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on tap for you in the garage strange may not be the best description as I think most would agree that most if
not all missing persons cases would fall into the strange category but this one is layered with plausible
theories some have told me that this is the story of the ghost by the water how did that ghost come to be
some say the ghost is the ghost of a man who went missing years ago on a hot July night back in 1996
Rob money left his home and jumped into his cherry red Firebird he pulled out of his driveway and drove
down the road nothing was particularly out of the ordinary about that at all except
he did not come home later friends and family decided the best thing to do was to notify the
police and then it became official Rob was missing and police and others were looking
what they would find is his cherry red Firebird parked all alone at a nearby body of water Hoover
also known as Hoover Reservoir his car was parked near the dam there were no obvious signs of a
struggle and at his house police found the same but Rob was gone the fun-loving 29 year old seemingly had
vanished Into Thin Air in some cases some might say vanished Without a Trace but remember
the layers when one starts to peel back the layers one will quickly find traces of Rob
some have even said that the ghost by the water is a trace of Rob went missing in the summer of 96.
in June of 1997 several teenagers all recent high school graduates were over by Hoover Reservoir late at night
drinking beers and passing a joint celebrating their graduation and the start of what would possibly be the best
summer of their lives yet it was past midnight and was starting to get chilly when one of the 18 year old
boys spotted what he thought was a spirit walking or floating just near the shoreline yards off in the distance
some of the boys agreed that they had seen something that they could not explain
at least one of the boys thought that maybe it was just the joint and the beers and their minds were playing
tricks on them in the end not all could agree if they had seen something or not and the ones that believed that they had
in fact seen something were not quite sure what they had seen but a few of the boys who would later
swear that they did in fact see something out of the ordinary remembered the man who went missing the year before
they remembered that the missing man's vehicle was found not terribly far from their party spot on that late summer
night and so it was like that Rob money the fun-loving 29 year old with a flashy
fast car became something of folklore an urban legend about a ghost and a man who went missing from a safe middle
class suburb late One Summer Night this is the case of Rob money and this is true crime garage
[Music] foreign [Music] was born April 5th 1967 in Nelsonville Ohio that's in Southeast Ohio the money family was a
family of five Mom Dad Rob's older brother and his sister at some point during Rob's childhood the
money family moved from Nelsonville Ohio up north to Westerville Ohio Westerville was and remains a nice and
safe suburb of the capital city of Columbus Ohio Rob his brother and several of Rob's
buddies growing up were way into Motocross not just as Weekend Warriors but Rob his brother and some of their
friends raced dirt bikes and competitions and possessed the ability to work on the bikes themselves
in fact Rob would go on to take several more technical classes in high school all related to the automotive field
Rob fell for a girl at a young age her name was Angela the two were close their families in fact were close Rob's mother
and Angela's mother go way back and After High School the two got married Rob and Angela got married
Rob went to work for a construction company he was a big machine heavy equipment operator for his successful
Local Company at some point the two moved into a nice house that they rented the house was
over 1200 square foot and was not just in the quiet part of Westerville but it was over by the water so a very
desirable location the address was 1279 Central College Road now as we said Captain Rob was an
equipment operator this is for the Smith excavating company operating off of sciota Darby Road
Rob had worked for them for nine years and he was known to be a hard worker he was extremely reliable and rarely missed
work that fact Captain will be one of several reasons that the alarm will be raised
quickly later when he goes missing so Rob to me seems like a pretty simple guy but interesting guy he has has
he does have hobbies he has a Need for Speed but he just seems to be a guy that you know got married and he's a hard
worker and he's building a life for himself yeah and that's one thing that jumped off the page to me here too
Captain I made a note that Rob was 29 when he goes missing but he was working for the same company for nine years so
that's a very good work history for his age kind of old school now a few things of importance take
place the year before Rob disappears so he goes missing in 1996. so let's go back to 1995 real quick so one of those
things that I believe to be important is Rob buys a brand new cherry red Firebird
