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[Applause] crime on the night of December 20th 2015 Shawn Patrick McDuffy 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 well they're successful in doing so and sha Patrick McDuffy 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 Shawn
appeared to be alone at this time shortly after leaving the gas station he called his then girlfriend or exwife
were 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 Shawn they see no trace of him they never hear from
him after sending him messages calling him never hearing from Shawn Jr on December 30th Just 4 days after he was
reported missing and now 9 days after anyone had spoke to Shawn 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 natahala National
Force this is a gravel on lane road that dead ends the road turns off of US Highway 64 West in Clay County North
Carolina now we believe that Shawn 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 Shawn was reported missing as to the contents of the vehicle well
one investigator states that it almost appeared as though Shawn 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 US Highway 64 West
now the plastic case for the holster or for one of the holsters that Shawn 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 includ includes the holster itself a knife a tobogan some ammo and gun cleaning
solvent plus the cash he had on his person none of these items have ever been recovered M now we should point out
that it is believed that Shawn 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 $1,700 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 mhm
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 Shawn's intentions we don't know the troubling thing here is
his vehicle's found it's like 5 miles after that gas station right he didn't make it very far from that gas station
now there 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 Shawn may have actually made it all the way back to calhon and the people responsible for his
disappearance and ultimately his death mhm 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 do we 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 him all the way back to his hometown once he gets back in town that's where they take him over
murder 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 calhon
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 in this
Theory would be Stephanie um bigam 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 Shawn Jr that's you know he's involved in criminal act ity 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 the 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 mhm and so there's no shortage of enemies for for this young
man so yeah it could be Stephanie it could be go forth it could be bigan 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 Shawn 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 Shawn MH 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 side or that he was in some kind
of meth induced hallucina hallucination mhm and remember it is rumored that he was a a drug addict or 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 sit sitation Shawn J 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 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 well and 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 where you get the D batteries or whatever like a MAG light
yeah and then he stops to get a gun holster mhm 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 it's 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 yeah cuz he did have the fishing pole on that 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 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 so that gives us some evidence that maybe hey I'm going to go off into this Woods After
I'm after I made a bunch of money going to do a little drugs do a little fishing
mhm 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 EV evidence and
information they've just not released it because it's not necessary to do so so where the story comes from that Shawn 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
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 that I could see nature you know go on a hike I mean who knows I'm just saying that I think the
batteries getting the batteries before you head back is a sign of something mhm 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 toan 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 I got a gun I'm going to conceal it on myself MH 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 me using meth or or something
else and that 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 subbs 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 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 dog you
know if they use um scent dogs they're going to pick up on this scent mhm and I'm assuming that they didn't or if or
whatever scent they did pick up on led to um a dead end well and I also spoke with a firefighter and a gentleman that
works in the park services okay and these are people that aren't necessarily um the thing is the reason
why they're important is because of their backgrounds the backg 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 Shawn
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 Shawn 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 2 and A2 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 and two summers
that have passed and nobody has stumbled upon his remains so making it look less
and less and less likely that he succumb to the elements out in this area where his truck was found and we learned that
one of the other rumors that floating around town is that he the destination that him and Eric were going to correct
that was killed there but we kind of squashed that because we do have two sidings of him yeah yeah and that was
kind of the 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 CU he was never seen again and like you
said we have the two situations of the surveillance video footage of Shawn Jr on his route back to Calhoun so we know
he at 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 moneyone drugs correct money and guns yeah all those
fun things mhm 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 Shawn 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 a individual off he's going to visit his family this is a guy that claims that
you stole money from him mhm um he is the man main reason you're there right he's putting you in this situation Eric
put you in this situation right just follow follow me on this I'm foll you so he was the main reason hey I need to go
see my family but I'm I need you to take me but we're going to make it worth your
while because we're going to sell some drugs once we get up there mhm okay cool we'll make a little little bit of cash
you're my friend which I just ACC accused you of stealing some money from me $1,000 if this is a big payday oh man
wow you know uh sha Jr gets his big payday of 1,700 well then $1,000 going missing that's a pretty big wad of cash
right so Eric then concocts this plan hey I'm going to get you up take me to North Carolina we make the drug dealer
uh we make the drug deal with Jericho mhm this guy probably has a faux hawkk right bohawk 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 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 mhm like what a better thing like hey here's what I'm going to do I'm going to
follow him back I'm going to wait for him to stop and get gas so he's seen by somebody then that's when I'm going to
kill him mhm 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 Shawn and your Jericho mhm 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 but then if let's say this was it 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
some weapons that you could defend yourself with and and 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 going to be offered some guns but imagine that situation if
you're Eric you're like [ __ ] I was I was going to kill this guy and now tring kill this bastard and now he's arm now
he's got two guns armed and ready to go and look that's other thing that I kind of Wonder here you think you're being
followed so you stop this stop at Walmart is this 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 so some of the items that so as far as the receipt goes and 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 Co 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 shops in there or whatever if you tell me 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 just going to pull off 64 and whatever's falling me they're
