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Hello, friends, Welcome to the latest installment of our Land
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of the Loss series. This time we're delving into the
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cases of Keesland Roberts and Caleb Smith. Now, with all
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the bizarre and seemingly unexplainable disappearance stories were around on
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YouTube and other places these days, it's easy to get
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caught up in them and forget that these are real people,
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real possible victims, who had family and friends, loved ones
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whose lives were affected in every possible way by the
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person's disappearance. Could also be true that with all the
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books coming out and again all the videos made and
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the information online about these cases, it's quite easy to
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become numbed or jaded to these stories to these people.
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Couldn't it also be true that maybe this numbness, this nonchalance,
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and somewhat boredom with cases like these one after another
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after another after another, it would be exactly what who
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or whatever is involved in orchestrating these disappearances and murders
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counts on. In this episode, we're going to discuss two
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different cases that have a strange similarity and also a
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bit of a connection. Please keep in mind, though, that
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these are real human beings and though their cases may
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or may not be similar to those you've heard over
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a thousand times already, be shure and pay attention to
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the details here. Listen closely and focus on the similarities
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and strangeness of both of these cases, while being sure
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to bear in mind that there's one big difference. One
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of them could very well still be alive and one
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of them, unfortunately has already been found deceased. Let's start
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with the tragedy of Caleb Smith. On January fifteenth, twenty twenty,
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Caleb Smith told his grandmother that he was driving to Rome, Georgia,
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has been the day hanging out with some friends who
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lived there. This wasn't anything else the ordinary for the
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twenty one year old, so when he requested that she
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leave the dead bolt to the front door of their
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house unlocked for him so he could re enter when
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he got back home later on that night, she happily
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obliged and thought nothing of it. Little did she know
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that while she would speak to her grandson at least
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one more time over the phone that same day, as
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he walked out the front door of their house that
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ill fated cold day in January, it would be the
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last time she would ever actually see him alive technically.
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The next day, at twelve thirty two am, Caleb entered
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the Flying Jay gas station in Resaca, Georgia. This was
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on the way to Rome, Georgia. We know Caleb entered
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this establishment at this exact time because he was seen
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on the gas station's minimal surveillance footage. Three minutes later,
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at twelve thirty five am, Caleb called his grandmother and
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informed her that he had to pull into the rest
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stop because he realized he didn't have enough gas to
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get to Rome as he'd initially plan. He told her
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there was one man sitting at a table on the
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other side of the restaurant that he was going to
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ask to help him with five dollars for gas money
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so he can continue on his journey to go and
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see his friends. Those phone records have not been made
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public at this time. Caleb is seen on the same
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surveillance footage sitting at his table for a few minutes,
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seemingly sending texts but possibly browsing the Internet. Caleb did
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eventually get up and approach the man assumingly. He asked
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the man for the five dollars for gas money, As
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he told his grandmother he was going to do. However,
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it is unclear whether or not the man gave Caleb
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the five dollars, and Caleb actually ended up approaching the
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man twice in a matter of just a few minutes.
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It's still unknown exactly what the exchanges were between the
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two men. No word either on whether or not this
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man was ever identified a question no information one way
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the others can be found. After approaching and speaking to
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this man the second time, Caleb returns to his own
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table and sits down facing this unknown man. After just
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a minute or two, Caleb gets up and leaves the
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gas station rest stop area, never to be seen alive again.
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When morning came and Caleb's grandmother that realized that his
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bed had been slipped in, she became very concerned. If
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Caleb had planned on staying out, he never would have
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asked her to leave the dead boat unlocked corn. She
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decided to go to the last place she knew him
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to be when he wasn't answering his phone or returning
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any of her text so she got into her own
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car and drove down to the Flying Jay rest stop
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and searched the surrounding area and the parking lot for
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Caleb's car. She eventually found his car parked in the
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Flying Jay parking lot, but in the back of the
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Dennis restaurant building, assuming where the back entrance or garbage
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eggs it would be. This location could be important because
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it seems Caleb was parked almost purposely out of view
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of any of the surveillance cameras. His grandmother states that
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she didn't immediately get out of her car to search
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Caleb's car because she saw a suspicious looking white Nissan that,
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in her words, she said, freaked her out and decided
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it was safer to remain in her vehicle and too
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Caleb's other family members, whom she had just called arrived.
