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Without A Trace: Shaffer Missing 3 Years
Brian Shaffer went missing three years ago, and authorities still have the case open.
The case still is considered an active case but puzzles all who look at it.
Central Ohio Crime Stoppers Kevin Miles told NBC 4s Matt Alvarez Shaffer still is considered a missing person.
Its still in missing persons. Its not in homicide, Miles said.
If Shaffer were to turn up tomorrow, hed find the landscape of his life changed in the three years since he disappeared: His mother died of cancer shortly before his disappearance. His father, who spearheaded a constant and widespread effort to keep his sons name in the public eye, was killed in the September 2008 wind storm. A branch fell on Randy Shaffer.
http://www.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/crime/article/without_a_trace_shaffer_missing_3_years_now/14506/
New article out today in the OSU student paper:
Is Brian Shaffer alive?
Missing med student might be alive, attorney says; brother suspects best friend has knowledge of incident that happened three years ago
More at link...
http://media.www.thelantern.com/med...3/Campus/Is.Brian.Shaffer.Alive-3707043.shtml
ARIELILANE....
Why do you persist in posting your "In my Opinion" smiley faces, and balloons...etc.
I thought this was a discusson forum for Brian Shaffer....Not Facebook,
No offence intended, but I would like to see the Forum used for Useful Discussion rather then meaningless irrelivant happy face/balloon posting.
Just My Opinion!
Every time this thread is bumped, Brian's name remains visible. I am thankful for every post, and thankful that people still care. :twocents:
New article out today in the OSU student paper:
Is Brian Shaffer alive?
Missing med student might be alive, attorney says; brother suspects best friend has knowledge of incident that happened three years ago
More at link...
http://media.www.thelantern.com/med...3/Campus/Is.Brian.Shaffer.Alive-3707043.shtml
This might sound utterly ridiculous but what IF Brian is alive? Of course, I have always hoped he was but sincerely doubted that was the case. When you think about it, Clint is the only person who refused a polygraph and essentially lawyered up at a certain point and refused to talk. What if he DOES know something? Suppose Brian told Clint that night he was leaving and didn't want anyone to know where he was going, except Clint? Maybe it's a situation where Clint is harboring this secret and vowed to never tell where Brian was. When you think about Clint's behavior, it's either a scenario like that or else he knows Brian is NOT alive and knows something about that too.
I personally find it very hard to believe Brian is alive and would do that to his family. And especially after Randy Shaffer's death, you would definitely think he would have come back and let everyone know he was alive. I just find Clint's behavior somewhat strange and I think he knows more than what he is telling.
I don't think it's utterly ridiculous at all. I have never been able to make up my mind on what I believe happened to Brian. The thing that has made me start to feel that he is no longer alive is the fact that it has been 3 years with no word from or about him. He's a guy who by all accounts had a close, loving relationship with his family and his girlfriend. I feel like if he would have snapped under stress from school and grieving and taken off, well, I can't see someone who has those close relationships being able to leave for 3 years without a word to any of his loved ones. 3 days or 3 weeks, sure, but not 3 years with absolutely zero contact. Maybe that's projecting too much of my personality onto a stranger, but it just doesn't feel plausible to me. I understand that feeling of wanting to run away from everything, but would never be able to leave my loved ones, at least not for a long period of time!
But then I second guess that feeling - what if he's in a fugue? What if he was/is experiencing some kind of psychosis that negates those feelings of wanting to be with loved ones? Those things seem implausible though too.
Somewhere, someone knows something and he needs to be found.