This is the fifth episode in our latest season featuring missing persons, unsolved homicides, and unresolved deaths across the United States, and the second in a two-part series.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee zone.

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

This series discusses crime scenes, violence, and homicide.

Listener discretion is advised.

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Last episode, we began the story of Eric Nellums, who grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and a large, close-knit family.

He and his sister Kathy were only a few years apart, and she says that they weren't just siblings.

They were also best friends.

He was known by friends and family to be extroverted and kind and always willing to help out.

He was passionate about cars, music, and sports. He played baseball in school, and he followed

our Georgia teams throughout his life. Eric also had a love for electronics and technology and spent

some time studying at technical school,

but eventually he left to join the military when it seemed like the best way to support himself

and to help his family too. Eric served in the army, where he became a paratrooper and earned

recognition as a sharpshooter. He was a father to one son, Antonio, who lived with Eric's

ex-wife in Kentucky, and Eric made the six-hour trip to see his son often, and they remained close.

By 2003, 32-year-old Eric had remarried and bought a home in Phoenix City, Alabama, just across the state line from his

hometown of Columbus. He made the short commute each day to work at Kodak in Columbus, and he loved

being near family and his longtime friends. His nephew Vincent, who lived in Atlanta with Eric's sister

Kathy, said that Eric's life seemed happy from the outside.

He was successful and well-liked and surrounded by people who loved him.

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