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She never elaborated on why this white Nissan was suspicious
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looking to her or why it freaked her out so
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although it speculated it was because the windows were tinted
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very dark, and the vehicle had pulled in the park
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directly facing her in front of her vehicle, and nobody
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exited the Nissan. Immediately upon the arrival of the other
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two family members she'd called to come and a sister,
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the white Nissan pulled out of the parking lot. There's
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no information regarding whether or not this white Nissan had
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any involvement in what happened to Caleb. Upon searching Caleb's car,
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the family found it was unlocked. The cell phone and
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battery were separated and both in the glove box. The
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keys to the vehicle were on the floor underneath the seat.
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Although Caleb had called his grandmother the previous night and
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explained to her that he was almost out of gas,
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his car had a half a tank of gas in
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it when it was found. This would have been more
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than enough to get him to Rome. Essentially, Aaleb called
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his grandmother to explain about his being long gas for
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seemingly no reason. It's been said that he did it
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to give it reason as to why he would be
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later than expected coming home if he was stuck trying
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to get money for gas, but that hasn't been verified.
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Caleb's jacket was also found in the car. It was
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a very cold night in Georgia in the middle of January.
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The family couldn't understand why would leave his jacket behind.
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After searching his vehicle, his family called the police to
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report Caleb is missing. Gordon County Sheriff's Office spent all
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of the next two days January sixteenth and seventeenth, searching
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the areas around the Flying Jay restop for any additional
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evidence or for Caleb himself, with no results. It's also
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worth mentioning here that the GCSO never processed Caleb's car
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for additional evidence, fornsic or otherwise, and immediately released it
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to the family. On February third, twenty twenty, Caleb Smith's
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body was found five miles away from the Flying Jay.
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He was in the marsh and overgrown area of the
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county between the Sugar Valley and Hill City communities. The
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Sheriff's office reported that a passerby found him in a
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heavily overgrown and poorly drained area. Caleb was completely naked,
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and oddly enough, the fire department had been dispatched that
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same area. His body was found earlier in the day
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in response to a small brush fire, and didn't come
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across Caleb's remains. This is another odd fact. Despite not
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knowing whether or not this brush fire was connected to
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Caleb's death or not, it was an incredibly wet few
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weeks there in Georgia at the time, so for a
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brushfire to have been started on its own was almost impossible,
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the initial report stated. However, no immediate indications of violence
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were parent regarding Caleb's body, and the GBI revealed that
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there were no indications of violence or evidence of about play.
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The results of the toxicology report were a follows. Caleb
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died as a result of methamphetamine intoxication. There's no known
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informations as to whether or not Caleb ever had a
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problem with any kind of drugs, and the death was
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ruled accidentally. If it weren't for something eerily similar happening
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to a young woman just two days later at the
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same exact Flying Jay gas station, that may have been
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the end of Caleb's story. However, when you add up
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the similarities with a story I'm about to relate to you,
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even when sprinkling in the differences, one can't help but wonder,
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we in the true crime community know there's usually no
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such thing as coincidence, and we all also know that
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nobody knows this better than law enforcement. So why exactly
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are they trying so hard to make us believe that
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coincidence is exactly what seems to connect these two cases?
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Are we really to believe that a young man supposed
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with enough methamphetamine in his system to kill him, stripped
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off his clothes, and then not only decided to walk
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five miles in the bitter cold, high and naked, but
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then he managed to do so without calling any attention
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to himself at all. Is it reasonable to think that
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not a single person would have noticed a naked young
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man walking on the side of the road for an
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entire five miles. There are so many facts that just
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do not seem to fit with the accidental death throughly.
