Chasing Shadows: The Blair Adams Mystery

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You're listening to Chillworthy.
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A podcast we're two best friends discuss mysteries, murders, and
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anything in between for your enjoyment.
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So if you're ready to hear some chilling and unsettling cases,
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you're in the right place, happy listening. Hello, Hello, everyone,
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Welcome back to another episode of Chillworthy with Brent and Talia.
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Hi.
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Everybody tell you wanted us to make sure we announced,
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She said, make mention that we're doing a back to back.
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Right because there aren't going to be right books.
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And everyone waits with baited breath to hear about the
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people might. Oh, any way, we don't have Yeah, we
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don't have.
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That shows nothing. Let's think of something else.
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I don't have a show, right.
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So let's talk about something else. The weather has been hot.
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Oh I know what I want to say. Do you
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know what a thunder A thunder head? Is that what
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it's called. Yeah, I think that's what it's called. So
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in that book that I had talked about in the
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last one called the Steward and you know the hurricanes
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and stuff. Yes, No, I don't know what I said,
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A thunderhead cloud? So like look at this, look at this.
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I was at my hair appointment doing a deep dive
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on this. Those are the pictures of what a thunderhead is.
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I don't think I've ever seen one of those in
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my life. But it's like a major precipitator of extreme
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weather and like thunderstew and I have never heard of them.
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They're mentioned in this book. Like I said, I am
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very fascinated.
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One might say they made mention of.
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It, right, And I didn't know about this. I never
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heard of it. I said, I don't think I've ever
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seen one. I don't think it's a thing that's only
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in like certain states or whatever.
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Like. No, I don't think so.
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Right, So do you recall seeing one?
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No?
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I don't recall.
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Also, a movie was on the other day, A Blast
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from the Past. I love this movie. Oh, I text
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it to you. I don't know, this is stupid to
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talk about then Independence Day And I said, I don't
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think you feel one way or the other.
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I don't. I don't. I don't care one way or
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the other.
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I freaking loved that movie as a kid. I still
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love it. I love that movie. It's a goodie. It
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isn't exactly but it is.
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You know what, go ahead, what.
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I was going to say, we're in the season actually
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two things, we're in the season of, or I love
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to watch Twister.
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Jaws.
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I was gonna say that next. And it's funny that
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you say that, because I was going through my shirts
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today and I completely forgot about my two Jaws shirts
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that I've got to start wearing because we're in summer. Yeah,
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and I found I forget if I told you this,
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I like, I think I was with you. Actually when
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I bought the Shark book, remember it had like a
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really pretty pink and green cover and I was like
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on the hunt for it the hardcover. I got it.
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I was definitely with you, Okay. And then I found
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this other one through Libby called The Shark House. That
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one takes place in like Hawaii, I want to say,
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and sharks are just stern shit up if you will
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in town, which is basically what the other one's about too.
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So I was thinking I could read one prior to
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Shark Week, getting the spirit of things, and then the
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second one I could read during Shark Week. You know
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what I'm saying, I do.
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I know exactly what you're saying. All the time we
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have today, folks.
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Or save one of them for after shark weekends because
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I'm always so sad when it's over. You know what
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I'm saying that.
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None of this is mysterious to me at all. Right,
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all of it is very easy to understand.
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Fine, all right, yeah, four.
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Minutes in here we go. Not bad, not bad at all?
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Right, up your ally. You don't like these long no, No,
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I don't, all right? Yeah.
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Now, this case is the strange death of Blair Adams.
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So this happened in the summer of nineteen ninety six
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a man from Surrey, British Columbia. Oh, he started to
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act like someone was closing in on him. His name
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was Robert Dennis Blair Adams, but most people knew him
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simply as Blair. He was Canadian, he was in his
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early thirties, and by all accounts, he was not someone
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who seemed like he was drifting aimlessly through life. He
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had a job and a family, and he had people
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who knew him, and he worked at it as a
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construction foreman in Surrey, British Columbia, And according to those
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close to him, he was good at his work and
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he seemed to enjoy it. But then something changed. No,
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I'm assuming you've never heard of this case.
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I haven't know.
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The strange part is not just that Blair became afraid.
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It's that he seemed to become convinced in an urgent
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way that someone was after him. He reportedly told people
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that someone was trying to kill him. He became restless,
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he stopped sleeping well, his mood shifted, he became erratic.
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His mother, Sandra Edwards, noticed something was wrong and asked
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him about it more than once, but Blair would not
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explain anything to her. According to the Unsolved Mysteries account,
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because they did this, when she asked what was bothering him,
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he essentially told her he did not think he should
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tell her what quote unquote.
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It was like demonic.