two at some point in 1995 that Year Rob and his wife Angela split up now there are a couple of different
reasons or stories that that maybe why or the way that the two split up I asked a few people why the two decided
to call it quits and the thing is people closest to him and her did not seem to have any real hardcore proof or
understanding as of why the two split up growing in different directions you're right so usually what we see is when
when you have a messy split people were pretty well aware or there's all kinds of reasons why a couple broke up but the
way that I think that this thing worked out is that I was told that the two of them that
that for reasons just pretty much between the two of them that it just didn't work out the best I could sort
out Captain is that it was pretty a pretty clean mutual and amicable separation right one of Rob's closest
friends believes that the two split because Rob even at the age of 29 was still very much living like a 21 or 22
year old guy a responsible 21-22 year old guy but not like a dude that is going to be
turning 30 right right so maybe maybe a certain clock is ticking for Angela that
wasn't ticking for Rob and the two decided to not continue to spend their lives together
everything I could find everybody I spoke to all had the same account of Rob the same report of Rob he
is a guy that works hard he's living for the weekend and his weekends are full of hanging out
with his buddies who are a little rough around the edges by most reports Captain Rob is a
happy-go-lucky hard-working work hard Party hard kind of guy but if you're into the hobby of cars whether
it's race cars or just just regular cars that is a hobby that you could spend a lot of time on the weekends so that
could be something where it's like if you're working really hard on the weekdays and spending your whole time on
your hobby that might get in the way of having a healthy relationship now another thing of importance in regards
to 1995 is Angela Robb's wife not only do they split up but she moves out of the house that they were renting
together Rob decides to stay at the house and as we said it was a nice house in a good location so affordable rent no
reason to move out he decides to stay and a friend of his who I believe is two years older maybe a couple years
older than Rob's moves in with Rob so Rob's roommate his name is Ron we do need to point out though
that when Rob goes missing it is my understanding that no one has officially filed for divorce yet so a divorce was
going to happen but Rob was busy and Angela was busy and by all accounts they got along so it sounds like there was no
hurry on anyone's behalf all right so do we think we're all squared away on the life and events
leading up to our time in question for Rob money Captain yeah I think I got a pretty good grasp of who rob is and who
his friends are and so let's get to the events of July 1996. this is the month that Rob goes
missing so let's go through the newspaper articles because this will set it up nicely for us to dive into most of
these articles will be from the big local paper here that is the Columbus Dispatch this first one is from Sunday
July 21st so this is to be clear five days after Rob was last seen in three days after he is reported missing two
police the headline is police have car a few other Clues missing Westerville man and
the article reads Westerville police have few clues in The Disappearance of a 29 year old man who was last seen
Tuesday at his home Rob money of 1279 Central College Road was reported missing Thursday after his roommate and
friends said they hadn't seen him and did not know where he was this is according to Lieutenant Don Richardson
the night the report was filed police found Moni's car less than a mile from his home near a concession stand at
Hoover Dam just off Sunbury Road this is according to police a park ranger at the
dam listed in a log book that the car had been parked there since Tuesday police said quote it's a situation where
there's not a lot to go on but it's out of the ordinary because no one seems to be able to give us any information about
where he could have gone and quote so you're saying this is a park and there was a concession stand at the
park and his car has been parked there for now several days that's correct and that's according to police
now Moni's wife Angela reported him missing the car was found at the dam this is again as a 1995 Firebird it was
registered in her name so that's how they know to contact her when the vehicle is found
and they're asking anyone with information to call Westerville police detectives so let's go exploring through
the information here the first things that I was interested in in this case was who and when
was Rob reported missing by and I wanted to know about the car situation right so
who and when was robber reported missing well we know that from the article Rob was reported missing on Thursday this
article says Thursday night but I have other reports captain that say that it that it was Thursday daytime and it's
not super important but I'm going to go with the daytime reports as that is what
is most stated the most in this case in fact this is the only report that says the missing report came in at night
