013 - The Vanishing of Kyle Fleischmann

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Twenty-Four year old Kyle Fleischmann took his mother, sister and best friend to a Dane Cook comedy show in Charlotte, NC. In the early morning hours of November 9th, 2007, he vanished into the darkness of the city. Several witnesses see Kyle that night, and Kyle himself places several short phone calls to his father, sister, best friend and roommate but leaves no messages.

A surveillance camera captures him walking down the street, away from the Buckhead Saloon where he had spent the past few hours. An hour later, a cab driver claims to see Kyle wandering down North Davidson Street, toward Cordelia Park, in a bad part of Charlotte known to be inhabited by drug dealers and members of the violent MS-13 gang.

The next morning, Kyle is reported missing and over the past ten years, no answers nor signs of Kyle have been found. Tracking dogs follow his scent to a then undeveloped construction site, leading many to believe that Kyle was murdered and buried where apartment complexes now stand. Did Kyle simply choose to walk away? Was he struck by a hit and run driver and disposed of or did Kyle fall victim to a brutal act of violence and wind up buried somewhere in the city of Charlotte?

Join host Steven Pacheco as he explores this bizarre disappearance and tries to sort through the myths and misconceptions about one of the most baffling vanishings in the history of North Carolina.

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0:00.0	24-year-old Kyle Flashman was a recent graduate of Elon University. He landed a new job
0:09.6	with a bright future, went in with a few roommates on a condo, and had his entire life ahead
0:15.0	of him. His family was rocked when his mother was diagnosed with cancer, but they all stepped
0:20.6	up for her. Kyle vowed to his mother that they would beat the cancer together, and that
0:25.5	he would be there for her every step of the way. In the days before her surgery, in an attempt
0:31.1	to raise her spirits, on November 8th, 2007, Kyle arranged for his mother, sister, and best
0:37.4	friend to accompany him to a Dane Cook comedy show. The show would take place in their
0:42.2	hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. None of them knew this would be the last night that
0:47.0	they would ever see Kyle. After the show, Kyle and his best friend, Daniel Scagnelly,
0:53.8	decided to go to a local sports bar, the Buckhead Saloon, while his mother and sister
0:59.0	went home for the night. After a few hours, Scagnelly felt tired and asked Kyle if he was
1:05.1	ready to go, but Kyle was chatting up a woman and decided to hang out a little longer.
1:10.8	Surveillance cameras show Kyle exiting the bar shortly after 2am, and the final footage
1:15.7	shot from a local business shows Kyle walking down the street towards a pizzeria. Outside
1:21.4	of a cashier at the pizzeria, and a cab driver, none of the cameras in the city of Charlotte
1:26.7	nor any other witnesses see him again that night. Kyle left behind his debit card and his
1:31.9	coat, and wandered out into the clear cold of a 30-degree North Carolina night, between
1:37.8	2.20am and 3.28am. Kyle makes a series of phone calls to businesses, friends, and family,
1:44.9	but leaves no messages. Were these calls made to look for a ride, or was Kyle signalling
1:50.1	that he was in trouble? The pings from his phone placed him in a bad area of town, one
1:55.4	which someone who grew up in Charlotte would know to avoid.
1:59.0	The next morning, Kyle has reported missing when neither his best friend nor his family
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