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Killer Instinct

Brian Shaffer's Disappearance Baffles Police

Killer Instinct

Savannah Brymer & Studio71

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Brian Shaffer was a young and successful man who had everything going for him. Then he disappeared without a trace. On April 1, 2006, Brian was last seen at the Ugly Tuna restaurant in Ohio, walking in but never walking out. Savannah explores what happened the night of Brian's disappearance and why police have been unable to solve this case. Plus, Savannah reads some fan theories on the previous Kimberly Moreau case. Listen to the full episode here. If you have any thoughts on this case or any other case, or just want to get in touch with Savannah about the show, email her at killerinstinctpodcast@gmail.com.  Follow Savannah on IG: @savannahbrymer  Follow Savannah on Twitter: @savannahbrymer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's been 11 years since Bruce Cachera was shot point-blank outside of an apartment complex

0:07.1

in New Orleans East, as he searched for an address that doesn't exist.

0:11.7

When he was first killed, Launforts met quickly chalked it all up to him being in the wrong

0:16.1

place at the wrong time.

0:18.3

But I had to ask, is that really what happened?

0:22.2

I'm Dilea DeAmbra, the host of the investigative series Counter-Clock, and for season 5, I'm

0:27.4

digging deeper into Bruce's case than anyone has ever dug before.

0:31.8

The answers may be right in front of us, if we know where to look, or who to look at.

0:44.7

You can binge all 14 episodes of Counter-Clock, season 5, right now, wherever you listen to

0:50.3

podcasts.

0:58.4

Hello you guys, happy Wednesday.

1:01.5

Welcome back to another episode of Killer Instinct.

1:04.1

I hope you all are having a great week so far.

1:07.1

So as you can tell by the title of today's episode, we are talking about the unsolved

1:12.6

disappearance of 27-year-old Brian Schaefer.

1:17.1

Like I said, Brian was 27 years old when he went missing on April 1st of 2006 in Columbus,

1:24.3

Ohio.

1:25.3

This case has gotten a pretty decent amount of media coverage and it's also been highly

1:29.8

requested by you guys and my emails and DMs.

1:33.7

So I'm very interested to see what theories you guys have for this case because I know

1:37.4

for me, this is one of those cases where I just don't really know what I believe and what

1:42.2

I think.

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