now more so Captain I was interested in who reported Rob missing because we have
a smattering of persons who one would expect could report him missing we've got Rob's wife while separated that
seems still seems appropriate we have Rob's parents they live in town and by all reports Rob was close with
his parents especially close with his mother in fact many of Rob's friends knew Rob's family quite well and
probably the person that makes the most sense to report him missing other than his work would be Rob has a roommate
correct so I was a little confused by this because other reports state that Rob's mother was the one to filed the
missing persons report and as you said we got the roommate that would make the most sense but remember his friends are
close with his family his parents right and so I was able to confirm with the detective that Rob's wife his mother and
roommate pretty much worked in concert to report him missing so they are all checking with each other
have you seen Rob where is Rob and then based off of the fact that none of the three had seen or heard from Rob that
it's time to call the police so Rob is reported missing and his car the red 1995 Pontiac Firebird is
reported missing as well now that's a good segue here Captain because I was fascinated by this car
situation as I think anyone should be whether we're talking about a missing person's case or a homicide case
we want to know how the car got to where it was found and by who who got it to where
the car was found this is all going to be incredibly important to our case so what do we learn here captain from
the article the car was found by police this is a great start to our investigation and the topper
is the park ranger in their log and notes they recorded that the vehicle had been there since at
least just after midnight or so on the 17th this is key two we have the car being found by police
relatively quickly we know that they speak to the park ranger and they can confirm that this
vehicle appears they first see it in the lot shortly after Rob is last seen and what I like about this information
here Captain is that it's not some random person that found the vehicle and maybe moved it or said what state that
they found the vehicle in this is law enforcement to be very clear here the thing that makes it even better is the
law enforcement agency that's investigating him being missing is the same agency
that finds the car this makes it very clean so just to put this picture in more of a clear light right so I'm
trying to follow what you're stating so Rob has seen at work comes home leaves home
seen by neighbors leaving home later his car is going to be seen at this park and noted by Park Rangers
we have this car it's it's parked here and this is just hours after Rob was seen by his neighbors leaving his house
that's correct so I'm kind of working backwards here from the time that he's reported missing but
and based off of the the article itself now I spoke to a handful of people that are very close
to this case and I was hoping to talk to a few more but have not heard back from
them yet but from what I could find all the people I did talk to Captain in my batch of questions
I started off by saying I would like to know more about Rob's Car how was it found and by who so we already know and
we've already answered that question the other questions I had were was the car locked where are the keys in it was the
car neatly parked neatly in a parking spot was there any damage or concerns like a dead battery or flat tire or flat
tires right what we learn here and reminder one of the very cool things I can't emphasize this enough that we have
here in this case that we rarely have in other cases is that police found the vehicle so it's not altered or moved or
anything by someone else who we just have to take their word for it it's Westerville police 2 the investigating
agency that finds the vehicle and here's the information about the the vehicle so
the vehicle was found parked neatly in a parking spot there was no damage or concerns to the vehicle there was the
the battery was fine the the tires were fine the vehicle was operable right and it was not locked
and the keys were found in the vehicle do we have any sign of struggle though no no signs of struggle at the vehicle
and no signs of struggle at Rob's home either and the thing that that makes this even
more interesting to me Captain is that you know these Parks typically close at at dusk
you know the the they may have a time but most of them close at dusk and it's it's actually illegal to be there and
you can be arrested for that and I don't have an exact time but I think later we'll be able to narrow it down even
more we cannot all of these years later say what time that vehicle arrived to that parking lot what we can say is
when the park ranger first noted it in their log which would be sometime after midnight on Wednesday so Tuesday he's
last seen Wednesday Park Rangers note that his vehicle is found sitting parked in there in their parking
lot Thursday he's reported missing and around that same time in a very short period of time police find his vehicle
now is it happenstance that they find his vehicle very quickly it could be but the
