Charles Albert Thompson was a 52 year old from Fair Play, California.

He had children and lived with his father.

On Friday, October 2nd, 2015, Charles left for a weekend of partying in Jackson. On Sunday morning, the fourth, Charles talked to someone on the phone. The topic being that Charles would be home that evening.

He was never seen again.

I'm at Denzel and this is unfound. I'm going to do. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave

Most people will recognize those lyrics immediately

The song won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1978.

Guitarist magazine ranked the solo in that song,

The Best of All Time.

And yours truly might have even sung it at a karaoke party in Las Vegas,

circuit 2001, maybe.

Ahem. Although there could be different meanings of the song, a popular literal one is that a drifter after a long day of traveling,

finds a place to stop for the night, and upon entering the premises he descends much like Alice in Wonderland or

the Twilight Zone into a world that is somewhat like a dream or more appropriately a

nightmare and no matter how hard this person tries to escape, he can't.

A more figurative interpretation is that it's about drug addiction,

something the band that wrote that song

would have known a bit about at the time.

That the building is a reference to being encompassed by addiction, and that no matter how hard

a person tries to get sober, she can't, at least not while alive.

Hence the double meaning of the phrase, Check Out, I read above.

Well, in the disappearance of Charles Thompson, he was a traveler,

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