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talk some true crime [Music] dispatch article from 2005 on the anniversary of The
Disappearance of Rob Boney titled police still searching for man gone nine years
this is on the nine year anniversary Captain and the article States Rob money backed his red Pontiac Firebird out of
his driveway and disappeared down the two-lane road this according to a neighbor working in her yard on Central
College Road on that hot July evening she saw him go as she said she had seen many times before said that it seemed
routine but as we know Captain unfortunately that was the last time anyone reported seeing Rob alive now
fast forward all of these years later today is the day after the anniversary of the day he was
reported missing way back in 1996 he was reported July 18th as missing and as and
even though his body hasn't been found in this article Westerville police detective Dave King said he is convinced
that Rob has been murdered but they do not know how and back in 2005 they released
investigative files on the case that showed that police suspected Foul Play early on in this case
why would that be again this man goes missing and what we learn here is we talked so much
yesterday about his red Pontiac Firebird what this article makes clear is that when they found that vehicle and because
he was missing when they found the vehicle they called in Westerville police called in Columbus
Police and the Ohio Bureau of Investigation they come in and they take fingerprints
they're looking for fingerprints on different parts of this vehicle they come to the conclusion based off of
not finding fingerprints that it seems that the car had been wiped clean of fingerprints
and I'm guessing here Captain if you're sitting in a room full of Detectives we're all going what this guy probably
didn't drive his vehicle to Hoover Reservoir over by the dam park it leave the keys in it wipe down all the
fingerprints from the car and then walk away from his life so somebody caused this man to go
missing and somebody is responsible for why he's missing and where he is today in fact I firmly believe and I think
that there's a lot of evidence that suggests that this case is only the recovery of his body away from bringing
forward charges again we stated yesterday police had already honed in on a suspect and
referred to this person as he is the suspect in this case so a male is the prime
suspect in this case well and what you were saying yesterday is he leaves his house but we have no sign of any kind of
struggle or anything going down in his house we see his car no sign of a struggle so
at first you're just going where did this guy go was he meeting up with somebody
what's the issue but then once you start investigating a little further and you go
we can't even find a single fingerprint right that's that's very fishy very fishy the
other thing that people thought to be a little strange as well is there are two different reports Rob's
listed at five foot ten inches tall or 5 foot 11 inches tall depending on which report you see and several people have
pointed out that when the vehicle was found the driver's seat was pushed all the way forward closest to in the
position closest to the steering wheel people that know him best say that Rob would have never sat that close to the
steering wheel these people it's their belief that whoever moved that vehicle was shorter than Rob
and that that might be a telling sign of who put the vehicle there and then let's
take that a step further it does not take a very big leap to go from well whoever placed that vehicle at Hoover
Reservoir either is responsible for why Rob disappeared or knows what happened to
him because assisted in moving that vehicle I spoke to the detective and a couple things that that we agreed on I
asked him is there do you think there's any way that Rob is in Hoover Reservoir in the water over there
because that would make a lot of sense right his Vehicles found there we're talking about five square miles of of
water right and of course the detective said look until we find him nothing is 100 percent
I said but would you agree based off of the searches early on the dive team the the teams that drag the the water over
there would you agree that the statement is of the Westerville police that we are
very confident that he is not in the water and the detective said yes we our department based off of our searches are
very confident that he is not in that water over there okay so we're learning that there's no fingerprints in the
vehicle again the like you said the obvious answer is he goes missing is he in this water and cops for whatever
reason law enforcement for whatever reason is saying no no we don't think he's there
we I they're basing that off of their extensive searches of the that water yeah what what more can we learn from this
well some of this is a little repetitive but bear with me everybody oh you you're
kind of like a parrot there you go uh this is the article that states that we talked about
the half eaten steak dinner we talked about what is not public knowledge of the the Kool-Aid placed in the freezer
that night his roommate being at work that is confirmed by by all parties involved in
this investigation and you're not miss speaking it's freezer not refrigerator that's that's what I was told by more
