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Unsolved Mysteries it's a mystery that is true and truly Stranger Than Fiction back in 1993 in Amarello Texas
everyone was looking for the missing lawyer in fact one of the first headlines reporting the story was titled
Unsolved Mysteries the abalene Reporter news said baffling Trail frustrates search for
missing attorney the article reads in part he was a small town quarterback a graduate
of Texas Tech University and a former judge friends describe David Lewis as the ultimate nice guy and family man but
the 39-year-old attorney vanished Super Bowl weekend amid a baffling trail of Clues quote I changed my mind a lot on
this said police detective James Smith saying I wake up at 2 in the morning thinking what ever happened to David
Lewis Smith worked full-time on the case in the months following Karen Lewis reporting her husband missing in
amarello they were looking for Miss man, 1600 M away in Moxy Washington police were working to identify a hitandrun
fatality victim it would take over 10 years to connect the two cases this is true crime garage
[Music] today we have a baffling True Crime Story on tap this is one that is sure to
leave you scratching your head you will want to go digging after these episodes to see what you can find and I hope that
you do but I think most will agree that this baffling story filled with mystery and question marks that will only leave
you with more and more questions to start this story off we need to give a big shout out to two mystery solving
partners and I would say mystery uncovering Partners first up we have the Seattle Post
Intelligencer a fine newspaper in the great state of Washington today people typically say Seattle PI and a newspaper
reading detective this is Washington State Patrol investigator Pat ditter ditter as one online report puts it at
the time he was a 13-year veteran with a reputation for tenacity and attention to detail his
boss is detective Sergeant Ken harkham of the Washington State patrols yaka office referred to Pat did as smart and
very computer savvy all of this is going to play a big role in covering a portion
of this week's mystery so how did the detective in a newspaper team up to solve a mystery simple detective ditter
was inspired by a 2003 Seattle Post Intelligencer series that critiqued law enforcement's handling of missing
persons cases specifically problems involved in investigating long-term missing person
cases in the greater Seattle area one of the problems that was cited by the Seattle PI was simply that these cases
especially in a big city that catches a lot of cases not just missing persons but all kinds of cases Robbery Homicide
drug rated offenses missing persons cases specifically missing adult cases and unidentified remain cases were low
priority for some agencies with heavy case loads another problem for these cases at the time was simply that law
enforcement databases of such cases did not communicate making for fewer matches
between missing persons and unidentified decedents there was a little cross referencing and the other bigger problem
was connecting missings from other jurisdictions especially when you go outside of State lines connecting a
missing person to an unidentified set of remains so at the time even at 2003 the success rate was quite low and
thankfully we have grown from this evolved from this and we've made great efforts in the last two decades
to bring more answers and give more people their names and find more missing people
the series of Articles run by the Seattle PI the detective followed the series and the
portion that really hit home for him was focused on the unreliability of NCC the
National Crime information center he was concerned about the unreliability of getting computer hits within this
specific database so he got to thinking if it can be wrong there meaning Seattle
it can be wrong here so time for a little outside of the box thinking they had an
unidentified from their jurisdiction that was on his mind this is an unidentified adult male who died 10
years prior to did are reading these articles but no one knew who this guy was so they named him Moxy John Doe
until they could give this person his name back this would be his temporary name name he was named after the town
where he was found Moxy and Anonymous as a John de it's really sad quite sad even more so when
you really dig into it I know for a lot of you listening out there that there is
a missing person's case that is on your mind maybe it's somebody from your area maybe it's somebody that you read about
online and have followed their case since Maybe you heard about their story here on True Crime garage and you just
can't shake it it's on your back all the time you're thinking about it and you hope that someday they find this
individual well there is a probability that states and says statistically anyway that that missing person could be
simply an unidentified remains case from another jurisdiction especially if we're
talking about something very far away in distance I know for somebody like the captain one of his passion cases is the
