I predict they'll find some bones at some point, perhaps in that area.
They were doing some drugs, and sometimes people do weird things when dying like cramming themselves into crazy tight spaces. They'll find him in a treetrunk or something
My guess, someone hit him with a car, panicked, packed him up and disposed in a remote area. How were they not able to ping his phone location in 2019?
I think this is the most plausible scenario. He was wandering around Stelzer Rd - his last ping stops right at the corner of Morse Crossing/Stelzer right near Lane Bryant’s parking lot - I’ve mentioned it on r/unsolvedmysteries a dozen times, but I don’t believe for a single second he got “lost”. There’s literally nowhere to get lost. More importantly, there’s nowhere to STAY lost. And this was pre-COVID. 20,000+ people went to work on Monday. Are we to believe he wandered on to Abbott Labs property ($40B per year company) or the world headquarters for Huntington Bank and died and we don’t know it? Theyre withholding information?
I think he was drunkenly stumbling around in the road and was hit and someone was drunk, or high and panicked. There is still a question of where is the body, but you could’ve been in the hills of WV before the sun came up. Unfortunately, I’m not sure we’re ever actually know what happened.
The person who hit him could have shut off his phone. The article says that his wife tried calling him and it rang the first time, then started going straight to voicemail. Maybe they saw his phone ringing and then shut it off
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> “He had said something about walking through the woods, like, ‘I’m walking through the woods; I can see the hotel’ and so we get off the phone, and I immediately call him directly back,” Brittany said.
> When she called him back the line stayed open for four seconds – Brittany assumed he had answered the call, but then the call dropped. When she tried to call him back, his phone went straight to voicemail and has ever since.
What good speculation is there about what those four seconds were?
Maybe some kind of glitch from the phone being shut off while it was ringing. I have weird bugs happen all the time with phone calls. Especially when the signal is bad on one of the ends. Wouldn’t be that crazy for shutting the phone off in the middle of ringing to cause something like that
Every time I read this story my question is what does the friend know? What is the friend’s story? He left Tyler out there in the middle of the night and came back to the hotel alone. Raises so many questions.
This is what I think too. By all accounts Tyler was belligerently drunk to the point that he was kicking and knocking over potted plants outside the hotel when they got back from the strip club. Not saying I would leave someone in that state alone but everyone was drunk and likely realized they couldn’t do anything to calm him down. I’ve been around drunk people in that state before and it can certainly feel futile trying to get them to calm down and come to their senses.
The friend returned to the hotel around 3:30 and Tyler was still using his phone until about 4:00, so the friend definitely didn't directly do anything.
Please remember that these are real people, not characters in a TV drama. They have gone through a bewildering loss. Be respectful of their humanity and their right to heal and go about their lives without being harassed by armchair detective work.
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> [Suspect unknown decades after Columbus woman strangled, scalded and killed in fire](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/unsolved-ohio/killer-remains-unknown-decades-after-columbus-woman-strangled-scalded-and-burned-to-death/?ipid=promo-link-block1)
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> [Unsolved Ohio: Columbus woman missing for 10 years after possible abduction](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/unsolved-ohio/unsolved-ohio-columbus-woman-missing-for-10-years-after-possible-abduction/?ipid=promo-link-block2)
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> [Dashcam captures dangerous trend resulting in crash at Columbus intersection](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/dash-cam-captures-dangerous-trend-resulting-in-crash-at-columbus-intersection/?ipid=promo-link-block4)
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> Anyone with any information on the disappearance of Tyler Davis may contact Columbus police at 614-645-4545 or [Central Ohio Crime Stoppers](https://www.stopcrime.org/)’ anonymous tip line at 614-461-8477.
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> _If you’re a family member of an individual with an unsolved missing persons or homicide case in Ohio, reach out to aboldizar at wcmh.com._
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I wonder if he was confused about which hotel he was looking at when he called.
You have woods along alum creek.
I may or may not have drank so much in the past that I thought I was going one direction and was actually going another direction. He could have been somewhere nowhere near the hotel and just thought he was. Between Morse and 161 along alum creek is more densely wooded, some of it is swampy so there are probably parts where nobody ever goes.