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Let's review just some of them now. First of all,
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even if we ask no questions and accepted that Caleb
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was able to walk all that way without being noticed
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despite the condition he was in both physically and mentally,
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keep in mind Caleb was found completely naked. This means
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no socks, no shoes, nothing. Are we also to believe
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that he could have accomplished this naked and five mile
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walk without not only doing no damage to but also
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not dirting his feet at all. There is no explanation
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as to why or how the police have been able
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to reconcile themselves to calling this death with all the
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strange facts and evidence an accident. Caleb was found in
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a very muddy marshy area, not even a drop of
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mud on his feet. His clothes were never found either,
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but again there is no information as to the extent
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of the police investigation into where his clothes went either.
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Why wasn't Caleb's family allowed to identify the body. Some
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say it's simply because of the state of decomposition of
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the body after being outside the marshland for so long,
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but others aren't so sure. Remember this was during the
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cold winter in January. Speculation and rumors surround this case,
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and it seems no one knows enough to be able
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to separate fact from fiction. Our research was only able
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to find two that weren't absolutely off the wall wild
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conjectures and made just a tiny bit of sense. The
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first of these theories is that he may have gotten
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into someone else's car to smoke the methamphetamine, a dealer
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or perhaps maybe the man he was seen on camera
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having multiple conversations with, who, to the best of the
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public's knowledge, was never even found, let alone questioned or
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investigated in any way, and it tends to happen sometimes
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to people who've partake in this particular substance. Caleb became
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overheated and started taking off his clothes before anyone knew
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what was happening. Caleb started overdosing, and whoever he was with,
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if he was with anyone, didn't want to be involved
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in any way with this overdose death for fear, especially
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if they were the one that sold or gave it
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to him. But even if they were just using with
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him and drove Caleb's body to the marsh land and
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left it there, did whoever this person or people were
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think about DNA evidence or forensics and possibly instead of
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Caleb stripping himself, did the perpetrators or witnesses strip him
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of his clothes after he died to eliminate any kind
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of touch or fiber evidence eventually coming back to link
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them or their car to his death. The fact of
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the matter is we just don't know, and it seems
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as though if the investigators in this case have it
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their way, we never will. Caleb's case is officially closed
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at this point. Two days after the incident with Caleb
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at this Flying Jay gas station, and eerily, an almost
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shockingly similar disappearance happened. Many people who are familiar with
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Caleb's case feel like what happened to Keithlen Roberts or
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at least what everyone knows happened to her, because she
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has yet to be found, should have initiated at least
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a little bit more investigation into his case. They believe
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it should have led the police, as it did for
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most of the public, into asking some serious questions regarding
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that accidental death. Truly, so what happened to Keeslen? Let's
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find out now. Please keep in mind as we go
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over the details that we know in her case, that
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she is still considered missing and should be presumed alive
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until it can be proven that she is not. So.
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Paid close attention. On January eighteenth, twenty twenty, twenty one
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year old young woman named Keesln Roberts was seen at
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the same Flying Jay gas station, only she was encountered
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entering an employee's only entrance in the back on the
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Dennis side. Remember this is also where Caleb's car was
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found the same Flying Jay gas station in Resaca, Georgia.
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Some reports state that Keesln was simply told unemployed that
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she could not be back there in this employee's only
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kitchen aery entrance, and other states that she actually got
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into some kind of altercation with the person who informed
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her of this and was then told to leave. There's
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nothing official to confirm or disprove either one of these statements. Remember,
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there are no cameras in this part of the parking lot.
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What is known, however, is that when she was told
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or asked to exit the area, she was ledgedly just
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standing there, staring blankly out the door she just entered.