Brian Schaefer case 27 years old born in Pickerington Ohio went missing from right here in Columbus way back in
2006 he's not been seen ever since we covered the case a couple times and and have re Revisited the case multiple
times on off the Record and in this John Doe case he's found with no identification on him and he's found
dressed in army fatigues yeah so there are many people out there not just listeners or not just people who read or
follow True Crime with these cases on their brain but the sad part of it is think about Brian Schaefer he's got a
brother you think of like the Asia degree case from North Carolina missing since 2000 she's got a mother a father
and a brother all of these people wondering what ever happened to their loved one where could they be hoping and
praying that they're all right that they're safe and that maybe someday they come home and then as the captain
pointed out we have this MOX this Moxy John do who the detective always wanted to put a name to
this guy so the story that the Washington State Patrol had on Moxy John do is as follows on the night of
February 1st 1993 we have several persons driving on State Route 24 this is east of yak
Washington a lot of times this is reported this situation that we're about to go through this incident is reported
as occurring in Yakama but it's actually in Moxy in the town of Moxy which is nearby so this adult mail is seen
wandering on the highway near rard Road in the town of Moxy one of the drivers on the state route says that he turned
around after seeing this this man again air quotes wandering and I want to get into that in a bit wandering on the
road this is dangerous this is a state route these are high speeds this is at nighttime vision can be impaired he was
concerned that someone is going to hit this a vehicle is going to hit this guy I don't know if anybody out there
listening has been in this situation I can think of twice in my lifetime where I've called Highway Patrol or police
because there is a incred ibly dangerous situation with a a child or a youngster
that is in the middle of a road this individual decided to turn around because he wanted to warn be able to try
to warn the passing cars like hey there's a there's a guy up here don't hit him or maybe even stop
and talk to the the person offer them a ride ask him if they need help hey buddy
get out of the road yeah it's an abnormal situation even when you're just heading down the freeway
and you see somebody walking on the side of the road that's abnormal he turns around this motorist by the time he can
return to the the spot where he saw the guy walking he found that the man had been struck by another vehicle whatever
vehicle hit this guy was not present didn't stop kept going he didn't see the vehicle this man was quickly pronounced
dead and as the captain pointed out there was no identification in fact if had there been identification on this
man we wouldn't be sitting here telling the story very likely that we would in case
yeah well it it gets difficult right because there's a whole lot of mystery here this is the first part of it so
there's no identification on this person and then they have no missing person reports anywhere even somewhat local
that match up with this man that they find in the road I do want to before we get too far down
the road I do want to point out a few things and Captain I'm sure you you share this thought with me because one
thing that was a head scratcher for me and I think this could play a key into people's thoughts and theories and
speculation about the case when we get to the appropriate time for that but some of the reports that I've read over
the last couple months read differently some say that this guy was walking in the middle and down the center of State
Route 24 a couple of the reports I read say that he was running there are some reports that say that he may have been
crossing the road it seems to me like the the majority of the reports state that he was quote wandering down the
middle of State Route 24 we know with cases a lot of eyewitness is they're just wrong but you can't blame them in
this situation because like you said many eyewitnesses that probably came forward afterwards are seeing this
individual and passing them as they're driving pretty quickly on the freeway well and I think that that's I I'm not
calling out any of the potential eyewitnesses or especially the man that turned around to try to help prevent
this from happening what I'm pointing out is that it's simply reported differently and that may it may be due
to the person that penned the article or typed up the article online or it could
be that there's varying degrees and as you point out very correctly that you're only seeing this guy very
briefly so I maybe you it's not it doesn't set up for a good situation to describe what it is what actions you
think that this unknown was doing prior to being struck by a vehicle now of course it was determined that the cause
of death unfortunately was injuries from being struck by a vehicle the deant was
wearing military style camouflage fatigues and work boots okay so here we have our first mystery and what will be