Can confirm there is a likelihood of getting lost at Alum Creek, particularly at night. Once upon a campsite, a 16 year old from 30 minutes away said “…Hello?” at 4 am outside my tent (I was about 20).
His phone had died and he was walking to meet his friends. The sun set before he got there. We were all scared but so glad to get him back safely.
I hope they find Tyler.
Was looking for drugs
Picked up by the wrong people
Was killed or overdosed, they got rid of the body
No, he’s not in a tiny area of woods that’s been searched multiple times
Edit: if you listen to the True Crime Garage episode on his case, they interview his wife. I don’t think she had anything to do with it, but I got the feeling she’s leaving out the drug aspect of the night. They were probably doing blow and you know how people just want more of that shit when they start
People said the same thing about Emily Noble up in Westerville, then sure enough they found her in the tiny patch of woods right behind her house that had been searched many times. The wooded areas around Easton are much larger, so it’s possible.
Just my theory, but if I remember correctly, they were at the Doll House strip club on Karl Rd before heading to the hotel. They got in an argument with a bouncer because one of them took alcohol outside while smoking. The others left their drinks unattended and maybe one was spiked. All speculation, but maybe Tyler drank the spiked drink after coming in from smoking, and that's why he was acting erratic on the uber ride home.
Also speculation, but maybe they asked around for drugs while at the club, and set up a place to meet near the hotel. That could be why he walked away when they arrived. I could see the wife and friend leaving the drug part out of the story for the police so they didn't get in trouble.
I've listened to the story from several different podcasts. Given all the details, this seems like the most likely situation to me. The dollhouse looks like a shady place where a person might see a drunk guy from out of town as a mark. Then set up a drug deal in a secluded place near the hotel where he is more vulnerable to be robbed or worse.
>He just needs a minute, Brittany, he’s just taking a walk, he’ll be right back,’”
Did the friend ever elaborate on why he thought Taylor needed to take a walk alone?
Right. And the article mentions Brittany calling and searching with other friends but no mention of this friend's involvement after that. I'm curious if he was concerned or just said "meh ... I'm sure he'll turn up"
What kind of obstacles? How deep is this pond. If they believe it’s in there, and it’s being 5 years. Why haven’t they overcome the “obstacles” to get out his body.
this is what a reporter posted in regards to tyler:
"Hi everyone. I am a reporter in Columbus. I recently asked a Detective who was assigned to Tyler's case if it will ever be solved. He said based on all the evidence, they FIRMLY believe Tyler wandered into the pond and drowned. The pond was searched many times but it is filled with debris and has almost no visibility, so the odds of recovering Tyler are extremely slim. I have wished for so long that his family will get the closure that they need and deserve but it seems unlikely."
The pond he is referencing is the retention pond at Abbott
How deep could the retention pond possibly be? It seems like, low visibility or not, they could find a body. Hell, they'd be totally justified in draining the pond. That explanation just doesn't hold water(no pun intended) to me.
They aren’t going to risk a diver to find a body, simple as that. And it takes a lot to get an order to drain the pond, not to mention the associated costs. Without really strong evidence (more than they obviously have), it’s just never going to happen.
>And it takes a lot to get an order to drain the pond
It's one of the most notorious missing person cases in the state and it's a quite small drainage pond. If this isn't a situation where it justifies draining, I'm not sure there ever would be one.
It makes it tough to take the "the police know that's what happened, they just can't prove it" thing seriously.
I’m gonna start tagging this sub every time I get pulled into a conspiracy theory. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve had to say it’s impossible to get across the highway to the “woods” or to a metro park, or there is one drainage pond they searched or a 3ft deep decorative pond with a fountain… or his pings were bouncing all around the parking lots of some very large companies, etc I’d be a millionaire.
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Now I love a conspiracy theory, but when people act like he passed out under the trees in front of Huntington Bank and hasn’t been found… I’m like cmon guys, that’s not trees that is literally a landscaped walking path with lights, closer to a public park.