than one person okay and then on top of that this is the article that states Rob
left his wallet filled with money at his home and this is coming from police in this
article saying that that is further evidence that he wasn't planning on being away long so we're trying to go
back to figuring out why he even left at all this article 2 police saying we don't believe he was ever put in the
Hoover end quote this is sad this is a sad part of the article where his mother had turned to
psychics for answers for years and it was only through the Council of close friends some of them being Rob's friends
they had told her kept telling her look these psychics are just using you they're giving you false hope that
you're going to find your son and that he's going to be alive she's Clinging On hope she's desperate and so she's hiring
hiring psychics to talk with her I mean he's 29 years old but this is still her baby that's right and she says that and
then she says also in this article that that eventually she stopped spending money on psychics
when she kind of saw the light right one of them tells her that his body was close to water near an outlet mall in
churches and then she realized yeah that's pretty easy to state that because that could be anywhere yeah or
he did some digging I mean this is this is where Sunbury Road or that Sunbury that the
area that's what his car would have been around this this is where we get the best
information yet the article goes on to say that Westerville police had solid reports
early on that he was that Rob was the victim of Foul Play Rob was dating a woman who had once dated a friend
upsetting the man now let's use this term friend very Loosely and I'll we'll get into that in
just a second the article says that just before Rob vanished the man might have forced Rob's
Firebird off of Route 161 in retaliation for Rob dating this woman now this article refers to this woman as
Rob's girlfriend so it says Rob's girlfriend told Westerville police that she had talked
by phone with him at about 8 PM July 16th this is the last day that he's seen and according to remember we have the
neighbor Witness so this air quotes girlfriend as they refer to this woman in the article says
that she talked to Rob at about 8 PM July 16th one hour later he pulled out of his driveway so that's the neighbor
witnessing him pull out of the driveway around 9pm and we know that the vehicle his vehicle
is found 0.3 miles from his home opposite direction that he travels less than five hours later that's when
it it could have been there much sooner but we know based off of the security logs from the park ranger that it was
spotted shortly after midnight so we're starting to see a little bit of a picture here right now
here is where this running Rob off the road comes into question as well this article says might have run
him off the road I spoke with two people that said 100 percent Not only was Rob run off the vehicle Rob and his vehicle
run off the road on a Friday night before he disappeared but that Rob knew the man that ran him
off the road so you remember do you remember Captain the Billiard Club on 161 they they host
bands there often they got a bunch of pool tables yeah kind of a bigger Club it was it was very popular in the 90s
well in the late 90s Rob his roommate and a bunch of people in Rob's Circle a bunch of the people that rob went to
high school with they're from Westerville this club is in Columbus proper but not far from
Westerville and a lot of the the Westerville people that were of Rob's age would hang out at
the Billiard Club in the late 90s early sorry the mid to late 90s because they knew the owner they went to high school
with the owner on a Friday night before Rob went missing this is very some Reports say that it was the week
before he went missing other Reports say that it was the Friday before he went missing it's hard for me to sort that
out over 20 years later the story is this he's talking to a girl a woman that he knew that's roughly his
age at the Billiard Club on that Friday night right let's call her Shirley okay don't call me Shirley that's right
surely leaves with Rob and we know this because Rob's there with several of his friends
who have all told me the same story in fact one of those friends was with Rob at the Billiard Club and was in his
own vehicle and would be meeting Rob and other friends at Rob's house after departing the Billiard Club
so Rob talks to this woman Shirley Rob and Shirley leave in his Firebird they're driving toward Rob's home on
Central College Road and the guy that she was either in a relationship with or previously in a
relationship with let's call him Andy he spots the two he's aware that the two are hanging out this drives him crazy
and he decides to force Rob's Car off of the road now look there's no damage done nobody was
injured some would say no harm no foul but let's keep in mind this is a violent act yeah somebody could have been hurt
severely hurt or injured in this situation or possibly worse we have a whole bunch of people telling
police the same name who would want to hurt Rob the same name keeps coming up over and over and over
and over again well it's not too big of a leap to go the guy that ran him off the road just days
before is probably the same guy's name that keeps coming up to police the friend meets Rob and Shirley back at
Rob's place that night after he's run off the road remember the friend was at the Billiard