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Oh I'm not sure about that. I mean, what is
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a good question, because it's it's like, is was Blair
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saying he's afraid of a real person? Was he in
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trouble from something? Did he see something? Did he do something?
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Did he get involved in something he couldn't escape from?
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Was he just experiencing paranoia or a mental health crisis?
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I mean, nobody knows the most disturbing part of the
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Blair Adams case is that both possibilities remain open because
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within days of telling people he feared for his life,
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Blair was found dead more than two thousand miles from
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home in a parking lot in Knoxville, Tennessee. It's very sad,
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and the scene where he was found only made the
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mystery deeper because Blair's body was discovered the morning of
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July eleventh, nineteen ninety six, near a motel under construction
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on Crosswood Boulevard near the Strawberry Plains Road.
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Now it's nice, it does no Wait, this hotel was
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like under construction, like getting renovated or not open yet
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being built to eventually open and start having business.
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What a question? So I'm not sure.
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To be honest, all right, thank you.
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I think either way.
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I'm only asking because I was, let's hear it, I
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was thinking, if they were just getting renovated, there could
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technically still be people staying there in rooms eleven to
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seventeen eighty six, right and one through ten? Were the
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ones getting renovated or are they not even open for
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business yet because they're being built?
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Well, that burning question we're gonna have to say for later.
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Either way, he was found in the parking lot.
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Well, you know what, if there was a parking lot,
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it must have been built. You know what I'm saying.
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M H.
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Knoxville, Tennessee. Of course, you know Tennessee. I have to
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say this, actually say it. I mean I have been
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as you know, I always watch tiny home videos every
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day every day. It's like ASMR for me. Wow, there
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is this I don't even know what the community is called,
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but it is in Tennessee. It's thirty minutes from Pigeon
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Forge in Gatlinburg. A tiny home community that these people started.
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They seem like the sweetest people. They have this tiny
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home community that has four different neighborhoods. The prairie, which
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is neighborhood yes, which is just like there's really no
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trees or anything. They're they're pretty clustered close together. Then
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they've got the mountain and the forest and the beach
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which is like around the lake. So it's all these
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different things.
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Nice that they offer different like environments.
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Yes, and they are different environments. It's like how Zootopia is.
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That's a nice reference.
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You know, like the forest, like you are in the trees,
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you're not clustered real close together. Like I said, the
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prairie is very cookie cutter next to each other. But
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these people are so damn sweet with the way they
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with the way that they go into these people's homes
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and do these tours and tours tours, and they tell
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their steeries like how they got there, all of this stuff.
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They came down sweet for them and there is They
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did a tour of an airbnb that one person set
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up in their little community.
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You would love to do that, Yes.
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Hell, yes I would. And thirty minutes from Gallenberg, one
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of my favorite places, Pliss.
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Now the okay, so now the one that's the airbnb,
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like you have seen that one? They did a.
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Tour and would you say it's beautiful?
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Like a family of like four through six could stay
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four through six or are we talking one to two?
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I would say four at the most?
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Okay, So so you're not like on top of each other.
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I with, well, you're not not on top of each other,
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but I wouldn't. I would suggest about two people stayed there,
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all right, That's what I asked. I'm just say, oh wait,
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so he's found in this parking lot. The scene where
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he was found only made the mystery deepen, because, like
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I said, he was discovered July eleventh, nineteen ninety six,
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near a motel under construction. I don't know what's going
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on with the motel, but it's near the Strawberry Plain's
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exit on Interstate forty in Knox County, Tennessee. So the
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Knox County Sheriff's Office states that he was found at
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approximately seven thirteen am. He was a Canadian citizen who
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had left Canada without advance notice to his family or
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his friends. He was sound, partially dressed, His valuables were
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not missing. Money was scattered all around him. He had
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traveled through multiple cities in a frantic, confusing route that
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seemed to make no sense to anyone, and although robbery
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did not appear to be the motive, Blair had clearly
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suffered a violent death.
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Before you get into those details, the fact that he
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was half clothed with money flittering about in the car
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makes me think.
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At a prostitution.
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Yeah, that's where I don't know.
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Yeah, well, I was thinking he was like living in
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his car. Ah, but you have sex on the brain.
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Could be.
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So.
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Now to understand why this case is so haunting, we
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have to go back to the beginning of Blair's final week.
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So who was Blair Adams, as I said, he was
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from Surrey, British Columbia. Again, I know nothing of Canada.
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I'm so damn fascinated with It's this, It's damn vast.
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Yeah, I would love to go on one of those
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Canadian Oh no, no, no, not Canadian, no Alaskan, never mind.