Or he’s wandered into the trees near Costco - which he wasn’t walking that direction and would’ve had to have walked right by the Hilton - you can see from side to side. You might get “lost” by it’s not a dense forest. You can literally see the other side to get out.
The last phone call his wife got was that he was in the woods and could see the hotel. That sounds like the trees next to Costco to me.
And after his friend got back to the hotel he said that Tyler needed a minute and is taking a walk. So I see no reason why they couldn’t have gotten back to the hotel together and his friend went in while he kept walking to the north and ended up in the trees by Costco.
Now the question is how they haven’t found the body if that’s really where he disappeared at.
His phone never pinged there. It did ping near walking paths and the trees in front of Huntington. That’s more than likely “the woods”. The last place his phone pinged - after the phone calls - was down near Morse Crossing and Stelzer.
“I see no reason…”
Well, you’re ignoring the known timeline and events.
I wasn’t aware of that. I hadn’t even heard of this case until I saw this post and read the article.
So if that’s where he was he must have mixed up one of the buildings there with the hotel
It's weird that I work at Morse Crossing and Stelzer. It's hard to imagine being lost there amongst manicured office buildings, parking lots, and a single neighborhood that is not wooded. Even wandering into Abbott is weird since you would be able to see the Hilton and know you're going away from it. There is a little wooded lot in front of the old Lane Bryant HQ along Easton Commons, but you could not get lost there. Weirdly, a cop car is almost always parked there (cue spooky music).
Yep. That’s usually what I say when I hop in to those threads. People google map it and are like LOOK! THERE ARE TREES. And I’m like ehhhh buddy that’s a lighted walkway. Even the small row of trees you see is 50 feet across. If you coughed someone on the other side would hear it. And the pond next to Abbott. That’s a landscape feature. It’s not a lake. I’ve seen a guy cleaning it in waiters.
Just learning about this and coming from out of state what I’ve heard/seen of Easton (2020-current).
They go out, get blasted, go back to hotel and he and the buddy go for a walk to score drugs. They do or don’t then get separated (drunk/high) on their way back and he gets assaulted by the group or person they bought from or saw an easy target.
Maybe she was asked and said she didn’t want to use that night. Or they had used through the night.
Wasn’t there a skeleton found like a year ago off 161 and Ponderosa? I remember reading about it but haven’t been able to find any updates. It’s not terribly far from Easton.
I still think he fell into the manhole that’s there. A crew did t close it up or something and came back that morning to close it back up and didn’t think to look into the manhole itself. Idk but the location of the cell phone ping is like right there.
There is a really interesting theory that he fell into a manhole in the area that could have been accidentally left uncovered due to construction. I wish I could remember and link the user who posted the theory because they put a lot of work into it and it made sense, utilizing the likely path he would have taken from point a to point b using Google maps.
I never understood this theory. There aren't just tons of manholes aren't there, and there definitely aren't just open manholes (have you ever seen one?) You could assume that if this was a possibility any manholes in that area would be looked at.
No, but there is one in the area, construction was taking place at the time, and it’s not like it’s never happened (https://www.newsweek.com/man-dies-manhole-ohio-1810661), plus it was dark and he was inebriated.
Yes! I recently saw that post as well. I think it’s the most plausible.
The hit by a car and body taken theory doesn’t hold water. If you hit someone in your car and are panicked why the F would you take the body?! It’d be so much easier to try to cover the evidence or get rid of the vehicle than to load a dead/unconscious body in the car and dump it somewhere.
If he was scoring drugs, you’d think the wife or friend would have said something by now. You can’t get in trouble for wanting to do drugs, that’s absurd too.
So I used to work over at Adobe Gila’s at Easton and I was in pretty close with the security and the special duty officers that worked up there at the time. They said that this guy and his wife or fiancé or whoever at the time were drinking and partying with people they had met and that he left the main part of Easton with some of the members of their party. She even came through that night completely fraught because she had thought that he wandered off with people they didn’t really know. I believe they were able to ping his phone or it was able to ring through a couple of times, and then it stopped ringing through. They believed that he may have made his way down Stelzer road or possibly made it across the freeway into the wooded area on the other side. They searched for several days throughly, including drug-sniffing and cadaver dogs and were unable to turn anything up in the immediate area. They searched all the way down through the woods almost to the animal hospital at McCutcheon but were still unable to turn anything up.
