Sean McDuffy Jr. /// Part 2 /// 223 | Forensic Files

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[Music] [Applause] on the night of December 20th 2015 Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr along with his
quote-unquote friend Eric Brown left Calhoun Georgia they were on their way to Clay County North Carolina to drop
off Eric while they're successful in doing so and Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr is making his
way back home to Calhoun Georgia now he is spotted twice on his way home and this is on December 21st the following
day he spotted two times on surveillance cameras first at a Walmart store and then second at a car City gas station
that is located in Franklin North Carolina both of these sightings according to what was observed on the
surveillance footage Sean appeared to be alone at this time shortly after leaving the gas station he
called his then-girlfriend or ex-wife we're a little confused on the relationship with the woman he lived
with he called her on his cell phone explaining that he was confused and lost he did not know where he was going he
did not know what road he was on but more importantly he told her please tell my children that I love them because I
think that I'm being followed shortly afterwards he loses cell phone service and then for the next several days his
Brandy King and his mother and his sister Megan they search for Sean they see no trace of him they never hear from
him after sending him messages calling him never hearing from Sean Jr on December 30th just four days after he
was reported missing and now nine days after anyone had spoke to Sean his rental truck was found the vehicle is
located by a private citizen sitting in the middle of Bernard Creek Road which is located within the Nantahala National
Forest this is a gravel one-lane road that dead ends the road turns off of U.S Highway 64 West in Clay County North
Carolina now we believe that Sean was traveling on that road according to what we could see on the surveillance footage
at the gas station during this time of year when it was located this road was seldom used other
other than by a hunter every so often so it's really not surprising that it was not located that the truck was not
located until several days after Sean was reported missing as to the contents of the vehicle
well one investigator states that it almost appeared as though Sean was living out of the vehicle there were
several bags of clothes and shoes along with with several personal items such as
a calendar a day planner and various receipts including the one from the Walmart and various other small items
in the bed of the pickup truck there was only a fishing pole a car jack and some
loose garbage the only significance as to the location where the truck was eventually located and found is the fact
that it turns off of U.S Highway 64 West now the plastic case for the holster or
for one of the holsters that Sean had purchased at the Walmart this was located inside the vehicle however based
off of receipts found in the truck and from video footage there are some known missing items from the truck this
includes the holster itself a knife a toboggan some ammo and gun cleaning solvent plus the cash he had on his
person none of these items have ever been recovered now we should point out that it is
believed that Sean had a large amount of cash on him when he was traveling back to his home and we know this because the
rumors are that they were him and Eric were selling drugs the day before and possibly the morning of
and we also have the fact that we believe this to be about Seventeen hundred dollars in cash and where we get
this information from is apparently that's what how much money he had told Brandy King that he had on him when he
was traveling back home so maybe this was that big score that he was looking to get or at least this was going to be
some money to you know Brandy King wanted him to get out of the drug business you know to to clean himself up
and to get on the right path maybe that was Sean's intentions we don't know the troubling thing here is
his Vehicles found it's like five miles after that gas station right he didn't make it very far from that gas station
now there's or he chose not to make it that far yeah but there's also some there's some rumors and some stories out
there that Sean may have actually made it all the way back to Calhoun and that the people responsible for his
disappearance and ultimately his death knew where he was coming from knew about this trip and they decided to drop the
truck off somewhere along the way to make it look like he never had made it back to Calhoun they know that he's
making this trip with Eric they know that he's selling drugs they know that he has some money they know that he
possibly has some more drugs that just because they sold drugs we don't have any record Dewey of that all the drugs
were sold that he didn't have any drugs left and meaning that you have now money
and possibly more drugs as as a motive there but so you're saying that that these individuals followed him
once they were able they followed them all the way back to his hometown once he gets back in town that's where they take
him over him then they take his truck and drive it all the way back to this Midway point or a little more
