Episode 379: John Michael Spira: Risky Business, Pt. 1

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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John Michael Spira was a 45 year old from Chicago, IL. He was a fantastic guitar player and self employed. On the evening of February 23, 2007, John was at his business with plans to meet a friend at a restaurant at 8:30. John never arrived. He was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missingjohnspira Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/john-michael-spira NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/2374 Website: http://theunfoundpodcast.com/2023/10/03/john-michael-spira-risky-business/ Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/john-spira-missing-dupage-county/ If you have any information concerning the disappearance of John Spira please contact the DuPage County Sheriff's Office at (630) 407-2345. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: [email protected] --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can show support for the content we provide here at Unfound by going to patreon.com forward slash unfound podcast
0:09.0	PayPal.me forward slash unfound podcast or hitting the join button at Unfound's YouTube channel.
0:19.0	John Michael Spira was a 45-year-old from Chicago, Illinois.
0:25.0	He was a fantastic guitar player and self-employed.
0:30.0	On the evening of February 23rd, 2007, John was at his business with plants to meet a friend at a restaurant at 8.30 pm.
0:41.0	John never arrived.
0:44.0	He was never seen again.
0:50.0	I'm Ed Dunstle and this is Unfound.
1:06.0	Seven years into Unfound's existence, here is something that I've learned.
1:12.0	Dollars and possessions are certainly not as big a cause of disappearances as I imagined they would be.
1:21.0	Sure, we talk about money and drugs often on this podcast but really the disappearances connected to them have not been of a type of drug deal gone bad.
1:33.0	Instead, we're usually talking more about overdoses that have been covered up.
1:40.0	People who are high causing harm to others who are high and addicts who walk off all on their own.
1:50.0	Yet we do have a few notable disappearances we've covered that could be connected to the economic principle of supply and demand.
2:01.0	Dale Kirstetter went missing during a theft of the plant he was guarding.
2:07.0	Mary Watkins and Jacqueline Cooper, two women fooled by a man so he could steal their money.
2:15.0	Matthew Braswell, who surely died during a scheme to steal checks from people's mailboxes.
2:24.0	So it happens.
2:27.0	Well, with the disappearance of John Spira, as you will hear lots of people who were not even connected to each other acted strangely after he went missing.
2:39.0	But does this case really come down to risky business?
2:46.0	And now a summary of the case.
2:48.0	This is brought to you by my friend Megan Linas' website, CharlieProject.org.
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