Club prior when he gets to Rob's house he didn't witness robbing ran off the road what he
Witnesses is he shows up at Rob's house and remember Rob's living for the weekend
work hard Party hard bunch of people roommate everybody at the house and what are they talking
about that Andy guy ran Rob off the road oh he just ran him off the road he could have
killed him that is the topic of discussion that night that they hang out now listen to this article
what did they say here they referred to this woman as Rob's girlfriend which I think is difficult to say because we're
talking days they they would have if if they were dating at all this started days before he went missing
I think they're just calling her that because they they didn't want to use her name we're calling her Shirley so she
tells Westerville police that she talked to Rob on the phone at 8pm on July 16th
then the neighbors see him leaving in his car by himself about an hour later his car is found less than five hours
later abandoned at Hoover Reservoir 100 Captain whatever caused him to leave the
house that night led to his disappearance and police are saying that he was murdered
now this man is not unknown to police this article article continues the man took a lie detector test but results
were inconclusive uh how do you feel about that Captain do you feel like sometimes police are
telling us results are inconclusive when they can't throw the guy directly under
the bus publicly or to the newspapers well that's them throwing them under the bus yeah let's let people speculate uh
as to what what this man may have said so here here's what I wondered though so are we saying that
the night that he goes missing that maybe he gets a call from somebody in there saying hey you know that guy that
ran you off the road he is here or I saw him there [Music] and so that Rob would have ran out of
the house to maybe then confront this guy the problem becomes that the neighbors
don't see anybody but Rob right they see Rob hop in his car and leave I'm gonna when we get to the theories
here I this the breakdown of that timeline according to the person surely that they refer to as Rob's girlfriend
is very telling to me now real quick before we get to the theories this woman that they're referring to is
Rob's girlfriend says that a week later a week after Rob disappeared that she is
at a place called Hammer Jack's Bar on route 161. and I do not recall Hammer Jacks ever I
don't know where it is where it was it's not around today right uh in 1996 I was
not of drinking age or close to it so if this you know wherever this bar was but
it's on 161 so not terribly far from the previous club that we talked about and this is the same woman Shirley says
that she's at Hammer Jack's Bar on Route 161 and she runs into what is referred to as another man
so this is when they say another man they're clearly pointing out that it's not the same man as the suspect right
this is another person and the article says she ran into another man who ran with Rob's
Westerville crowd that man tells her your boy is six feet under quote your boy is Six Feet Under
now police say we interviewed that man who then denied making that statement and the police go on in this article to
say that they are optimistic that somebody out there knows something and this is nine years after the fact they
say I hope one day that they are going to do the right thing by this family and they do say in this article that
they are confident that they could solve the case at some point given the right information
now before we get into the theories Captain we should State Rob is listed on namis on the namis website he is missing
persons identification number mp1123 so much more to get to join us back here in the garage right after this
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in the back now let's can we all agree here in the garage I say that like there's 30 people
here it's me and you currently oh there's a there's a couple people in our pockets if the police tell us that they
have good reason to believe that there's Foul Play can we can we move past the idea that maybe Rob just walked away
from his life right okay so let's take the police at their word they're telling us that there's Foul Play I believe
there's Foul Play too even even if police weren't upfront about that I look at this thing and say it's got Foul Play
written all over it now where is Rob that's that's the whole thing here I believe that the one thing
that is holding charges back from being brought forward against an individual is the finding of Rob's remains
and the thing is there's been a bunch of people over the years that have told police what happened to Rob
Unfortunately they cannot confirm that without the evidence that would be his remains
or the location of his remains as to which Theory or which story that's being presented to them is true we've talked
about this several times here in the garage if you find Rob what will happen it will confirm one of those stories for
police as being true that will be the lead that they need that will be the evidence they need to
go out and charge somebody with this homicide now the car it was moved can we agree on that Rob went somewhere
he went in the opposite direction of where the car was later found things happened very quickly here now didn't