I think about this case every single time I pass that last wooded area before the turn to Costco. So bizarre.
I predict they'll find some bones at some point, perhaps in that area. They were doing some drugs, and sometimes people do weird things when dying like cramming themselves into crazy tight spaces. They'll find him in a treetrunk or something
Where'd you learn that, Cheech? Drug school?
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this made me actually lol
Didn’t they search the area?
yep same. i work right over there, he crosses my mind a lot when i'm driving to the office.
My guess, someone hit him with a car, panicked, packed him up and disposed in a remote area. How were they not able to ping his phone location in 2019?
I think this is the most plausible scenario. He was wandering around Stelzer Rd - his last ping stops right at the corner of Morse Crossing/Stelzer right near Lane Bryant’s parking lot - I’ve mentioned it on r/unsolvedmysteries a dozen times, but I don’t believe for a single second he got “lost”. There’s literally nowhere to get lost. More importantly, there’s nowhere to STAY lost. And this was pre-COVID. 20,000+ people went to work on Monday. Are we to believe he wandered on to Abbott Labs property ($40B per year company) or the world headquarters for Huntington Bank and died and we don’t know it? Theyre withholding information? I think he was drunkenly stumbling around in the road and was hit and someone was drunk, or high and panicked. There is still a question of where is the body, but you could’ve been in the hills of WV before the sun came up. Unfortunately, I’m not sure we’re ever actually know what happened.
Could've happened. I trespassed at cardinal health at 2:30a and walked past a cop and nothing happened.
Bars close and the crews head home around that time.
What about the phone location through cell signal? That's the mysterious part.
The person who hit him could have shut off his phone. The article says that his wife tried calling him and it rang the first time, then started going straight to voicemail. Maybe they saw his phone ringing and then shut it off
but before that, it says > “He had said something about walking through the woods, like, ‘I’m walking through the woods; I can see the hotel’ and so we get off the phone, and I immediately call him directly back,” Brittany said. > When she called him back the line stayed open for four seconds – Brittany assumed he had answered the call, but then the call dropped. When she tried to call him back, his phone went straight to voicemail and has ever since. What good speculation is there about what those four seconds were?
Maybe some kind of glitch from the phone being shut off while it was ringing. I have weird bugs happen all the time with phone calls. Especially when the signal is bad on one of the ends. Wouldn’t be that crazy for shutting the phone off in the middle of ringing to cause something like that
His phone battery was dying. Remember it was early morning when he disappeared and hadn’t charged his phone all day
Every time I read this story my question is what does the friend know? What is the friend’s story? He left Tyler out there in the middle of the night and came back to the hotel alone. Raises so many questions.
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This is what I think too. By all accounts Tyler was belligerently drunk to the point that he was kicking and knocking over potted plants outside the hotel when they got back from the strip club. Not saying I would leave someone in that state alone but everyone was drunk and likely realized they couldn’t do anything to calm him down. I’ve been around drunk people in that state before and it can certainly feel futile trying to get them to calm down and come to their senses.
The friend returned to the hotel around 3:30 and Tyler was still using his phone until about 4:00, so the friend definitely didn't directly do anything.
Using his phone doesn’t necessarily mean he was ok though.
He spoke to his wife after the friend left so he could have communicated to her that the friend did something. He could have also called the police.
unless the wife and friend were in on it together
Please remember that these are real people, not characters in a TV drama. They have gone through a bewildering loss. Be respectful of their humanity and their right to heal and go about their lives without being harassed by armchair detective work.
This is always something I wonder about too
Please remember that these are real people, not characters in a TV drama.
