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Episode 509: Ian Benjamin Rogers: The Easiest Of The Hardest

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Ian Benjamin Rogers was a 39 year old from Crawfordville, FL. He was a father and known as being a really nice guy. On the morning of August 26, 2024, Ian left for work. On the way there, he texted his boss saying his vehicle was overheating. Ian never made it to work. He was never seen again. TRAGEDY – a true crime podcast https://www.tragedyatruecrimepodcast.com/ Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/ian-benjamin-rogers NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/129856?nav Map Video: https://youtu.be/MzjcrS8Bzyk If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Ian Rogers, please contact the Wakulla County Sheriff's Office at (850) 745-7100. 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: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ian Benjamin Rogers was a 39-year-old from Crawfordville, Florida.

0:06.1

He was a father and known as being a really nice guy.

0:10.5

On the morning of August 26, 2024, Ian left for work.

0:16.5

On the way there, he texted his boss, saying his vehicle was overheating.

0:23.6

Ian never made it to work.

0:26.7

He was never seen again.

0:32.6

I'm Ed Dunsell, and this is unfound.

0:52.8

Music and this is unfound. We disappearance specialists have it tough.

0:59.0

I mean those murder people out there, they have DNA, a murder weapon, there's actually proof that a crime occurred, video evidence usually means a whole heck of a lot more than it

1:05.5

does for disappearances. Yep, it's all right there to be collected and processed.

1:13.7

With missing persons, it's the exact opposite.

1:18.7

Yet, sometimes investigators make it rough on themselves by missing things right in front of their faces.

1:27.0

Examples, Eric Franks, Lara Bible, and Ashley Freeman,

1:32.0

Zoe Campos, Andrea Bowman. None of them should have been unresolved, or at least partially

1:38.0

unresolved, as long as they were, of course, with the understanding that Eric, Laura, and

1:43.2

Ashley still have not been found.

1:46.5

Still, all these cases are difficult.

1:50.3

Well, with Ian Rogers, we have a man and a truck missing.

1:55.9

And as I've most notably told a colleague of mine, these are the easiest of the hardest.

2:04.6

And now a summary of the case.

2:08.0

Ian Rogers, I don't think there's anyone who could honestly say he was a bad guy.

2:14.2

Between his family, his friends, his coworkers, and his boss at the job Ian had when he went

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