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Chapter Eight: the Disappearance of Brian Shaffer
So I listened to this entire podcast. Very, very nicely done, professional. Just superb. Several people well versed in the case provide their theories/opinions, which is great. I learned several new things:
1) Last person chatting with Brian was Amber Ruic, under (and thus out of view of) the surveillance cam. Would be very curious to know details of their conversation. Brightan goes to the bathroom, returns, then the girls leave, and Brian then apparently promptly (right before Clint and Meredith stopped searching the bar for Brian and went down the escalator) headed for the 'construction area', and within minutes his phone was going straight to voicemail.
2) Meredith and Clint had 'iron-clad alibis'.
3) Review of BS's phone records reveal that there were five other individuals (four med students and one out-of-town friend of one of those students) partying with Brian and Clint at the UTS the night Brian disappeared! Brian's last phone call was to one of those individuals (the out-of-town friend)! They were not asked to take polygraphs!
4) Brian's hotmail account is still active and appears to have been used in 2017 from an IP address at a med school in Italy!
5) There is some analysis of the Hilliard cell phone ping, suggesting that the ping may not have been a glitch but rather may have been result of Brian's phone having been powered on at that time in late 2006.
Other thoughts:
1) Lori's theory is that Brian met with foul play after leaving UTS and is likely deceased. She notes it would seem unlikely for an intelligent man like Brian to 'booze it up' on night he plans to vanish, and Lori does not believe Brian ran off to a new life. Good observation.
2) Jim's view is that Brian was unhappy, may have been planning to leave for quite some time, and may have run off to a new life. Noted that Brian had visited Puerto Rico while he was seeing Alexis. Noted that Brian may have been involved with another woman while he was seeing Alexis.
3) The podcast hostess seems to lean toward the opinion that Brian may have run off to a new life. She completely discredits the theory that Brian may have died an accidental fall in construction area and inadvertently been buried and subsequently entombed under concrete floor.
I personally find the notion that Brian ran off to a new life and has avoided detection and contact all these years simply ludicrous. I continue to believe that what most likely happened is that Brian bade farewell to Amber and Brightan, bailed on Clint and Meredith by heading for the lower level construction area (as Sgt. Hurst suggests) moments before Clint and Meredith exited the UTS, in his drunken state stumbled into a trench in the 'completely dug up' and treacherous construction area with fill collapsing in on and immobilizing and suffocating him and immediately eliminating reception to his cell phone, and was within days likely inadvertently/unknowingly entombed when concrete flooring was poured. Dead before Clint and Meredith even pulled out of the garage, and his remains there to this day. Hard to believe? Sure, but it explains why the guy who disappeared that morn was not seen leaving the building, didn't appear on area cams, body never found, and never a single sign of life outside the building for 12+ long years and running. And it doesn't require a well executed street homicide, doesn't need an inexplicably evil and homicidal Clint, an inexplicable suicide, and is not nearly as hard to believe as the ran-off-to-Margaritaville, waited to until after finals and pulled it off while drunk, avoided all cams, funds untouched, dumped his bro and dad and beautiful GF, and avoided all detection for many many years. It is a huge insult to Brian to suggest that he may have pulled such a stunt and crushed those near and dear and left them hanging. I understand the desire to wish Brian alive and happy somewhere, but come on...
All that said, I would like to know nature of Brian's convo with Amber, his mindset at the time (if he was say, light-hearted, or even looking to circle back with Amber/Brightan that shoots down the great-escape theory), and learn what the four med-students and friend might have to say about that night....