other thing we need to point out is we talked about this in the trailer a little bit this is a cherry red 1995
Pontiac Firebird yeah it'll stick out like a sore thumb yeah in in Rob goes missing in 1996 this is a new car yeah
this is a of a very new car this is a a head turner and the parking lot for if anybody's ever been to Hoover Reservoir
there's multiple parking lots because there are several boat launches there's also the dam there there's Trails there
it's five square miles of water there's multiple parking lots most of them off of Sunbury Road which is the
road that anyone would take west of Rob's house to get to his house that's the only road that leads to the
road that he lives on if you are west of his home now I'm a pretty good athlete I'm not a
super athlete Captain as you know but I could stand on Sunbury Road and punt a football and it land on the property
where Rob's house once stood two out of three times or one out of ten nine out of ten baby nine out of ten so
his home was not terribly far from Sunbury and Central College Road now this parking lot where his car was found
is ex like I say extremely visible from Sunbury Road it's you can't miss it you I mean you
turn off of Sunbury Road and within eight yards you are in the parking lot and it's not a huge parking lot
so what I'm getting at Captain is it could be happenstance that they found his car that same day in a relatively
short period of time it could also be they were either traveling to or from Rob's house after the missing persons
report was placed and because that parking lot is so close to his house on the way there from Westerville Police
Department they likely spotted his car just because they know to be looking for his car and
it's right there I mean it's the reports will say the newspaper reports will say
that the vehicle was less than a mile from his home I drove from his lot to where the car
was found it's at most point three miles from his home probably under 0.3 miles I mean so many things that are strange
again this is a couple minute walk from his house this park is but you leave your new car there no
damage no sign of a struggle and the keys are in the car just doesn't make a lot of sense
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cheers Captain cheers here's the next article that we have this one's titled year later family lives for missing
man's return this is by Adrian McGee dispatch reporter from July 16 1997. this article reads although it's
been a year since her son disappeared Jackie zepper of Westerville hasn't given up hope that he'll someday walk
through her door quote it's a terrible thing to not even know if somebody is dead or alive she said Westerville
police have investigated every possible lead into The Disappearance of Rob money
and have nothing new to go on said Detective Mike Shaheen Mony of 1279 Central College Road was in the process
of divorcing his wife Angie when he disappeared that's what the article said again everybody I spoke to is yes they
were in the process of this but nobody was really submitting paperwork or really doing
anything it was something that they were all going to get to eventually right this article reminds us that his car was
found at Hoover Dam well and also that there could have been some money involved because if I don't know if they
own this house together but a lot of times the judges they were renting okay so maybe they didn't have a lot to split
up but if they were going to get lawyers or if there's paperwork there still might have been some fees and they might
have just been like hey we don't hate each other no rush neither one of us are in a rush to get remarried so we'll take
our time on this yeah and I can't emphasize enough that everybody I spoke to basically had the same suspicions as
to why they split up that Rob again he he partied pretty hard on the weekends and that maybe he wasn't maturing or
growing up at the same Pace that Angela was and at some point where you're approaching 30. both of them are 29
years old at some point if somebody wants to have a family you got to start doing that
and it sounds like Rob was happy to be married happy to be in a relationship but he he wanted to be
not tied down or held down on the weekends and that she was moving on and he was
moving on and and nobody neither of them had any problem with that and in fact this is a weird situation
too Captain because these aren't two people that fell in love in their 20s and got married they knew each other
since they were kids so there there is a strong friendship there as well yeah and
I won't go through the rest of this article because it does not add a whole lot of evidence or or even
anything that we can chew on as far as speculation goes as to what happened to Rob but the rest of this article is
rather sad because what it's talking about is that they are still optimistic Rob's family that he's that maybe he's
suffering from Amnesia or something weird happened and that he's just gonna walk through the door again one day uh
and that's what they're all hoping and praying for so just kind of a an article that that really
circles around the family's heartbreak and sadness the following article is from the year
