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So, at this point, you have not talked to Tyler since 4:10 a.m. You've been searching. It's now past daylight. It's
10:30 in the morning. You don't know what to do. And it's serious. and you need to call Tyler's parents.
>> I'm not trying to warn anybody. Like, that was the one thing that I was terrified to do. I was like, I can't
call his mom. I can't like I cannot call her and tell her this. Like, I I have to
we have to go find him first. And, you know, like he's going to be so mad. Him and his parents are so close and like
he's going to be so mad if I call his mom right now. And Adam's like, "Bernie," he was like, "You have to
check out of here in an hour and a half." He's like, "Then where are you going to go? Then what are we going to
do?" So, I sat down and I called um I called Rhonda and I was like, "This is the situation. I don't know what to do."
And she was like, "Okay, calm down. I'm sure everything's fine." You know, and at this point, I had already called
Franklin County Jail. I'd already called all the hospitals. I had already called,
you know what I mean? Like, I'm I'm thinking all options. Maybe he got a public in talks. Maybe he's in jail
somewhere. You know what I mean? Maybe he hurt himself and somebody took him to the hospital. I'm like looking at any of
these different things to try to I don't know like make some sense of this really. So
I you know I tell Rhonda and she's like okay you know don't don't freak out yet you know and she asked me if I had
called all the jails and asked me if I'd call the hospitals and all that stuff and I was like yeah and she's like okay
well Kevin's on his way. He's on his way right now and we're going to figure it out. I was like okay. So, it took Kevin
probably about um 45 minutes to get there. So, after I got off the phone with her, Adam's like, "Well, let's go.
Let's go drive around again. Let's go see if we can see something else." You know, there's another street that I
wanted to look at or something. I don't know. So, we get back in the car and me and Adam drive around again. So, Kevin
gets there and you know, he's like, "What happened? Like, what do you guys do?" Blah blah blah. I told him
everything, you know, the story. And he was like, "Okay." And he was like, "I'm going to go find him. I need to start
walking." And I was like, "Okay." And I, this man literally probably walked 30 miles. He didn't leave till it was dark.
He went through every single patch of those woods on foot that day by himself. >> So, now that you contacted his parents,
when do you contact the police? >> So, yeah. So, Rhonda calls me right after um Kevin gets there and she's
like, "Bring, it's like we're we're not the violent missing person's report right now." And I just I'm just like,
"No, like I'm sure he's going to." She was like Britney. And it was just like right when she told me that it got
really real. Really? Like I knew it was real because I was already like sick worried, but then that was just like a
whole other level. You know what I mean? Like I just I was already terrified and
now I have to like >> So when did you call them? >> I called them around I don't know like 11:30. They actually
weren't even there until 12:30. Um, I met them in the parking lot of the Hilton and I gave the officer my my, you
know, I told him everything. I said, "This is what he was wearing. This is what last time I see him, last time I
talked to him." Um, and literally the first thing this man says to me is, "Well, you know, your husband, he's not
elderly and he's not a minor, so as far as I'm concerned, a 29year-old man can leave on his own accord."
>> Well, technically that's the law. Yeah. No, it it is the law, but it's like I
feel like and even since I've been going through this, there are so many when it
comes to missing people, it is such like a broad area. Like there's not really a
place to start. Like they literally are like, well, 72 hours, we'll let you know
type deal thing. And I was like, are you like are you kidding me? >> Well, in the missing person's unit,
there's eight detectives. They did roughly 8,000 cases last year. So, they're kind of crunched for time
anyways. And I think anytime that it is an adult that goes missing, they have to
start with the idea that they could have went missing because they wanted to, >> right? Well, and you know, I understand
people that hear my story and people that see this, they're like half of them are like, "Oh, he probably just walked
away." And I can put this on my whole like I know that man so well. He is literally my best friend. Like we were
really good friends before we ever even got together. You know what I mean? Like
I I know everything about him. Seriously, everything. And I know he would never he wouldn't just
like if Tyler didn't want to be with me, okay? He would tell me that he doesn't play games. He's not childish. Like he's
a very very blunt person. He's very upfront. He loves his son more than anything in
the whole world. He literally named my son after a freaking football quarterback. Like, I'm being dead
serious. Him and his parents are him and his mom are so close. I've never seen a
relationship between like a son and a mother like that before in my life. >> So, even if he left you and didn't tell
you, he would still be contacting his mother. >> Oh, definitely. Definitely. Like you
take me, you take me and my son. Like you take us completely out of this equation. He would not do this to his
mom or his dad, but not his mom. Not his mom. Not his family. Like not his friends. He's a really like he with his
job alone. He has so many responsibilities. He could never miss a day of work. I'm talking like he has
never missed a day of work. >> How was the first conversation with law enforcement?