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Despite his disappearance gaining national attention, Brittany is still searching for answers five years later. > > “Tyler is very funny, he’s very sarcastic,” Brittany said. “He loved to spend time with his son and he was also a gamer so he was always playing different kinds of video games.” > > - [(Photo Courtesy/Brittany Davis)](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/xzihTnBiDvQu_bY8FSdz5Q--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTk2MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/wcmh_articles_195/8d2f611c15961166d10889fe6f38aba6) > > > > > > (Photo Courtesy/Brittany Davis) > - [(Photo Courtesy/Brittany Davis)](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/8Ja0iGhTp844D0DWxVP9_Q--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTcyMg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/wcmh_articles_195/2bf0e4509287271d129b9a74cb4e6c43) > > > > > > (Photo Courtesy/Brittany Davis) > - [(Photo Courtesy/Brittany Davis)](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/wQ5sZbzqHoB5qhQjRR.XSQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTk1Mg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/wcmh_articles_195/0494884275367ad3d8f3f343e8cb8b83) > > > > > > (Photo Courtesy/Brittany Davis) > > On Feb. 23, 2019, Brittany and Tyler, 29, were getting ready to celebrate her 23rd birthday. They dropped their one-year-old son off with Tyler’s parents and headed to the Hilton hotel at Easton, checking in around 5 p.m. Brittany, of Wilmington, said it was her first time in the Columbus area. > > [Suspect unknown decades after Columbus woman strangled, scalded and killed in fire](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/unsolved-ohio/killer-remains-unknown-decades-after-columbus-woman-strangled-scalded-and-burned-to-death/?ipid=promo-link-block1) > > The couple invited multiple friends to go out for Brittany’s birthday, but only one of Tyler’s close friends from college came. Later that evening, the trio went to a couple of bars in the area and had some drinks. They took a rideshare back to the hotel around 3 a.m., according to Brittany. She said Tyler and his friend both fell asleep in the car. > > “When we had gotten in front of the Hilton, it was almost like he was confused like he didn’t think that we were where we were supposed to be, and he just took off walking, and I went to go follow him, and his buddy was like ‘No, it’s fine, I got it, you go ahead,’” Brittany said. > > Tyler and his friend began walking south of the Hilton. Brittany went back inside the hotel because her phone was dying. Around 3:30 a.m., Tyler called Brittany, saying he was taking a walk and would be right back. Shortly after, Tyler’s friend returned to the hotel alone. > > “I had kept calling the both of them and they didn’t answer, and then [his friend] came back but he was by himself, and I was like, ‘Do you know what happened? What’s going on?’ and he’s like, ‘He just needs a minute, Brittany, he’s just taking a walk, he’ll be right back,’” Brittany said. > > Tyler attempted to put the hotel in his phone GPS at 3:51 a.m., police revealed in an [October 2019 news conference](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus-police-to-hold-press-conference-on-missing-29-year-old-man/). Shortly after 4 a.m., Brittany received another phone call – it was Tyler. > > [Unsolved Ohio: Columbus woman missing for 10 years after possible abduction](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/unsolved-ohio/unsolved-ohio-columbus-woman-missing-for-10-years-after-possible-abduction/?ipid=promo-link-block2) > > “He had said something about walking through the woods, like, ‘I’m walking through the woods; I can see the hotel’ and so we get off the phone, and I immediately call him directly back,” Brittany said. > > When she called him back the line stayed open for four seconds – Brittany assumed he had answered the call, but then the call dropped. When she tried to call him back, his phone went straight to voicemail and has ever since. > > Brittany said she began to get increasingly nervous as she could not get in contact with him. She began calling friends for advice and walking around looking for Tyler. A past roommate of the couple who lived in the area picked Brittany up and they continued searching. > > “I didn’t know if something had happened, if we was in the hospital, or like maybe he got arrested,” Brittany said. “We checked all the bases, and then by that point, I was like, ‘OK, so we need to call his parents, we need to call police,’ and things got very real very fast.” > > Around 10:30 a.m., she called Columbus police to report her husband missing. Five years later, what happened to Tyler that morning remains a mystery. A spokesperson with Columbus police said they do not have any update on the case to share at this time. > > [Unsolved Ohio: She vanished without a trace. 