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Classless all right. So, like I said, he was a
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construction foreman. Some accounts said that he worked for a
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stepfather's construction company and that he had previously worked on
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a project in Frankfurt, Germany. Wow. So there's not a
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huge amount of publicly available detail about his family demographics,
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which is something worth being careful about because we know
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his mother was Sandra Edwards and she had been quoted
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in coverage of the case. We know he had family
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and friends who found his behavior alarming before he left Canada,
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and we also know that he had struggled with alcohol
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in the past, but friends and family reportedly said that
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he had been sober for about two years before his death.
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Some accounts also say that he had recently stopped attending
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alcoholics anonymous meetings, which stood out to people who knew him.
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He wasn't a child and he wasn't elderly. He was
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just an adult man in his early thirties working a
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physically demanding job. Seemed to be a very normal, like
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average life. So because on paper, Blair looked like someone
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who had like roots, and he was you know what's
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that called established? Yes, it's going to say substantial, yes, established.
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But like I said, in early July nineteen ninety six,
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he started to behave like someone who had to run
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away from something. So, according to what I saw with
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the unsolved Mysteries thing, Blair's behavior became noticeably strange. In
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the summer of nineteen ninety six, his mother noticed that
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he was having weird mood swings, he was not sleeping well,
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something was clearly wrong, but he refused to explain anything
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to her. Then, on July fifth, nineteen ninety six, Blair
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took a drastic step. He withdrew his savings and he
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emptied his safe deposit box. He reportedly took more than
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six thousand dollars in cash. I'd empty my box. It
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would be a couple of ring dings, Yeah, yeah, I mean,
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but that's fine ringings along with some jewelry, gold and platinum.
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I might have some quartz but anyway, right, Yes, herkimer diamond.
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His isn't a dessert item.
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Well, yeah, it was a ringing, isn't it.
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Yeah, come up with another one, and I don't know
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what they're called two inkies? What am I thinking of?
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There's like another one that's like a two parter. What
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are they called?
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I don't know, devil digs maybe?
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Yeah.
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Wasn't there one with like peanut butter filling?
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Yes, they had bones in the name.
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Oh, funny bones.
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Is that what they were?
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Yes?
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Yeah, yes, I love peanut butter, as you know, but
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I don't think I ever liked them. I don't know
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I had one to be fair.
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Well, fair's fair, right anyway. So this detail is important
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because it's showing that he's not just casually leaving town
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like he's packing up. This was not someone impulsively just
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grabbing a backpack and going on a weekend trip. But
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he was taking all of his wealth with him, cash,
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precious metals, jewelry, things that you take when you think
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you need to kind of survive away from home for
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a while, like money wise, I have things.
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I was going to say, in your reserves, but I
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guess he dipped into the reserves.
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Whatever he emptied out the reserves. But yes, yes, his
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first known destination was the United States. So on Sunday,
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July seventh, Blair Blair Blair. Yes, he tried to cross
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into the US remotely through a route from Victoria, British
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Columbia towards Seattle, Washington, but he was refused entries. Refuse
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to entry authorities apparently found his behavior and the amount
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of cash suspicious.
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Oh my god, that just made me think of that
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during COVID TikTok SoundBite or whatever you call it. Don't
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be suspicious. Oh I can never think of how to
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do it, but you know what I'm talking I do.
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I always like that one, and they always paired it
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with like ant well, they paired it with tons of things,
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but I liked the dog ones or sometimes cat you know.
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Let me see here. Okay, So they didn't let him
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in because they found him suspicious and about like all
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the cash that he had, which I mean, what's that?
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Their their business? How much money you've got.
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But anyway, oh my god, maybe though sorry this just
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hit me. No, I guess not. I was gonna say,
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maybe it's indicative of like to them, how long are
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you planning on staying, because you can't just stay indefinitely,
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like there's a problem. I don't know.
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Maybe so. Apparently the next day he returns to work,
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but he did not return as if everything was normal.
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He reportedly showed up to get his paycheck, and then
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he quit. The same day, he purchased an expensive round
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trip airline ticket to Frankfurt, Germany. According to that, again
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the Unsolved Mysteries account, the ticket cost about sixteen hundred
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dollars the plane ticket, and the flight was supposed to
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leave the following day. This is where the timeline starts
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to feel deeply disorganized, because if Blair believed he needed
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to flee Germany might have made some sense. But he
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reportedly had a connection to Frankfurt through his previous construction.
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Work, right I remember that.
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Yes?
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Yeah.
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Some accounts say that he had also dated a woman there,
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but Blair never actually took that flight. Instead, the same
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day he bought the Germany ticket, he was still focused
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on getting into the United States.
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He wasted all of that money.