>> It was not good. I had so I filed a police report. He had like got it in the system around like
100 p.m. And you know me and Adam we still around and we were looking and all these places and we've met up with Kevin
a couple times and it was about 5 and Kevin's like Britney I think I think you need to go get Aaron. I think it's I
think you need to go back to the house and get Aaron. And I was I can't like I can't leave him up here by himself. Like
we you know what I mean? like I can't I can't leave him. But I had to like I needed to go get my son. And so I did.
So Adam took me back to my in-laws house in Circleville. I had literally just got
there. So this is probably around like 5 6:00. And he the detective called me and
I mean he wasn't very nice but at the same time it's like I understand that your job's not to be
nice to me. You know what I Like your job is to find my husband. That's what your that's what your duty is. It's not
to call me 27 times a day to tell me what you've heard and what you haven't heard. It's not to you know what I mean?
Like your job is to find my husband. So, but the first now I know this like literally like 46 days later I know
this. But that day when he called me, this is like super new. Like I didn't go to sleep. I
still hadn't been in bed at this time. Have you been trying to call Tyler's phone?
>> Oh, yeah. I was calling it all day. All day. >> The cops did a pretty extensive search
from what I've heard. When did that search take place? >> Technically, he went missing on the
24th. They didn't do their first search until Tuesday. They're they're tell they're telling me
it's they've been doing everything. >> Yeah. And when I talked to detectives, they they explained to me the search and
it seemed very extensive. They also pulled a lot of security footage from the mall.
>> Yes. So, the first day, so this was Monday. And I'll tell you again, I didn't I didn't go to bed
until Tuesday. I didn't sleep in I didn't go to sleep until Tuesday. Sunday night
after I actually got back to Rhonda's that night I had put I put Aaron to bed and I told her I asked her if it was
okay for um for me to leave if she would mind like Aaron was asleep and she was completely fine with it and me and a
couple of Tyler's friends went back up to East and we searched all those woods by ourselves and this was before so this
was like Sunday night going into the early hours of Monday so we We were there. >> Who went with you guys?