a long laundry list of mysteries who is this dead man the second is this was a hit and run on a
state route but neither the vehicle nor the driver have been identified so it would be impossible in 1993 for the
police to determine was this a horrible accident this poor man was hit and killed and the driver panicked and just
fled or did the driver intentionally run this man over if so that's a homicide an
intentional murder well how did this individual get to this part of town yeah so when you are at this scene you're
responding to the scene the first thing you are looking for is identification you're checking the guy checking the
fatigues for a wallet hoping to find a state ID a driver's license a paycheck anything in there that may have a name
on it or an address that is not found on your John Doe and then from there immediately when you don't find that you
go okay well what what's he doing on a state route first off we need to point out that yaka and Moxy as far as the
great state of Washington goes this is kind of out in the middle of nowhere so now you're hoping well he had to get
here somehow I he could have got here by foot right but might not one would think
the most likely scenario would be that his car broke down somewhere he had car trouble somewhere and he was
walking maybe going to get gas or maybe going to look for a pay phone or walk to
a a gas station to try to call a to truck or get some help or whatever they don't find any kind of abandoned vehicle
or broken down vehicle near where they find this man either and nothing to to suggest how he got to where he was other
than the boots that he was found in reason why I point out that there were different reports of was he running was
he walking if he's running you wonder if something else is going on was there a car intentionally chasing him down was
he fleeing from something but again with no identification no no car belonging to
him found nearby these are all questions that the detectives that the state patrol are
simply not going to be able to answer at that time that was 1993 when Moxy John Doe was killed on
Washington State Route 24 our newspaper reading detective read the news articles
that we previously discussed in 2003 John Doe was still unidentified 10 years now any good gumo
will tell you that most often cases are solved with hard shoe leather and a tough sole the Detective Pat dter
decided to hit the pavement of the information Super Highway the internet the Google online search engine was very
popular at the time so he thought about doing an extensive search on Google he typed in details about Mox John Doe like
height weight information that he knew about his unidentified that led him to several
missing persons websites and databases that were online one included a picture of a man named David Glenn
Lewis so this was on a site that was posted by the do Network he found some information on the Texas Department of
Public Safety missing person's Clearing House database as well and as the Seattle PI
newspaper put it after a week detective ditter had done what expensive law enforcement databases were
unable to find for 10 years by this point this guy is now armed with a list of possible matches of
persons who could possibly be his Moxy John do so now he's f focusing in on these different persons that he's pulled
up that that for one reason or another they are matching up with his description of the John do that they
have from their jurisdiction the one that he really hones in on is this David Glenn Lewis
amongst others this one seems to stand out to ditter for one reason or another but we should say this David Glenn Lewis
is not from the area not even close right and I and I think that you know the the detective has to be thinking
along those lines that's what's why he's searching Google to begin with he he knows the probability of R John Doe
being from the area slim to none because we would have we would have identified this guy by now but as you're pointing
out the he's focusing in on this missing man from Texas David Glenn Lewis who is
he finds to be very close in height to Moxy John do and he's listed as practically the same weight oddly enough
he is reported missing roughly only 24 hours or so before Moxy joho is hit by a vehicle on State Route 24 we should note
here that a lot of reports about The Hit and Run reference a Chevy Camaro either
spotted in the area some Reports say seen leaving the location where the John Doe was hit so
maybe it's a Camaro that's responsible for hitting this individual or maybe it was just simply a car that was driving
the state route at the same time we've never had anybody in a Camaro come forward with additional information
or saying that they've they've seen anything to add to the story of this John Doe on the highway so let's Circle
back here because we said Texas so let's circle to the Texas connection if this John
Doe is d Glenn Lewis how did this guy this unidentified person if it is him how did he get how did this dude get
from his home near Amarello Texas to Moxy Washington in the course of about one [Music]