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I don't know if that was his priority. He reportedly
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went to a friend house in a panic and said
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someone was trying to kill him. He wanted to get
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help getting across the border and his friend. His friend
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was unable to take him all right. Then, on Tuesday,
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July ninth, Blair abandoned the Germany plan. He turned in
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the tickets, rented a car, and headed back towards the
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US border. This time he made it into the United States.
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He was persistent, but his choices after that only become stranger.
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He ended up in Seattle, which I'm sure is lovely
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from Seattle, instead of staying there, driving south or taking
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a logical route? Do you say route or root?
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I say that.
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Was already a sound clip from our episode. I'm not
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actually asking you.
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I did find it out you were asking me that,
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because what do you care? I have no memory of that,
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oh boy from another episode. What did I say, then?
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Route? I said a route, yes, unless it's on the term.
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Pike eighty seven hundred. That's what I was just gonna say. Now,
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isn't that why.
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Anyway? Okay? So he wanted to take a lot a
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logical route to somewhere obvious. Blair bought a one way
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ticket to Washington, d c Odd.
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He's all over the map.
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I know. According So the ticket cost seven hundred and
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seventy dollars, even though a round trip ticket would have
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been much cheaper. Isn't that interesting?
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It is?
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That is one of those small details that makes people think, like,
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what the hell's going on here? People in normal circumstances
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usually do not pay more money for a less flexible
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ticket unless they're rushed, confused, panicked, or focused on something
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other than logic. Blair flew from Washington from Seattle, Washington
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to Washington, d C. He arrived early there on July tenth.
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Then he rented a vehicle and he drove southwest towards Tennessee.
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The Knox County Sheriff's Office confirms that Blair flew from
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Seattle to Washington, d C. On July tenth, He rented
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that vehicle, and he drove to Knoxville. So why Knoxville?
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This is one of the biggest unanswered questions in the
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entire case. Investigators said Blair had no known connection to
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East Tennessee. He did not appear to know anyone there,
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He had no reason to be there. He had just
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crossed a continent, shifting travel plans from going to Germany
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to the United States, from Seattle to Washington, then Washington
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to Knoxville.
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He wanted to start again. I'm being facetious, and I
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shouldn't be. It's not a joking.
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Man.
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We don't know if he wanted to start again, ice
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to disappear because someone was chasing him. I don't know.
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That's actually not a bad point.
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It's the it's it just makes me. It's the kind
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of route that's like, he's very erratic. Oh for sure,
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it's an escape place. So now he arrives in Knoxville.
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So by the evening of July tenth, he is in
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East Knox County, Tennessee. The Knox County Sheriff Office says
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that he stopped at a BP station on straw Plains Pike.
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I might have called it Strawberry. I guess it's now
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just straw Plains Strawberry.
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Like I like how it saunds like that.
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Straw Plains now Strawberry. Oh yeah, okay, I was going
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back to look that I put it the other way.
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But I don't even know where it is. No Strawberry
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Plains Road exit. Maybe there's a lot of straw things,
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and you know, I like that.
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Yeah, that's true, you do.
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We haven't talked about hey in a long time, Sidley.
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It's not the.
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Season, no, but they're growing it. It's out there.
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I have to well not yet, because I am excited
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summer has begun, but I need to get my Elotin shirt.
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What does that thing say that I have?
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It's like at bone me.
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No, it does not say something for tesque like that grooked.
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I assure you where the hell did that even come from?
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And you certainly do I did.
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Goodness, it's a skeleton and a pool and it says
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some crap like just waiting for Halloween, right, and that's
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what ydy.
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You're very offended. I am straw planes Pike. So there
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he locked himself out of his rental car and he
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could not find the keys. A tow truck was called
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and arrangements were made to tow the truck until the
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rental company could be contacted. The next day, the tow
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truck driver drops Blair off at the Fairfield in Motel.
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That was very nice. You know when toe truck drivers
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say that? Three times fast? When tow truck drivers Okay, anyway,
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I've always impressed, go Guru, when toe truck drivers yes,
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do that. I think it's very kind because once it
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to them and I feel like they need. I feel
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like they normally offer it, but they don't always offer it,
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or do they.
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I don't know. Bringing me back to that episode where
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you thought everybody had a loadjack on your car, every person,
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every tow truck company knew exactly where you were when
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they said where are you, ma'am and you said you
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don't know where I am?
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Meant that. I just thought it was similar to when
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you call nine one one, and if that's their business,
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you would think, I mean, you know what I mean?
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No, all right, So he takes him to the Fairfield
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in Motel. So the gas station incident similarly was that,
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you know, Blair complained that it's car would not start.
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The attendant realized that he had the wrong keys. According
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to that account, Blair had to go to a different
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rental vehicle, not the car that he was currently driving.
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This very busy, so Blair had moved through multiple vehicles
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and travel plans in such a short span of time
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that by the time he reached Knoxville, he was trying
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to use the wrong key in the wrong car.
