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🗓️ 30 January 2023
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58-year-old Robert Baron vanished from Old Forge, Pennsylvania, on a quiet evening in late January 2017. Robert Baron was going about his usual routine at his restaurant when something happened. The story goes that he dropped his son off for the evening, and it's believed that he went back to the restaurant to spend the night in the apartment above so that he could be there first thing in the morning for a dough delivery. But by the following morning, Robert was gone. There was an abundance of physical evidence left behind, leading investigators to believe that a violent struggle had taken place inside Ghigiarelli's Restaurant.
Last week we brought you the first installment in Robert Baron's story. You learned about who Robert Baron was and how his loved ones discovered that he was missing. We left off at the end of Part 1 with the discovery of some crucial physical evidence, including blood and a tooth. Both the blood and the tooth were determined to be Robert's. This was no longer a case where you could say, "well, maybe he walked away from his life." The question now was, who would do this and why?
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Robert Baron, please contact the Lackawanna County District Attorney's Office at (570) 963-6717.
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0:17.0 | There was all the things out there people saying gambling debt, |
0:21.0 | mafia ties, stuff like that. And when I hear that I just laugh because I couldn't believe that at all. |
0:29.0 | I would think that maybe somebody grabs him coming in or out of the shop. |
0:35.0 | I mean, he was a good guy. I mean, I think, like I said, all of the stories about mafia and gambling, |
0:43.0 | I think that's all bull. |
0:46.0 | So the assumption is that they were moved in because there was probably some sort of altercation |
0:53.0 | and their DNA would have been on him and they wouldn't know that. |
0:58.0 | And that's why they were moved to. |
1:00.0 | We know everything who it is, who's on the video, who's involved, |
1:05.0 | it's no secret. It's no mystery of the town who did it. |
1:09.0 | I don't really have anything to lose at this point anymore. |
1:12.0 | And I don't frankly, I don't care because I only care about one thing and that's getting to the bottom of all this. |
1:19.0 | Truly. So everybody can stop, not even for anybody else anymore, it's for myself. |
1:25.0 | Because I'm the only one that knows that I had nothing to do with it and the people involved that night. |
1:30.0 | But for some reason, the whole world wants to think that I had involvement or knowing of what happened. |
1:36.0 | And that's the furthest thing from the truth. |
1:39.0 | So I just want that to come to my final. |
1:43.0 | When the ad was the person, he was the person. |
1:46.0 | I would have given my left arm for my father. |
1:49.0 | If I could be the one that's dead for him to be alive today, I truly would. |
1:53.0 | I would do anything for him to be back in this world. |
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