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the True Crime scary garage Moxy Washington and Amarello Texas so as the crow flies Captain it's
1,240 miles from amarello to Moxy driving Northwest but that's as the crow flies it's
1,620 m by car following Interstate 84 following that route so if he got there via vehicle it takes a lot longer
obviously not just because it's flight versus vehicle but also the miles that are involved driving from amarello to
Moxy the routes I found is like 23 hours 40 minutes 23 hours 45 minutes somewhere
in the in that ballpark roughly let's say 23 to 24 hours apart and that we should know would be a Non-Stop drive
driving that amount of distance you're stopping for gas and unless you have a what do they call it a truck buddy in
the back of your car you're you're stopping to to urinate as well not me my friend I just pee my pants and if pee in
your pants is cool and call me Miles Davis flying I couldn't find any non-stop flights from am there is a
airport in Amarillo I couldn't find any non-stop flights from Amarillo to Seattle which would be I would argue is
probably the closest commercial airport so the fastest fly time today 30 years later is 6 hours because you you do have
to make a stop and the same is true if you were to go from Amarillo to Portland Oregon which is these are the two
largest cities nearby where we have commercial airports with commercial airliners we should also note that there
is a time difference though too one thing that aggravates me when we talk about some of these cases that span
across multiple time zones is let's say for instance that they in a particular case that they say oh it was
24 hours between between the time this event happened in Texas and this event happened in Washington well was it 24
hours factoring in the time difference or not we don't get those specifics and we we are handicapped by a lot of times
word of mouth and reports that are out there so it is a two-hour difference going from Texas out west to
where this John Doe was eventually found in Moxy now from the Seattle PI newspaper ditter noticed that the he
noticed a resemblance right we already talked about height and weight but there's also a resemblance with the face
of the corpse and the photos that they had in their police file from the yaka area Collision scene from
1993 but he says you know one thing when he pulled up David Lewis's profile and found him online was that Lewis was
wearing very distinctive glasses anybody that's ever looked at this case or or people out there right now they're
pumping into the search engine this guy's name the first thing that you will notice that pops up is a a picture of
David Lewis smiling and he is wearing very large glasses would you say there are dmer es glasses I don't think that
was the look he was going for but yes I would put them in the uh if for for those that they can't look him up at the
moment they're yeah they're large classes that might not be the look he was going for but it's the look that he
gave us and look I hate to say this but it it was hard for me to see past those glasses the first few times I looked at
pictures of David and that's just that's just a perception thing but so the detective noticed the same thing the
distinctive glasses eyasses did consulted with an Evidence list of items recovered from the Collision scene
eyeglasses were among them so in his photos of the deant he doesn't have a man a John Doe wearing eyeglasses so he
goes to the evidence list and he's he goes boom I hit on something we did find glasses with our John Doe the eyeglasses
were on the inventory sheet and I guess from my understanding the glasses were found in one of the pockets in the
clothing that the John Doe was wearing so when he when he looks at these glasses he goes not only does this guy
look like my John do the eyeglasses that he's wearing look like the glasses that
we found with the joho and they're distinctive yeah Bingo Boingo got the right guy so dinter retrieves the
clothing that the dead man was wearing the camouflage military style clothing and the work boots he searches them and
of course we have we have glasses that that were found amongst these items he says his words well harkham his
boss's words say that the eyeglasses were identical to the ones worn by David Lewis in the missing person's photos the
detective thought wow is it a coincidence we got to figure this thing out because again keep in mind the
distance yeah did learned that Lewis was 39 years old when he disappeared 1600 miles away in Amarello
Texas and that his wife Karen reported him missing a day after he failed to come home the same day roughly that or
not roughly the same day that John Doe was found near Moxy east of yaka yeah I mean let's just Ponder this for a little
bit you're sitting there you're you're in Washington you got a missing person they've been missing for what what do
you say 10 years I think it could be this guy you go to your boss I think it could be this guy because this guy has
some weird looking glasses and guess what we discovered with our John do these weird glasses the glasses match