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This is like an absolute crisis that's going on. I mean,
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he is all over the place.
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Physically panicked, exhaustion.
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Yeah, stress right, and that he's not even making sense,
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like on the most basic level, he can't keep track
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of stuff. I mean there's a lot of moving parts,
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so I guess how could he? But this is very sad.
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So after the car was towed, Blair needed a place
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to stay, as you know, and liked the tow truck
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driver dropped him off at the Fairfield. In at the hotel,
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Blair's behavior strangely stood out according what was that? What
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was that case we had where somebody said the wacko
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of the week. It was the mother, a mother who
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had disappeared. I remember that, and they called her like
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the weirdo of the week, that weirdo.
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I thought you were gonna say, which I don't even
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think you've read this book, I guess, But that Simone
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Saint James book The Sundown Motel God. I loved that book.
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Oh I snoozefest. So there was a hotel employee there,
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Tika Cartsville, t I c c A all right tack
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of toe? Oh boy, all right?
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Did you like to play tic tac show?
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I guess, But how many times can you play it?
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I agree? What about Hangman and a nice place mat
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when we were growing up. How about that?
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That was fine?
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Yeah, I liked that. I was never well, maybe I
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was decent. Sometimes I was decent and not good.
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Well you're nothing but honest, right, So Tika, she remembers
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him as nervous, agitated, and paranoid.
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That makes me think of Flicka. Isn't that like a
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horse book for a movie. Yeah?
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The hotel security camera showed Blair going in and out
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of the lobby several times in about an hour before
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he finally pays for a room.
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But well, like literally like walking in, walking, oh, walk
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or walking in talking to them, not really making sense leaving.
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I think what you're describing like paranoid, like checking think
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of that probably like that girl in the elevator.
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Oh god, that brought me here. I can still see that.
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That's sad. That was awful, awful.
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So here we've got that man from home, far from home.
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He's carrying cash, valuables. He's running, running from something he
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either knew or he feared. He's standing in a hotel
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lobby in Tennessee, unable to settle down. He's not committing
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to just feeling like he's safe, and he just keeps
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repeatedly going in and out of this lobby. Eventually, though
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he rents a room now a courd.
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Sorry. Yeah, can you imagine the people who worked there,
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They were probably, like, not necessarily thrilled about him staying there.
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Says, how's this gonna wouldn't like it? No, although you
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probably wouldn't care actually because it's not your house.
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Yeah, true, true, And I will say, there's something about
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this level of decomping that's not frightening. I'm sure to
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some people it is.
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If it was your backyard, we'd not like it.
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That's true, true, But like, I don't know, I just
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feel like he was spiraling and in like a level
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of crisis. Like I don't think reality. I don't think
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things were rooted in reality necessarily, very very sad. Sorry,
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we do not know. Oh, I know you said history
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of I think alcoholism. Besides that, there is a mental.
489
00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:07.720
Health history, not that I'm aware of.
490
00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:12.599
Yeah, and you said family, sorry, family and friends were
491
00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.440
commenting he had been sober for two years.
492
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.480
Yes, but then he just stopped going to alcoholics anonymous, right,
493
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:20.160
anything else?
494
00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:23.400
No, I don't think now.
495
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:28.799
According to the Knox County Sheriff's Office, investigators, believe that
496
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he never actually entered it, like he rented a room,
497
00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:33.480
but he never actually went in.
498
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.920
So he just left after paying.
499
00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:40.319
Well or just I guess, continued to hang out in
500
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the vicinity, so Blair pocketed the room key, he walked
501
00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:49.839
out the front door. He never comes back in the
502
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.480
last known time he was alive, according to that account,
503
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:55.519
was around seven thirty seven pm on July tenth.
504
00:28:55.640 --> 00:29:01.759
Now was this business establishment whatever or the type like
505
00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:06.160
I'm imagining a motel where, you know, typically it's like
506
00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:08.400
two levels, all separate doors.
507
00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:14.720
Listen, I don't know what the what color were the doors?
508
00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:17.920
Just what did the logo look like? I don't have
509
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.640
any clue. Was the parking lot recently paved?
510
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.319
What is?
511
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:23.759
What the hell is your point?
512
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:28.799
You'll hear in a minute. Was it, you know, two
513
00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:35.680
levels or three? Two or three with separate or not separate? Well, yeah,
514
00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:42.200
separate outdoor entry exit doors? Or did he have to
515
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:45.000
go through the lobby and staff would see him for
516
00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:47.640
him to be able to get to his room like
517
00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.440
which the question is very clearly asking.
518
00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:55.359
If you have to say, the question is very clearly asking,
519
00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:56.680
it's not so.