>> It was me, um, Alex and Nick. Uh, and these are just, you know, friends of ours. Um, so we got there
probably around 1 in the morning and we just we just started searching. Like we went everywhere. I'm talking like we
didn't leave there until Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, it was me, Alex, and Nick. And then two of Tyler's um employees
actually met us up there as well. Two um two younger kids that work for him. Soon
as we got there, I went directly to the Hilton. I spoke with the night manager. I let him know the situation, showed him
a picture of my husband, you know, talked to him for a minute and he was like, "Yeah, let me uh let me see if I
can start pulling footage." And I was like, "Okay, cool." Like I really appreciate it. Then we walked down to
East Security. I let them know the situation. I talked to them. I told them, um, you know, I'm going to be out
here tonight. I just want you to know, like, these are my two friends. Like, we're going to go and we're going to
search to see if we can. And they were completely cool with it. They were like, "Yeah, cool. Go ahead." Again, it's also
like 1:00 a.m. So, nobody's there. And, you know, we go out there and we're there for for hours. And when I had went
and talked to East Security, there was actually an officer for CPD in the area and he was super nice. He came up to me,
you know, he told me, he's like, "I just got on shift." He was like, "I just learned um about about your husband and
we're still trying to get everything together." He was like, "Don't think we haven't started yet." He was like, "But
we literally just got the we haven't even got we just got the report like 12 hours ago is pretty much what he was
saying." I was like, "Okay, well, I'm here. So, I'm I'm looking. That's what I'm doing. And the agent security
office, they told me they had already started pulling footage and that they saw Tyler walking back to the hotel at
4:15. They saw him walking to the hotel at 4:15, which to me made perfect sense because if we're on the phone at 4:10
and he says, "I'll be there in a couple minutes." You know, I see the hotel, I'm
walking. And they said they had him on camera walking towards towards the Hilton. That's what they told me. Come
to find out, it wasn't Tyler. It was like Tyler and his friend, they have the same body type. Like same size, the same
height, you know what I mean? Like, and apparently, uh, with the way those cameras work at nighttime,
I guess they're not the most perfect vision. So, they they assumed that it was Tyler, and it wasn't,
>> but it was his friend. But how could it be his friend when at the time of that
call or at that at that moment he's leaving or with you? >> That's what I didn't understand because
when Tyler had called me around 4:10, you know, he was like he was right beside me. And then I realized
that when me and Sheree got off the phone, we both kind of like but we didn't like walk up the street like we
walked to Do you Do you know the Houston area very well? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So like we walked like if we were
staying on the corner right from the Hilton, we walked to the left and we both were kind of like on that main
strip and we both like walked down the street but like he did one side and I did the other side. like I'm sorry we
were both on the same side of the street but he went one direction and I went the
other direction and um so I don't know if that was then you know cuz when we were like he could have been turning
around it could have been that time >> cuz we were it's not like we both went out
>> and like were like searching it was kind of like we were just like walking down
to see if we might see him somewhere. >> Well, there's tons of shops around there
and there's tons of cameras. It's surprising that he's not picked up on any of the footage anywhere.
So, back to the search that night. >> So, we go and we search a bunch of stuff. Uh, we don't stop until it was
daylight. It was like 7 7 or 8 in the morning and we're trying to like at this point like me and Nick and Alex and um
the other we're just trying to like okay trying to like pretty much think like Tyler thinks I don't know it probably
sounds stupid but we're like okay if he said that he's walking out of the woods and he sees the Hilton we went to every
single patch of woods and like to like around to see like a You could see the Hilton from this patch of woods. We
searched it. >> Well, Tyler doesn't know this area. He's been drinking. He's exhausted. So, is it
It's It's possible that he's not even looking at the correct hotel. >> Right. Exactly. Like he's looking at the
wrong place. And that's something we also considered. So, there is a I think it's a Marriott a little bit down from
It's like on the other side of the actual town center, like the shopping center. And it looks like they're all
made by like all these hotels in the area. It's the same company, the M&M. It looks just like the Hilton. It's a
little smaller, but it looks just like the Hilton. Puts out the same amount of light at night time. So, we went around
there as well. >> So, you guys are searching everywhere. You don't know when the cops are going
to search or if they're going to search, but they end up searching on that Tuesday and then they contact you after.
They called me and pretty much said, "I just want to let you know that we searched um the ponds behind Costco and
we've been working on pinging this phone." And we pinged his phone around Costco. But I guess what it was is like
I mistook it because there's a cell tower back there and if you ping a phone, it automatically goes to like
that cell phone tower, but that radius is like 2 miles. So the phone could be anywhere in that 2 miles. So it doesn't
necessarily have to be like at the tower. >> So they subpoenaed his phone records.