than Midway well the the way that the rumor was told to me is that potentially he made it all the
way back to Calhoun that these individuals didn't have to follow him they were aware of this trip all they
then need to know is that he's in fact made it back to Calhoun they intercept him there somehow
he's killed in Calhoun and they take the truck back along this route that they know he would have traveled leaving the
truck somewhere on this route making it look like he never even made it back to Calhoun all right so then our major
suspects and this Theory would be Stephanie um Bigham and go forth well yeah and that's what's
interesting about this case because there's no lack of suspects here when you talk about it I mean we have an
individual Sean Junior that's you know he's involved in criminal activity so he's hanging around with bad elements uh
some that might be worse elements than he is and along the way we you know we already said there's no real friends in
this criminal ring these are just Associates and people that you are forced to have interaction with to make
money and these are not people that have one another's backs these are people that
would likely turn on each other at the drop of a dime and so there's no shortage of enemies for this young man
so yeah it could be Stephanie it could be go forth it could be big in it could be all three involved together but I
think just so we can be clear I think let's go through these one at a time to kind of clean this up a bit okay the
first thought like you mentioned would be that he simply parked his car took the money that he made off of this
selling these drugs along the way to North Carolina walked off created a new life
that sounds great and I hope you know I hope that Sean is alive somewhere I wish
that he would return and take care of his children but regardless there's no proof of any of that there's no evidence
to believe that that is what happened other than we're missing Sean so we have to step aside from that
theory then let's investigate all theories that do not involve Foul Play okay the second
theory would be that he committed suicide or that he was in some kind of meth-induced hallucinous hallucinization
and remember it is rumored that he was a drug addict or at least using drugs as well as dealing them and this story has
a strange like Brandon Lawson feel to it doesn't it where you have an individual
who's driving somewhere doesn't seem to know where he is this situation Sean Jr thinks that he
might even be be followed right there was there was a rumor now I just want to say straight up just rumor with Brandon
Lawson that he he might have been doing meth that he was a one-time meth uh user
and he may have gone back to that we don't know that to be the case or that he was on some other kind of drug
correct but the speculation being that in a fit he's out in the middle of nowhere driving his truck he's using
drugs he decides to he thinks something's going on that's not going on he decides to abandon his truck runs out
of gas whatever and he gets lost somewhere out there and and succumbs to the elements one what
there is some some evidence possibly some speculative evidence right he stops at the Walmart he gets batteries for
what we think is for a flashlight I'm guessing it's one of those big you know you know where you get the D batteries
or whatever like a MAG light yeah and then he stops to get a gun holster again something you can get when you get
back correct flashlight do you need it tonight you can get the batteries when you get back
right this is almost like well I stopped at the Walmart now I'm going to stop at
this gas station I'm going to get directions but what did he get directions for did
he get directions for to get back home or was it hey is there any place I can fish around here or is there because he
did have the fishing pole on the right and just because there's one doesn't mean that he didn't have two in there to
begin with so all I'm saying is like the the getting the batteries almost seems like it was intentionally
to get them for some reason before he got back that's all I'm saying that so that gives
us some evidence that maybe hey I'm gonna go off into this Woods After I'm after I made a bunch of money gonna do a
little drugs do a little fishing never seen from again well and that's interesting you bring up
a very interesting point here because like we said yesterday there's not a ton of information out there well that's not
even a fair statement to say there's no information out there on this case this is a open case and they they probably
have collected a lot of evidence and information they've just not released it because it's not necessary to do so so
where the story comes from that Sean Jr stopped and one of the reasons for stopping at that gas station
was to ask for directions this comes from from Brandy King we don't I've not seen anything or been told anything from
somebody working at the gas station that's that says in fact yes he did ask for directions for all we know maybe he
didn't maybe he didn't ask for directions or like you said where did he ask directions to what seemed to be his
destination was he asking for directions back to Calhoun or some other location and like you said he stopped off in an