520
00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:01.359
What our staff? You know what I would originally describing
521
00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:04.759
people are coming and going. There's no staff seeing anything
522
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:09.559
because they have their separate doors on the outside, outdoor doors.
523
00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:11.839
But if this is like they have to go in
524
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:15.440
the building, past the lobby, past the staff and the
525
00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:19.559
checkout counter. Thing they're seeing them come and go. So
526
00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:20.279
which was it?
527
00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:23.880
I think they were inside doors?
528
00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:26.400
Oh I was thinking the opposite.
529
00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:28.160
Because why would the police care if he went out
530
00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:30.079
the lobby never went back in the lobby?
531
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:32.680
You're right, right? Or you're right?
532
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:34.240
Yeah, thank goodness, you.
533
00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:37.519
Asked right exactly paints a picture.
534
00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:40.839
So most people wonder why he didn't go in the room,
535
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.799
not how many floors were in this hotel. But again
536
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.319
that's why we have you here to ask those hard hitting.
537
00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:50.119
Questions and oranges.
538
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:56.319
What color was the curpet? What was the water pressure? Like?
539
00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:01.000
All right? Anyway, So most people, though'll wonder why he
540
00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:03.759
didn't go into the room. Was he too afraid to
541
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:06.559
stay there? Did he see someone? Did he meet someone outside?
542
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:12.920
Was he lured outside? Lots of fings. So whatever happened
543
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:15.599
after Blair walked out of the Fairfield in the next
544
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.240
confirmed sighting of him was the next morning, and by
545
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:19.759
then he was deceased.
546
00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.519
Are you serious?
547
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:27.519
The crime scene is what we're going to talk about next.
548
00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:31.319
On the morning of July eleventh, nineteen ninety six, Blair
549
00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:35.119
Adams was found dead near a motel under construction on
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00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:38.039
Crosswood Boulevard in Knox County.
551
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:43.720
Now, riddle me this this whole time, I'm assuming he
552
00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:47.480
was found in the fairfield in parking lot. But you're
553
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:50.720
basically saying it was a total other hotel that was
554
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:57.039
under It looks like it, Yes, interesting, so fascinating. It
555
00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:00.960
wasn't even on the property that place.
556
00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:09.759
It doesn't sound that way. Yes, So the scene was
557
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:13.119
a parking lot in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was found beaten,
558
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:20.319
ah half naked, with currency scattered around his body. The
559
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:25.680
money included German, Canadian and US currency, totally nearly four
560
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:29.440
thousand dollars. His clothing was disturbed in a way that
561
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:33.839
investigators found unusual. His pants were removed, his shoes were off,
562
00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.839
his shirt was ripped open. His socks were reportedly turned
563
00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:38.720
inside out.
564
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:41.000
Well, he could have done that all.
565
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:46.680
Right nearby were valuable items, According to the reports, there
566
00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:51.279
was another small pat Another small pack held approximately two
567
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:55.880
thousand dollars worth of gold and jewelry. This is one
568
00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:58.359
of the reasons robbery has never felt like a satisfying
569
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:04.119
explanation because he wasn't robbed. The Knox County Sheriff's Office
570
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:06.799
says robbery did not appear to be a motive because
571
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everything was still there, but the injuries were brutal. According
572
00:33:11.079 --> 00:33:14.480
to the reports, the autopsy found many cuts and abrasions.
573
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:17.279
The police believed some may have come from Blair trying
574
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to defend himself. So it wasn't a friend.
575
00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:24.119
Oh my god. Those of you who maybe didn't listen
576
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:26.119
to that episode, which.
577
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:29.079
Episode was that, I have no idea.
578
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:33.160
But defensive wounds were or defense? What do you say
579
00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:40.920
that defensive defense? Well, and I said you were would
580
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:45.200
in Vannie if your friend or loved one was killing you.
581
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:47.440
And Brent said that if I was trying to kill
582
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:49.920
him one day, he would absolutely be fighting for his
583
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:56.799
life and wound me to stay alive. And that's that
584
00:33:57.079 --> 00:33:59.200
for those of you who missed that episode.
585
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:03.039
Okay, let's see here. He was ultimately killed by a
586
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:05.119
violent blow that ruptured his stomach.
587
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:09.039
Oh my gosh.