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Keeslan had dropped all of her belongings. These included a
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backpack containing her ID, credit and debit cards, cash, and
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phone charger, and ran off the employees of either the
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gas station side or the Denny's side. Again, these reports
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conflict ended up calling nine to one one and described
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Keeslin as a suspicious looking young woman and described the
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odd encounter. Keieslan was never seen or heard from again.
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Where did Keeslen go and how did she get there?
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Without her car? Her vehicle was found two days later
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on January twentieth, with more belongings inside, very near where
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Caleb's car was found in the exact same parking lot.
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Witnesses would later come forward stating that they had briefly
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spoken to Keesland that faithful night, and she had allegedly
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told them she was there meeting a male friend. However,
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this alleged meeting has never been elaborated on the person
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she was supposedly meeting and also her boyfriend were questioned
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but police shortly after she was supported missing, but so
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far nobody has been named either suspect or even a
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person of interest in the case. But it's worth mentioning
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that Keesln did have a history with drug use, mainly methamphetamine,
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and ad blown off a mandatory probation appointment the day
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before she went missing, resulting in a warrant being issued
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for her arrest. Many speculate the Keeslan so quickly fled
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from the Flying Jay that day due to not wanting
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to be there when the police were called, because she
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would have been arrested on this warrant, but why not
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take her car. More speculation had Keeslan possibly leaving the
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gas station with a trucker, but again this hasn't been confirmed.
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In early March or twenty twenty, when investigators searched the
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Flying Jay and no idea why it took this long
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for them to search the area her car was found
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in in which she was last seen. They did find
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items of clothing that belonged to Keeslin in a dumpster
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behind the building. An anonymous witness, who has been said
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to be fully cooperative with police and not involved in
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any way to her disappearance, came forward and told reporters
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that these articles of clothing had been there the entire time,
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but police were allegedly just getting around of searching for
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and collected them as evidence now and now, meaning two
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months later in March. Unfortunately, this is all the evidence available,
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at least online in either case, Can it really all
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be a coincidence that two young people, one a known
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drug user and the other possibility found dead from intoxication
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from the other's drug of choice, go missing from the
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exact same gas station under early similar circumstances within two
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days of each other. Is it also just happened since
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that the two also live on the same street as
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each other. Now there's no evidence that they even knew
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each other, but still a little too much to overlook
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if you ask most people involved with or following this case,
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where is Keieslen? Did she meet the same fate as
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Caleb and just hasn't been found yet? Was Caleb's death
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truly an accident, and even if it was, someone obviously
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moved his body at least and at most they murdered
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him and dumped it at the location where it was found,
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as he's running on our own and of our own
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free will due to fear again of being arrested for
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that probation violation and probable relapse. It's also worth mentioning
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here that there have been several sightings of Keieslen at
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multiple truck stops in various cities across the country. However,
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none of these have ever been able to actually be
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confirmed as her. Now, as we mentioned, her clothes were
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found two months after she was last seen fleeing the scene.
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So where did she go while naked? Also without anyone
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seeing her? As the police are insinuating Caleb took a
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five mile naked walk without being noticed too. Were her
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clothes really there the entire time, as the anonymous and
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seemingly cofferative witness claim to news reporters, or are they
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dumped there after the fact for whatever reason. Currently, there's
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a six thousand dollars reward for information that could lead
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to keyslan s whereabouts. If you can help this investigation
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in any way, or think you have any information, no
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matter how small or insignificant it may seem, please contact
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the Gordon County Sheriff's Department at seven zero six six
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two nine one two four four. So what do you
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think of this case? Are these bizarre circumstances simply coincidence
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or is there indeed a connection here? I look forward
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to reading your comments. As always, we ask that you
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please be respectful in the comment section when discussing this case.
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Many times family and friends of the victims do watch
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these videos and read the comments, so please don't say
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anything that you wouldn't say if it was your family
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member or friend in this circumstance. In closing, be good
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to yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll
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talk to you next time.
