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Episode 380: John Michael Spira: Risky Business, Pt. 2

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

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

This begins part two of my interview with Stephanie McNeil concerning the

0:05.7

disappearance of her brother John Spira. John Michael Spira was a 45-year-old from

0:14.8

Chicago, Illinois. He was a fantastic guitar player and self-employed. On the

0:22.6

evening of February 23rd, 2007, John was at his business with plans to meet a

0:29.6

friend at a restaurant at 8.30 p.m. John never arrived. He was never seen again.

0:41.3

I'm at Densel and this is unfound.

0:59.0

Let's move on to the phone information. You've already kind of touched upon it

1:03.4

about the pings. Why don't we talk about that again? What is the phone

1:06.9

information regarding? John, we know that his phone is missing to this day but

1:12.0

the thing, the pings. Do we know what the records are? Who was the last person he

1:17.0

texted or called? What do you know about all of that, Stephanie?

1:21.9

The information I have is that the phone pinged in that area of his business. It

1:31.6

never left. The phone never left is what they said, that area and it pinged until

1:36.9

around 11.30 when it stopped. So it was pinging until, in that area until 11.30 when it

1:44.9

stopped. I know the person that he was supposed to have dinner with tried

1:49.0

colonel. I think you're not a tried colonel in several times but that last call was to

1:59.0

do the person he made plans with. Do you have John's phone records from that

2:06.4

night? I don't know, I don't have. The last call he made was at 709 p.m.

2:16.0

That was to who? That was to his friend who's going to meet for dinner at 709 p.m.

2:23.0

He left out going call and then, it said earlier, he would have had to have left no later

2:29.8

than 7.30, 7.45. So whatever. And then his phone never leaves the area. So what

2:33.8

happened in my opinion happened between 7.10 and probably 7.45.

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