However, neither is there any evidence that Brian was in the construction area, correct?
We know he didn’t leave, down the escalators and wasn’t seen leaving by the back exit. 1. Brian was inside that building. 2. We know there was construction going on, Those 2. are facts. The lead detective states he thinks Brian most likely got exited out through the construction area. Considering 15 years have passed and no trace of Brian has been found, I just happen to think he most likely didn’t get exited out.
Now, can it be that he did, well, I don’t think it’s right for anyone to spend another 15 years waiting for clarifications on his whereabouts, whether he got out or not. Just get a team in there and do a new run of searches.
So, it's no better a theory than abduction/foul play/runaway at this point.
Won’t hurt to do some more “digging” in that complex.
Right, I listed a few points some pages back. There are some hefty scanners at the moment which a private detective firm used to find a body of a missing person behind a wall, albeit not in the US.It really depends on what kind of "digging" you're referring to. If there were a cheap and reliable way to completely survey the premises (above and below ground) without destroying structures, I'm sure that most people would be on board. But to my knowledge, that technology doesn't exist.
Now, if you are referring to a more significant excavation, then it would "hurt" to dig, as it is simply not realistic to expend the resources to destroy structures and move dirt for a chance of him being there. We would need far more evidence than what is currently public.
Nice post. I think we witnessed Brian in his final moments on video speaking with Amber and Brightan. Dead within minutes in a freak, drunken accident. If searchers then could somehow have known what we know now - that 15 years and running would pass without a single sign of life outside the complex, they'd have been laser-focused inside the complex that first week leaving no stone unturned.I could see him being harmed outside the building if he never went back in the building in the first place. But we are told when he leaves the camera after talking to the two girls he had to go back inside as there was nowhere else for him go but back in. So he definitely DID go back inside. What are the chances that a man who went inside and disappeared never to be seen again somehow managed to evade every camera on the premises, every camera in the adjacent businesses, every camera on the surrounding streets, not be witnessed anywhere by a single person (despite it being a busy rowdy student area full of drunk people), never has a wallet or phone or piece of clothing or anything been recovered..Despite Brian’s case being kind of well known around YouTube and social media platforms (his name is always first when you type “people who vanished”or whatever into google and his videos have thousands more views than other incidents) not even one person has had their memory jogged and thought “hold on a minute I’m sure I saw that guy around that time in that pizza shop around the block let me notify the cops”. “Didn’t I see that guy on vacation in the Maldives”. These kinds of things DO occur in pretty much every missing person case ever even if they are dead ends or lead nowhere. I don’t believe that he managed to pull of some masterful disappearance that kept him neatly concealed from humanity for 15 years.
logic dictates that nobody either then or since has reported any knowledge/sighting/false lead/memory of Brian because he was never seen again by anyone after he went back inside. He has to be in the construction area or somewhere else in that building.
A common denominator might be those tunnels, they are all under the OSU campus.
I don’t have boots on the ground in Columbus, perhaps any1 local can uncover more. Would be interesting to find out more as this may have evaded LE.
Theories involving Brian being stuck or “entombed” in the bar do not necessarily have to end in him buried in concrete. As you suggested to others, perhaps you should open your mind to other ways one can get stuck in a rather large building.
We have seen stories about people getting stuck in between walls, behind coolers at a grocery store, and in duct work. They’ve been posted here. Some weren’t found for years until something triggered the discovery. It happens.
I tend to agree with you that being covered in concrete is unlikely, but open your mind to other possibilities. MOO.
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I am local, was at OSU at the time. I wanted to point out a few things:
*Those tunnels are to the northwest of the Gateway area and run from McCracken Power Plant (near the Shoe) to Sullivant Hall, and along Neil Ave. to the Medical Center. In 2018, Ohio State completed a restoration project on the utility lines & many now house fiber optic cables to service the wireless needs on campus. Here is some good info:
https://library.osu.edu/documents/university-archives/subject_files/tunnels.pdf
'Nobody knows anything' is more likely in my view. That is the explanation for why no one has squawked. Just a stupid drunken accident followed by a botched search, followed by the refusal of the building owner - OSU - to do right by one of it's own.If people are going to insist that Brian is still inside the UTS, then I'm gonna say it's just as plausible that he drowned in the Oletangy river or some other nearby water source, and the searches just weren't thorough.
I've laid out the reasons I don't think he was "entombed" in concrete or otherwise buried by construction workers, and frankly the people espousing this theory clearly have little or no experience in construction. This simply would not logistically happen, I don't know how else to say it.
The camera thing is also overblown, IMO. We have other cases of CCTV cameras not being reliable, such as Jennifer Kesse's disappearance. The person of interest in that footage manages to completely conceal his face by accident just because the camera's scans are too slow. If he had moved slightly faster, the cameras would have missed him entirely. Cameras in 2006 were not fool-proof HD, and I'm not sure how many there really were around Columbus or how much footage was saved from that night. None of us know.
I believe Shaffer is dead from all the evidence I've seen. To me, this case has 3 possibilities, which I think recovering his cell phone and more data from it would point to one of them.
1. Brian left the bar undetected, went a short distance from the UTS, and was killed by a stranger. Body could be anywhere.
2. Brian got into an argument with Clint Florence, left early to avoid Clint, then an altercation occurred sometime later at either Brian's apartment or wherever Clint was staying, resulting in Brian's death. Again, body could be anywhere.
3. Brian was drunk, fell in a river, and accidentally drowned. Body has simply not been found.
I think 1 and 2 are most likely because his cell phone had some pings and ringing after he vanished on 4/1/06. Somebody knows something.
'Nobody knows anything' is more likely in my view.
It really depends on what kind of "digging" you're referring to. If there were a cheap and reliable way to completely survey the premises (above and below ground) without destroying structures, I'm sure that most people would be on board. But to my knowledge, that technology doesn't exist.
Now, if you are referring to a more significant excavation, then it would "hurt" to dig, as it is simply not realistic to expend the resources to destroy structures and move dirt for a chance of him being there. We would need far more evidence than what is currently public.
Detective Tucker has stated that she believes someone withheld information. I'm inclined to believe the investigators on that one.