>> They subpoenaed his phone records all like they still don't have them. And it's like over a month ago. It was like
all the beginning of March. >> Have they subpoenaed your phone records yet? >> Um not that I know of, but I mean I've
been more than welcome to like, you know, here's my cell phone. You can look through it, do whatever you need to do
to it type deal thing. >> Have you thought about taking screenshots of your call log? I uh went
to like my because I have Verizon so I got on like my Verizon and we did this with Tyler because Tyler is on a phone
plan with his parents and I'm on one with mine. So I literally got online mine and I took a picture of my call log
and I sent it to the detectives and then I did the same thing for Tyler. I was like this is like I know it's not
ex everything you need but this is what I can give you as of right now. This was
like Monday, I think. >> Right. >> Monday or Tuesday that I got that to them. >> And law enforcement during the search
were they were using dogs. Uh they searched the woods. Did they search the ponds?
>> Search the ponds. I guess they have dogs out. And they said that that the dogs
actually hit on one of the ponds. So they drug it completely sonar. They had like a dive team. Um and there was
nothing in there. And then they actually searched that same pond again. Like the
ponds in that area have been searched multiple times. They have had multiple different searches like grid searches
and different like I know there are like wooded areas there and since then he did
say like woods on the phone the last time they've been pushing towards the woods more you know
like when they do search which is understandable and they just don't have it's like there's like there's literally
nothing there like there's no like not a shoe not a wallet not literally nothing
at all >> and Tyler doesn't have a transportation app like Uber on his phone that you know
of >> that I know of. No. >> Do you guys share social media accounts or do you have access to Tyler's social
media accounts? >> We don't share any know. Um we do not share any I don't have access. I mean I think I know what his
password is but um I was told not to try it type deal thing. I think that the detectives are actually like looking
into his Facebook and stuff, but um as far like I know he has like a Snapchat. I don't know what his password to that
is. Um, I know like the password to his Gmail and I had actually contacted the detectives to make sure that I could
continuously check his Gmail because like our friend that was with us that night, he's super like techy and he's
like um told me like a lot of things about like apparently if you have a Galaxy you can and like you're signed up
with Gmail like Gmail like literally tracks your phone >> and that was something that the
detectives also ended up finding in that caught him down by Abbott Labs and then
that's why they did another search on I think that was the south part of Eastston,
>> right? So they get a hit at Abbott Labs that's pretty far from Eastston walking
wise >> if I'm correct. I think it's about half a mile and that's where it stopped.
>> Do you have access to his financial records? >> Oh yeah. So, I basically like it's just
flagged and um we have a lady at the bank who just checks on it constantly and like anytime there's any type of
notice that comes on there like she literally calls me to tell me that my Netflix came out like type stuff. You
know what I mean? Like anything that pops up on there. >> But there hasn't been any activity from
Tyler >> like nothing. This is just weird hearing this from Britney's perspective, hearing it
directly from somebody that was there, somebody that was searching for their loved one for, you know, as she says,
her best friend. The weight to this story, it's it's just got a certain heaviness to it that's really like got
my head spinning right now. Captain, I'm I'm kind of like questioning a lot of different things here. I'm trying to
think through a lot of things as I visualize the story as she tells it. One thing that I that I was thinking about
along the way is kind of going back to their night out. They go out around 8:30 and she was very detailed in their
timeline and what they were doing. And then he goes missing. I'm calling it 4:10, 4:11 a.m. is when he goes missing.
And that seems to be when he's truly unaccounted for and communication drops off.
>> But you wonder the call before at 337 is he lost and he just doesn't know it yet,
>> right? And how far could he be from the actual hotel? The thing is, and I know
this is kind of really out of the box and and and very likely not super important, but she keeps talking about
how exhausted he would have been or or she thinks that he is right >> the last time she sees him. I didn't
hear any mention of, you know, we we had we had food at this place. You know, I'm
I'm factoring all these things in how tired this guy could be, how how u drunk Tyler may have been. One just dis
disoriented from waking up in an Uber and now you're in front of your hotel in an area that you do not know well, you
know, and so I'm factoring in all these things here. He's not super, you know, he's not super equipped or dressed well
for that temperature at that hour. There's a lot of things factoring into the to the thought that I have a hard
time believing that if he were on foot, I don't know how far he would have made it until he would have just hit the wall
to to be completely exhausted, >> right? This is an area that has had its ups and down
as far as reputation. So, the more he travels, the more likely he is to run into somebody. But this makes it very
unique in this case because she has the records of when they paid for things and roughly what the bill was.