the next year 1998. so now we got two years he's missing and one thing we learn in this article
which is extremely tragic you know we always talk about this Captain how there's these
tiny little bits and Nuggets of information in these cases that make them all the more sad and
so Rob's mother's birthday is approximately the same date that he went missing so either the date that he
was last seen or the date that he was officially reported as missing right and so she's saying in this article two
years later we we do not celebrate my birthday anymore there's nothing to be happy about this time of year or on this
day my my birthday get together birthday dinner with my family forever canceled because it's it's just nothing but
heartache for them well that's a good question though because again the day he goes missing Rob goes to work he comes
home the neighbors see him leave where is he heading to is he going to a family dinner for his mom's birthday
that that's interesting interesting so I can fill in in the blanks a little bit as to what his day was as you said
Captain he went to work on that Tuesday it's a normal Tuesday right he is spotted after work so he's on his
way home and he stopped off at a Kroger store which is for those that don't live
in the area Kroger is a long-standing franchise grocery store usually they're bigger stores
he's seen by a friend that he went to high school with she sees him actually sees him in line
and we've all kind of experienced this right she sees him and goes hey Rob how you doing I haven't seen you in a while
and it's the old chit chatty stuff he goes I'm just trying to stay out of trouble how you doing
and she's good to go mind your own business I don't know you lady um but she says that he he seemed typical
Rob very normal looked like he had just had a a long day at work right he's standing
in line and he's got just a small amount of groceries with him she actually notices that he has some Stakes
well this this was one of the things of the story that I found to be rather strange
the reports with Rob the police have kept a lot of stuff close to the vest now the thing here is some of this
information will trickle out over the years and some of it is being chosen by police to be released to the public
as the years go on and one of the things that we learn after he's been missing for a couple years is
Not only was he seen leaving his home but we get a little more information about that so he's seen leaving his home
by his next door neighbors and they tell police like Rob would come and go there we didn't think anything
was out of the ordinary he didn't leave in a hurry he we didn't see anybody with him there
was nothing strange about him walking out hopping in his car and backing out of the driveway and and driving off
now what is strange to police and later to Rob's roommate so Rob's roommate Ron was at work
that night old Ron and Rob Ron and Rob again it's difficult to tell the story those are the people that that that
happens to me like you know if if I have a boss it's it's a Dawn and Rod but because they're
so close we're like is it Ron or rod and so for years you work with these people
and go is it Ron or Rod which one is it so Ron is at work that night and this is
confirmed by his employer by time cards and confirmed to me by the current detective on the case
his roommate Ron is not somebody that the detectives are concerned with now what is curious here though Captain is
we would later learn that not only did Rob our missing person leave his home that night
he left a half eaten steak dinner on the kitchen table that night and we I thought the steak dinner thing was
a little strange because I cannot for the life of me think of one time that I and I look
everybody's different not everything has to be relative to my world but I cannot
think of one time that I ever cooked a steak by myself and so when I first heard that oh
there's a half eaten steak dinner on the table I kept thinking there had to have
been somebody else at that house with him that night but well no because I've cooked steak by
myself a lot exactly not everything has to be relative to my world I did ask a few people the same thing and they
agreed with me they couldn't think of a time that they ate a steak dinner by themselves well that's because they're
not living life right but a couple questions here though one is the is the new car that the car the
car that found is that the only car that he has no so he also has a like a small
older work truck right and I can't say what he was driving that day all I can say is that the neighbors
saw him getting it the way that it's described to me is the two neighbor ladies who
live on the same side of the street as Rob saw him get into his vehicle his his Pontiac Firebird
back out of the driveway and he heads East on Central College Road and I think this is of significant
importance because to get to the parking lot we said how close it was to his home
0.3 miles or less from Rob's home to the parking lot where his car was found you would go West on Central College to
get to that parking lot so he appears to be heading not appears to be he is heading in the opposite direction of