and then your boss says to you your the chief says all right well where's he from
Texas he probably said yeah right the chances of this being the same guy are slim to none well and I think what
really underlines that thought is the short amount of time that between him being reported missing and him being
found dead I I don't think it's so much the distance because having him unidentified for 10 years you go well
all right let's dig into this and and we have reported on several cases right where somebody is reported missing by
family friends people that had nothing to do with their demise where they're not reported missing for three days for
Six Days Seven Days I think we had one case where it was like two weeks so sometimes people are slow to report
because they they're just not aware that the person is missing yeah but here you
go okay well he was reported missing about you know the same days that we find him dead okay well maybe they just
maybe it just went unnoticed for several days nope when you start going through the details of this there is a short
amount of time between he is last seen alive or believed to La be last seen alive in amarella Texas to the time that
he ends up in the middle of State Route 24 in Moxy Washington yeah being hit by a car we'll go through this in short and
then get into some of the detailed information so the short of it is David Lewis's wife left on January 28th for a
shopping trip to Dallas so for our International listeners Texas is a gigantic state it is absolutely huge
that's what she said Amarillo Texas and Dallas Texas they aren't anywhere close to each other at
all they're it's about I I believe it's more than 5 hours driving distance between the two they live in amarell she
goes for this shopping trip in Dallas and she takes the couple's daughter with them she returns on January 31st 3 days
later when she returns her husband David Lewis was gone according to reports the
last time anyone had seen David Lewis alive was at or near his home the day prior January 30th
1993 so just to break this down real quick the short of it is wife and daughter leave on the 28th to go
shopping the last that David is seen alive in Amarello Texas is January 30th 2 Days Later
wife and daughter return the next day on the 31st husband and father David Lewis
is gone he's missing they report him missing February 1st February 1st Moxy John Doe is found dead on State Route 24
in Washington state a whole lot of stuff going on very quickly David Glenn Lewis's
disappearance to me Captain is equally or really I believe even more puzzling than his death I would say they're
equally as puzzling and I'm sorry if I keep on laughing but it's this case is just so bizarre it's a case that you
when you try to apply reason and logic to it it unravels very quickly and so I think that there is a natural reaction
to I think that your laugh is is maybe indicative of some anxiety or a touch of anxiety about the mystery of this case
and what could have happen to this guy in such a short period of time and we're just touching on it so now I want to
point out here Reddit can be a great source at times for these True Crime cases and I know a lot of people like to
go there and and look at True Crime cases there mind you just like tuning into True Crime garage you are
handicapped by the person's delivering the information to you so you can't take it with Reddit with with individuals
posting things you can't take it as fact or as absolute truth just know that I personally
believe that the majority of people posting things are attempting to post the truth but what I find Reddit to be
far greater for is for speculation about the unsolved cases and this a speculation
machine it is and and in regarding this case there is a fountain of speculation about this case on Reddit and from most
of what I have read now this is just what I've read there's a there's a lot to consume and a lot to go through on
Reddit regarding David Glenn Lewis but the the post that I were reading I found to be some pretty interesting and quite
smart speculation so facts a little different there speculation often great so what I
wanted to do here Captain I thought this I I wanted to go through a couple of exercises with this case the first being
I have squared up a news article versus what I think is probably the best post about this case on Reddit well
compare the two and the reason why I wanted to compare the two is the news article is from it's local right okay so
it's local to where David Glenn Lewis went missing from where he and his wife and daughter lived and I want to make
another thing clear the news article is from when he was still missing or unidentified however you want to look at
it they've not connected Lewis to The Moxy John Doe at this time the news article is from August 19th
1993 so 10 years before they identify him just a little more than six months after he vanished
from amarella Texas let's square that up to a Reddit post that is filled with great detail from a poster who uses the
handle honey Bertram who posted extensively and quite thoroughly about the David Lewis
