I live in the Columbus area and I am familiar with the Easton area.
One thing to keep in mind is that it was between 3:30 to 4:30 a.m. on an early Sunday morning when Tyler was last seen in the Easton area.
Now the only place that I know of that is open at that hour on an early Sunday morning at Easton is Steak and Shake. Steak and Shake is a hamburger restaurant that is open 24/7.
A few other 24 hour restaurants in the Columbus area that I know of, Tee Jayes and Waffle House, are located several miles from Easton in other areas of Columbus.
Here is a general overview of the Easton area of Columbus.
Easton is located between two creeks and a reservoir.
Alum Creek is west of Easton, near the intersection of Morse Road and Sunbury Road. Alum Creek is connected to a dam and a reservoir in Delaware County known as Alum Creek Lake.
Big Walnut Creek is east of Interstate 270 (The Outerbelt) near the intersection of Morse Road and Stygler Road. Big Walnut Creek is connected to a dam and reservoir in Franklin County known as Hoover Reservoir. It is also known by locals in the Columbus area as Hoover Dam.
Hoover Reservoir is located several miles north of Easton and it is on Sunbury Road, north of Central College Road.
There’s not much traffic during the early morning hours on Morse Road in the Easton area. But during the daytime hours, traffic is extremely heavy on Morse Road everyday of the week. And during the weekday morning and evening rush hours, traffic in the Easton area is a nightmare.
I want to point out that Morse Road is the only roadway in the Easton area that you can get on if you want to go east of Interstate 270.
If you go eastbound on Morse Road past Interstate 270 before reaching Stygler Road, you will drive by a car dealership, a distribution center, a Columbus water treatment plant, and a Columbus trash collection station.
One of the roads in the Easton area that is of great interest is Easton Way, which goes between Interstate 270 and Sunbury Road.
The hotel that Tyler stayed at, Hilton Columbus at Easton, is located near the intersection of Easton Way and Stelzer Road.
Now if you go eastbound on Easton Way and east of Easton Way and Stelzer Road, it will take you to the Interstate 270 interchange where Easton Way ends.
I don’t think Tyler ever walked along the berm of Interstate 270 from Easton Way. Because if he had, there are traffic cameras at the 270 interchange at Easton Way and also on Interstate 270 as well.
The traffic cameras are monitored 24/7 at the traffic center. Now if Tyler had been seen walking on the berm on Interstate 270 on the traffic cameras, a monitor at the traffic center would have alerted the 911 operations center, and a LE officer would have been dispatched to Interstate 270.
The main entrances to the Easton area are Morse Road, Stelzer Road, and Interstate 270. And there are two back entrances that take you into Easton from Sunbury Road.
Easton Way at Sunbury Road and Chiller Lane at Sunbury Road are the two back entrances that take you into Easton if you wish to avoid all of the extremely heavy traffic on Morse Road.
Not only are there soccer fields and bike paths on Sunbury Road between Easton Way and Chiller Lane, it is also next to Alum Creek.
And I wonder if the west side of Alum Creek running between Morse Road and Sunbury Road and Sunbury Road and Innis Road have been searched.
I recall that about five years ago, human remains were found in shallow graves on the west side of Alum Creek near Innis Park, which is near Sunbury Road and Innis Road.
Now about the gentleman’s club called the Dollhouse where Tyler and his wife, and his friend all went to prior to Tyler’s disappearance.
I checked google and it revealed that the Dollhouse is open every evening at 7:00 p.m. until it closes at 2:00 a.m. in the morning.
The Dollhouse is located in northeast Columbus near the intersection of Karl Road and Karl Court and is one block south of Karl Road and Route 161 (Dublin Granville Road).
The Dollhouse and the hotel is about seven miles and at that time of the night, and about a 15 minute drive depending on traffic.
There are two direct routes that I know of which you can take to get from the Dollhouse to the hotel at Easton.
One direct route is going eastbound on Route 161 from Karl Road, then going southbound on Interstate 270 from Route 161, and then going westbound on Easton Way from Interstate 270.
The other direct route is going southbound on Karl Road, then going eastbound on Morse Road from Karl Road, and then either going southbound on Morse Crossing or Stelzer Road to get to Easton Way to reach the hotel.
Now keep in mind that bars and pubs in the state of Ohio are required to shut down and close at 2:30 a.m. in the morning.
Even though there are several bars and pubs in the Easton area, they have already been closed for the night when Tyler disappeared.
And there are four star restaurants in the Easton area that have their own bars as well, but they close earlier than the bars and pubs in the Easton area.
I will say that the Easton area bars and pubs are considered to be high class bars or pubs rather than your typical neighborhood bars or pubs.