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Hello, friends, Welcome to the latest installment of our Land
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of the Loss series. This time we're delving into the
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cases of Keesland Roberts and Caleb Smith. Now, with all
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the bizarre and seemingly unexplainable disappearance stories were around on
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YouTube and other places these days, it's easy to get
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caught up in them and forget that these are real people,
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real possible victims, who had family and friends, loved ones
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whose lives were affected in every possible way by the
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person's disappearance. Could also be true that with all the
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books coming out and again all the videos made and
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the information online about these cases, it's quite easy to
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become numbed or jaded to these stories to these people.
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Couldn't it also be true that maybe this numbness, this nonchalance,
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and somewhat boredom with cases like these one after another
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after another after another, it would be exactly what who
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or whatever is involved in orchestrating these disappearances and murders
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counts on. In this episode, we're going to discuss two
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different cases that have a strange similarity and also a
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bit of a connection. Please keep in mind, though, that
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these are real human beings and though their cases may
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or may not be similar to those you've heard over
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a thousand times already, be shure and pay attention to
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the details here. Listen closely and focus on the similarities
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and strangeness of both of these cases, while being sure
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to bear in mind that there's one big difference. One
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of them could very well still be alive and one
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of them, unfortunately has already been found deceased. Let's start
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with the tragedy of Caleb Smith. On January fifteenth, twenty twenty,
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Caleb Smith told his grandmother that he was driving to Rome, Georgia,
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has been the day hanging out with some friends who
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lived there. This wasn't anything else the ordinary for the
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twenty one year old, so when he requested that she
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leave the dead bolt to the front door of their
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house unlocked for him so he could re enter when
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he got back home later on that night, she happily
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obliged and thought nothing of it. Little did she know
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that while she would speak to her grandson at least
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one more time over the phone that same day, as
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he walked out the front door of their house that
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ill fated cold day in January, it would be the
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last time she would ever actually see him alive technically.
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The next day, at twelve thirty two am, Caleb entered
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the Flying Jay gas station in Resaca, Georgia. This was
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on the way to Rome, Georgia. We know Caleb entered
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this establishment at this exact time because he was seen
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on the gas station's minimal surveillance footage. Three minutes later,
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at twelve thirty five am, Caleb called his grandmother and
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informed her that he had to pull into the rest
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stop because he realized he didn't have enough gas to
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get to Rome as he'd initially plan. He told her
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there was one man sitting at a table on the
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other side of the restaurant that he was going to
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ask to help him with five dollars for gas money
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so he can continue on his journey to go and
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see his friends. Those phone records have not been made
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public at this time. Caleb is seen on the same
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surveillance footage sitting at his table for a few minutes,
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seemingly sending texts but possibly browsing the Internet. Caleb did
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eventually get up and approach the man assumingly. He asked
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the man for the five dollars for gas money, As
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he told his grandmother he was going to do. However,
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it is unclear whether or not the man gave Caleb
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the five dollars, and Caleb actually ended up approaching the
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man twice in a matter of just a few minutes.
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It's still unknown exactly what the exchanges were between the
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two men. No word either on whether or not this
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man was ever identified a question no information one way
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the others can be found. After approaching and speaking to
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this man the second time, Caleb returns to his own
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table and sits down facing this unknown man. After just
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a minute or two, Caleb gets up and leaves the
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gas station rest stop area, never to be seen alive again.
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When morning came and Caleb's grandmother that realized that his
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bed had been slipped in, she became very concerned. If
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Caleb had planned on staying out, he never would have
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asked her to leave the dead boat unlocked corn. She
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decided to go to the last place she knew him
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to be when he wasn't answering his phone or returning
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any of her text so she got into her own
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car and drove down to the Flying Jay rest stop
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and searched the surrounding area and the parking lot for
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Caleb's car. She eventually found his car parked in the
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Flying Jay parking lot, but in the back of the
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Dennis restaurant building, assuming where the back entrance or garbage
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eggs it would be. This location could be important because
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it seems Caleb was parked almost purposely out of view
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of any of the surveillance cameras. His grandmother states that
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she didn't immediately get out of her car to search
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Caleb's car because she saw a suspicious looking white Nissan that,
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in her words, she said, freaked her out and decided
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it was safer to remain in her vehicle and too
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Caleb's other family members, whom she had just called arrived.