area that pretty pretty much only Hunters would travel at that time of year right so was it you know just hey
is there any place I could see nature you know go on a hike yeah I mean who knows I'm just saying that I think the
batteries getting the batteries before you head back as a sign of something well here's here's the thing yeah and
you're right he picks up some strange items make some strange odd purchases let's say
um it is winter time it is cold so the toboggan I don't think is really an odd purchase yeah the holsters you could get
those when you get back to town unless he was eager you know unless he like oh I got a gun I'm going to conceal it on
myself um or or or did he feel like he was being followed before he stopped at the
the Walmart you know is another thought as well yeah yeah and then the being followed
was that just some kind of paranoia based off of the Met using meth or or something else and in some kind of
hallucination hallucination he thinks he's being followed he pulls off into this wooded area into this rural area
parks the car and gets out trying to flee whatever he thinks he's getting away from and then succumbs to the
elements at some point it is winter time right and he could have been hungry and
tired when he exited the vehicle so there's a couple issues with that situation with if he would were to have
committed suicide or if he were to have parked the vehicle and succumbed to the element somewhere the problem with that
is what information I could find seems like the search for him in that area where his truck was found was extensive
like it went on for days and they used every resource they had to look for this individual they never turned up anything
well and you believe because we had so many items we do know there's so many items in the truck that these dot you
know if they use scent dogs they're going to pick up on this set and yeah I'm assuming that they didn't or if or
whatever something they did pick up on led to a dead end well and I also spoke with a firefighter and a gentleman that
works in the Parks Services okay and these are people that aren't necessary necessarily
the thing is the reason why they're important is because of their backgrounds the background they have
backgrounds in searching for people and searching areas such as this for people now what both of them told me was with
what they could see what they could find of what was used and how the length of time that was involved in these searches
for Sean they thought that should have turned him up and if that didn't turn him up what
they were even more surprised by was that when the next hunting season comes around you know when spring when spring
breaks and and people start returning to this area they believe that Sean would have been found his remains would have
been stumbled upon by a hunter a hiker something of that nature now keep in mind we're two and a half years removed
and he went he went missing in late December so we've now had two Springs we've had two hunting seasons and more
into Summers that have passed and nobody has stumbled upon his remains so making
it look less and less and less likely that he succumbed to the elements out in this area where his truck was found and
we learned that one of the other rumors that is floating around town is that he the destination that him and Eric were
going to correct that he was killed there but we kind of squashed that because we do have two sightings of him
yeah yeah and that was kind of the the first big rumor that came out when he went missing was that you know it's the
short story of this guy goes up to some spot in North Carolina he must have been
killed there because he was never seen again and like you said we have the two situations of the surveillance video
footage of Sean Jr on his route back to Calhoun so we know he at least made it there to the destination dropped off
Eric he had some interaction according to rumors with this Jericho character for which he traded guns for drugs and
money and money correct money and guns yeah all those fun things these are a few of my favorite things
and so any rumor that he was killed by this Jericho guy or even Eric Brown who he was last seen with
I'm not saying it's impossible that neither of those guys had anything to do with him but what makes it less likely
is that we know that that Sean Jr left safe and sound from that location I don't think it changes
anything as far as percentage-wise there and and I'm sure this has been talked about but
you drop an individual off he's going to visit his family this is a guy that claims that you stole money from him
um he is the main reason you're there right he's putting you in this situation Eric put you in this situation right
follow follow me on this I'm following so he was the main reason hey I need to go see my family but I need
you to take me but I'm gonna make it worth your while because we're gonna sell some drugs once we get up there
okay cool we'll make a little a little bit of cash you're my friend which I just accused you of stealing some money
from me a thousand dollars if this is a big payday oh man wow you know uh Sean Junior gets his big payday of 1700 well
then a thousand dollars going missing that's a pretty big wad of cash right so Eric then concocts this plan hey I'm
