Episode 11 // The Impossible Disappearances of Brian Shaffer and Ian Burnet

Columbus Ohio 2006, 1:15 am: 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer is seen on a surveillance camera walking into a bar with two friends. But he never comes back out. Somehow, in a bar packed with potential witnesses, Brian vanished into thin air seemingly INSIDE the bar.

Then in New York city in 2011, 22-year-old Ian Burnet, visiting friends to celebrate New Year's Eve gets onto a crowded subway car and is never seen again. How is it possible for someone to vanish without a trace from places packed with people and security cameras? What happened? Where did they go?

SOURCES:

• https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/03/29/brian-shaffer-disappearance-photo-shows-how-osu-student-may-look-now/6995317002/

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160313231009/http://www.columbusmonthly.com/content/stories/2009/04/randy-shaffer-in-the-name-of-the-father.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160313231009/http://www.columbusmonthly.com/content/stories/2009/04/randy-shaffer-in-the-name-of-the-father.html

• https://www.dispatch.com/article/20080915/news/309159689

• https://truecrimetimesblog.medium.com/brian-shaffer-the-ultimate-disappearance-f3496ad5956d

• https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2019/3/24/brian-shaffer

• https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/o3wnd/my_little_brother_has_been_lost_in_new_york_city/

• https://charleyproject.org/case/ian-hunter-burnet

• https://www.reddit.com/user/Speaks_for_Trees

• https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/o3wnd/my_little_brother_has_been_lost_in_new_york_city/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/mf5hg/when_is_running_from_the_cops_ever_a_good_idea/c30hzoe/?context=3

• https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/o3wnd/my_little_brother_has_been_lost_in_new_york_city/?sort=new

TRANSCRIPT:

Episode 11 Missing Men

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