By: Vickers

Vickers
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:56:25 +0000

I’ve been recently infatuated with this case. Honestly, I’m not sure what to think. I’ve looked at the CCTV footage, listened to countless podcasts speculating, and I’ve been reading document after document. It’s hard telling what actually happened, but here’s a few theories I have.

1) He left with the band. According to most police documents, they did a head count and identified everyone that had gone in and out of the bar from the time Brian showed up to the time the bar closed and disappeared. Eye witnesses say he went back in to talk to the band. The band would have left out the back door, which had a non operable camera at the time. One of the hosts of the podcast True Crime Garage played in a band with the guitarist that played that night. He said he had no memory of talking to Brian, but it’s possible he left out the back. Unfortunately, if he did, this still doesn’t answer where he went or what happened to him after he left. Columbus was full of CCTV’s in 2006, so if he had left the back, a quick search on the cameras surrounding SHOULD have shown him SOMEWHERE. So even if he did leave out the back door, it solves nothing. IMO, if he had gotten out in the back, and we haven’t seen him by now, I don’t think he ran off. I think he was murdered and shoved in a bin somewhere. Downtown CBus in 2006 wasn’t the best place to be and in between those 6 blocks between the bar and his apartment, there’s a lot of people that could have been looking to take advantage of him.

2) He fell in the construction zone. Now, I have no idea how extensive the construction was that was going on around that time near the Ugly Tuna. But, two things I do know is that the police never looked into the construction zone (siting that it would be a nightmare to navigate sober, let alone drunk) and that the bar has a balcony. Is it possible that, after dark, after the bar had closed, after everyone had left and CCTV would have a view obstructed, could Brian have gone up to the balcony, unable to see well because of the lights being out, and fallen off the balcony into a hole in the construction site, and then buried the next day? I don’t think this is too far fetched. It would be hard to hear him over the hustle and bustle of the closing time rush near campus, nobody would have been able to see him due to the streets mostly being dark, and the CCTV cameras wouldn’t have been able to catch a falling body in the darkness even if there was one overlooking the balcony. I would have to see the blueprints of the bar or a set up to see if this holds water, but that’s my main theory.

3) He’s alive, had the plan to leave, and doesn’t want to be contacted. This honestly is the worst theory to me because basically nothing backs it up. I understand his life at that moment in time would have been stressful, but there’s no reason I can see that would have made him want to up and leave forever. Brian had a great life, was likely going to propose on a vacation he was taking two days after he disappeared, and a grieving family that he was close with. Brian doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who would leave like this. And if he did, then they should search for him in the places he looked into going when he and his girlfriend were looking to go on vacation. It would have been a great time for him to scout places to run away to.