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This episode contains descriptions of violence. Use your best judgment.

In fact, of violence. Use your best judgment. In February of 1961, John Orner was in his 60s and worked the evening shift as a taxi driver.

On March 1st, the company that he worked for, State Cab, dispatched him to the officers club right outside Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

It was near the end of his shift, so he likely believed it would be his last fare of the night.

He wasn't wrong. It was the last fair of the night.

It was also his last fair ever.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

He usually finished up around 11 o'clock sometime like that, around that time at night,

and he would come on home, and he didn't come in.

And so everyone knew that something had to be wrong for him not to come in,

and he hadn't called in or anything.

That was Tom Joyner, John Orner's son-in-law.

The morning after John disappeared, his taxi was found abandoned in downtown Columbia.

They found his cab and there were blood spots on the front seat of the cab.

That's when they knew that something had happened to him.

The investigators searched the car, and besides the blood spots, they found the contents

of John's wallet scattered in the back seat.

Outside the car, they found pieces of mud stuck under the fender, so they took some samples.

The samples were then sent off to be analyzed by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division,

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