case so I have Cherry Picked from their CH their timeline so we can compare the 1993 article to a post from
2022 the news article was run by the AP and I found it in the Tyler Courier Times out of Texas the headline reads
baffling Trail stumps amarello detectives police have exhausted all leads in their search for missing
attorney it does give us a little bit of background here so the first part gives
us some good background about David Lewis it reads he was a small town quarterback Magna cumladi graduate of
Texas Tech University and a former judge okay so he's an athletic guy he's a smart guy far smarter than yours truly I
won't say anything bad about the captain friends describe David Lewis knows the captain is a dumbass well I don't know
about that but I mean to graduate Magnum K from from Texas Tech from Texas Tech I
ain't no judge friends describ David Lewis as the ultimate nice guy and a family man but the 39-year-old attorney
vanished Super Bowl weekend amid a baffling trail of Clues relatives insist he wouldn't just up and leave police say
they're stumped by conflicting signs Lewis was abducted killed himself or simply walked away from his high-profile
Civic and professional life I do want to quote one of the detectives here as did
the newspaper it says quote I changed my mind a lot on this this is from detective James Smith he says I wake up
at 2 in the morning thinking whatever happened to David Lewis Smith was working full-time on the case since
Karen Lewis that's the wife reported her husband missing February 1st months of investigative leg work has yielded few
tips and no leads is what he tells the newspaper now this is what the police know at the time right months into The
Disappearance Lewis left the law for where he worked this is Buckner l Laura and swindler sorry not swindler that
would be a terrible name for an attorney or a great name Buckner Laura and swindle Law Firm at about noon on
January 28th this is a Thursday so David Lewis tells his co-workers around noon that he's not feel feeling well I I'm
not feeling well I'm going to go home now his credit card statements list that he purchased gasoline using a credit
card that same afternoon that same day Mrs Lewis and 10-year-old daughter their 10-year-old daughter left for a weekend
shopping trip in Dallas so wife and daughter are going off to Dallas they left fairly early in the morning and
from my understanding here Captain David Lewis is getting ready for the day or left early for work that day
he didn't see see them off but we know he was at his job that day up until noon and we know that that
same afternoon even though he wasn't feeling well he stopped and purchased gasoline with his credit card David
Lewis is a very busy man he also teaches a government class at Amarillo College even though he wasn't feeling well he
showed up to teach that class the information I have here Captain states that that class lasted till 10 p.m. on
January 28th so other than him not feeling well and leaving early from work it seems everything is as it should be
up till at least 10 p.m. on that on the night of the 28th right the Reddit poster lists this
on January 28th 1993 David's wife and daughter leave their home in Amarillo Texas and head to Dallas Texas David is
at work at his Law Firm Buckner lore and swindle swindler sorry Swindell you're [ __ ] stupid he tells his co-workers
he's not feeling well he's heading home that afternoon he purchases gas on his credit card and teaches a
government class at Amar College this class ends at 10 p.m. that all lines up the next day so now we're at the 29th
Friday January 29th a church friend from Dumas says which is near by Amarello Texas said she
saw David Lewis rushing through the Southwest Airlines terminal at amaro's airport she says
he's not carrying luggage and a police officer says that on this day they noticed a red Fort
Explorer parked at 10:30 p.m. outside of the Potter County Courts Building okay so couple things here this woman says
that she sees David or somebody that she believes to be David rushing through the
airport at at the Amarillo Airport no lucky specifically the Southwest Airlines terminal which is one probably
the major airline I would guess in Texas I believe they started in Texas and his vehicle his red Ford
Explorer or a red Ford Explorer may not be his is spotted the same day at 10:30 p.m. by a police officer now here here's
one thing that I would note here and I don't know this to be true I'm going to make an assumption here my guess is that
time of day at 5:00 a police officer noting noticing a vehicle parked outside of the County
Courts Building that may have to do with somebody may have had to pay for parking
right and didn't or or a meter had expired or it was the only car in the lot there's a reason here why this
officer noticed this specific red Ford Explorer now what is missing from this newspaper report and also the post the
Reddit poster is we don't have confirmation that the officer wrote down the license plate to confirm that it is
100% David Lewis's vehicle but it's part of the story and it's part that we need