they're going to stop or they're going to keep going right but if they stop I'm I'm
armed now if they search this site a lot you'd think that they would find some bullet casing right
right um now this is why it kind of leads me back to a Poss Jericho or a possible Eric cuz what if he pulls off
the person pulls in his gun is drawn and he then realizes I know this person mhm so I don't know
it's I mean this is that's just where my brain is 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
Shawn 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 Shawn 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 M
didn't make it back you you see what I mean meaning just because of where his truck was
found we know that the truck was found about 5 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 5 10
minutes after he lost cell phone service we just know that it was found there 4 days later I'm sorry n Days Later
somebody had n 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 Shawn 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
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and cowboy Theory cheers Captain so the theory works like this that at some some
point Shawn 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 go forth 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 coun 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 Shawn has disappeared and right but what we talked about earlier in the cases 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 Shawn to a
deserted drug housee and there he shot him and there are several stories as to what he did with Shawn's body one being
that he was placed in the woods another that he 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 go forth or Cowboy or both at one time had
shown them Shawn's body so we have the rumors of go forth and cowboy going around town telling people that they've
killed Shawn Jr MH 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 well that that seems like uh something I'd really want to take notice of you know what I
mean mhm 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 Shawn disappeared remember Stephanie who was selling drugs she was maybe Shawn's boss
at one point um that she was spotted with a large W of cash on her the day after Shawn went
missing this is very this is very Troublesome right because we know that Shawn We Believe Shawn 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 mhm she claims when asked about this money that she won it at a poker machine that sh that paid out cashh 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 squash the rumor that he was killed at the destination in North Carolina right Eric's 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
calhon 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 that they get to North Carolina sha leaves on the 21st how do we know that that was the
plan any chance that the plan was hey I'm going to stay the night on the 21st I'm going to wake up first thing in the
morning and then I'm going to I'm going to hit the ground running in the morning
and make my way back to coun 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 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 listen to the trailer of yesterday's show that's a straightup 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 mhm 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 Shawn 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 Shawn Jr 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 Shawn Jr all live and reside in coun 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 Shawn
Jr is hinting around like hey I don't think I'm going to 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 mhm 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 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 Shawn Jr 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 going
to 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 going to 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 in cordinance of the last place he was seen
the last place he's told his you know girlfriend he was 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 Shawn Jr gets back with the money possibly drugs who knows these guns and we have forth in 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 mhm right well you just killed this guy you have this rented truck that that's the
biggest problem right but now you know where he lost signal with his cell phone and you 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 there there may have been
people in coun that had an idea of where Shawn 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 Shawn within the days after he
disappeared so how does that conversation go down when I'm if I'm Brandy King and I'm talking to you and I
say hey look I last spoke to sha here he said he was here and he left this gas station and or I guess the thing that
complicates that is Brandy King stating that it it sounded to heard that Shawn 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 Shawn or if I need to get rid of Shawn 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 coun 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
another go at this whole thing if that's your plan and I think unfortunately unfortunately for Shawn
and for his family personally I think that I think he got intercepted on the way home wow I think that that that like
you said and like he said on the phone that he thought he was being followed mhm 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
mhm 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 them right
and they keep going yeah 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 or 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 uh those turns you know what 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 Shawn's out in the middle of nowhere so he's
going to have to improvise let's say well and 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 in 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
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 but I think
something happened close to that truck now I you think we'd heard 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 a deserted house somewhere and being shot there the
deserted house doesn't bother me at all what 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
$1,000 so suspect right mhm 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 friend I'm being
followed don't like that at all right mhm where the B 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 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 enough 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 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 that they have maybe not firsthand 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 firsthand knowledge or knew a good
amount of firsthand 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 Shawn 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 Shawn Jr of of his remains or maybe what had happened to 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 Shan's body might be
in The Sims Mountain area 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 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's in prison now just 2
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 found and and everybody that we spoke to nobody could suggest that go forth has been
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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

Shawn McDuffy Jr. disappeared in 2015 after fearing he was being followed; theories of foul play and drug involvement are discussed.

Key points

The Disappearance of Shawn Patrick McDuffy Jr. On December 20, 2015, Shawn vanished after a trip with a friend, leaving behind mystery and unanswered questions.
The Alibi Plan. A strategic plan emerges involving a staged alibi for a potential murder.
Rumors of Violence. Rumors circulate about a violent individual named Cowboy potentially involved in a murder.
The Cash Mystery. Questions arise about how a drug dealer had cash the day after a disappearance.
Shawn's Last Moments. Shawn believed he was being followed and took a detour that led to tragedy.
Rumors Surrounding Shawn's Disappearance. Various rumors suggest sightings and possible locations of Shawn's remains.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Please tell my children that I love them.

Shawn's last message to his girlfriend before disappearing.

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Tension

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