It hasn't actually been reported even once. All we have from LE is this on April 26th:
Search continues to find missing husband and father last seen near Easton
Investigators with the Columbus Police department told ABC 6 that the case is still very active and detectives continue to work on it every day.
and
The Columbus Police Department did not reply to Dateline’s request for comment
and finally:
Due in part to these various external elements, the Columbus Division of Police has refrained from sharing details about the case, said Sgt. Daniel Weaver, who heads up the Missing Persons/Exploited Children’s Unit.
“There are so many competing forces involved in this, and it’s almost taken on a life of its own,” Weaver said. “It’s hard to discern between valid information and armchair quarterbacks who read into things that just aren’t true. … It is an active investigation, and we are continuing to follow leads, but other than that I do like to remain pretty tight-lipped.”
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While Weaver couldn’t offer specifics, he did say that “we were able to extract some information from [Tyler’s] phone.” Both police and volunteer groups also have conducted multiple sweeps of the Easton area, turning up nothing.
“It’s almost a plodding investigation … where all these facets keep popping up and we have to follow each of them to see if it has anything to do with Mr. Davis’ disappearance,” Weaver said. “So it is slow moving, but it doesn’t mean that we’re dragging our feet. There’s just a lot of information to collect and digest and plan our next moves. It requires a bit of patience.”
And on Tyler's parents:
“After I spoke to the police, my father-in-law arrived,” Brittany said. “He searched every single area on foot, by himself. He stayed there until it was dark.”
Brit is an unreliable witness due to her intoxication and desire to hide some truths (perhaps because they are embarrassing or whatever) but she does deserve our empathy. What we can glean from the above is that the cell phone data info showing the path Tyler's phone took to the Abbot Labs area is probably true. It ends there, so the phone died there or is concealed there. The friend was the last to see Tyler. He is the one on CCTV.
With this in mind, why hasn't there been more intense (ok, let's say noticeable by people who live and work in Easton) searching around there? I truly wonder if LE is having issues executing any in-depth searches in some of those areas due to permission or funding. I am curious to this day if Abbot ever granted access to their grounds.
Toeing the line of TOS also remember the member here who said hotel staff told her no one even asked for footage for days or if they had seen Tyler.
This article provides a good summary of what the story is thus far:
Outline - Read & annotate without distractions
I also recently found this, which appears to be a report of Tyler being arrested for public intoxication a few months before this.
@GraceG you have a wonderful way with digging up arrest reports - could you run him through and perhaps find more on that?
Greenfield Police Department reports - Times Gazette