Gonna Get You Up take me to North Carolina we make the drug dealer we make the drug deal with
Jericho this guy probably has a faux hawk right Mohawk confirmed and what we do know
what we do have again is it evidence I'm not I'm not saying it's evidence but it starts making a little more sense
when you go he's on the phone with his girlfriend saying hey I think I'm being followed
to the point where he says tell my children I love them right again I believe that he if he felt like he was
being followed whether he's in a drug state or not whether it's paranoia or not I think he felt that before
uh Walmart stops gets batteries for the flashlight gets the gun holder then he starts heading down to the gas station
still thinks he's being followed stops to get directions as talking to his girlfriend says hey I'm being followed
tell my kids I love them the people that were following him could have been Eric or Jericho or both I
guess or both and the thing what I'm saying is who puts you in this situation Eric does right so it's definitely an
angle that needs to be looked at and like I said all I'm saying is don't lessen the percentage of what you think
their involvement is until we we clear that path does it make does it make more here's the thing
if you get him up to North Carolina and you kill him there now you got to get rid of the truck but now he's not seen
anywhere like what a better thing like hey here's what I'm going to do I'm gonna follow him back I'm gonna wait
for him to stop and get gas so he's seen by somebody then that's when I'm going to kill him
and but then he'll be seen by somebody else which then will give me an alibi and my alibi will be up in North
Carolina and The Alibi is probably somebody in his family so for Jericho though if you're going to kill
Sean in your Jericho wouldn't you figure out a way to get the money to get the drugs rather than trading him
potentially weapons that he could use to kill you for the drugs right this is this would be getting speculative
evidenced against this point for Jericho mainly correct but then if let's say this one doesn't rule out Eric
because Eric would have walked into that situation not knowing hey Jericho's going to trade guns you know what I mean
like for this situation to work out for Jericho to be innocent right then we're just saying hey look I've provided you
some some weapons that you could defend yourself with and and re and kill me right if I'm trying to take you down it
seems unlikely that Jericho has any involvement where you have Eric who's along for the ride doing these drug
deals as well and he doesn't know that that uh Sean's gonna be offered some guns but imagine that situation if
you're Eric you're like [ __ ] I was gonna kill this guy and now I'm gonna kill this bastard and now he's now he's got
two guns armed and ready to go and look that's the other thing that I kind of wander here like you think you're being
followed so you stop this stop at Walmart is this is odd to me it would be different
if you picked up you know some potato chips and I mean I don't know what was on that
receipt I don't think we know for sure what's on that receipt if he was just picking up potato chips and some of the
items that so as far as the receipt goes in for the purchases he made at Walmart
um some of those items have been made public not it's my understanding not all of them and what's confusing about it is
we have the purchase of the batteries and the uh at least one gun holster right but remember we have a later
report that says due to receipts found in the vehicle and things seen on surveillance footage there were items
that they thought they would find in the truck that were never recovered right so
we know that some of the items have been reported but clearly not all of them yeah and so again
that's the tough thing about some of these cases you go to me there's something there with the Walmart
the the stop at Walmart but again if you tell me on the list that there was a cup
of coke you know some coca-colas there was a slice of pizza or something from or a pretzel or something you know
sometimes they have the pretzel chops in there or whatever and if you tell me that that's on the
receipt too and then by the way while he was in there he just bought some items right okay no big deal that stop doesn't
seem as random but you know you you go batteries and gun holder I go if you feel like you're being followed
and you have this gun why not get a holder why not get some batteries for your flashlight and is it possible that
at that second stop that when he got back in the car and he lost signal that he said you know what
screw this I'm just going to pull off 64. and whatever's following me they're they're going to stop or they're going
to keep going but if they stop I'm I'm armed now if they search the site a lot you'd
think that they would find some bullet casing right um now this is why it kind of leads me back
to a possible Jericho or a possible Eric because what if he pulls off the person pulls in his gun is drawn and
he then realizes I know this person so I don't know it's I mean this is that's just where my brain has taken me
hearing this for the first time okay so let's go into this other theory of that he actually made it back to Calhoun okay