588
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:13.280
An Associated Press summary republished in twenty twenty five stated
589
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:16.719
that the autopsy determined Blair died from septic shock after
590
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:20.440
being beaten with a fatal blow, rupturing his stomach, so
591
00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.159
that means that Blair may not have died instantly. A
592
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:28.280
ruptured stomach and septic shock suggests a horrifying possibility that
593
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.840
he suffered for quite a long period of time after
594
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:36.199
the attack happened. And then there is another disturbing piece
595
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:39.119
of evidence often discussed in the case, a strand of
596
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:44.719
long hair reportedly found in Blair's hand. Some summaries of
597
00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:49.039
the investigation identify that as the only physical DNA evidence
598
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:52.280
found at the scene. If that hair true, if that
599
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:56.280
hair truly came from an attacker or someone present during
600
00:34:56.280 --> 00:34:59.880
the confrontation, it could be important, but publicly there ha
601
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:03.199
has been no announced match that has ever been found.
602
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:07.679
The scene raised more questions than it answered. If Blair
603
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.360
had been attacked by a stranger, why were his valuables
604
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:13.280
left behind? If he had been followed from Canada, how
605
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.800
did someone track him through all of that chaotic travel movements.
606
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.719
If this was a mental health crisis, who the hell
607
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:25.440
attacked him? If this was a chance encounter, why did
608
00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:28.159
the aftermath look so strange? And why wouldn't you take
609
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:35.119
the jewels? All right? So the investigation. So the investigators
610
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:37.599
were immediately faced with a case that made very little
611
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:42.320
conventional sense. They had a Canadian man dead in Tennessee,
612
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:44.519
they had all of his money still around him, and
613
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:47.400
no obvious motive. They had known that he had no
614
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:51.119
local connections and that he was just erratically moving across
615
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:53.719
the country. So the Knox County Sheriff's Office says Blair
616
00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:56.000
knew no one in the area and his reason for
617
00:35:56.119 --> 00:35:59.800
leaving Canada or where he was headed was completely unknown.
618
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:03.880
So if Blair did have a connection to Knoxville, investigators
619
00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:07.000
had to consider whether the danger came with him or
620
00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:10.440
was it was it whether he encountered it after driving.
621
00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:15.000
One theory is that Blair was experiencing paranoia or delusions,
622
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:18.480
and his fear of being followed was not based in reality.
623
00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:24.039
Under this theory, a frantic decision led him into dangerous situation,
624
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:27.679
perhaps crossing paths was someone violent after leaving the hotel.
625
00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:33.119
Another theory that Blair's fear was justified. Perhaps he had
626
00:36:33.159 --> 00:36:37.519
been entangled in something dangerous before leaving Canada. Perhaps he
627
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:40.800
had reason to believe someone was after him. Perhaps he
628
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:44.480
was being followed or was trying to evade a the
629
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:47.679
real threat. The challenge though, is that both these theories
630
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:50.599
have some issues, because if Blair was only imagining danger,
631
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.599
well why the hell was he killed? But if someone
632
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:57.679
was truly after him, how did they follow such a
633
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:03.039
chaotic route from British Souse, Columbia to Seattle to Washington
634
00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:04.280
and Knoxville. Blah blah blah.
635
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:06.679
I mean, it wouldn't have been easy, I guess, but
636
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:09.480
also like possible, And if that's all they were up to,
637
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:11.840
they have plenty of time to focus. But I guess
638
00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:15.639
they also how I guess if you're like following someone
639
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:18.559
like that, you're not communicating. Unless it was a stranger
640
00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:20.599
who was talking to him. I don't know.
641
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:28.880
It's like like if you're at an airport and I'm
642
00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:33.480
trying to follow you, I could strike up a conversation like, oh, hey,
643
00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:37.239
were you headed, fancy meeting you.
644
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:39.719
Here than when we're in town or something, which maybe
645
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:41.920
you would start to suspect weird shit's going on?
646
00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:45.840
Maybe, but like so you meant like trucker radios or something.
647
00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:50.519
No, but that reminds me of another episode that that
648
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:54.920
came up and you were like nine or niners. I
649
00:37:55.320 --> 00:37:57.159
had no idea what you were talking about?
650
00:37:58.760 --> 00:37:59.159
All right?
651
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:05.400
All right, So now we have a third possibility. Blair
652
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.920
may have been afraid and unstable, but the person who
653
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.920
killed him may not have been the person that he feared, So,
654
00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:13.360
in other words, his panic may have made him vulnerable
655
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:17.960
to a completely separate danger. Investigators reportedly explored whether whether
656
00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:20.480
the crime could have been a sex could have been
657
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:23.679
sexual in nature because of the state of Blair's body.
658
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:30.519
Some accounts also discuss possible sexual assault indicators through publicly
659
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.199
available summaries. Sorry, though publicly available summaries do not provide
660
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.000
enough detail to actually definitively state that.
661
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:41.320
Wait a minute, so what could have been sexual assault?
662
00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:47.960
Could have well because the scene was sexually suggestive, they're saying,
663
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.079
but or it was at least staged to look up.
664
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:54.800
Oh, I didn't think that.
