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person's case 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 a layered with
plausible theories some have told me that this is the story of the ghost by the water but 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 Mooney left his home and jumped into his cherry red Firebird he pulled out 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 funloving 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 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 it
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 Mooney the funloving
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 once summer night this is the case of Rob Mooney and
this is true crime [Music] garage Robert Steven Mooney was born April 5th 1967 in Nelsonville Ohio that's in
Southeast Ohio the Mooney family was a family of five Mom Dad Rob's older brother and his sister at some point
during Rob's childhood the Mooney 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 in competitions and possess 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 a successful Local Company at some point the two moved into a nice house that they rented the house was
over 12200 Square ft 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 scota 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 uh but he just seems to be a guy that you know get 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 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 22y old guy a responsible 21 22y 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 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 hardworking 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 Rob'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 2 years older maybe a couple years older than robs 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 Mo 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 5 days after Rob was last seen and 3 days after
he is reported missing to police the headline is police have car few other Clues missing Westerville man and the
article arle reads Westerville police have few clues in The Disappearance of a 29-year-old man who was last seen
Tuesday at his home Rob Mooney 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 Mo's car less than a mile from from his home near a
concession stand at Hoover Dam just off Sunberry 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 end 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 Mo's wife Angela reported him missing the car was found at the dam this is again is 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 all 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 Rob 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 file the missing person's 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 check with each other have you seen Rob where
is Rob and then based off of the fact that none of the three had seen nor 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 too 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 scene 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 is 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 were 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 anything by someone else who we just have to take their word for it it's Westerville
police to 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 tires were fine the vehicle was operable right and it was not locked and the key 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 it at dusk you know the they may have a time but most of them close at
dusk yeah 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 range note that his vehicle is
found sitting parked in their 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 happen stance 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 will stick out like a sore thumb yeah and and
Rob goes missing in 1996 this is a new car yeah this is a a a 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 Sunberry 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 Sunberry 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 10 nine out of
10 baby nine out of 10 so his home was not terribly far from Sunberry and Central College
Road now this parking lot where his car was found is ex like I say extremely visible
from Sunberry Road it's you can't miss it you I mean you turn off of Sunberry Road and within 8 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 happen stance 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 person's 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 most3 miles from his home probably under3 miles I mean so
many things that are strange again this is a a couple minute walk from its 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 [Music] [Music] sense this show is sponsored by better
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back 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 Adrien McGee dispatch reporter from July 16th 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 Mooney and have nothing new to go on
said Detective Mike Shaheen Mooney 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 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 we don't hate each other no rush neither one of us are in r 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 when 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 that maybe he's suffering
from Amnesia or something weird happened and that he's just going to 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 learned 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 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 cancelled 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 uh a family dinner for his mom's birthday that
that's interesting that you say that so I can fill 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 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 said I like 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 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 he
rob would come and go that 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 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 it gets difficult to tell the story those are
the people that that that happens to me like you know if I have a boss it's it's
a Dawn and Rod but because they're so close you'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 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 I kept thinking there had to have been somebody else at that house with him that
night but well no cuz I 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 cuz 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 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 drive
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 home3 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 mhm so he appears to be heading not appears
to be he is heading in 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 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 got to 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 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 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 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 29y 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 2-year
annivers AR 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 Mooney had worked for 9 years operating heavy equipment at
Smith and Associates Excavating he he had a 5-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 Mo's home in Westerville at 9:30 p.m. July 16th
1996 2 Days Later the vehicle was 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 were shown 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 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 the the police's 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 stake 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 we know that when people go missing or let's say somebody's murder
you have that question question that's everybody goes well 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 of course they ask 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 that there's some different stuff here that
what makes this one so fasinating one his car is found relatively close to his house ke 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 nose 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 too 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 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 Mo's body whoever's responsible for Rob disappearing had an opportunity to
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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 Mooney vanished in 1996, leaving behind a half-eaten meal and a mystery that remains unsolved.

Key points

Rob's Mysterious Disappearance. Rob Mooney, a fun-loving 29-year-old, goes missing without a trace.
The Case of Rob Mooney. A strange missing person's case with layers of plausible theories.
Family's Hope for Missing Son. Despite a year passing, Jackie Zepper remains hopeful for her son's return.
Anniversary of Disappearance. Two years later, Rob's family still clings to hope amidst heartbreak.
The Importance of Timely Information. Detective Richardson emphasizes how early knowledge of suspects could change outcomes.
The Mystery of Rob Mo's Disappearance. The investigation reveals crucial evidence surrounding Rob Mo's body.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Rob Mooney vanished into thin air.

Describing the mysterious disappearance of Rob Mooney.

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