and the way that this Theory works is like this was that Sean was that this trip was not like a super secretive trip
that there were other people that would have had some general knowledge of what was going to go on that they were going
up there to sell drugs and Sean was coming back to Calhoun with a large sum of money with him okay now there there
have been people out there that have told me look we don't know whether or not that he actually made it back to
Calhoun but there is nothing really out there that would suggest otherwise there's nothing out there that would
make us believe that there wasn't a chance that he didn't make it back you see what I mean meaning just because of
where his truck was found we know that the truck was found about five miles from the approximate distance
of where he lost cell phone service we do know that but we don't know that it was found you know we don't know that it
was in that spot five ten minutes after he lost cell phone service we just know that it was found there four days later
I'm sorry nine days later somebody had nine days to get that truck to that location if they wanted to
so there's people out there that that have mentioned this rumor and this theory that Sean actually made it back
and at some point he was intercepted by go forth now go forth the rumor is he enlisted his buddy the
help of his buddy who we will call Cowboy well hold on we need to take a quick beer break so we'll go back to go
forth with his buddy Cowboy right after this quick beer break [Music] [Applause]
[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right we're back time to go forth with this go forth in
cowboy Theory cheers Captain so the theory works like this that at some point Sean returns to Calhoun there are
people out there that suggest that there's nothing out there no evidence to suggest that he didn't make it back to
Calhoun and when he arrives he's intercepted by go forth and cowboy now Cowboy is is I shouldn't say rumored to
be um there's many reports out there that this is a very violent individual that he
welcomes violence and is capable of possibly making somebody disappear and this would be why Goforth would have
enlisted his help in this situation that they had this guy that they wanted to take care of so he brings in cowboy now
why is this a rumor well there are many people in Calhoun this is one of those stories okay this is one of those cases
Captain where you go I wonder where the evidence is because if if this thing was investigated in the
way that we were able to do this just by talking to people right there's plenty of theories out there because there are
plenty of people that have said hey I heard this I heard that there you you talk to somebody in Calhoun they've
heard something that means you know the result of what why Sean has disappeared and what we talked about earlier in the
case is that sometimes law enforcement know what happened they just can't prove it well I think what the problem here is
is that there are several rumors out there and some of them point to some individuals being involved and some of
them point to others other individuals being involved so the rumors regarding go forth and cowboy are that cowboy took
Sean to a deserted drug house and there he shot him and there are several stories as to what he did with Sean's
body one being that he was placed in the woods another that it was cut up and thrown in a creek another that he was
buried so under these situations though where we have further rumor to back up these stories
there would later be several women that would say that either Goforth or Cowboy or both at one time had shown them
Sean's body so we have the rumors of go forth and cowboy going around town telling people
that they've killed Sean Junior and then later we have women stating that not only did I was I aware that
they had killed him but they showed me his body yeah about that that seems like uh something I'd really
wanna take notice of you know what I mean like this is not just a rumor floating around town now we
have rumors of women saying I've seen his body correct correct so here's the other weird thing
now we have to throw this into the mix there are several people that reported that the day after Sean disappeared
remember Stephanie who was selling drugs she was maybe Sean's boss at one point um that she was spotted with a large wad
of cash on her the day after Sean went missing this is very this is very Troublesome
right because we know that Sean We Believe Sean had a large amount of cash on him there's lots of evidence to
suggest this so how did Stephanie get this money now she claims well she's a drug dealer too but go ahead no I get
that I get that but it's also the day after this individual goes missing she claims when asked about this money
that she won it at a poker machine that paid out cash so she that's how she acquired this
large sum of money now here's where I think things are strange because we have this we squashed
the rumor that he was killed at the destination in North Carolina right and there's a family's place yeah
or in the area of right and now we bring up this theory that maybe he made it all
the way back to Calhoun I here's here's my thoughts on this I wonder if why can't it be somewhat