665
00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:00.719
Hold on, hold on all right now. Also, there was
666
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:04.960
a reported composite sketch connected to an unknown man. I
667
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:10.599
never understood how those things work, truly, Yes, sir, because
668
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:13.000
come on, what are you supposed to say if I'm
669
00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:16.079
supposed to describe you to somebody?
670
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:18.360
Yeah, what the hell do I say?
671
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:20.119
Even if I'm looking at you right now? What am
672
00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:21.320
I gonna say she's got eyes.
673
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:26.280
I think they say, like, do you recall the shape
674
00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:30.719
of the eyes, the color obviously, what shade.
675
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:33.280
Of how many shapes of eyes are you gonna name?
676
00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:37.440
I only know or think of all men right around.
677
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.079
Exactly right, precisely.
678
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:43.400
I wonder if when they're doing that they show you
679
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:48.960
like seven different types of eyes to say, you know,
680
00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:49.480
some are.
681
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:51.440
Kind of when Blanche put the breasts on the.
682
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:53.880
Table right exactly, because I feel like.
683
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:58.079
I was thinking of going with these, Well they're nice,
684
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:04.719
but do you think black really suits it? So the
685
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:09.599
outcome of the case is just uncertainty. Basically, Blair's family
686
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:12.360
was left without answers, investigators were left with a file
687
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.400
with a file full of strange details and no clear suspect,
688
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:17.880
and the public was left with one of those cases
689
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:21.159
that feels almost impossible to categorize. Was it a murder?
690
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:25.480
Was it a random killing? Was it a sexual assault?
691
00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:28.519
Was Blair running from a real threat? All these questions
692
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:33.440
go unanswered. Right, So, the most recent public information available
693
00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:37.760
is that the Knox County Sheriff's Office continues to list
694
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:42.519
Robert Dennis Blair Adams as a cold case homicide. There's
695
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:46.440
summary states that he was found dead July nineteen ninety six.
696
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:49.199
I mean, I don't know, that's kind of it. It's
697
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:50.960
just it's just all those questions.
698
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.039
I feel bad for the family, I feel bad for him.
699
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:57.559
I mean, I feel like I've never heard of such
700
00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:00.119
a thing. What not that the stomach exploded what did
701
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:04.519
you say, rupture? And I've never heard of such a thing,
702
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:07.400
and that, like, in my head, a blow is always
703
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:09.760
to the head, so that's what I was imagining. And
704
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:11.280
then when you said, like a.
705
00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:17.320
Throat is often slit from the right to left, no,
706
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:18.760
or whatever.
707
00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:24.079
Left to right because of the right handedness, you know,
708
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:28.480
So you know, the stomach rupturing just sounds so horrific.
709
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:30.360
I don't even know what is involved in that. And
710
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:33.679
then what you said in talking about that, how it's
711
00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.639
certainly not pleasant, and how he most likely suffered for
712
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:39.000
such a long period of time, and in his freaking car,
713
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:40.239
like just.
714
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:43.280
I don't think he was in the car though they
715
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:44.960
didn't say he was sitting in a car.
716
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:47.559
Oh, that's how I imagine.
717
00:41:47.559 --> 00:41:49.199
That's how I imagined it too in the beginning.
718
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.800
So he was just in the parking, That's what I think. Yeah,
719
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:56.599
it's just it's so awful, and you know, it's not
720
00:41:56.760 --> 00:41:58.599
like I think just what makes this even worse for
721
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:01.480
the family. I mean, I have no idea. I don't
722
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:05.719
mean to speak for them, but all the details that
723
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:09.559
are known leading up to the end are so unsettling
724
00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:11.639
and not good at all. It's not like he was
725
00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:14.519
he had a friend in Tennessee, he wanted to go visit,
726
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:17.039
and then like weird shit happened after he checked into
727
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:19.519
the motel, and nobody really knows what happened. He was
728
00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:20.679
not good leading up to.
729
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:23.920
This, so that's for damn sure, right, So it's just.
730
00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:26.119
It makes it even more I'm sure heart wrenching for
731
00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:30.159
the family that like things were not going well prior
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to and like it just sounds like he was very
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unsettled and not in his right mind. And you know,
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may he rest in peace, and I just I feel
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terrible for his family, very very sad this was. I mean,
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I don't mean to make light of what happened to him,
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but this was a very good case, very well done.
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Wow, well, thank you, Charlie.
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I've said that to you before.
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Every time, almost I always appreciate it, right, so well,
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everyone rumor has it when we tune back in, Tellia
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will be doing her case. I get it, so you
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can all stay tuned for that, right, but of course
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you know, until then, stay safe and stay chill.
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Bye everybody, Bye, you've just listened to Chilworthy.
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