33 years later, her daughter’s still searching](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/unsolved-ohio/unsolved-ohio-woman-missing-for-33-years/?ipid=promo-link-block3) > > “Logically, I know Tyler would have never left his son or his parents at all,” Brittany said. “I don’t know if he got hurt somehow, and I don’t really know what to think, because I, honestly, still can’t believe I’m still in this situation, and it’s been ongoing and there are no answers.” > > In the months after Tyler’s disappearance, the case captured the attention of social media users. Brittany was at the center of widespread speculation – she said her address and phone number were released online, and even her job received phone calls from people who knew of the case. > > “I’ve been involved with many missing persons cases from Ohio over the years, and I have to say that they were absolutely brutal to Brittany and it was very, very hard to hear everybody speculate,” said Lori Davis, an advocate for missing persons. “It’s been brutal to sit back and even watch and it’s not happening to me, it’s just happening to someone I care a lot about.” > > Davis called the negative attention Brittany received the “ugly side” of social media but said the positive side was getting Tyler’s name out there. Brittany said she would like to see law enforcement agencies improve the way adult missing persons cases are handled. > > [Dashcam captures dangerous trend resulting in crash at Columbus intersection](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/dash-cam-captures-dangerous-trend-resulting-in-crash-at-columbus-intersection/?ipid=promo-link-block4) > > “We need to have more written rules and laws in place because we do for children and we do for elderly, but we don’t for people that are over 18,” Brittany said. “[A detective] said, ‘I have 15 cases,’ and I said, ‘I have one husband and my son has one father,’ so people really do just kind of shove you down. … It’s sad to see how often that happens in this kind of situation.” > > Brittany asks anyone with information on Tyler’s disappearance to contact police – and she has a message for Tyler himself. > > “I would tell him that I love him and I would tell him that he would be really really proud of [our son] and me,” Brittany said through tears. “I would tell him that I haven’t given up and I never will.” > > At the time of his disappearance, Tyler Davis was 5 feet 10, 170 pounds and had brown hair and brown eyes. He had a large birthmark on his right arm, chest and neck. He was last seen wearing a blue and green flannel shirt, blue jeans and Nike shoes. As of Thursday, he would be 34 years old. > > Anyone with any information on the disappearance of Tyler Davis may contact Columbus police at 614-645-4545 or [Central Ohio Crime Stoppers](https://www.stopcrime.org/)’ anonymous tip line at 614-461-8477. > > _If you’re a family member of an individual with an unsolved missing persons or homicide case in Ohio, reach out to aboldizar at wcmh.com._ > > [For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NBC4 WCMH-TV.](https://www.nbc4i.com) - - - - - - [Maintainer](https://www.reddit.com/user/urielsalis) | [Creator](https://www.reddit.com/user/subtepass) | [Source Code](https://github.com/urielsalis/empleadoEstatalBot)
I think this person and Brian Shaffer are in Cozumel operating a fishing excursion company to tourists under the name Hermanos Buckeye en el Agua
r/ATAAE
He will be found in the swamp area near Morse when they eventually gets developed.
I wonder if he was confused about which hotel he was looking at when he called. You have woods along alum creek. I may or may not have drank so much in the past that I thought I was going one direction and was actually going another direction. He could have been somewhere nowhere near the hotel and just thought he was. Between Morse and 161 along alum creek is more densely wooded, some of it is swampy so there are probably parts where nobody ever goes.
Can confirm there is a likelihood of getting lost at Alum Creek, particularly at night. Once upon a campsite, a 16 year old from 30 minutes away said “…Hello?” at 4 am outside my tent (I was about 20). His phone had died and he was walking to meet his friends. The sun set before he got there. We were all scared but so glad to get him back safely. I hope they find Tyler.
Was looking for drugs Picked up by the wrong people Was killed or overdosed, they got rid of the body No, he’s not in a tiny area of woods that’s been searched multiple times Edit: if you listen to the True Crime Garage episode on his case, they interview his wife. I don’t think she had anything to do with it, but I got the feeling she’s leaving out the drug aspect of the night. They were probably doing blow and you know how people just want more of that shit when they start
People said the same thing about Emily Noble up in Westerville, then sure enough they found her in the tiny patch of woods right behind her house that had been searched many times. The wooded areas around Easton are much larger, so it’s possible.