both okay could it be that Eric Gets did they get to North Carolina on leaves on the 21st
how do we know that that was the plan any chance that the plan was hey I'm gonna stay the night on the 21st I'm
gonna wake up first thing in the morning and then I'm gonna I'm gonna hit the ground running in the morning and make
my way back to Calhoun right and what I'm getting at with this is is there a chance that several of these players are
somewhat involved that they may have different levels of involvement but they're all somehow involved in what
ended up happening in the end meaning was Eric in conversation with people and saying look
he's he's trying to leave I know we said that we were going to do this here because if you were going to set this up
if this was premeditated murder and the reason why I'm kind of circling around the thought that there's Foul Play here
and murder involved one when we covered when you listened to the trailer of yesterday's show that's a straight up
report from law enforcement where they're stating that there were things found in their in this jurisdiction that
led them to believe Foul Play was involved they don't seem to believe that he just walked off on his own so that's
why we're circling around the thought that somebody murdered this individual and I don't think that it's any
coincidence that this guy is making this trip where he could make a bunch of money and he has all these known drug
Associates that probably knew about this trip they got the drugs from somebody that they ended up selling that person
probably knew about this trip and then we have Stephanie who who who's supposed to be the link between Eric and Sean Jr
so she may have known about the trip we have Eric's cousin Derek who knows about
the trip so many people probably knew about this trip and what I'm getting at is if this is premeditated first degree
murder of Sean Junior well the most opportune time my thought would be to get him while he's out of town to get
him when he when you know he's going to be up in North Carolina get rid of him there
and this is going to cause a bunch of confusion because the people that need to be investigated in The Disappearance
of Sean Jr all live and reside in Calhoun out of the jurisdiction of where the murder actually would have taken
place now think about this let's say Eric's up there and Sean junior is hinting around like hey I
don't think I'm gonna stay the night I think I should probably just get back it's close to Christmas time or now I
got all this money I'm itching to spend it or or get it back to my girlfriend or
wife or whatever she is right and then he starts communicating with these people and saying look I know you
guys were going to come up here and get rid of him tonight or in the morning but
he's heading back but now he's he's saying he's going to leave and guess what I can't stop him from leaving at
some point he's going to leave you guys need to get up here and what I'm wondering about Captain is
there a chance that is there a chance that he he was intended to be killed there in North
Carolina Sean Junior intended to make it back to Calhoun but the people that were going to kill
him they were in route or had to be in route sooner than they had planned and then they're hoping to intercept him
somewhere along the way so in a sense both theories are somewhat truthful meaning that one that was the initial
plan and two hey if we can't intercept him somewhere along the way we're gonna have to get him once he gets back here
to Calhoun yeah and I didn't really like the whole idea of the when he gets back
here we're gonna get him right the reason why it seems a little too loosey-goosey doesn't it like like too
many things could go wrong with that plan no I I think it's it's probably look at least
um go forth and cowboy would be on their own turf right so that would make a little more
sense because you know the law enforcement you know what the at least what the cop cars look
like right right um you know so that's one thing but the thing that always kind of went well that theory
doesn't sit well with me was the convenience of where his car was parked or where the rented truck was
parked and coordinates of the last place he was seen the last place he's told his
you know girlfriend who's seen yeah he's making communication through his cell phone and then he loses contact and then
the truck is found roughly what 10 days later from the time he went missing roughly in
that spot around that area right so okay so as you're telling me this stuff that doesn't sit well but then I start
thinking and I'm not this is just hypothetically but hypothetically did you know did she
was she a part of this right right just but and I think that's less likely than Sean Junior gets back with the money
possibly drugs who knows these guns and we have go forth and cowboy and they take care of him they kill him and then
they find out through rumors that he's missing right right and they know people that know people and then
they find out that he was on the phone on the phone to his girlfriend and he lost connection around this area right
well you just killed this guy you have this rented truck that's the biggest problem right but now you know where he
lost signal with his cell phone and you're probably hearing some rumors around town you you