they because we know that according to his air quotes girlfriend Shirley who he had
Maybe started dating just days before he goes missing she says she called him around eight o'clock neighbors see him
leave around 9pm Park Rangers find his car abandoned in the parking lot less than five hours after he leaves his home
things are moving very quickly something happened to Rob in that five hours and it happened early enough that whoever is
responsible for his disappearance was able to move his vehicle after the fact to that location yeah I'm not sold on
the idea that his car was moved I I would I would go with you on the idea that that's
probably more likely what happened um but what we do know for certainty is somebody wiped down that car they
altered that they altered that vehicle destroying evidence so unless something unless Rob drove his car to that
location right and somebody abducts him from there which we do know is in the opposite direction of where he he was
heading when he left his house I don't think it matters what direction he was heading when he left his house then that
car had to have been moved the thing is if that car was moved to me I'm looking at at minimum a two-person
operation here somebody to help the perpetrator the murderer whether after the fact or after
witnessing or being a part of the murder of Rob Mooney moving that vehicle and then getting
everybody back to where they need to be away from that vehicle now we should point out here remember
Shirley was in a relationship prior to with the man who ran Rob off of the road we're calling him Andy we're not using
his real name even though he's real [ __ ] bag because he's not been charged in this crime [ __ ] he has been convicted of
other crimes but right we're not going to use his real name here because he's not been charged in this crime so we'll
just call him Andy for short Andy's parents live on Central College Road the same road
that Rob lives on not far from Rob's home in the direction that Rob was leaving that evening
remember all signs point to Rob believing or or his actions suggesting that he believes he would be returning
rather quickly back to his home and possibly back to his meal that night by her own admission
Shirley says that she's on the phone with Rob at 8 pm is there any chance that Shirley's call
is the one that led Rob to leaving his home and then we have people telling True Crime garage that
they were well aware that when Andy and Shirley were in a relationship together that there was violence in that
relationship could a threat against Shirley Inspire Rob to leave and maybe go confront this
individual who had run him off the road right or was he meeting did he think he was meeting Shirley and running to her
defense because she was at this man's residence there's a lot of stuff going on there
and I feel like we were just one maybe two pieces away from solving this puzzle and like we've said over and over
the whereas Vehicles found is minutes from his house and if it's and like you said
if there's evidence that leans towards the idea that the car was moved again whether or not we agree on that
doesn't matter because we do have somebody is messing tampering with the car and so is it out of the Realms a
possibility of we now have Rob we wiped on his car we toss him in the water and we go about our way yeah the thing the
thing that's telling to me too is even though police are tight-lipped the question that I gave to the detective
was do you believe that it had to have been more than one person to move his vehicle
and put it at that location where it was found and the detective said the vehicle could have been moved by one
person or two the key part of that answer to me is it sounds like police are of the belief too
that the vehicle was moved and placed there yeah but the reason why they're saying one is because if the our Prime
Suspect is this Andy guy his parents live on the same road no no I get that what I'm saying is that
the the question the there's an answer within the non-answer of that question the answer is that they believe that the
vehicle was moved by 1 2 20 30 people they're not saying maybe they don't know how many people move the vehicle but
they are of the belief working on the theory that it was in fact moved now let's hone back in on something that was
stated in that article by Shirley who says I was at Hammer Jack's Bar on 161 about a week after Rob went missing I
ran into another man who ran around with Rob and his crowd and this man says to me your boy is six
feet under quote your boy is six feet under police say they interview that man and that man says I never said that well
guess what one of them is lying either he said that and Shirley's being honest with police
or Shirley is lying to police and trying to implicate somebody else having knowledge
of what happened to Rob well why would she do that probably wants to take herself out of
the equation of being involved in whatever happened to Rob if in fact she was the one lying
this case is difficult because I've been told by a few different sources captain that it
possibly could be linked to another homicide and this is a Columbus homicide that
took place a few years after Rob disappeared so in Rob's case law enforcement has a
lot of reasons to believe that this is a foul play maybe charges would be brought if they
could find Rob's remains but some people have speculated that Rob's disappearance