where his vehicle would later be found another very tricky thing here Captain is
the steak dinner business half eaten steak dinner so that like would suggest to me that he left abruptly
he left unexpectedly right and so what would cause him to leave unexpectedly well
you could think maybe he maybe somebody had it out for him and showed up to the house and forced him to leave but again
we have the neighbors saying they see him by himself so we know the roommate is at work
this is either old time got away from me and I had somewhere that I had a a prior
engagement or meeting that I arranged and oh I gotta leave all of a sudden or he got a phone call
a phone call that inspired him to get up and leave his meal and leave the house now let's take this a few steps further
let's do that what we would later learn and this is something that that I don't believe has been publicly stated but
I've had many people tell me this is that they found a glass of Kool-Aid in the freezer
so picture this it's a hot July day he's sitting at the kitchen table he's got his drink
he's got his meal he's having dinner after working all day something causes him to get up mid-meal
and leave but before leaving he gets up and he puts the Kool-Aid in the freezer to me that tells me
that he thought that wherever he was going he would not be there very long that he would be returning to finish his
meal get his drink out of the freezer and go about his night and I know we can speculate on every little tiny thing but
you could also go with the idea that obviously we both agree that this unfinished stake
is more of a sign of some kind of interruption into the dinner and is it possible that somebody calls him he
answers the phone and then as he's putting stuff away he's putting it back away in the wrong spot because he's just
trying to get out of there no I I think that he he is setting things up so he can return to
his meal minutes later right right it's a hot summer day I don't know if they got air conditioning I don't know if the
windows are open or what's going on at the house right hot summer day you leave the hot meal on the table you put your
cold drink in the freezer so it's cold when you get back and he leaves the house takes obviously
takes his car keys because we know he drove the car his wallet is found at the home
another thing that would suggest that he he does not intend to be gone long does
not need his wallet wherever he's going and believes that he would be returning soon enough to sit back down and relax
and finish his dinner and go about his night and we're assuming that law enforcement
has his call log to his house that night yes 100 I would I would make that assumption
um I don't know the details of that call log I don't know if if a call was received that night that
caused him to leave I don't know that they know the number I mean we've talked about this in in the
past that many times calls were not being logged or information being kept unless there was
reason to bill for that call um that they just simply did not keep that information
and so what we have here Captain is trying to zero in on why this 29 year old man left his home
that evening and the thing here that we need to point out is that police would later say it's on
the two-year anniversary of when Rob goes missing that we learn some more information so police Westerville police
are basically saying in a news article that they've dismissed suicide and running away
and that they have a large number of leads that simply came to a dead end they police are saying in this article
we have reason to believe Foul Play is why this man is missing and in fact in this article they go on
to say that nobody just drops off the face of the Earth Westerville police say they have a
suspect but quote we have absolutely zero evidence of any criminal acts at this point
they go on to reiterate some of the things we've already covered in this article here Captain money had worked
for nine years operating heavy equipment at Smith and Associates Excavating he he
had a five-year marriage to his childhood friend from Nelsonville Ohio which led to a separation several months
before his disappearance his 1995 Pontiac Firebird was last seen by a neighbor leaving
Moni's home in Westerville at 9 30 PM July 16 1996. two days later the vehicles found
unoccupied in the lot near Hoover Dam and he's reported missing they also State here Hoover Reservoir
was dragged and searched by Columbus Police divers and nothing was found his mother in this article says there is
only one person that I know of that would have any animosity toward Rob but without any proof I can't actually
point a finger police agree with Rob's mom saying quote I think very likely he knows that he's
the suspect detective Richardson said what police need he added is someone to come forward
with more information read the listeners that quote you're showing me from Rob's
mother yeah this one is a is a a heartbreaker here quote the thing that's so hard is not to know what's happened
to our son this is my son and I love him and I want him back end quote and the detective in the article goes on
