The Disappearance

• 💡 Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old Ohio State University medical student, vanished on April 1, 2006, after entering the Ugly Tuna Saloona bar.
• 📌 He was last seen on surveillance video at 1:55 AM, talking to two women just outside the bar entrance before walking back towards the entrance.
• 🎯 Despite extensive surveillance in Columbus, no footage exists of him leaving the bar or the Gateway building.
• 🔑 His friends, William Clint Florence and Meredith Reed, waited for him outside after the bar closed at 2 AM, eventually assuming he had walked home to his apartment six blocks away.

The Investigation

• 🔍 Police confirmed no activity on his cell phone, ATM, or credit cards after his disappearance.
• 🚨 K9 units were brought in to search for a scent around a service exit and construction areas, but found no trace of Brian leaving the building.
• 🚫 The two women Brian spoke with were identified, questioned, and cleared as suspects.
• ⚠️ While Brian's father and Meredith Reed passed polygraph tests, his friend Clint Florence refused to take one.

Unanswered Questions & Theories

• 🧠 Theories about his disappearance include him walking out through a blind spot in surveillance or being killed inside and his body disposed of in various ways (trash, empty keg, instrument case, building infrastructure).
• 📱 Six months after he vanished, Brian's cell phone pinged 14 miles away in Hillyard, though investigators suggested it was likely a glitch or the phone had been found.
• 💔 A cruel hoax involved a comment on his deceased father's online obituary, signed "Love Brian US Virgin Islands," suggesting he had left the country.
• 💰 A $100,000 reward is offered for information leading to Brian Shaffer's whereabouts.