could be connected to another local homicide yes and this comes from as you said Captain Crime Stoppers who were
looking for tips offering up a reward for information leading to an arrest in a separate completely separate homicide
in the in the Crime Stoppers request says man shot and burned beyond recognition a man was shot and killed
his body burned beyond recognition it's a murder case that Columbus Police have been trying to solve for more than a
year and we have a quote from the victim's mother Dolores Donahue who says quote I
want these people off of the street she wants to see Justice for the people who killed her son the victim of a gruesome
murder that took place in January of 2002. the last time her son Troy Donahue was seen alive he was hanging out with
some friends at a pool hall in North Columbus you're going to recognize a name that we
just spoke about previously Troy left the Billiards Club around 11 o'clock now keep in mind though this is six years
after Rob disappeared five and a half years exactly after Rob disappeared Troy told his brother
and Friends he was going to the parking lot and would be gone only a few minutes
as minutes turned hours Dolores remembers watching news reports of a body found near Freeway Drive it turned
out to be her son he had been shot three times in his body set on fire burned so
badly a delivery man thought that it was a pile of trash I will never understand why he had to be
hurt so bad because he would give anything to anybody and what's likely to be more than just a
coincidence someone also broke into Troy's apartment that same night the night that he
disappeared right so this article more than a year later Columbus Police saying we need the Public's help we do not want
some other mother to have to sit by and get hurt as bad and a family hurt as bad
as this one has so they offer up a a reward now let's cut the story short here in this Troy Donahue murder okay it
was no coincident this that his apartment was broken into that night his apartment's broken into there's
money stolen from the apartment and they find blood in the apartment now I'm not
certain I've sorted through this Captain I can't figure out exactly where the blood came from if it was Troy's blood
it sounds to me that this is what happened because we know based off of eyewitness statements from the Billiard
Club that night that he said oh a car pulls up into the parking lot a vehicle pulls up into the parking lot I believe
it was a van and he goes oh I gotta go out there and talk to these people I'll be right back
he goes out doesn't ever come back into the bar I'm guessing that those people abducted
Troy Donahue took him to his apartment and either used him to gain access the or or threatened him while they gained
access to his apartment they were looking for something in that apartment money drugs maybe even weapons
and we know that the apartment was all busted up and at the end of the night Troy Donahue is killed and set on fire
now he was killed it was ruled by the coroner that he was set on fire after he died he he was already dead by the time
that happened um eventually they catch up to all these people so the vehicle the these people were out
stealing a bunch of vehicles that night too there were three of them and they arrested them and charged them with the
stolen vehicles and charged them with breaking into Troy Donahue's apartment it would take several years for these
people to turn on each other but eventually what we end up with Captain is all of those people involved start
spilling the beans and then we end up with three people being arrested and charged in some form or fashion with
either Donahue's murder or with abuse of a corpse how does this store y have anything to
do with Rob's disappearance Rob and Troy knew each other a little bit okay from my understanding the way it's
explained to me is that Rob ran with some of the people that ran with Troy and Troy ran with some of the people
that ran with Rob but the two never really ran together right does it make sense
a person that knew both of them says that they went to Troy's and I'm having difficulty
recalling this because we have grandparents and parents that are named throughout this story by different
sources it was either Troy's parents home or grandparents home this person is close with Troy goes to
Troy's parents home or grandparents home Troy's to with the purpose of meeting Troy
this meeting takes place in July of 1996. same month that Rob goes missing this Source says
Troy was out in the backyard doing yard work when this person talks to Troy Troy is
sweating he's all dirty he looks like he's been digging in the backyard and the person said you know what's
going on you look tired you look all beat up you look you look you're sweaty what's going on I was just out in the
backyard digging and doing some work nobody really this person doesn't think much of this at that time
this person then sees Troy again at another time they're at a different location
this person has told us that Troy pulls this person aside and says if anything ever happens to me
remember just remember that there's something buried in my in that backyard if anything happens to me remember
there's something buried in the backyard now to be perfectly clear to be perfectly clear this this homicide