would know exactly where to go drop off the truck right to start pointing the fingers as
other possibilities well and that's interesting that you say that because I suspect that they're
there there may have been people in Calhoun that had an idea of where Sean was when he went missing meaning they
may be aware of that phone call that he had with Brandy King why because Brandy King was actively looking for Sean
within the days after he disappeared so how does that conversation go down when I'm if I'm Brandi King and I'm talking
to you and I say hey look I last spoke to Sean here he said he was here and he left this gas station and or
well I guess the thing that complicates that is Brandi King stating that it it sounded to her that Sean didn't know
where he was so maybe that complicates that a little bit but you could still have that
conversation of saying look I was on the phone with him and we dropped service and I've not been able to talk to him
since then I've not been able to communicate with him since that occurred so I think that I think for me what
seems to be the most plausible theory is that I think that these individuals that are involved or potentially
involved with this that they are street smart enough to know that if if if we need to get rid of Sean or if I need to
get rid of Sean I need for it to happen when he's out of town why because that creates a lot more possibilities than
just me being involved right it creates a lot more possibilities that maybe nobody even Calhoun was even involved
because he he went missing or was killed so far away from here then I think guess
what when that plan is uprooted by him leaving early now there has to be a new plan and plan a is can we intercept him
on his way back and if we cannot do that then we're going to need Eric and maybe it requires
the help of Stephanie I don't know to set up another trip maybe a month from now to North Carolina and give it a
another go at this whole thing if that's your plan I think unfortunately unfortunately for Sean and for his
family personally I think that I think he got intercepted on the way home well I think that that that like you said and
like he said on the phone that he thought he was being followed I think he he truly believed he was
being followed and I think what happened was when he was on what was that 64 West
I think he sees this little Bernard Creek Road that shoots off the side and he thought you know what
whoever's following me if I'm far enough away from them let me pull on to this little country road and maybe I duck him
right and they keep going and go ahead I was just going to say a little tip if you ever feel like you're being followed
take you know four right turns four left turns because you're going in a circle obviously and if by doing that uh you'll
you know it would almost make zero sense for somebody to do that those turns you
know I mean so if you're ever being followed just a little tip for you well if you're in a city or a town go to a
police department or a fire station right yeah but but Sean's out in the middle of nowhere so he's going to have
to improvise let's say well he's a man so we're we're also not the brightest the problem with him turning on to this
Bernard Creek Road is that it's actually a dead end Road um unbeknownst to him he wouldn't have
known that however I don't think that mattered at all because the vehicle was eventually located approximately a
quarter mile up the road so he never even and it was he would have been heading toward the dead end so it doesn't appear
that he made it to the dead end and tried to turn around it looks like something happened before he could even
realize this is a dead end road that either he thought he was being followed I'll duck off on this country road and
I'll and and hey if I see the car coming or maybe I flee the vehicle and get away from the vehicle I think
what happened was I think he was intercepted on his way home to Calhoun and I think something happened somewhat
close to that truck I don't know if he was abducted from there or if he was unfortunately killed there right but I
think something happened close to that truck now I you think it would hurt I I think we would have heard more rumors
about that well yeah and that that's interesting because there are the rumors of people
having seen the body or claiming to have seen the body and then there's the the rumor of him being taken to uh deserted
house somewhere and being shot there the deserted house doesn't bother me at all
well what here's a couple things that bother me first one why are you there Eric that's suspect to me Eric also says
to his friend that he's going to kill him because he thinks that he stole a thousand dollars so suspect right don't
like it don't like the stopping to get batteries that seems like it's purposeful of that
day don't like it what I also don't like is that he is telling his girlfriend I'm being
followed don't like that at all right where the bot where the truck is found don't like that at all
but the thing that I don't like the most is these women coming for you know coming forward saying I saw his body
yeah that's the thing that so out of all the things that don't make a lot of sense to me that I feel like there's