to say that had police learned sooner of the victim's disappearance the outcome might be different in this case quote we
immediately started out in a hole Okay so some good stuff to explore here in this
article right police say quote I think very likely he knows that he's the suspect well this is very telling not
only do we have a suspect but two key words used in the statement he and the so we know that there the police is
suspect is a male and the word the implies that he is the only suspect that he is the Prime
Suspect and why would they have a suspect when you also have police at this juncture
and again they're they're keeping a lot of stuff close to the vest the the steak dinner doesn't come out
for a couple years the Kool-Aid in the freezer placed there by Rob before he leaves the house
doesn't ever come out as far as I've been told that's all information that that was gathered from people that were
looking for Rob that were close to Rob stuff that was discussed by police with them
and so we know that when people go missing or let's say somebody's murder you have that question that's everybody
goes huh such a Cheesy question they but they have to ask it it's the the age-old question of police
and detectives asking everybody in Rob's Social Circle and his family and friends
and people that he works with do you know anyone who would want to hurt Rob course they asked that question they
have to and guess what in this situation the same name kept coming up over and over again again and again the same name
do you know anybody that want to hurt Rob and police are constantly told by many people the same name again and
again and again we've been looking into cases for a long time now and there's normally some similarities but
there's some different stuff here that that's what makes this one so fascinating one
cars found relatively close to his house keys are in the car very strange but normally when you have a missing
person you get you get a lot of is there anybody that would want to hurt this guy
and you get a lot of no's this one opposite uh but then police have a pretty interesting statement in this where they
say they're starting the investigation in a hole Yeah I think that too is a very telling statement by police right
detective Richardson said had police learned sooner of the victim's disappearance the outcome could have
been different we immediately started out in a hole this has to mean a couple of things
most people don't go around killing people and I have had several detectives and
you have two Captain over the years have told us in several cases that that end up going cold you know what we ended up
with a really good suspect however we didn't know that the person had been killed for a month or so after the
murder because the body was concealed or we didn't know that the person went missing because they weren't reported
for a couple of days those detectives have constantly told us the same things over the years
had we known right away that we had a suspect if we could have talked to our suspect that night or the next morning
we probably would have got a confession or at least got them to fumble and deliver some statements that could
have leads or information or evidence in those statements to us however the suspect in those cases was able to
collect themselves was able to put together a story more importantly was able to hide evidence and in this case
the biggest piece of evidence is Rob money's body whoever is responsible for Rob
disappearing had an opportunity to get rid of Rob's body [Music] join us back here in the garage same bat
time Sinbad Channel and until then be good be kind and don't litter foreign [Music]

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On a hot summer evening in July of 1996 something interrupted 29 year old Rob Mohney’s dinner. Rob got up from the table and left his home in a hurry and he has never been seen alive since. Rob was a hardworking guy, with a lot of friends and it is within that group that we feel we can get some answers. Join us in the Garage for a couple of cold ones while we see if we can heat up this cold case.

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Brief Summary

Rob Money disappeared in 1996; his car was found near Hoover Reservoir, sparking urban legends and ongoing mystery.

Key points

Parks and Rec Podcast Launch. Rob Lowe announces the return of the Parks and Rec podcast with co-hosts Jim O'Hara and Greg Levine.
The Case of Rob Money. Exploring the mysterious disappearance of Rob Money, a fun-loving man who vanished in 1996.
Family's Heartbreak. Jackie Zepper, Rob's mother, shares her pain of uncertainty after his disappearance.
Detectives Suspect Foul Play. Police dismiss suicide and running away, suggesting foul play in Rob's case.
The Age-Old Question. Detectives repeatedly ask if anyone wanted to hurt Rob, revealing a troubling pattern.
A Hole to Start. Police begin the investigation from a disadvantage, hinting at complications ahead.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Rob money left his home and jumped into his cherry red Firebird.

Setting the scene for Rob's last known actions.

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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