to keep and examine well just to be clear the eyewitness didn't make contact with David so we just have to assume
that she saw a person that she knows correct and then on top of that the the Reddit post is almost identical but with
the additional information that the Potter County courts building is on Filmore Street in
Amarillo now he's an attorney he's a one-time judge it wouldn't be weird to spot his
vehicle outside of the County Courts Building let's go to Saturday now we're at Saturday January
30th someone deposited $5,000 into David Glenn Lewis's bank account weird now we yeah well and when we say
someone that doesn't mean that it wasn't David yeah in fact there's a lot of reports out there that that state that
he deposited this now 1993 and I would I would argue that even on some occasions up to recently or
even to this day depositing money into someone's account you may not have to give a great deal of identification you
you were a banker you were in high Finance there Captain tell how does Finance how does this work
because I I know that personally I have deposited money into someone's account and sometimes they ask me for ID
sometimes they don't because you're right you're you're giving money right no nobody really cares when you're
giving money they want to know who the heck you are when you're taking money out and this was not a withdrawal this
was a deposit well sometimes if somebody's giving money you wouldn't ask for their information if they knew the
information meaning if an individual went into David's bank and said hey I I want to put $5,000 into this account
here's the account number I'm not going to question them you you want to give money to this
individual so I guess that would be my question if I was law enforcement was the deposit slip made out was all the
information filled in that's something during this time period most people did you know cut to 25 30 years later now we
don't fill out the information so much ourselves the teller will do it for us but that's also why they have to ask for
our identification so it's very possible that somebody went in with a deposit slip with the information filled out and
just gave the deposit to the teller if I'm also in law enforcement I'm asking the teller did you recognize them
individual that made this deposit yeah do you remember seeing somebody do you remember who it was even if you can give
a vague description because if the if the banker the teller is certain that it was a woman or that it was an
African-American male or somebody that doesn't look like David at all right then then that's very easy to go okay
that wasn't David and look if if the person $5,000 you think that it would be in check form right that it would be a
check and well that would help our story out quite a bit here but it's not it it
it must have been $5,000 Straight Cash homie because we don't seem to know who did who made this deposit but the thing
we do know is whoever did it David or otherwise the person knew enough information even if it's just simply
knowing that that's his bank be it Bank brand or franchise the person went to the right Branch or the
or maybe not the right br anch but the right Bank to access the account to put a
deposit in there a $5,000 cash deposit not so weird at that time period I would say it would probably throw up some more
red flags in in today's world to have a a large cash deposit as opposed to a check meaning more people carried cash
back then and yeah a lot of people would sell their cars to individuals in cash so $5,000 wouldn't throw any red flags
up from for me but the other question is a lot of these tellers might not know their regular their regulars names but
they would know their look and especially David's look with those goofy ass Jeffrey dmer glasses well the other
thing here too is let's throw this out there and this is why I wanted to square up these this particular Reddit post
with the reports that made it to their way to the newspaper at the time that he was still missing versus the time that
after he was identified as being the man in Washington which if anybody out there
knows zero about this case it is definitive they they they know that that was David that they found there because
of DNA comparison they had saved a tissue sample from that 93 identified case and
later compared it to DNA that they took from David's mother who who uh assisted law enforcement and making the
identification so the Reddit post says January 30th same date that this is the last confirmed
sighting of David but the poster says I couldn't tell you who saw him so the newspaper report States a neighbor saw
Lewis's red Explorer parked at his home on the same day right but never but doesn't say I saw David just that I I
saw his vehicle and I'm assuming it's his vehicle because it's the one he drove all the time and and it was parked
in front of his house and then it's also noted in the newspaper report that the the vehicle that was similar the red
Ford Explorer that was seen prior parked downtown at the courts building was no longer there so we don't know if it's
David that's moving this vehicle around but it's it stands to reason at least we