>> So when she's saying I think he had three drinks, that's based off of also looking at the bill
and just knowing the total and going, "Well, I had a couple, so he must have had a few."
>> And in most missing person cases, take Brian Schaers for example, we don't know
how much he drank. We don't know what he drank. >> We We don't have a clue with Mara
Murray. We don't know if she was drinking or not. I mean, this we have detailed accounts of what he was doing
hours before he went missing. >> Yeah. And the thing though, too, is, you know, and this is why they say, "Hey,
obviously don't drink and drive. Don't drive drunk." But, you know, there's also that big movement and has been for
years about don't do buzzed driving either. >> And I think all that's very important to
keep in mind when we try to analyze this stuff from the outside looking in. When
you talk about alcohol, I know my personal experience with drinking is it's you can't always figure out how
intoxicated you might be in one specific setting. I know there are times where I'll have two or three drinks and I'm
sober as a judge. There's other times I'll have two or three drinks and I feel like I've been drinking all night.
There's a lot of factors that go into that. Exhaustion. How much have you ate? What What have you been doing that day?
And I just kind of keep going back to the the thought and the feeling that I feel like this guy I feel like Tyler got
disoriented. I feel like he's in a place that he doesn't know very well. And at some point I just picture him, you know,
thinking he is in a certain location, getting slightly turned around and going, I know it's right up here. I'll
just keep walking this way. And then we've done this before. Everybody out there has done this before where you get
a little bit turned around in an unfamiliar area. Next thing you know, you've walked a a quite a distance away
from where you thought you were going or where you were trying to get to. And regarding that, Abbott Foods, uh, Abbott
Nutrition is actually what I I think she called it, Abbott Labs, >> right? >> But there is an area, there's a there's
a building and a business over there. Uh, I think it could be a distribution center or or like their home office, but
there's a place called Abbott Nutrition that is over there. And that would be 1.1 miles from the Hilton. And at that
location, it it's if he made it there on foot, that's a difficult location, that
would be about 20 to 25 minutes of walking distance, depending on uh that's according to my phone. All right, I just
I I was looking that up. But in that area, there are plenty of buildings in that area that are not hotels that that
one might think in a disoriented state that they see it and go, "Yeah, I'm right by the hotel. Yeah, I'm very close
to the hotel. I can see it from here and I'll be there shortly. >> Right. >> And it's I I just see the situation of
this guy maybe getting further and further of where he wanted to be. And I'm by this point in the story, I'm I'm
terribly fearful of what could have happened to him after he got a good distance from that hotel. Well, let's be
very clear because it was misreported in one of the interviews Britney gave. The report states that he called at 4:10
and said, "You know, I'm I see the hotel and I'll be there shortly and I'm sorry." And it's reported that she said
that he sounded confused. >> Mhm. >> And that's not what she said at all. She actually thought he sounded pretty
coherent on the phone call. >> Okay. What she was saying in that interview was when he got out of the
car, when he got out of the Uber, when they got back to the hotel, she thought he seemed a little confused.