something more tangible there that out of all of them just goes well that doesn't sit well yeah so I
tell you what though Captain here's here's at the end of the day what I think is I hope this case does
not go cold because I think this is a very solvable case and what I mean by that is I think that there's enough
rumor and there's enough stories that there's got to be tough people talking yeah there's enough people talking but
there's got somewhere if you sift through it enough there's got to be some truth in there behind one of these
stories or little hints of Truth in in several of the stories and I think what can happen is I think
that this could work itself out I think that it could be solved we're going to need some people to come forward we're
going to need some people to talk and we're going to need some we might need some people to turn on one another
because in my opinion there might be good chance that five six seven people know what happened
that they have maybe not first-hand knowledge but they've been told exactly what has happened we talked about this
when we covered uh Tara grinstead's case right we had an individual that had first-hand knowledge or knew a good
amount of first-hand knowledge and he tried to tell six seven a dozen people everybody just thought oh he's just he's
just joking he's just making this up for 11 years basically confessed to seven to
nine people yes right and I'm hoping that at some point at some time the guilt in these people catches up with
them and they start coming forward and telling the appropriate people tell law enforcement what happened because I
think there are many people out there that know what happened to Sean Jr now I will say this one thing that our
investigation and looking into this case has turned up is we have been told that
there is at least one individual out there that claims to have information regarding the where possible whereabouts
of Sean Jr of of his remains or maybe what had happened to him that is now willing to speak with law enforcement
and was not before now what information does this individual know we don't know that exactly but what we have been told
is this information is being reported to law enforcement maybe this is the tip they need maybe this is the tip they
need now some other keys to possibly solving this case um there is a rumor that that his body
Sean's body might be in The Sims Mountain area uh and and there's actually local rumor
of a more specific location than just the Sims Mountain area but I couldn't find anything in the newspapers or
anything through the course of the investigation that suggests that that area has ever been searched
so it'd be nice to see if if they think there's enough weight there in that rumor to search that area or that more
specific area the other thing is interview go forth interview this individual that we've
called go forth because this individual is in prison now just two years later and the information I've been told is
he's serving a life sentence so if there's somebody something that he knows somebody that he could roll over on this
would be the time to talk to him I couldn't nobody everything that I've found and and everybody that we spoke to
nobody could suggest that Goforth has been interviewed at any point or was willing to cooperate in the
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Sean Patrick McDuffy Jr. was last seen on December 20th, 2015. Sean left his house in Calhoun, Georgia and was driving to North Carolina. It was going to be a quick trip to drop off his friend Eric Brown. But Sean likely had more than just dropping off his friend in his plans. Like most of Sean's recent activity this trip revolved around drugs. Either buying, selling or trading drugs for weapons. In Calhoun, Meth is cheap and always available. It is everywhere and the Meth trade is woven into the fabric of this small town. After 9 p.m. Sean picked up Eric at Eric's cousin's house and away they went. Eric went to Clay County, North Carolina and Sean Patrick McDuffy Jr. went into a missing persons file. Beer of the Week - Dark Cloud by Mother Earth Brewing Garage Grade - 3 and 1/2 bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

Sean McDuffie Jr. vanished in 2015 after fearing he was being followed; theories suggest foul play involving drug associates.

Key points

The Disappearance of Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr.. On December 20, 2015, Sean and his friend left Georgia, but Sean vanished shortly after.
Theories of Foul Play. Speculation arises about Sean's possible abduction and the involvement of known associates.
Mysterious Sightings. Sean was spotted twice on surveillance cameras before he disappeared, appearing confused and alone.
Rumors Surrounding Sean Jr.. Multiple rumors about Sean Jr.'s body and potential witnesses emerge.
Hope for Resolution. The speaker believes the case is solvable with enough people talking.
Potential Key Witness. A new individual claims to have information about Sean Jr.'s whereabouts.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Please tell my children that I love them.

Sean's last message to his girlfriend before disappearing.

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Tension

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