that the vehicles are one and the same and we don't have definitive proof but we also have nothing saying that they're
not the same vehicle so the poster put $5,000 was deposited into his joint bank account again I can't tell you which
one's more factual maybe the word joint is just left out of the newspaper report
but the joint bank account according to the Reddit poster was shared with his wife
and so that made me wonder you know in in some relationships husband and husband wife
and wife husband and wife you have different persons sometimes have different let's call them jobs right
like you may be the husband may be the one that always goes and does the grocery shopping because maybe he likes
it or maybe he doesn't like it but his wife really hates it other married couples I know I know some friends that
say their wives will tell me joking like he doesn't even know what bank we have you
know and and they're joking obviously but what they mean is like he doesn't go to the bank I go to the bank or I'm the
one that that gets online and pays the bills and so I wondered with this joint bank account were they both actively
participating in deposits and withdrawals inside the bank or was just the wife and maybe the teller or tellers
were clueless what David Glenn Lewis looked like to begin with right so it gets it gets very dicey very quickly now
also if what gets tricky to pull apart here is all of these movements we can only truly say up to
this point that the movements that we've discussed were carried out by David himself on that
Thursday when he went to work went home sick his credit card is the one that fills up the tank for his vehicle the
red Ford Explorer and then later he goes and teaches a government class at amarel
College which ends at 10 p.m. these other movements the sighting at the Southwest Airline terminal we can't say
1,00% that that's David but the the friend believes that it was we the vehicle being parked outside
the Courts Building we can't say 100% 1,00% that that's David's vehicle most people seem to believe that it was
and then we see the vehicle reported by a neighbor as parked at his home on January the 29th the neighbor doesn't
see David so we don't know that it's David that moved that vehicle to the driveway of his home Sunday morning a
sheriff's deputy noticed a man who looked like David Lewis standing across the street from the Courts Building the
officer the deputy says that the man was photographing a red Explorer Ford Explorer
this again parked out front of the Courts Building so if it was David why would David be taking a picture of his
car parked in the same spot that it was was it left there Friday was it moved at
all and why the hell would he be taking pictures of his own vehicle yeah and again the statement is parked out front
or parked parked again out front I I don't know we shouldn't say the same spot but I get what you're you're
getting at it's from from what these reports are this vehicle is either in the same spot or very near where had
been spotted prior this is also the day that Mrs Lewis and their daughter returned and then the Reddit poster says
January 31st David goes missing because remember this is when wife and daughter returned and he's not home yeah but we
again we have no confirmation citing of him since Thursday so to sum this up I know we
went through a bunch of details but to sum this up on Thursday his wife and his daughter leave to go on this shopping
trip to Dallas he's going to stay behind because one he has to work and then two
it's Super Bowl Sunday and the Dallas Cowboys are in the Super Bowl so he's going to stay home and watch that we
have a confirmation citing of him teaching his class Thursday night come Sunday his
wife and daughter return and he's nowhere to be found and like you said we now have it
confirmed through DNA that we know where he ended up at over 1,600 miles away dead because somebody hit him with a car
and we have no evidence of how he got to that road in the first place I told you
it was bizarre you want to get nuts let's get nuts Captain we have more details to go through we have more known
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39 year old David Glenn Lewis was reported missing by his wife on February 1, 1993. Mrs Lewis and the couple’s daughter had been away for an out of town weekend shopping trip. When they returned home instead of finding the husband and father, they found a mystery. Police and family quickly uncover strange sightings of the man compounded with strange activities. None revealing how, when, and where he would actually be found. This is a true crime mystery that starts with a missing man and very quickly we find more and more questions. Remember, things are not always what they seem and people don’t always do what you would expect. Tune in as we try to make sense of the riddle of David Glenn Lewis.

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David Glenn Lewis vanished in 1993; his body was found in Washington, sparking a complex investigation connecting missing persons across states.

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