And rightfully so, he just fell asleep and he woke up. And maybe he was confused cuz he was like, "Wait, Hilton,
are we staying here? I thought we're staying somewhere else." >> I mean, who knows? They just checked in
a couple hours ago. It's not a place that they go frequent. So, let's be very clear that she didn't think he was
confused on the phone call. She thought he was confused getting out of the Uber car. And one thing that I think is
missing from her story, and I what I feel like is it's a part of the story that she likely just does not know. But
the one part that I kind of question here, Captain, is I know it's only like what she say 3:18 when the Uber pulls up
and by 3:37 he's kind of missing and there's a phone call, >> right? >> Okay. So, we we have less than 20
minutes takes place. So, not a very large window of time, but it also seems to me like she doesn't fully know
exactly when Tyler and his friend got separated or where the friend left or went in a different direction than
Tyler. >> Well, right, because one, she went back up to the hotel room, charged her phone,
but also she's been drinking at this point >> and and quite a bit. I mean, she said
she had three drinks at one place and a few drinks at another place. So, um, there's a lot of question marks here.
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So, since that search on that Tuesday, what's been happening with the investigation?
>> Thursday on February 28th, one of the detectives called me asking me to meet two detectives at me and Tyler's house
because they wanted to get into our Wi-Fi router to try to establish an iMac ID. Apparently, it can trace the phone
even if it's dead or get a better location of the cell phone at any time. But the thing about doing that is that
if you if you're hooked up to your Wi-Fi router, it has like an expiration date if you're gone. So, if we leave on a
Saturday, it's only going to be in there for like four or five days. And they literally got here like one day too late
to get this number out of my router. So the next day, Friday, um they weren't able to retrieve the router. So they
called me again and they said, "We need Tyler's box for a cell phone." Like what? We need the box. And I save
everything. I knew it was in here somewhere. So I came back and I like dug through my whole house and I found like
three until I realized that Tyler's current phone that he has is actually a refurbished phone that he got a couple
months ago and that didn't come in a box. They like sent it to us in bubble wrap, you know. in that Friday. I just
stopped because like I said, we're from Wilmington. There's like three different
law enforcement agencies in this town. There's like a Sady's office, sheriff's department, police department. I let
them all know the situation and I was like really I've been really like on edge also because the night that we went
out, I didn't take my purse. So, I gave Tyler my ID to hold his wallet. So, my ID is in there.
>> So, what do you think was on Tyler at the time he went missing? Cigarettes, lighter,
>> Yeah. He had cigarettes. He had a lighter. He had on his wedding ring. Um he had his wallet.
>> And also your credit card and your ID. >> He didn't have my bank card. He just had
like the bank card. Well, cuz like his his bank account is our bank account. It's got like the most money in it. But
like the the one with all of our, you know, just money. He's got the credit card. He's got my ID. He's got his ID.
Um yeah. So, back to the night that he goes missing. You know, you said that you
went up to the hotel, so he's out of sight. His friend's out of sight. Is there any way that while you're not
there, there was a confrontation between the two? >> No. >> When his friend came back without Tyler,
how was he acting? Was he acting funny? >> No, he didn't. Well, and that's the thing because obviously the situation is
super crazy and people are going to look at me and they're going to look at our friend just because of the situation.
But neither of them well first off neither of them are they're not very conf they're not confrontational people.
