What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

Heath and I just got back from CrimeCon and it was so much fun. I feel like I lost my voice a little bit from talking to everybody.

An absolute blast to meet so many of you guys. Yeah, it was really cool. Thank you to everybody who came by our booth and got some goodies.

We hung out with so many fun listeners

and so many true crime podcasts. Like that was just such a crazy weekend, but we are back

with a crazy story that is probably familiar to many of you. So thank you so much to Maybel

and Cassandra, who recommended it. I'm sure a lot of you guys like Heath and I watch the Unsolved Mysteries episode that came out on this case a few years ago.

It's just that that's how I got introduced to this case originally.

And it's one that sticks with you.

Yeah, it's definitely one of those rabbit hole cases where you could spend hours thinking over theories and speculating

about what could have happened here. But today, we are going to give you the facts and we're

going to talk about some of those prevailing theories. Yeah, we got a lot to get into. There's also

a lot of photos associated with this particular story. So as always, if you guys want to see those,

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And without further ado,

all right, guys, this is episode 613 of Going West.

So let's get into it. In May of 2006, a 32-year-old writer in Baltimore rushed out of his home suddenly after receiving a mysterious phone call, and he never returned.

Six days later, his car was found abandoned, and two days after that, his body was discovered under baffling circumstances at a historic downtown hotel.

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