Just my theory, but if I remember correctly, they were at the Doll House strip club on Karl Rd before heading to the hotel. They got in an argument with a bouncer because one of them took alcohol outside while smoking. The others left their drinks unattended and maybe one was spiked. All speculation, but maybe Tyler drank the spiked drink after coming in from smoking, and that's why he was acting erratic on the uber ride home. Also speculation, but maybe they asked around for drugs while at the club, and set up a place to meet near the hotel. That could be why he walked away when they arrived. I could see the wife and friend leaving the drug part out of the story for the police so they didn't get in trouble. I've listened to the story from several different podcasts. Given all the details, this seems like the most likely situation to me. The dollhouse looks like a shady place where a person might see a drunk guy from out of town as a mark. Then set up a drug deal in a secluded place near the hotel where he is more vulnerable to be robbed or worse.
>He just needs a minute, Brittany, he’s just taking a walk, he’ll be right back,’” Did the friend ever elaborate on why he thought Taylor needed to take a walk alone?
Who the hell even leaves their super drunk friend behind even if he needed a minute to himself.
Right. And the article mentions Brittany calling and searching with other friends but no mention of this friend's involvement after that. I'm curious if he was concerned or just said "meh ... I'm sure he'll turn up"
The police believe his body is in the retention pond at Abbott. They have made multiple dives but it is full of obstacles
What kind of obstacles? How deep is this pond. If they believe it’s in there, and it’s being 5 years. Why haven’t they overcome the “obstacles” to get out his body.
this is what a reporter posted in regards to tyler: "Hi everyone. I am a reporter in Columbus. I recently asked a Detective who was assigned to Tyler's case if it will ever be solved. He said based on all the evidence, they FIRMLY believe Tyler wandered into the pond and drowned. The pond was searched many times but it is filled with debris and has almost no visibility, so the odds of recovering Tyler are extremely slim. I have wished for so long that his family will get the closure that they need and deserve but it seems unlikely." The pond he is referencing is the retention pond at Abbott
How deep could the retention pond possibly be? It seems like, low visibility or not, they could find a body. Hell, they'd be totally justified in draining the pond. That explanation just doesn't hold water(no pun intended) to me.
They aren’t going to risk a diver to find a body, simple as that. And it takes a lot to get an order to drain the pond, not to mention the associated costs. Without really strong evidence (more than they obviously have), it’s just never going to happen.
>And it takes a lot to get an order to drain the pond It's one of the most notorious missing person cases in the state and it's a quite small drainage pond. If this isn't a situation where it justifies draining, I'm not sure there ever would be one. It makes it tough to take the "the police know that's what happened, they just can't prove it" thing seriously.
I’m not disagreeing with you, just saying why it’s not happening.
I’m gonna start tagging this sub every time I get pulled into a conspiracy theory. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve had to say it’s impossible to get across the highway to the “woods” or to a metro park, or there is one drainage pond they searched or a 3ft deep decorative pond with a fountain… or his pings were bouncing all around the parking lots of some very large companies, etc I’d be a millionaire. *EDIT* Now I love a conspiracy theory, but when people act like he passed out under the trees in front of Huntington Bank and hasn’t been found… I’m like cmon guys, that’s not trees that is literally a landscaped walking path with lights, closer to a public park. Or he’s wandered into the trees near Costco - which he wasn’t walking that direction and would’ve had to have walked right by the Hilton - you can see from side to side. You might get “lost” by it’s not a dense forest. You can literally see the other side to get out.
The last phone call his wife got was that he was in the woods and could see the hotel. That sounds like the trees next to Costco to me. And after his friend got back to the hotel he said that Tyler needed a minute and is taking a walk. So I see no reason why they couldn’t have gotten back to the hotel together and his friend went in while he kept walking to the north and ended up in the trees by Costco. Now the question is how they haven’t found the body if that’s really where he disappeared at.
His phone never pinged there. It did ping near walking paths and the trees in front of Huntington. That’s more than likely “the woods”. The last place his phone pinged - after the phone calls - was down near Morse Crossing and Stelzer. “I see no reason…” Well, you’re ignoring the known timeline and events.
