So I’d like to wrap this up because basically I haven´t thought of anything else the last 7 days.
I think it is time for me to move on, I was hoping to have an aha-moment which I’ve could have shared somewhere along my research but haven’t really. However some things have cleared up and my initial impressions have changed.
Had there been a website with complete information, with accurate timeline of events, detailed layout of the bar and surrounding area, and an account of the detective’s 3 main theories behind what happened a lot of rumors or misunderstandings wouldn’t have sneaked in and recalibrated the logic event. People sometimes get overly creative when the scenarios point in multiple direction or in no direction at all.
A lot of mysticism in this case is due to the fact that Brian wasn’t seen leaving through the regular exit. I think that besides his disappearance that this is the only fact that holds ground. And then the major question mark is whether he re-entered the bar or not.
The whole mind game then almost immediately leads to where something must have happened to him in the Ugly Tuna. The place is really small though, hiding under the stage or going into the kitchen he would have been noticed and jumping off the patio he would have been picked up by cameras outside, seen by patrons and most likely hurting himself considering the intoxicated condition he was in. The only plausible is that he took a hike through the emergency exit, and went down that way but the timeline and his captures on the cctv footage at sort of contests that in my opinion.
I’ve learned more about the two women he chats with on the footage at 1.55 am that I didn’t know before.
Evidently their name is Amber and Brighton, they were questioned by authorities and cleared and left the premise seen by the cctv cameras. Upon leaving the scene in the footage, the girls said that one of them got into the bathroom for a few minutes. The bathrooms are located almost next to after the entrance of the Ugly Tuna. When she got back, she said Brian was waiting with the other girl outside. They then said goodbye to each other and they left.
By this time a couple or so of minutes must have passed, setting the time at around 1.58-02.am. However, only from the footage seen by the detectives can we know the exact time they departed. Ultimately, this piece of information now disproves to me that Brian went back directly into bar after he vanished out of sight from the footage.
At the same moments Clint and Meredith thinks it’s time to leave and they start looking around for Brian in the Bar. They shout out his name and check the bathrooms. He is nowhere to be seen. They give him a call at 2.01 am, but it goes directly to voicemail and then they proceed down towards the exit of the building. They check on Brian outside but can’t find him and ultimately head back to the garage and leave with their car altogether.
This scenario leaves a few minutes at the most from Brian’s part to disappear. So my take must be that Brian wanted to avoid detection from his friends, possibly turning his phone off and leaving through one off the hallway doors.
This hallway is located on the left of the entrance of the Ugly Tuna and had several doors. The area is just behind the cctv camera and but was also in full view of the officers in white as seen in the footage camera, however bar guest leaving en masse or a moments distraction could have blocked their view.
So why not just leave down the escalators then? I think the tragic thing here is that he was just about to cross path with them as they were leaving the bar and didn’t want to be seen.
In any other scenario Brian would have either left through the escalators or been seen or heard by his friends. The emergency exit route would have been plausible if he hadn’t been captured on the footage at 1.55am and whilst also hanging out with Amber and Brighton there would have been no time to sneak out that route unseen.
When we see Brian outside the bar at closing time I think he was there because he ultimately was planning to leave.
Clint said “It was Meredith to my right, then me, and then the two girls and then Brian was doing his usual thing. And he was talking to those two girls. And I go, yeah, Brian stick around. He has a tendency to walk away. And probably 10 minutes later, 15 minutes later, I turned to say, Meredith
let‘s go, it was closing time, 2:10, 2:00 and Brian was nowhere to be seen”.
The cctc camera captures what Clint referenced to the 10-15 minutes. Had Brian went back to the bar they would have seen him there.
So what happens next then?
In the hallway where Brian was waiting, to the left of the entrance at the Ugly Tuna, the straight hallway door was the one the band used:
Sergeant Hurst. When the band left they left back throught the hallway and they loaded up their equipment out the back door, by where the dumpster was but they had to go down the elevator and down the hallway to do that.
However, there were cameras in one of the hallways and on the dumpster door.
We got them (the band) going, cause the hallway that they had to go out through and ultemately where the dumpster was all that was on camera at that time.
So again Brian was not seen on any of the footage from here either.
The only option left for Brian to take was the other door in the same hallway. It lead to a stairwell, at the bottom was a door. This door led to another hallway, which went left or right. From here taking left you ended up in the construction area. Ultimately you’ve could have gotten out this way and ended up on the back of the building.
Needless to say , the whole building including the construction area was searched from top to bottom. Even the sewers were checked.
Dogs picked up a scent on Brian outside the building but it ultimately didn’t lead anywhere.
The comeback podcast speculated that Brian could have possibly urinated while outside and the dogs picked up on that.
So what happens from here, well who knows. Brian could have been picked up by a car, and a victim of foulplay from there.
I was keen early on to believe something happened to him inside the Ugly Tuna. But as I have describe, I believe he left the bar. Also just the idea that he was butchered in the kitchen or put in dumpster bag and discarded of like trash in an establishment as small and packed of patrons and staff as the Ugly Tuna is unrealistic. My initial idea when I heard of Brian’s case was the resemblance to Jamal Khashoggi. However, he was dealt with a death squad of 15 persons, no-one could have pulled it off by themselves or even with help in the Ugly Tuna.
As for the construction site, they searched the place with cadaver dogs, had he died there or or bleeding they would have picked up on that. His father also searched the place on his own with other dogs. In case of a fatal accident, just the idea that construction workers would have hide his body or pour concrete over him doesn’t make any sense.
So I now think Brian got out. And that something happened to him while outside. From here on there would be so much speculation from my part that I must finish here.
At least I am satisfied for myself that I managed to narrow down the events from Brian disappearing from the Ugly Tuna and the World , to just disappear from the World. Which was a hard barrier in itself.
I cannot imagine the detectives on this case and what amount of labor it has taken to be able to solve it. I also think that the tragic passing of Brian’s father has impeded a lot on his continued investigation. He was the prime promotor for Brian and no-one has done it the same way ever since.
I Would have loved to see the 3 theories that the detectives adhere to, I guess they are ahead of where my conclusion stops. Possibly they have circumstantial evidence here and there but can’t puzzle it out altogether. Perhaps on Clint they were interested in what happened after Clint went back home than he was willing to share and he stopped to cooperate after that.
I hope for Brian’s brother Derek’s sake that this case gets solved and that he will get some answers on what happened to Brian.