poor Troy Donahue was killed may have nothing to do with Rob's case at all what's buried in that backyard what was
Troy telling trying to tell this person may have nothing to do with Rob's case it could be money in that back backyard
it could be drugs it could be weapons who knows what it could be but it's a circle that might be connected it's this
another Circle it's exactly it's the circle and it's this person saying I've always said that somebody needs to dig
up that backyard because of the timing of everything he's out there digging in the yard not
terribly long after Rob disappears and by the way whatever he's digging or why ever he's digging in that Row in that
yard at a later time tells the same person if anything ever happens to me remember that there's something buried
in that backyard and what unfortunately we know something terrible ends up happening to this young man
so this is one of those things captain again I believe whoever is responsible for
Rob going missing probably had some kind of help whether that help was killing Rob
making him disappear whether that help was moving the vehicle whether that help was
burying the body I believe that he had some help and I believe that there are probably
I hesitate to give a definitive answer here but after speaking to all the people that I could get in touch with
that that have Insider knowledge of this case and the people that we've discussed
in this story that there's probably about we're probably down to about four places that
they should be looking for Rob and again I can't speak for Westerville police department but I can I can speculate
right and you've seen this a hundred times I've seen it a hundred times I believe they are one body away from
charging somebody and we do know that at some point they had a prime suspect and
that Prime Suspect was a male you and you would think that maybe that would at least be able to search that property
with cadaver dogs from what I've been told by multiple people the four locations that that I'm not
going to talk about here today in the garage that we are choosing not to announce to the public these locations
and for good reason but what we've been told is that these locations have been discussed recently
with police right it's in their power if if they're able to do something with this information
they might be doing something with it relatively soon frustration is is probably the key word in these cases but
let's not be fooled we've talked to so many people in law enforcement and when they believe they know who is
responsible for somebody's murder they want to get the bad guy just as as much if not more than anybody else well
and here's the thing you look for the the weak link right you are the weakest link
you look for that because what do we have here Captain if as stated by law enforcement they have a
prime suspect in this case we can't say for certain that it's the person that we're calling Andy but
according to everybody we've talked to all roads lead to this person that we're calling Andy
and then I think the way to go about this you're talking over 20 years later and no solution to this homicide case
you've not been able to crack this person whether he failed that lie detector inconclusive whatever you want
to call it tests that he took years ago you've not been able to build a great case against him so what do you do
I believe based off of the vehicle its location where it was found in the events of the night that Rob went
missing and off of statements that have been relayed to us the prime suspect had help whether it
was in the murder the concealment of the body or the moving of the vehicle or the
destruction of evidence the the murderer had help the prime suspect is probably the murderer and had help
so you look for the weak link you look for the person or persons that helped the prime suspect and see if you could
get them to crack or see if you can find or build a case against one of them so who could have helped
the prime suspect well we already mentioned the individual that we're calling Shirley who says that they
called Rob that night is that why Rob left did this person we're calling Shirley come up with a
story to convince Rob to leave that night to go to a place to put himself into danger and where he got ambushed
we also have that person that same person that we're calling Shirley that says I talked to some guy bumped into
another man like a week later and he said your boy is six feet under police say we talked to him he said I did not
say that one of those two is lying right if it's surely it's not too hard to believe that she's lying about a whole
bunch of other stuff in this case oh let's point out another weird thing here the people that were calling Shirley and
Andy years after Rob is gone they move in and rent that house well that's a little strange Now isn't
it that's a little weird they rent the same house that Rob was living in that Rob
once rented and lived in himself the the home he was living in when he disappeared
and then so who who was involved that's where we want to go with this now we talked about
Troy Donahue who who had said that weird statement to a person that that knew both Rob and new Troy
if anything ever happens to me remember there's something buried in that backyard
could it be Rob it might be we don't know right it it very likely is not but it could be
again if the prime suspect had help could Troy Donahue have been a helper uh then we've had a couple people tell