You know what I mean? Like they don't like even raise their voice really. They just don't
I've never seen any of them. Like again, I don't know his friend as well as he does, but I've never even seen Tyler get
into any type of like disagreement or like fight, you know what I mean? Um, they've been they've known each other
for 10 plus years. They went to college together. They're really good friends. Tyler talks to him every day. They play
a lot of um online video games together. Like, he literally helped design my wedding ring. Um, they've always been
really close. you know, he's come over to our house multiple times. I don't think that it was that he had
any part in I think it just was really a wrong time this wrong situation and at that time
like when we were doing it like when all this was happening obviously we didn't think it would be two almost like you
know over well over a month and we still wouldn't like we didn't think that was going to be the last time we saw him
>> well and like we said we're not saying the friend's name, but because you guys
were the last to see him, there is going to be some suspicious and you're putting
out this information. Are you getting any backlash or harassment online? It's been really bad
because so when I did I wasn't even able to do my first I didn't even even I wasn't even able to
get it out there until like March 13th, you know, and by this point we had already went and we had passed out over
2,000 flyers. We went to so many different places and it's just there were so many people that are
asking for story like and I would and I always tell I always tell the same story
but it's like it doesn't matter what I tell the news or the media it's like however the hell they want to spin it
which isn't fair because I've talked to like three or four different people and three or four different media pages have
three or four different stories So everybody looks at me like, "Why aren't you telling the fool?" And it's
like, "I'm I am telling the fool. I am not writing these articles. Like I'm not telling I'm just trying to tell
everybody what happened. Like I'm trying to be honest. I'm trying to I'm doing everything and anything I can to get my
husband home." >> And while you're searching for clues and talking with the police, how has this
been on you? >> Um, it's been awful on so many levels. Like Tyler is my best friend
and it sucks really bad when you're with somebody for so long and like you're you
like you get into a routine, you know what I mean? Like you're used to coming home and being there. like you're used
to them coming home to you every day and it's just like awful because I have like
we have a a really young son who asks for him every day and he for the first like week and a half he literally woke
up every night at the time Tyler was supposed to get off working and sit there and he ask for his dad and he
would be like dad for hours. last night. He literally brought me Aaron has like a like an old PlayStation
controller that Tyler gave and it's broke and he would always sit there with Tyler while he would play his games and
Aaron would have his little controller and he like brought me his controller and he was like, "Dad, dad, like it's
really hard because he's so young and it's not like I can explain any of this to him." And then I go from being like a
stay-at-home mom and a stay-at-home wife to it's just me. So, like I am a single
parent. I'm trying to be an advocate for my husband and I'm trying to like get your story as public as I possibly can.
And I'm trying to figure out I've never had to pay all the bills before by myself. Like I literally this like last
month was the first time I ever paid any of the bills. Like actually sat down like I had things that I was responsible
for but I never sat down and paid the rent. You know what I mean? like he did all of that and
it's just it's been a learning process. It's been really hard. >> Yeah. And it just doesn't make any sense
for somebody to up and vanish. >> No. And that's the thing and I keep I'm like trying so hard to like let people
know because I understand like from the outside looking in if I was just somebody that scrolled by and read the
story I'd be like that's not right. Like something's wrong. Like you know what I
mean? But he's not this is not the type of he's not the type of person. He is a very responsible person. Like he knows
his responsibilities. Like he has always been such a wonderful husband. Like I am spoiled. His Aaron
gets anything and everything. Like you he's just a really good he's a really good dad. My kid's not even two and he
knows there's like he knows how to spell word. Like there's words that he knows how to spell. Tyler has literally taught
him so much stuff and and it just makes me feel like a bad mom because I genuinely feel like he like
out of the two of us like he is the better parent. Like he spends so much time with our son and you can tell that
he genuinely like enjoys to play with him for hours. Like I'm not talking about somebody who gets down and like
throws the ball with her kid for 15 minutes. Like this is somebody who spends all of his time that he can with
Aaron and he loves every minute of it. Like he's always told me he wanted to be a dad. He was so excited when he found
out that Aaron was going to be a boy. He literally named my son after the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers.
Like >> it's just I can't explain anything. I can't explain this stuff to anybody. You
know what I mean? Like it's like yeah, you hear the story, but >> they don't know me. Like they don't know
my husband. Like they don't know the type of life that we live. You know, it's like we're not very exciting
people. We don't go out and do stuff ever and it just it sucks to try to constantly like defend yourself and like
defend everybody and because you know that's not what happened. >> Now, has Tyler's friend been cooperative
with everybody? >> Definitely. He's um you know, he's checked on me and Aaron multiple times.