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She never elaborated on why this white Nissan was suspicious
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looking to her or why it freaked her out so
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although it speculated it was because the windows were tinted
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very dark, and the vehicle had pulled in the park
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directly facing her in front of her vehicle, and nobody
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exited the Nissan. Immediately upon the arrival of the other
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two family members she'd called to come and a sister,
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the white Nissan pulled out of the parking lot. There's
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no information regarding whether or not this white Nissan had
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any involvement in what happened to Caleb. Upon searching Caleb's car,
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the family found it was unlocked. The cell phone and
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battery were separated and both in the glove box. The
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keys to the vehicle were on the floor underneath the seat.
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Although Caleb had called his grandmother the previous night and
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explained to her that he was almost out of gas,
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his car had a half a tank of gas in
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it when it was found. This would have been more
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than enough to get him to Rome. Essentially, Aaleb called
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his grandmother to explain about his being long gas for
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seemingly no reason. It's been said that he did it
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to give it reason as to why he would be
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later than expected coming home if he was stuck trying
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to get money for gas, but that hasn't been verified.
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Caleb's jacket was also found in the car. It was
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a very cold night in Georgia in the middle of January.
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The family couldn't understand why would leave his jacket behind.
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After searching his vehicle, his family called the police to
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report Caleb is missing. Gordon County Sheriff's Office spent all
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of the next two days January sixteenth and seventeenth, searching
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the areas around the Flying Jay restop for any additional
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evidence or for Caleb himself, with no results. It's also
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worth mentioning here that the GCSO never processed Caleb's car
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for additional evidence, fornsic or otherwise, and immediately released it
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to the family. On February third, twenty twenty, Caleb Smith's
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body was found five miles away from the Flying Jay.
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He was in the marsh and overgrown area of the
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county between the Sugar Valley and Hill City communities. The
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Sheriff's office reported that a passerby found him in a
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heavily overgrown and poorly drained area. Caleb was completely naked,
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and oddly enough, the fire department had been dispatched that
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same area. His body was found earlier in the day
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in response to a small brush fire, and didn't come
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across Caleb's remains. This is another odd fact. Despite not
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knowing whether or not this brush fire was connected to
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Caleb's death or not, it was an incredibly wet few
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weeks there in Georgia at the time, so for a
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brushfire to have been started on its own was almost impossible,
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the initial report stated. However, no immediate indications of violence
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were parent regarding Caleb's body, and the GBI revealed that
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there were no indications of violence or evidence of about play.
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The results of the toxicology report were a follows. Caleb
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died as a result of methamphetamine intoxication. There's no known
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informations as to whether or not Caleb ever had a
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problem with any kind of drugs, and the death was
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ruled accidentally. If it weren't for something eerily similar happening
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to a young woman just two days later at the
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same exact Flying Jay gas station, that may have been
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the end of Caleb's story. However, when you add up
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the similarities with a story I'm about to relate to you,
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even when sprinkling in the differences, one can't help but wonder,
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we in the true crime community know there's usually no
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such thing as coincidence, and we all also know that
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nobody knows this better than law enforcement. So why exactly
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are they trying so hard to make us believe that
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coincidence is exactly what seems to connect these two cases?
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Are we really to believe that a young man supposed
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with enough methamphetamine in his system to kill him, stripped
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off his clothes, and then not only decided to walk
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five miles in the bitter cold, high and naked, but
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then he managed to do so without calling any attention
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to himself at all. Is it reasonable to think that
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not a single person would have noticed a naked young
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man walking on the side of the road for an
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entire five miles. There are so many facts that just
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do not seem to fit with the accidental death throughly.
