hell is going on. He had to leave with Nics family back to San Diego when they came out to look in the days following the disappearance. Austin initially filed the missing persons report with ICSD, and helped investigators look around the areas he was last seen, which is when the articles of clothing he was last seen wearing were found in bushes.
Nic is very much missing and not in hiding. People close to him are devastated, and hoping for answers. He was a smart, funny, kind to a fault. He wanted to like people and for people to like him. He was trusting and very likely happened upon some people who took advantage of his trust and kindness, for whatever reasons...
People need to understand that the ICSD isn't sitting around twiddling its thumbs idly. They have limited resources and unfortunately they cannot aimlessly canvass hundreds and thousands of acres of desert hoping to find something. The best they can do is collect leads and intelligence and properly follow up on those leads. They haven't forgotten about Nic, I guarantee. It's just lacking any solid leads they cannot do much but put their ears to the ground and hope the reward money will bring them information. Also note that it is extremely common for investigators to hold any valuable information close to their chests so that people who they may be investigating as suspects don't realize they are being investigated.
Finally I would like to mention that a close friend of Nic's has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to his whereabouts. I will link the reward poster at the end of the post. Share it, send it around, print some out and put them up. Anything to get more exposure to this case. Hopefully the money will get people talking.
Reward Poster
I will try to respond if there are any pertinent questions so long that it doesn't reveal personal details. Keep in mind there are still many unknowns surrounding all this.
I dont buy your excuses, anything can cause one person to murder another.
Maybe a fight broke out between the two.
You said austin spent “days” searching before contacting police.
Something stinks here:
1. Were you there while he searched?
2. Were you aware of him searching?
3. Did you know that missing persons reports can be filed 24 hours after someone is missing?
4. Did you consider his claim of “Days searching” might of been “Days hiding/dissolving the body and spreading his personal items around to mislead investigators”?
5. What proof does “Explore with Us” have that his own “KBAR in the car” existed other than claiming he had one like it in the video?
6. What happened to the repurposed wire austin pulled?
7. How did austin “just fall asleep”?
8. Who are you again? Other than what you claimed without evidence?
9. Read question 4 and 8 again.
10. Why do you assume anyone is innocent? Especially the guy who “spent days” “being useless” which were important time periods that cadaver dogs might of found a scent before it was buried/dissolved and even more important “tracks” being covered up?
Number 11.
Interesting that explore with us claimed part of the KBAR Nic had was missing a piece but failed to show his own during their debunk video.
“I fell asleep while my friend wandered off”
How convenient.
Number 12. Not a question, just a statement:One must make theories to suit FACTS not TWIST FACTS TO SUIT THEORIES....
For someone who would “of been completly stranded” without Nic, Austin sure did find a family to look after him quick....
Perhaps Nic was opposed to Austin or and himself moving back in with his family, though Austin felt it was his only way out of crapville USA....
Your demand we not look to as a suspect the one man who “would be stranded without Nic” yet somehow is doing better than before....after neglecting to “be with him” the night he supposedly wandered off...
Makes me think of my own opinion since apparently you think that should matter as far as you are concerned...
“Anyone who cannot exist well on their own means as an adult, without someone to depend upon... is a mooch, plain and simple”.
Perhaps nics family wanted them both to move back in with them, to get them off the streets,
But Nic, would never let Austin “mooch”
Or worse... set Austin off, by stating an INTENT, to do so and leave “Austin Behind” and do so, while both were in a drugged out drunken stupor...
You claim Austin and Nic were joined at the Hip,
Yet Austin was not on drugs as well?
Puh lease......
*kills best friend, waits days to call police or family,
Then asks family if he can move with them, no longer feels safe on his own... talks about how nic would “never abandun muh, is that what you gonna do”?*
Hook, Line, and Sinker.
Watch your back around Austin, he not from Texas....