us that there were two strange guys that they believe were from Columbus or the Columbus area that were hanging out at
Rob and Ron's house the weekend prior to Rob going missing could they have helped our Prime Suspect
oh and let's take that a step further could one of them have been Troy Donahue who was from Columbus
we've had another source that told us that two very evil men suspected of other evil Deeds from Nelsonville may
have been involved and while we will not disclose the locations the exact locations of those
four properties that one should call in a question and that that I believe and would hope that someday they can be
searched one of those properties is obviously that property that Troy Donahue referenced if anything ever happens to
me remember there's something buried in that that backyard the other property should be down the
street from where Rob lived the direction he was driving that night is in the direction of the person we're
calling Andy of his his parents home where Andy was residing at the time that Rob disappeared
could something be there could Rob be there on that property uh these bad guys from Nelsonville
there's a property and we we know the address there's a property in Nelsonville that might have something there worth
looking for and then another location that that we can't that we won't give a description of here but this is one of
those cases Captain that's so damn frustrating because there's it feels like there's
it's described as this very mysterious case of this man just disappears one night and his car is found by the water
well you start peeling back the layers and you see that there are some very plausible theories here there are some
very suspicious looking individuals involved in this story and then you start digging and you go maybe there's
some low-hanging fruit here but here we sit all these years later without answers as to whatever happened
to Rob money but also with a lot of local rumors and and speculation and and people saying well there there
could be a body in this backyard well they've had plenty of time to move it law enforcement says oh well we don't
believe that his body was in the water well you could move the body and put it in the water
so there might have been answers that they could have found at one time at one time but that doesn't mean that
people haven't um tampered with the evidence even more since being questioned and hearing these
rumors coming from law enforcement and like you said there's still a lot of hold back information but we believe
that law enforcement thinks if they could find a body that they could bring charges to these individuals so
please please please remember Rob money Rob 29 years old who was ambushed killed embodied
concealed since 1996 if you have any information regarding the murder of Rob money or if
you can provide a lead or a tip so that his body can be found and recovered please call Westerville police detective
Grubbs at 614-901-6881 if you are not comfortable speaking with law enforcement you can go
to our website truecrime garage.com please if anybody has information please pass it along
and the Westerville police phone number will be listed in this week's show notes
[Music] [Music] I want to thank each and every one of you for joining us here in the garage
Colonel do we have any recommended reading this week Captain we are recommending tantamount the pursuit of
the freeway Phantom serial killer by Blaine Pardo and Victoria Hester I've got to say these two
are probably the best in True Crime writing today I am blown away by their books they're amazing their research is
second to none tantamount is about the freeway Phantom who was stalking the streets of our nation's capital back in
1971 and 1972 still an unsolved case about a deadly predator who's stalking the streets and leaving
the remains of his victims along busy roadways in plain view some of the victims were held captive for several
days if you enjoy reading if you enjoy True Crime if you enjoy audible you'll want to make sure that you check out
tantamount the pursuit of the freeway Phantom serial killer by the great Blaine Pardo and Victoria Hester you can
find that title and many other wonderful recommendations on our recommended page
truecrime garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't litter thank you
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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 disappeared in 1996; foul play suspected, with connections to other local crimes and potential suspects discussed.

Key points

The Disappearance of Rob Boney. Rob Boney vanished on July 18, 1996, and was never seen again. Police suspect foul play.
Psychics and False Hope. Rob's mother sought answers from psychics, clinging to hope for years.
The Prime Suspect. A man connected to Rob's girlfriend becomes the prime suspect in his disappearance.
The Mystery of Rob's Disappearance. Investigators discuss the timeline of events leading to Rob's disappearance and the potential involvement of others.
Troy Donahue's Gruesome Murder. The tragic story of Troy Donahue, who was murdered and found burned beyond recognition.
Connections Between Cases. Exploring the potential links between Rob's disappearance and Troy's murder, raising questions about buried secrets.

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