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Let's review just some of them now. First of all,
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even if we ask no questions and accepted that Caleb
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was able to walk all that way without being noticed
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despite the condition he was in both physically and mentally,
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keep in mind Caleb was found completely naked. This means
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no socks, no shoes, nothing. Are we also to believe
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that he could have accomplished this naked and five mile
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walk without not only doing no damage to but also
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not dirting his feet at all. There is no explanation
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as to why or how the police have been able
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to reconcile themselves to calling this death with all the
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strange facts and evidence an accident. Caleb was found in
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a very muddy marshy area, not even a drop of
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mud on his feet. His clothes were never found either,
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but again there is no information as to the extent
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of the police investigation into where his clothes went either.
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Why wasn't Caleb's family allowed to identify the body. Some
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say it's simply because of the state of decomposition of
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the body after being outside the marshland for so long,
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but others aren't so sure. Remember this was during the
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cold winter in January. Speculation and rumors surround this case,
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and it seems no one knows enough to be able
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to separate fact from fiction. Our research was only able
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to find two that weren't absolutely off the wall wild
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conjectures and made just a tiny bit of sense. The
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first of these theories is that he may have gotten
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into someone else's car to smoke the methamphetamine, a dealer
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or perhaps maybe the man he was seen on camera
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having multiple conversations with, who, to the best of the
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public's knowledge, was never even found, let alone questioned or
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investigated in any way, and it tends to happen sometimes
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to people who've partake in this particular substance. Caleb became
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overheated and started taking off his clothes before anyone knew
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what was happening. Caleb started overdosing, and whoever he was with,
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if he was with anyone, didn't want to be involved
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in any way with this overdose death for fear, especially
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if they were the one that sold or gave it
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to him. But even if they were just using with
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him and drove Caleb's body to the marsh land and
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left it there, did whoever this person or people were
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think about DNA evidence or forensics and possibly instead of
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Caleb stripping himself, did the perpetrators or witnesses strip him
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of his clothes after he died to eliminate any kind
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of touch or fiber evidence eventually coming back to link
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them or their car to his death. The fact of
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the matter is we just don't know, and it seems
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as though if the investigators in this case have it
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their way, we never will. Caleb's case is officially closed
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at this point. Two days after the incident with Caleb
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at this Flying Jay gas station, and eerily, an almost
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shockingly similar disappearance happened. Many people who are familiar with
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Caleb's case feel like what happened to Keithlen Roberts or
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at least what everyone knows happened to her, because she
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has yet to be found, should have initiated at least
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a little bit more investigation into his case. They believe
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it should have led the police, as it did for
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most of the public, into asking some serious questions regarding
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that accidental death. Truly, so what happened to Keeslen? Let's
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find out now. Please keep in mind as we go
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over the details that we know in her case, that
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she is still considered missing and should be presumed alive
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until it can be proven that she is not. So.
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Paid close attention. On January eighteenth, twenty twenty, twenty one
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year old young woman named Keesln Roberts was seen at
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the same Flying Jay gas station, only she was encountered
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entering an employee's only entrance in the back on the
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Dennis side. Remember this is also where Caleb's car was
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found the same Flying Jay gas station in Resaca, Georgia.
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Some reports state that Keesln was simply told unemployed that
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she could not be back there in this employee's only
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kitchen aery entrance, and other states that she actually got
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into some kind of altercation with the person who informed
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her of this and was then told to leave. There's
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nothing official to confirm or disprove either one of these statements. Remember,
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there are no cameras in this part of the parking lot.
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What is known, however, is that when she was told
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or asked to exit the area, she was ledgedly just
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standing there, staring blankly out the door she just entered.