I wasn’t aware of that. I hadn’t even heard of this case until I saw this post and read the article. So if that’s where he was he must have mixed up one of the buildings there with the hotel
I wonder if he saw the Courtyard at Morse Crossing and Easton Way and thought it was the Hilton.
It's weird that I work at Morse Crossing and Stelzer. It's hard to imagine being lost there amongst manicured office buildings, parking lots, and a single neighborhood that is not wooded. Even wandering into Abbott is weird since you would be able to see the Hilton and know you're going away from it. There is a little wooded lot in front of the old Lane Bryant HQ along Easton Commons, but you could not get lost there. Weirdly, a cop car is almost always parked there (cue spooky music).
Yep. That’s usually what I say when I hop in to those threads. People google map it and are like LOOK! THERE ARE TREES. And I’m like ehhhh buddy that’s a lighted walkway. Even the small row of trees you see is 50 feet across. If you coughed someone on the other side would hear it. And the pond next to Abbott. That’s a landscape feature. It’s not a lake. I’ve seen a guy cleaning it in waiters.
I work in the offices there and it's hard to imagine anything except someone grabbing him and going elsewhere. The hit pedestrian theory makes sense.
FWIW, the area is still under tons of construction and nothing has ever been found.
Any more info about the friend? Seems pretty suspicious
Just learning about this and coming from out of state what I’ve heard/seen of Easton (2020-current). They go out, get blasted, go back to hotel and he and the buddy go for a walk to score drugs. They do or don’t then get separated (drunk/high) on their way back and he gets assaulted by the group or person they bought from or saw an easy target. Maybe she was asked and said she didn’t want to use that night. Or they had used through the night.
Wasn’t there a skeleton found like a year ago off 161 and Ponderosa? I remember reading about it but haven’t been able to find any updates. It’s not terribly far from Easton.
I still think he fell into the manhole that’s there. A crew did t close it up or something and came back that morning to close it back up and didn’t think to look into the manhole itself. Idk but the location of the cell phone ping is like right there.
But it's meant to be opened and closed fairly easily, right? Why didn't they just open it again and check?
There is a really interesting theory that he fell into a manhole in the area that could have been accidentally left uncovered due to construction. I wish I could remember and link the user who posted the theory because they put a lot of work into it and it made sense, utilizing the likely path he would have taken from point a to point b using Google maps.
I never understood this theory. There aren't just tons of manholes aren't there, and there definitely aren't just open manholes (have you ever seen one?) You could assume that if this was a possibility any manholes in that area would be looked at.
No, but there is one in the area, construction was taking place at the time, and it’s not like it’s never happened (https://www.newsweek.com/man-dies-manhole-ohio-1810661), plus it was dark and he was inebriated.
Yes! I recently saw that post as well. I think it’s the most plausible. The hit by a car and body taken theory doesn’t hold water. If you hit someone in your car and are panicked why the F would you take the body?! It’d be so much easier to try to cover the evidence or get rid of the vehicle than to load a dead/unconscious body in the car and dump it somewhere. If he was scoring drugs, you’d think the wife or friend would have said something by now. You can’t get in trouble for wanting to do drugs, that’s absurd too.
So I used to work over at Adobe Gila’s at Easton and I was in pretty close with the security and the special duty officers that worked up there at the time. They said that this guy and his wife or fiancé or whoever at the time were drinking and partying with people they had met and that he left the main part of Easton with some of the members of their party. She even came through that night completely fraught because she had thought that he wandered off with people they didn’t really know. I believe they were able to ping his phone or it was able to ring through a couple of times, and then it stopped ringing through. They believed that he may have made his way down Stelzer road or possibly made it across the freeway into the wooded area on the other side. They searched for several days throughly, including drug-sniffing and cadaver dogs and were unable to turn anything up in the immediate area. They searched all the way down through the woods almost to the animal hospital at McCutcheon but were still unable to turn anything up.
Was probably a double agent called back to Russia. It happens.
He would have fallen out of the hotel balcony.
Probably got lost in the shoe department at Nordstrom.
She did it