You know, we've been passing out flyers. like I've had a lot a lot of help from all of our friends and all of our family
just like helping pass out flyers. Um we actually just did another round on what
is today? Today is what I do on Saturday. So on Saturday we did like another thousand flyers and um he's
actually the closest one you know cuz he lives in Columbus. So there have been multiple times where I've called him
like hey I need you to go here. I've had a lot of people like donate flyers and stuff or you know stuff that he can do
during the week such as like um there's a lot of homeless shelters in the area and we've had all of them but a lot of
them have really weird hours and he's super cool about dropping off flyers at all of them and then that one day we
found that stuff out about Abbott Labs and he left work immediately as soon as we found out and went directly there to
just see what it was like and what it looked like type stuff. In a lot of missing person cases, we don't have
identifiers on somebody's body to to identify them quickly. But with Tyler, he has um kind of a unique birthark.
>> Okay. Yeah. So Tyler has um a really big birth mark on his right arm. It actually
goes it starts at the tip like it starts on his hand on his right hand on his fingers and it goes all the way up his
arm goes up to his shoulder. It goes to the um top right of his chest and the the top right of his back as well. So
it's very large and it's red. Um so when he is cold it like changes to purple like it changes colors but it's
very very noticeable. So even if like you would if he had if you had to cover that up, you would have
to wear like gloves, a long sleeve shirt, and like something around his neck. >> So what do you think happened to Tyler?
>> What do I think happened? >> If you had to guess, >> I mean, it's just this whole situation
is just it's really really crazy to me. I really think my personal opinion I think somebody took them. There have
been Ohio is like number four in human trafficking. There have been like five other men that went missing in Columbus
around the same age as Tyler in the past like month >> which blows my mind because it's like
you don't see any of this stuff in the media. It's like I was asking one of the detectives and he said something about
like inducing panic. He was like we don't want to induce panic. I'm like we shouldn't be inducing panic. Like people
are literally getting taken and I don't know why it's like all of a sudden I think I'm just now really noticing it
because I'm in this situation but there are people that literally go missing every single day. If
you could say something to Tyler right now and knew that he could hear you, uh, what would you say to him? I would
tell him that I'm not ever giving up ever. Nobody can stop me trying to find him.
And I will find you. I really will find you. And I don't know what kind of situation you're in, but um, I just I
need you to get out of it. And I need you to be safe. And I need you to get home.
and I miss you so much. And I really I really just I'm just trying I'm just trying so hard to get you home.
I miss my best friend and my son misses his dad. Again, we're very appreciative of
Britney Davis and her giving us a chance to talk with her and spread the word about her husband, Tyler Davis.
>> And again, if you have any information regarding the missing person's case of
Tyler Davis, please contact the Columbus Police Department at 6146454545 >> or contact the Brain Tyler Holm Facebook
group on Facebook. >> And here's a little recommended reading for everybody out there. Please check
out the book Anatomy of a False Confession, The Interrogation and Conviction of Brendan Dassie. And you
don't have to write that title down. You can find that and all of our recommendations at true crimegar.com on
the recommended page. Make sure you check out our old episodes on the Stitcher app and our show Off the Record
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Missing /// Tyler Davis /// Part 2

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February 23rd, 2019 - A young husband and wife drive to Columbus, Ohio to celebrate a birthday. After a night out, sometime around 3am 29 year old Tyler Davis goes missing. This week we sit down with Tyler's wife to discuss the details surrounding this mystery as we continue to bring awareness to this case. Please listen and look at Tyler’s pictures, maybe you can help. Beer of the Week - Beer Drinking is Not a Crime Garage Grade - 4 and a half bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

Tyler Davis went missing after a night out; his wife shares the search efforts and emotional struggles faced by their family.

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name. Ted Dansen introduces his podcast with Woody Harelson, featuring exciting guests.
Searching for Tyler. Tension rises as friends search for Tyler after he goes missing.
The Police Report. The speaker recounts a frustrating interaction with law enforcement regarding Tyler's disappearance.
Confusion After the Uber Ride. Details emerge about Tyler's state of mind after getting out of the Uber, raising questions about his disappearance.
The Search for Tyler. Britney shares her experience searching for her missing husband, revealing the emotional weight of the situation.
A Mother's Struggle. A mother feels inadequate compared to her partner's parenting skills.

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