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Keeslan had dropped all of her belongings. These included a
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backpack containing her ID, credit and debit cards, cash, and
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phone charger, and ran off the employees of either the
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gas station side or the Denny's side. Again, these reports
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conflict ended up calling nine to one one and described
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Keeslin as a suspicious looking young woman and described the
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odd encounter. Keieslan was never seen or heard from again.
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Where did Keeslen go and how did she get there?
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Without her car? Her vehicle was found two days later
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on January twentieth, with more belongings inside, very near where
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Caleb's car was found in the exact same parking lot.
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Witnesses would later come forward stating that they had briefly
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spoken to Keesland that faithful night, and she had allegedly
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told them she was there meeting a male friend. However,
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this alleged meeting has never been elaborated on the person
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she was supposedly meeting and also her boyfriend were questioned
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but police shortly after she was supported missing, but so
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far nobody has been named either suspect or even a
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person of interest in the case. But it's worth mentioning
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that Keesln did have a history with drug use, mainly methamphetamine,
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and ad blown off a mandatory probation appointment the day
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before she went missing, resulting in a warrant being issued
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for her arrest. Many speculate the Keeslan so quickly fled
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from the Flying Jay that day due to not wanting
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to be there when the police were called, because she
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would have been arrested on this warrant, but why not
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take her car. More speculation had Keeslan possibly leaving the
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gas station with a trucker, but again this hasn't been confirmed.
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In early March or twenty twenty, when investigators searched the
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Flying Jay and no idea why it took this long
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for them to search the area her car was found
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in in which she was last seen. They did find
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items of clothing that belonged to Keeslin in a dumpster
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behind the building. An anonymous witness, who has been said
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to be fully cooperative with police and not involved in
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any way to her disappearance, came forward and told reporters
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that these articles of clothing had been there the entire time,
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but police were allegedly just getting around of searching for
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and collected them as evidence now and now, meaning two
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months later in March. Unfortunately, this is all the evidence available,
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at least online in either case, Can it really all
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be a coincidence that two young people, one a known
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drug user and the other possibility found dead from intoxication
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from the other's drug of choice, go missing from the
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exact same gas station under early similar circumstances within two
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days of each other. Is it also just happened since
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that the two also live on the same street as
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each other. Now there's no evidence that they even knew
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each other, but still a little too much to overlook
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if you ask most people involved with or following this case,
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where is Keieslen? Did she meet the same fate as
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Caleb and just hasn't been found yet? Was Caleb's death
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truly an accident, and even if it was, someone obviously
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moved his body at least and at most they murdered
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him and dumped it at the location where it was found,
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as he's running on our own and of our own
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free will due to fear again of being arrested for
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that probation violation and probable relapse. It's also worth mentioning
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here that there have been several sightings of Keieslen at
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multiple truck stops in various cities across the country. However,
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none of these have ever been able to actually be
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confirmed as her. Now, as we mentioned, her clothes were
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found two months after she was last seen fleeing the scene.
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So where did she go while naked? Also without anyone
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seeing her? As the police are insinuating Caleb took a
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five mile naked walk without being noticed too. Were her
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clothes really there the entire time, as the anonymous and
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seemingly cofferative witness claim to news reporters, or are they
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dumped there after the fact for whatever reason. Currently, there's
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a six thousand dollars reward for information that could lead
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to keyslan s whereabouts. If you can help this investigation
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in any way, or think you have any information, no
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matter how small or insignificant it may seem, please contact
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the Gordon County Sheriff's Department at seven zero six six
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two nine one two four four. So what do you
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think of this case? Are these bizarre circumstances simply coincidence
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or is there indeed a connection here? I look forward
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to reading your comments. As always, we ask that you
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please be respectful in the comment section when discussing this case.
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Many times family and friends of the victims do watch
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these videos and read the comments, so please don't say
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anything that you wouldn't say if it was your family
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member or friend in this circumstance. In closing, be good
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to yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll
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talk to you next time.
